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The New York Knicks made franchise history Friday night in Orlando, hitting 24 three-pointers in a 121-98 blowout victory. The previous Knicks record for threes in a game was 20, so they really obliterated it.

The game was a rout early on. Evan Fournier (18 points) got them started, and was showing some razzle-dazzle with his passing. Julius Randle led the team with 21 points, 10 rebounds and 7 assists.

The Knicks took a 30-point lead into the half. Apparently it was only the third time in franchise history they led by 30 at halftime on the road. Yeah, it was that kind of night.

The starters actually stumbled in the third quarter, allowing the Magic to whittle their deficit down below 20 points. The bench came in and restored order particularly Obi Toppin, who scored 13 points and played some nice defense. Its definitely a new season for Obi.

The fourth quarter was a three-point shooting clinic. Even rookie Quentin Grimes got into the act with the first bucket of his NBA career.

Fun game. Recap to come.

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The fight over Confederate monuments has fueled lawsuits, protests, counterprotests, arrests, even terrorism, as we painfully saw in August 2017 in Charlottesville, VA. The fight rests on a debate over whether these monuments represent racism (hate) or something ostensibly devoid of racism (heritage, Southern pride). Herein, we show that Confederate monuments are tied to a history of racial violence. Specifically, we find that the number of lynching victims in a county is a positive and significant predictor of Confederate memorializations in that county, even after controlling for relevant covariates. This finding provides concrete, quantitative, historically and geographically situated evidence consistent with the position that Confederate memorializations reflect a racist history, marred by intentions to terrorize and intimidate Black Americans.

The present work interrogates the history of Confederate memorializations by examining the relationship between these memorializations and lynching, an explicitly racist act of violence. We obtained and merged data on Confederate memorializations at the county level and lynching victims, also at the county level. We find that the number of lynching victims in a county is a positive and significant predictor of the number of Confederate memorializations in that county, even after controlling for relevant covariates. This finding provides concrete, quantitative, and historically and geographically situated evidence consistent with the position that Confederate memorializations reflect a racist history, one marred by intentions to terrorize and intimidate Black Americans in response to Black progress.

The full code, documentation, and instructions for accessing the data to reproduce the analysis have been deposited in Open Science Framework (https://osf.io/afqhx/) (28).

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Confederate monuments and the history of lynching in the American South: An empirical examination - pnas.org

MUSIC IS HISTORYBy Questlove with Ben Greenman

Listening to music is one of lifes simple pleasures. And sadly, as with life, there are many ways to ruin it. An artist could play out of tune, for example. Or they might write a book that does its best to make listening to music sound like a chore. Music Is History, by Ahmir Questlove Thompson, is one of those books.

Questlove is a talented artist with a deep passion for his work. He came to fame as a founding member of the Roots, the respected Philadelphia hip-hop group that peaked in the 1990s and is now led by him as the house band for The Tonight Show. He made his directorial debut in July with Summer of Soul, an award-winning documentary about the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival. He is also a D.J. and has done a bit of writing, contributing to New York magazine and other outlets.

Music Is History, his latest book, was written with the novelist and journalist Ben Greenman. Its main preoccupation is to examine how history is made, or why some works of art and events become a part of the historical record while others fade from view. In trying to unlock those mysteries, however, Questlove often ends up asking meandering questions such as this: When you order Mexican food, do you ever think about what that really means, how youre conflating various regions and time periods, how youre distilling centuries of cultural thought about food and dining, how youre overlooking a million questions about the agriculture and technology and economy and medicine?

When I order Mexican food, I am usually thinking one of two things, Im hungry or I may regret this, depending on the restaurant.

The title may suggest this is a book about music or the history of music but it is really more akin to a diary in which Questlove tries to explain how music has shaped his worldview. The chapters are organized chronologically, starting in 1971, the year he was born. It ends in 2002 and beyond. Any artist who has ever entered Questloves mind seems to make an appearance in the book, from the Austrian composer Alban Berg, who is mentioned in passing, to Prince, who is a recurring figure. Bill Withers, his first true idol, refuses to collaborate with him.

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One of the books strengths is the way in which Questlove tucks in subtle details about the lives of important artists, encouraging us to think more deeply about the songs we love and the people who made them. The rapper KRS-One was once a guest on The Alex Jones Show. Duke Ellington was friendly with Richard Nixon. Rosa Parks sued the Southern hip-hop duo Outkast for using her name as the title of a song that had nothing to do with her. The book is a master class in music trivia, and the prickly nature of music obsessives.

He flexes an enviable knowledge of movie soundtracks. Theres nothing that gets under my skin more than when people create soundtracks and get tripped up by anachronism, he writes before pointing out several flaws in the soundtrack for Whats Love Got to Do With It, the Tina Turner biopic. Discovering some live albums were altered in the studio to sound better made him cynical, he admits.

But in his effort to find out how we know what we know, Questlove often becomes distracted, introducing countless asides and failing to distinguish serious thoughts from the casual musings of the wandering mind. (The Iraq war was no small potatoes.) And then there are moments in which he writes about women in ways that may make some feel uncomfortable. I found myself puzzled by his need to explain that he no longer dates young women because he says they dont get his music and pop culture references. I also didnt know what to make of his description of Jill Scott, another fantastic Philly artist, as a woman who scared him when they first met, possibly because she had threatened to castrate an unfaithful boyfriend.

Later, the reader gets a better idea of why Questlove is so concerned with the matter of music and history. It turns out, he has a bone to pick with Barack Obama.

In the last chapter, we learn that he was invited to D.J. the final party at the Obama White House, in January 2017. He created a playlist for the occasion that he thought was a work of genius. Every song had been selected as part of a narrative to tell a story about life and about history. The guests at the party, particularly the young ones, were not amused. They came to dance, not to receive a history lesson from a D.J. According to Questlove, Obama gently asked him to switch things up to get the crowd on the dance floor, which he found humiliating.

My set, brilliant as it was, wasnt going to last out the night, he writes. He wanted me to switch away from the set I had built, with its meticulous historical construction, its intricacies and interrelations, and to play party music. Party music at a party may not seem like a radical idea to some D.J.s, but for Questlove, its just pandering.

I had come in ready to make history by remaking History, but I had run into an event, he laments.

The failed D.J. gig at the White House tortured him for years. It wasnt until 2020, after being hired to D.J. an annual post-Oscars celebration hosted by Jay-Z and Beyonc, that he was able to redeem himself. This time he promised himself not to depart from the set list he had created for the night, no matter the cost. And the night was a triumph. History was made. This is art, Questlove writes of what he heard from the crowd. And I think Im going to cry.

I think I might cry, too.

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Questlove Looks at 50 Years of Modern Music and Modern History - The New York Times

Fabric of a Nation was conceived as a straight chronology four years ago, curator Jennifer Swope told me on a recent walk through at the MFA. But times changed and plans were disrupted, and a stronger show in tune with the moment is the result. The exhibition spans more than 300 years, positioning quilt-making as a constant in American cultural production, rumbling quietly along in the background; but a rethink with the upheavals of these many pandemic months in mind has made it fresh and timely, linking historical complexity to the clamorous upheavals of today.

Fabric of a Nation will be enormously satisfying to the vast networks of quilters, who are legion: Most of the museums outstanding collection is out and on display for quite likely the one and only occasion in a lifetime. But to the uninitiated, its also a captivating lesson in how a form long overlooked as serious art has left its tracks across every vital moment in American cultural history, and continues to do so.

Swope disrupts chronology at strategic points, tying together historical event and contemporary moment. The opening gallery offers a trio of stars-and-stripes motifs rife with complication. Irene Williamss 1975 Vote quilt, was made in Gees Bend, the Alabama hamlet just outside Selma famous for quilts made by the descendants of enslaved people from the Pettway Plantation. Beside it hangs a red-white-and-blue-striped wool blanket woven in the late-19th century by a Navajo woman for her employer, Major James Cooper McKee, chief medical officer of New Mexico who had a hand in negotiating the 1868 treaty that established the Navajo nations relationship to the US government. On the right, a disjointed stars-and-bars quilt from the early 20th century in Indiana is embroidered with the names of supporters of the womens suffrage movement.

With a federal bill designed to protect voting rights struggling to survive in Congress right now and the many state bills introduced this year to restrict them Fabric of a Nation plants its flag in the age-old American conundrum of imperfect democracy, binding our own moment of looming disenfranchisement to countless others that have come before.

Right from the start, Fabric of a Nation knits in historical complications of all kinds and nothing that follows escapes them. With the stage set, the exhibitions pivots you toward Bisa Butlers To God and Truth, a shimmering fabric monument in which the New Jersey-based artist has re-created a photograph of the 1899 Morris Brown College baseball team using Kente cloth, Nigerian hand-dyed batiks, and African and Dutch wax-resist printed cottons.

Its a densely-woven work, and not just materially. The fabrics themselves are freighted with unsavory colonial history prized in Europe, and often produced and obtained by exploitive means. The piece is radiant and ennobling, each of the players delicately shaded in colors that animate difference. That it sits across from an anonymous, crudely-made quilt from the early 20th century that employs various racist tropes in offhand cartoon fashion a Black shoeshiner, a clichd Native American dance makes a point about the medium and the country both.

Quilts live in the popular imagination as the product of folksy hobbyists looking to enliven their bedclothes, but one of the shows revelations to me, anyway is how theyve been used historically to emanate status and power. Increase Sumner, governor of Massachusetts from 1797 to 1799, is said to have taken his third oath of office while draped under an enormous red silk bedcover hanging here. (In that era, important business was conducted in bed chambers, making bedcovers important outward symbols of wealth and influence.)

But the show is decidedly frank about the source of that wealth and power. Across the gallery, a glossy blue whole-cloth wool quilt with thick floral and vine patterns, made in Connecticut in the 18th century, provides a direct link from the United States to the indigo plantations where the color came from that used enslaved labor in the West Indies and American South. Rowland Rickettss Unbound Series 2, No. 3, from 2018, hung nearby, feels like an attempt at amends: Ricketts grows indigo on his Indiana farm; his tiny piece reflects how much he can produce, in sharp contrast to the trans-Atlantic exploitation once required to support cultivation at an industrial scale. Its a small and beautiful thing where absence is presence: The delicate fabric is mirrored by an empty wooden stretcher at exactly the same size.

The show isnt content to let its historical artifacts rest, however significant they may be. Historical precedent is constantly subverted, portraying quilting as quietly radical. Contemporary artists like Butler, Mazloomi, and Biggers leverage the mediums history to powerful outward effect, but quiltings subversive potential is knit into its history. Just beyond the tactile rug is one of the shows key moments: a pair of works made by Harriet Powers in the late 1890s. One, her Bible Quilt, is owned by the Smithsonian, among the rare loans here; the other, her Pictorial Quilt, is a jewel in the MFA collection.

Powers, considered the mother of the African American story quilt tradition, according to the MFA, was born into slavery in Georgia in 1837. Her quilts captured Black American life both post and antebellum with an unflinching clarity of vision, and now serve as critical documents of Black historical perspective; A passage in her pictorial quilt envisions the 1833 Leonid meteor shower that lit up the sky with so many shooting stars that many slave owners, believing it to be judgment day, renounced human bondage on the spot, hoping to save their own souls.

Powers is the perfect bridge to the shows final chapters, where contemporary quilting brings the show to a close with a flurry of radical innovations in content and form. Its a tidy coda: The 20th century made the medium both broadly popular and accessible; quilting guilds formed, and mainstream retailers like Sears held national quilting competitions, some of which ended up displayed at the 1933 Century of Progress Exhibition in Chicago. Richard H. Rowleys intricately quilted vision of the fairgrounds themselves on the shore of Lake Michigan, hanging here, was a prize-winner among 25,000 submitted; Rowley, an architectural draftsman, entered it in his mothers name, later telling his son that quilting was only something a woman would do.

The dominant notion of quilting as womens work quaint, insignificant and beneath the notice of serious art became fodder for generations of makers. Swope includes here Agusta Agustssons Blanket of Red Flowers, an anatomically-correct grid of quilted genitalia in bright colors that was banned from being shown at an exhibition of womens art at Boston City Hall in 1979; its a provocatively bawdy avatar for the Our Bodies, Ourselves feminist movement that has its roots right here.

Formal innovation abounds: Its hard not to be taken by Virginia Jacobss Krakow Kabuki Waltz, 1986, a quilt made as a sphere; and Susan Hoffmans Coastline, 1975, is inherently painterly, built strip by strip.

But the mediums natural intimacy snips and swatches, pieced together by hand can also carry meaning. Gio Swaby, a young artist living in Toronto, crafts silhouetted portraits of other Black women, mostly friends and family, in a loving tribute to the power of the community that nurtured her. My mind links back to Powers and her narrative innovation of long ago, using a maligned medium to capture and preserve overlooked stories in a gesture of radical domesticity. Like Powers, Swaby doesnt question her medium she embraces it as art, a way to declare something powerfully personal and universal. Lineage is important to Fabric of a Nation because its always been important in art which quilting is, and maybe always has been.

FABRIC OF A NATION: AMERICAN QUILT STORIES

Through Jan. 7, 2022, Museum of Fine Arts Boston. 465 Huntington Ave., 617-267-9300, http://www.mfa.org

Murray Whyte can be reached at murray.whyte@globe.com. Follow him on Twitter @TheMurrayWhyte.

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MFAs Fabric of a Nation pieces together American history through the quietly radical power of quilts - The Boston Globe

Forever Orange: The Campaign for Syracuse University is a clarion call to show the world what Orange can do. The response so far has been spirited and inspiring: Syracuse University has raised more in private philanthropy than at any other time in its history, surpassing $1.048 billion raisedtoward the $1.5 billion goal.

The Forever Orange campaign is focused on advancing academic excellence at all levels

Words cant fully express the depth of our gratitude to our generous donors, says Matt Ter Molen, chief advancement officer and senior vice president, Advancement and External Affairs. We are making incredible things possible through the Forever Orange campaign, things our campus community couldnt have imagined 10 years ago. We are literally reshaping futures in providing the resources to support the dreams and aspirations of our amazing students and faculty.

The Forever Orange campaign is focused on advancing academic excellence at all levels, including providing opportunities for talented students to excel; supporting new ways to deliver the learning experience; attracting and retaining faculty who are engaged in interdisciplinary and meaningful research; and ensuring that the Orange promise to create a better world is accessible to all.

The Forever Orange campaign accomplishments thus far include:

The campaign has also allowed the University to be responsive to the unique needs brought about by the global pandemic, raising $1.8 million for the Syracuse Responds COVID-19 relief effort to provide students with immediate financial support to continue their studies with minimal disruption. In addition, about $4.6 million has been raised to advance the Universitys diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility initiatives.

Some of the campaigns impact is visible across campus in new or transformed facilities, including the Hildegarde and J. Myer Schine Student Center, renovations to the Syracuse University stadium, the National Veterans Resource Center at the Daniel and Gayle DAniello Building and the Barnes Center at The Arch.

Recent gifts to the campaign demonstrate the variety of donor interests, the diverse opportunities for giving, and the potential impact for philanthropy to change lives and fuel career success. These include:

Ter Molen also notes that more than 5,100 donors made a gift during Boost the Cuse giving day on Oct. 7, 2021, raising nearly $1.3 million. He credited the collaboration, creativity, enthusiasm and support of both donors and staffers who fuel the Forever Orange Campaign and sustain its momentum. More campaign initiatives are on the way as the University sets it sights on achieving the $1.5 billion campaign goal.

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OREM, Utah (ABC4) A Utah Valley University Professor has been featured on the History Channel in a series called The Engineering that Built the World.

Professor Greg Jackson was featured on the shows series premier called Race for the Railroad which ran on Oct. 10 and told the story of how the transcontinental railroad was built.

On Oct.17, Prof. Jackson appeared on the same series for a second episode that detailed the construction of the Statue of Liberty.

Having Professor Jackson featured multiple times on the History Channel speaks to his credibility as a historian and to the quality of teaching at Utah Valley University, said Wayne Vaught, provost, and senior vice president at Utah Valley University. His extensive knowledge and fun teaching style have made him one of our most sought-after professors.

The Professor also has a podcast called History That Doesnt Suck, which is listed in the top 20 channels in the nation that address historical topics. His podcast generates half a million downloads a month.

It was a very fun and exciting summer project, said Jackson. The History Channel flew me to New York City multiple times where the episodes were filmed. I have become very familiar with John F. Kennedy International Airport!

Jacksonis Chair and Associate Professor of Integrated Studies and Deputy Director of National Security Studies at Utah Valley University. He earned his Ph.D. in History from the University of Utah and teaches the history sections of geopolitical courses in the National Security Studies program.

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School choice is a promising policy and segregation is a persistent national disgrace, so getting the history correct matters. Unfortunately, Phillip Magness is not correct when he writes that the standard history is backward and voucher supporters were the antiracists in 1950s and 1960s Virginia (School Choices Antiracist History, op-ed, Oct. 19).

Mr. Magness highlights the case of segregationist John S. Battle Jr., who argued that vouchers would undermine segregation. Battle is an intriguing character in Virginias desegregation story, but he was out of step with most segregationists. The most ardent supporters of the vouchers, including a suite of former governors, state Sen. Garland Gray, the Defenders of State Sovereignty and Individual Liberties, James Jackson Kilpatrick and Leon Dure, saw vouchers as a critical component of their fight against Brown v. Board of Education (1954). Battle was a dissenting segregationist voice and his campaign against vouchers did not ultimately persuade the General Assembly, the governor or any prominent advocates. A segregationist with dissenting policy views does not make historians understanding of desegregation backward. Battle is best thought of as the exception who proves the rule.

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The Segregationist History of School Choice - The Wall Street Journal

October is LGBTQ History Month, a 31-day celebration to honor lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer achievement and influence on the world and a time to learn more about the history of LGBTQ rights.

Centering around National Coming Out Day on Oct. 11, LGBTQ History Month was first celebrated in the United States in 1994.

It all started when Missouri high school teacher Rodney Wilson decided there should be a month dedicated to learning about LGBTQ history, gathering teachers and leaders in the community. They selected October to coincide with the academic year as well as Coming Out Day.

Soon, the celebration was endorsed by GLAAD, the Human Rights Campaign, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, the National Education Association and other national organizations, the website said. By 2006, Equality Forum created content, promotion and resources for LGBTQ History Month.

Octobers celebration differs from Pride Month in this way, as Pride Month is focused on honoring the visibility of LGBTQ people as well as the movement toward equality. The holiday is celebrated in June to commemorate the 1969 Stonewall Riots. On the other hand, LGBTQ History Month is meant to teach about historic figures and their contributions to the world.

Massachusetts has a history of LGBTQ influence. Most notably, it was the first state in the country to legalize same-sex marriage in 2003, with the first marriage licenses being issued in 2004. In 1971 Boston held its first Pride March and in 1989 Massachusetts became the second state, after Wisconsin, to prohibit discrimination based on sexuality in credit, public and private employment, union practices, housing and public accommodations.

In 2011, Gov. Deval Patrick issued an executive order that banned discrimination on the part of the state and its contractors against transgender employees, the website added.

Currently, Massachusetts has a high equality profile, rating a sexual orientation policy tally of 15.25/18.5 and a gender identity policy tally of 17.25/20, according to the Movement Advancement Project.

The state ranks the highest in relationship and parental recognition, state nondiscrimination laws, LGBTQ youth laws and policies and healthcare laws and policies. Activists say there is still a ways to go towards equality, as the state ranked lower in criminal justice laws and policies and in the ability for transgender people to correct name and gender marker on identity documents.

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By The Associated Press

Todays Highlight in History:

On Oct. 21, 1966, 144 people, 116 of them children, were killed when a coal waste landslide engulfed a school and some 20 houses in Aberfan, Wales.

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In 1797, the U.S. Navy frigate Constitution, also known as Old Ironsides, was christened in Bostons harbor.

In 1805, a British fleet commanded by Adm. Horatio Nelson defeated a French-Spanish fleet in the Battle of Trafalgar; Nelson, however, was killed.

In 1879, Thomas Edison perfected a workable electric light at his laboratory in Menlo Park, N.J.

In 1944, during World War II, U.S. troops captured the German city of Aachen (AH-kuhn).

In 1945, women in France were allowed to vote in parliamentary elections for the first time.

In 1967, the Israeli destroyer INS Eilat (ay-LAHT) was sunk by Egyptian missile boats near Port Said (sah-EED); 47 Israeli crew members were lost. Tens of thousands of Vietnam War protesters began two days of demonstrations in Washington, D.C.

In 1969, beat poet and author Jack Kerouac died in St. Petersburg, Fla., at age 47.

In 1971, President Richard Nixon nominated Lewis F. Powell and William H. Rehnquist to the U.S. Supreme Court. (Both nominees were confirmed.)

In 2001, Washington, D.C., postal worker Thomas L. Morris Jr. died of inhalation anthrax as officials began testing thousands of postal employees.

In 2012, former senator and 1972 Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern, 90, died in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

In 2014, North Korea abruptly freed Jeffrey Fowle, an American, nearly six months after he was arrested for leaving a Bible in a nightclub. Former Washington Post executive editor Ben Bradlee, 93, died in Washington.

In 2015, Vice President Joe Biden announced he would not be a candidate in the 2016 White House campaign, solidifying Hillary Rodham Clintons status as the Democratic front-runner.

Ten years ago: President Barack Obama declared that Americas long and deeply unpopular war in Iraq would be over by the end of 2011 and that all U.S. troops will definitely be home for the holidays.

Five years ago: Cyberattacks on server farms of a key internet firm repeatedly disrupted access to major websites and online services including Twitter, Netflix and PayPal across the United States.

One year ago: Republican Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah, the partys 2012 presidential nominee, told CNN that he had voted in the Nov. 3 election, but not for Donald Trump. Former President Barack Obama made his first in-person campaign pitch for Joe Biden, urging voters in Philadelphia, especially Black men, not to sit out the election and risk seeing Trump reelected. Spain became the first western European country to reach more than 1 million confirmed coronavirus cases. The Justice Department said drugmaker Purdue Pharma, the company behind the powerful prescription painkiller OxyContin that experts said had helped touch off an opioid epidemic, would plead guilty to federal criminal charges as part of a settlement of more than $8 billion. At least 10 bodies were found in an unmarked mass grave in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where investigators were searching for the remains of victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.

Todays Birthdays: Actor Joyce Randolph is 97. Rock singer Manfred Mann is 81. Musician Steve Cropper (Booker T. & the MGs) is 80.

Singer Elvin Bishop is 79. TVs Judge Judy Sheindlin is 79. Actor Everett McGill is 76. Musician Lee Loughnane (LAHK-nayn) (Chicago) is 75. Actor Dick Christie is 73. Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is 72. Actor LaTanya Richardson Jackson is 72. Musician Charlotte Caffey (The Go-Gos) is 68. Movie director Catherine Hardwicke is 66. Singer Julian Cope is 64. Rock musician Steve Lukather (Toto) is 64. Actor Ken Watanabe (wah-tah-NAH-bee) is 62. Actor Melora Walters is 61. Rock singer-musician Nick Oliveri (Mondo Generator) is 50. Christian rock musician Charlie Lowell (Jars of Clay) is 48. Actor Jeremy Miller is 45. Country singer Matthew Ramsey (Old Dominion) is 44. Actor Will Estes is 43. Actor Michael McMillian is 43. Reality TV star Kim Kardashian (kahr-DASH-ee-uhn) West is 41. Actor Matt Dallas is 39. Actor Charlotte Sullivan is 38. Actor Aaron Tveit (tuh-VAYT) is 38. Actor Glenn Powell is 33. Country singer Kane Brown is 28.

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Today in History: Today is Thursday, Oct. 21, the 294th day of 2021. - wausaupilotandreview.com

Every so often we get hit with a sports day that leaves us with difficult choices and an overwhelming number of games to keep up with. I'm talking about the sports equinox, a day in which all four major men's sports leagues are in action.

Lucky of all of us, that is taking place today, Thursday, Oct. 21 Tonight, the NFL, MLB, NHL and NBA all have games taking place. There will be no shortage of action to tune into. As a bonus, we also have PGA Tour action, four college football games and a women's soccer game tonight.

What a time to be alive.

The sports equinox is not an occurrence that takes place often, so let's dive in deeper on what it means, how often it takes place and which teams are playing tonight.

A sports equinox takes place when NFL, MLB, NHL and NBA games are all on in the same day.

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Oct. 21 is the first sports equinox of 2021 and the 25th such day since 1971. The rare sports day typically occurs in the fall, because the NFL, NBA and NHL are all in their regular season and the MLB playoffs are occurring.

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What is a sports equinox? Explaining the history of NFL, NBA, MLB and NHL games being played on the same day - CBS Sports