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3 sourced moments from October 6 in history: Germans reached Jamestown in 1608, 75 years before Germantown (1683); The first feature-length "talkie" had barely two minutes of talking (1927); and The Yom Kippur War triggered a U.S. nuclear alert in 1973.

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1973 History · War & Conflict

The Yom Kippur War triggered a U.S. nuclear alert in 1973

Egypt and Syria attacked Israel on October 6, 1973. Nineteen days later, a failing ceasefire pushed Washington to put its nuclear forces on alert.

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1927 Culture & Arts · Film & TV

The first feature-length "talkie" had barely two minutes of talking

The Jazz Singer ended the silent era in 1927 — even though most of it was still silent.

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1683 History · Modern

Germans reached Jamestown in 1608, 75 years before Germantown

German-American Day honours Germantown's founders of 1683, yet Germans had reached Virginia decades earlier, and the one-in-four ancestry figure is out of date.

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