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Classic headlineMiners Refuse to Work After Death
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OddlyTrue News Stand — April 6
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Weird history on April 6
1896 First everIn Athens, the opening of the first modern Olympic Games is celebrated, 1,500 years after the original games are banned by Roman emperor Theodosius I.
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2026 First everThe crew of Artemis II makes the first crewed circumlunar flight since Apollo 17 in 1972, returning humanity to the Moon's vicinity and breaking Apollo 13's record by ~4,000 miles as the furthest crewed spaceflight.
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1974 First everIn Brighton, United Kingdom, ABBA wins the 1974 edition of the Eurovision Song Contest with "Waterloo", the first of a joint-record seven Swedish wins.
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Vintage clipping · 1920
Deming graphic (Deming, N.M.), April 6, 1920
Page 10 · mentions "hoax" · printed on this very day
“THE DEMTSO GRAPHIC TITSPAY APRIL f Pr Tea PRINCE Wednesday April 7 On With the Dance New York Grave and Gay but Always Startling And a BRAY COMEDY Thursday and Friday April 89 Alice Joyce in The Third Degree and Larry Se…”
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