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2019: A week of international climate change protests—led by youths, notably Swedish activist Greta Thunberg—ended, with millions having participated in the demonstrations. [Sort fact from fiction in our quiz about climate change.]

2008: Chinese astronaut Zhai Zhigang performed China's first spacewalk. [ Take our quiz about famous astronauts and cosmonauts.]

1996: The Taliban, led by Mohammad Omar, seized the capital city of Kabul, declaring all of Afghanistan an Islamic state.

1964: Following months of investigation into the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, the Warren Commission released its findings. [ Read about nine infamous assassins and the world leaders they dispatched, including Lee Harvey Oswald, who killed John F. Kennedy.]

1962: Rachel Carson's Silent Spring was published, and it became one of the most-influential books in the modern environmental movement. [Take our quiz about pollution.]

1954: The landmark late-evening talk show and variety program The Tonight Show premiered (as Tonight!), with Steve Allen as host. [Sort fact from fiction in our quiz about pop culture.]