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Today in #GeekHistory 10/15/1997: The Cassini probe launches on its way to Saturn.
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Today in #GeekHistory 10/15/2003: Yang Liwei becomes China’s first Taikonaut, aboard Shenzhou 5.
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Today in #GeekHistory 10/15/1981: The Evil Dead is released. It would go on to become a cult classic.
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Today in #GeekHistory 10/15/1993: Nintendo redesigns the NES in the U.S. & releases it with a better top-loading cartridge slot
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Today in #GeekHistory 10/15/1979: The Galaxian arcade game is released by Namco in Japan
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Today in #GeekHistory 10/15/1783: Jean-Francois Pilatre de Rozier undertakes the first human ascent, in the Montgolfier brothers’ balloon.
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Today in #GeekHistory 10/14/1985: The first reference guide to the C++ programming language is published. Bjarne Stroustrop is the author and creator of C++
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Today in #GeekHistory 10/14/1947: Chuck Yeager becomes the first person to break the sound barrier in level flight, in the Glamorous Glennis.
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Today in #GeekHistory 10/14/1977: Atari 2600 goes on sale to the public at retail stores for $199.00.
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Today in #GeekHistory 10/13/1983: Ameritech (now AT&T) launches the first U.S. cellular network, in Chicago.
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Today in #GeekHistory 10/13/1884: Greenwich (London) is established as the Universal Time meridian of longitude.
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I HAD THIS BOOK!!

On this day in Star Wars history 1982: Del Reynolds publishes The Jedi Master's Quiz Book, a trove of trivia compiled by 11-year-old Rusty Miller.
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Today in #GeekHistory 10/12/2009: And Another Thing..., Eoin Colfer's follow-up to Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide series is published.
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Today in #GeekHistory 10/12/1979: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy written Douglas Adams is published.
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Today in #GeekHistory 10/12/1979: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy written Douglas Adams is published.
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Today in #GeekHistory 10/11/1968: Apollo 7 launches, it’s the first manned Apollo mission and orbited the earth once
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Today in #GeekHistory 10/11/1958: Pioneer 1 launches, becoming the 1st spacecraft launched by NASA, a newly formed space agency of the United States
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Today in #GeekHistory 10/11/1975: Saturday Night Live debuts, with guest host George Carlin.
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Today in #GeekHistory 10/10/1968: Barbarella starring Jane Fonda, John Phillip Law and Anita Pallenberg is released
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Today in #GeekHistory 10/10/1967: The Outer Space Treaty, the basis for international space law, goes into effect.
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Today in #GeekHistory 10/9/1999: The Lockheed SR-71 ‘Blackbird’ takes its final flight.
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Today in #GeekHistory 10/10/1983: Venera 15 returns the first high-res images of the Venus polar area & compiles a thermal map of most of the northern hemisphere