On this day:
1919: KLM, the official airline of the Netherlands, Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij N.V. or KLM, is the oldest airline that still operates under its original name, is found.
1959: People on Earth Get the First Glimpse of the Dark Side of the Moon
2001: War in Afghanistan begins
Born on this day:
1885: Niels Bohr, Danish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1931: Desmond Tutu, South African archbishop, activist, Nobel Prize laureate
Gone on this day:
1708: Guru Gobind Singh, the tenth Sikh Guru
1849: Edgar Allan Poe, American author, poet
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