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Classic headlineWar Dims Hope for Peace
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OddlyTrue News Stand — January 26
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Weird history on January 26
661 Oddly trueThe Rashidun Caliphate is effectively ended with the assassination of Ali, the last caliph.
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1972 Oddly trueJAT Flight 367 exploded in mid-air over Czechoslovakia; the only survivor of the 28 on board, flight attendant Vesna Vulović, fell 10,160 m (33,330 ft), setting the record for surviving the highest fall without a parachute.
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1788 First everCaptain Arthur Phillip and the British First Fleet landed at Sydney Cove on the shore of Port Jackson, establishing the first permanent European settlement in Australia.
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Vintage clipping · 1909
The Iuka vidette (Iuka, Miss.), August 19, 1909
Page 6 · mentions "ghost"
“HE autograph fiend has a far more amusing fad Just now than the mere col lecting of or dinary signatures of ex Ajfm 3BIl traordinary folk and the TSrs newest thing in this hobby necessitates the possession of a ghost s F…”
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