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Today in history: Pelé, greatest soccer player ever, turns 75
October 23, 2015Pelé, the now retired Brazilian professional soccer player widely regarded as the greatest player of all time, was born on this date in 1940.
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Today in history: Chilean communist poet Pablo Neruda wins Nobel Prize
October 21, 2015Neruda won the Nobel Prize for Literature "for a poetry that with the action of an elemental force brings alive a continent's destiny and dreams."
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Groups battle “Jim Crow” segregation in restaurant industry
October 20, 2015A joint project of ROC United and the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights will establish a programmatic intervention to confront this issue.
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Today in history: Half a million Communists massacred in Indonesia
October 20, 2015Fifty years ago, the massacre of more than 500,000 people in an anti-communist purge led to the elimination of the Indonesian Communist Party as a political force.
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Today in history: Nazi war crimes indictments read at Nuremberg
October 19, 2015The trials formally opened in Nuremberg, Germany, on November 20, half a year after Germany surrendered.
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Today in history: Centennial of playwright Arthur Miller
October 16, 2015October 17 is the 100th birthdate of American author and playwright Arthur Miller.
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Today in history: Catholic pacifist David Miller burns his draft card
October 15, 2015The Catholic pacifist affiliated with the Catholic Worker movement, attended a rally held near the Armed Forces Induction Center in Manhattan.
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Remembering comic and social critic Lenny Bruce on his 90th
October 14, 2015He was a renowned stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist, and screenwriter.
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