The Thursday, October 22, 2026 Edition
PHP Outages, Meta's $25B Fine, and a Flamingo Thief
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The height of the tsunami unleashed when a 160-meter asteroid slammed into what is now the North Sea, scientists confirmed. The finding settles a decades-long debate over the origin of the buried Silverpit Crater. That wall of water -- taller than the Statue of Liberty.
Source: Science Daily
Oct. 31: Halloween arrives: skeletons and pumpkins take over front yards as trick-or-treaters make their rounds.
Nov. 1: Daylight saving time ends at 2 a.m. and clocks fall back an hour, bringing earlier sunsets through winter.
- 1797André-Jacques Garnerin makes the first parachute descent, jumping from a balloon over Paris
- 1844Millerites await the Second Coming in what becomes known as the Great Disappointment
- 1962President John F. Kennedy announces a naval blockade of Cuba during the missile crisis
- 1964Jean-Paul Sartre declines the Nobel Prize in Literature
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