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Rome's Birthday, DNA's Secret & the Worst Soft Drink Decision Ever
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From the founding of Rome in 753 BC to a cosmonaut's fatal final journey, this week in history spans millennia of politics, science, sport, and spectacular human error. Twelve stops, many centuries, one calendar week — buckle up.
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On November second, nineteen twenty, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, a small transmitter atop the Westinghouse building crackled to life and changed everything. KDKA — the first licensed commercial radio station in America — went on the air that night broadcasting live returns from the presidential election between Warren Harding and James Cox.
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