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Monty Python's Flying Circus

October 5th in History

Monty Python premiers! In other news, French women get the vote, the Beatles release their first single, McDonald's founder Ray Kroc is born, Steve Jobs dies, and it's World Teacher's Day!

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Quote of the Day

Václav Havel, playwright and politician, born October 5, 1936.

"The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less."

Václav Havel, Czech playwright and politician born October 5, 1936