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A bit of October 6th history…
1889 - Thomas Edison shows his 1st motion picture (pictured)
1927 - “The Jazz Singer” is released - 1st film with a soundtrack
1939 - Adolf Hitler announces plans to regulate Jewish problem
1948 - Paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey finds the 1st partial fossil skull of Proconsul Africanus, an ancestor of apes and humans in Kenya
1951 - Joseph Stalin proclaims the Soviet Union has the atomic bomb
2010 - Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger launch Instagram
2012 - Paolo Gabriele, Pope Benedict XVI’s butler, is found guilty of leaking confidential documents and is sentenced to 18 months imprisonment
2019 - Tens of thousands of Hong Kong protesters march in defiance of a new ban on face masks (!)
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