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THESE PAST EVENTS MADE HISTORY
CULT CAME TO AN END ON THIS DAY IN 1978
On November 18, 1978, Peoples Temple founder Jim Jones
lead hundreds of his followers in a mass murder-suicide at
their agricultural commune in a remote part of the South
American nation of Guyana.
Many of Jones’ followers willingly ingested a poison-laced
punch while others were forced to do so at gunpoint.
The final death toll at Jonestown that day was 909; a third
of those who perished were children.
James Warren Jones
(May 13, 1931 – November 18, 1978)

FIRST ISSUE OF NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
The first issue of the National Geographic Magazine, without
photos, was published on September 22, 1888, eight months
after the Society was founded.
In September 2022, the magazine laid off six of its top editors
and In June 2023 laid off all of its staff writers, shifting to an
entirely freelance-based writing model, and announced that
beginning in 2024 it would no longer offer newsstand issues.
FAMOUS ACTOR BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1936
1964
2019
Robert Redford is an actor and filmmaker who has received
numerous accolades such as an Academy Award, a BAFTA
Award, and two Golden Globe Awards, as well as the Cecil B.
DeMille Award in 1994, the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement
Award in 1996, the Academy Honorary Award in 2002, the Kennedy Center Honors in 2005, the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016,
and the Honorary César in 2019. He was named by Time as one of
the 100 most influential people in the world in 2014.

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