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A bit of October 15th history…
1860 - 11 year old Grace Bedell writes to Abraham Lincoln telling him to grow a beard to be elected (pictured)
1880 - Cologne Cathedral, Germany, completed 633 years after it was begun
1917 - Dutch exotic dancer Mata Hari is executed by firing squad for spying for Germany during WWI near Paris
1951 - “I Love Lucy” debuts
1966 - Black Panther Party created by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale
1967 - The Motherland Calls, a monument statue commemorating the battle of Stalingrad completed in Volgograd, Russia; then the world’s tallest statue (pictured)
1984 - Central Intelligence Agency Information Act passes
Today In History: October 15