The Friday, October 16, 2026 Edition
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The years between Oscar Wilde having his library card revoked in scandal and a library posthumously issuing him a new one. That's nearly three times as long as Wilde was alive — he died in 1900 at age 46.
Source: Mental Floss
Sunday: The Eagles face the Panthers with quarterback Jalen Hurts sidelined.
Dec. 25: Christmas Day — a new state-by-state analysis handicaps your odds of waking up to snow.
- 1793Marie Antoinette is executed by guillotine during the French Revolution
- 1859Abolitionist John Brown leads a raid on the federal armory at Harpers Ferry
- 1923Walt Disney and his brother Roy found the company that becomes the Walt Disney Company
- 1962The Cuban Missile Crisis begins as President Kennedy learns of Soviet missiles in Cuba
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