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Today in History: October 9
0028 BC
The Temple of Apollo is dedicated on the Palatine Hill in Rome.

1760
Austrian and Russian troops enter Berlin and begin burning structures and looting.

1781
Americans begin shelling the British surrounded at Yorktown.

1888
The Washington Monument, designed by Robert Mills, opens to the public.

1949
Harvard Law School begins admitting women.

1950
U.N. forces, led by the First Cavalry Division, cross the 38th parallel in South Korea and begin attacking northward towards the North Korean capital of Pyongyang.

1999
Last flight of the Lockheed SR-71 "Blackbird" stealth reconnaissance aircraft.

2006
North Korea reportedly tests its first nuclear device.

2019
Nearly 1 million people in northern California have their power cut by Pacific Gas and Electric to prevent wildfires amid high winds

2022
Brightest cosmic explosion ever seen - a gamma ray burst 2.4 billion light years away, thought to be a massive star collapsing to form a black hole in a 1 in 10,000 year event

2024
Hurricane Milton makes landfall near Siesta Key, Florida, as a Category 3 storm, causing at least 23 deaths during one of the state's largest evacuations

Today in History: Born on October 9
1873
Charles Rudolph Walgreen, "the father of the modern drugstore."

1940
John Lennon, musician, singer, songwriter; one of the Beatles ("Imagine," "Give Peace a Chance").

JOTD
Russia is invading Finland

During the invasion a Russian general and his troops come to a hill.

They hear a voice shouting: "One Fin can beat ten Russians!"

The general laughs about it and sends ten of his troops to go kill whoever is on the other side of the hill. There is alot of noise and shooting and after a while silence comes and none of the Russians return.

The voice speaks once again saying: "One Fin can beat 100 Russians!"

The general is a little upset by now and sends 150 of his troops to go for sure. Once again there is alot of noise and shooting and once again none of the Russians return.

The Voice speaks again: "One fin can beat 1000 Russians!"

The general is fuming and sends 1000 of his best men. The noise and shooting lasts way longer this time and as silence almost settled again one Russian comes crawling back over the hill bleeding from a wound.

He says: "I beg you, don't send any more troops, it's a trap! There are two of them!