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October 28: ‘thou shall not’ day

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From consuming alcohol to downloading digital music, Congress wielded the power of no.

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The Donora smog killed 20 and brought national attention to air pollution

smog in LA 1948
In this 1948 photo of the Los Angeles Civic Center at the height of a smog attack, the buildings one block away are barely visible. Credit: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archive, Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.

It would be another 15 years before Congress directed the federal government to research air pollution.

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OTD: John Carpenter’s Halloween lands in theaters

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The Library of Congress added Halloween (1978) to the National Film Registry in 2006.

In 2006, it was listed in the National Film Registry.