The Sunday, October 4, 2026 Edition
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The Week in Review
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1,000 years
How long ago people in present-day Georgia were feasting with cacao, according to residue archaeologists found on ancient pottery. It's the earliest known evidence of chocolate east of the Mississippi -- and a sign of trade connections spanning the ancient Americas.
Source: Smithsonian
Today: World Space Week kicks off on the anniversary of Sputnik's 1957 launch, opening the annual celebration of spaceflight.
Oct. 31: Halloween arrives, with trick-or-treaters and America's oversized yard skeletons capping a decorating season already in full swing.
- 1883The Orient Express departs Paris on its first journey toward Constantinople
- 1927Sculptor Gutzon Borglum begins carving Mount Rushmore in South Dakota
- 1957The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite, igniting the Space Race
- 1965Pope Paul VI arrives in New York, the first papal visit to the United States
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