📜 October 24: On This Day in History |  | Look out below |  Image: The Emperor’s New Groove (2000) | Each of the following events happened on October 24. Your challenge is to put them in the order in which they occurred by year, earliest to latest. Answers at the bottom! - A) Annie Edson Taylor is the first person to successfully take the plunge over Niagara Falls in a barrel, on her 63rd birthday. She lashed herself into a leather harness inside a custom 5x3 pickle barrel with cushions inside. After about 20 minutes, she was able to make it back to shore safely.
- B) Western Union Telegraph Company links America’s eastern and western telegraph networks at Salt Lake City, Utah, completing a transcontinental line that for the first time allows instantaneous communication between Washington, D.C., and San Francisco.
- C) The supersonic Concorde jet makes its last commercial passenger flight, traveling at twice the speed of sound from JFK International Airport in NYC to London’s Heathrow Airport.
- D) The United Nations charter becomes effective and ready to be enforced. The United Nations is thrust into existence as a response to the Axis Powers (Germany, Italy, and Japan) of World War II. It’s essentially a new version of the old League of Nations, with an improved means of arbitrating international conflict and negotiating peace.
Hint: Lines were drawn first |
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🐐 GOATWars: A Data-Driven Process to Determine the Best | | What NES game still holds up? | 
| 8-bit heroes. Endless retries. That controller toss when you lost to Bowser again. The NES era defined gaming, and now the classics are battling it out on GOATWars to decide which original NES game is the best ever. Every vote builds your personal GOAT List, ranking the games that started it all. Showdowns include: |
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🏆 Wednesday's GOATWars Results: The Data Is Now In | | 🍿THE GREATEST ‘90S ONE-HIT WONDERS OF ALL TIME - “Baby Got Back” by Sir Mix-A-Lot (leading by a decent margin)
- “Ice Ice Baby” by Vanilla Ice
- “I’m Too Sexy” by Right Said Fred
Explore the full list. Note: Results are as of the published time; these lists are dynamic and may change. |
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📜 Answers | | B, A, D, C - B) 1861 – Western Union Telegraph Company links the East and West coast with the first transcontinental telegraph line.
- A) 1901 – Annie Edson Taylor, 63, is the first to plunge over Niagara Falls in a barrel. (FYI: it’s illegal to go over the falls…in case you were wondering).
- D) 1945 – The United Nations is born. The original UN declaration was signed by 26 countries; today, there are 193 UN member-nations.
- C) 2003 – The supersonic Concorde jet makes its final flight.
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