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Prepare to flick off your incandescent bulbs for good under new US rules that kicked in this week
Read full article: Prepare to flick off your incandescent bulbs for good under new US rules that kicked in this weekThomas Edison's pioneering incandescent light bulb, which cast illumination by heating a filament until it glowed, is fading into history.
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KSAT Kids: Today in History, Oct. 21
Read full article: KSAT Kids: Today in History, Oct. 21Today is Wednesday, Oct. 21, the 295th day of 2020. On Oct. 21, 1879, Thomas Edison perfected a workable electric light at his laboratory in Menlo Park, N.J. In 1960, Democrat John F. Kennedy and Republican Richard M. Nixon clashed in their fourth and final presidential debate in New York. In 1971, President Richard Nixon nominated Lewis F. Powell and William H. Rehnquist to the U.S. Supreme Court. In 2001, Washington, D.C., postal worker Thomas L. Morris Jr. died of inhalation anthrax as officials began testing thousands of postal employees.