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Magellan Sets Sail, Hip-Hop Is Born & Social Security Signed | Aug 10–14
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From Magellan's world-circling fleet to the Bronx party that invented hip-hop, this week in history is packed with moments that reshaped civilisation. Plus: Babe Ruth's 500th home run, Hedy Lamarr's secret Wi-Fi patent, the fall of the Aztec Empire, and FDR's Social Security Act.
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On November ninth, seventeen ninety-nine, in Paris, France, Napoleon Bonaparte pulled off one of history's most audacious power grabs. The French Directory — the five-man executive government that had stumbled through years of corruption and crisis — was swept aside in a single day.
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