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Salem Witch Trials, Neptune Discovered & Einstein's Relativity | Sep 21–27
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Eight people hanged in Salem's final witch trial executions, Einstein rewrites physics from a patent office, and Neptune is found exactly where the math predicted — all this week in history. From Balboa sighting the Pacific to Ford's Model T rolling off the line, this episode spans eight centuries of world-changing moments.
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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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