📜 February 9: On This Day in History |  | Half-pipe heater |  Image: The DONUT/OpenAI/NYT | Each of the following events happened on February 9. Your challenge is to put them in the order in which they occurred by year, earliest to latest. Answers at the bottom! - A) Starting pitcher Leroy “Satchel” Paige becomes the first Negro League veteran to be nominated for the Baseball Hall of Fame. He is inducted into the HoF several months later
- B) Snowboard phenom Chloe Kim becomes the first woman to win gold in the snowboard halfpipe at two consecutive Winter Olympics. It comes four years after a 17-year-old Kim made history as the youngest winner of the event.
- C) An estimated 73 million Americans are watching as the Beatles make their live US television debut on The Ed Sullivan Show, launching “Beatlemania” in America.
- D) Senator Joseph McCarthy claims he has a list with the names of 200+ members of the State Department who are “known communists” during a speech in West Virginia. The speech vaults McCarthy to national prominence and sparks a nationwide campaign against alleged communists in the US government, known as “McCarthyism.”
Hint: The Winter Olympics are every four years |
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🔗 Conjoiner: A DONUT Original Word Game | | Two-minute drill | Let’s be honest, we watched today’s Conjoiner hint for the commercials. Finish the sequence in record time and become world champion. The first clue of today’s sequence is: “The NFL’s championship game”... |
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🧩 Puzzle Corner | | MiniFire up today’s mini with low heat and let it cook. Can you complete today’s puzzle before it burns you? SudokuA measured pace, a steady clue; patterns form in today’s Sudoku. |
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🐐 GOATWars: A Data-Driven Process to Determine the Best | | Which animated hero is the GOAT? | 
| Every vote builds your personal GOAT List, ranking the animated heroes who carried entire movies, generations, and childhoods. These heroes didn’t just save the day, they defined eras of animation. Now they’re going head-to-head on GoatWars in the Greatest Animated Heroes of All Time league. Showdowns include: |
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🏆 Thursday's GOATWars Results: The Data Is Now In | | 😂 THE GREATEST REWATCHABLE COMEDY OF ALL TIME - Airplane!
- Monty Python and The Holy Grail
- Dumb and Dumber
- The Big Lebowski
- Bridesmaids
Explore the full list. Note: Results are as of the published time; these lists are dynamic and may change. |
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📜 Answers | | D, B, A, C - D) 1950 – Senator Joseph McCarthy claims there are communists in the State Department during a speech in West Virginia.
- B) 1964 – America meets The Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show, launching “Beatlemania.”
- A) 1971 – Pitcher Leroy “Satchel” Paige becomes the first Negro League veteran to be nominated for the Baseball Hall of Fame.
- C) 2022 – Chloe Kim becomes the first woman to win gold in the snowboard halfpipe at two consecutive Winter Olympics.
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