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A Daily Dose of History (10 Oct 2026) Today's historical events: An Ustashe assassin kills King Alexander I of Yugoslavia and Louis Barthou, Foreign Minister of France, in Marseille. Boulder Dam (later Hoover Dam) begins to generate electricity and transmit it to Los Angeles. A day after his capture, Ernesto "Che" Guevara is executed for attempting to incite a revolution in Bolivia. President François Mitterrand abolishes capital punishment in France. South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan survives an assassination attempt in Rangoon, Burma (present-day Yangon, Myanmar), but the blast kills 21 and injures 17 others. The Phantom of the Opera, eventually the second longest running musical in London, opens at Her Majesty's Theatre. First lunar impact of NASA's Lunar Precursor Robotic Program. Information from this episode are sourced from API Ninjas Explanations from OpenAI ChatGPT API with proprietary prompts. This podcast is produced by Klassic Studios Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
