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https://web.archive.org/web/20111018150223/https://www.jpost.com/Features/InThespotlight/Article.aspx?id=241523 :

On October 13, 1881, a short time before moving to Palestine, Eliezer Ben Yehuda held what is thought to be the first modern conversation in Hebrew with two friends at a Paris café. That moment became the impetus for Ben Yehuda’s at times tortuous revival of the language, which for centuries had been relegated solely to the written word.

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Columbus's journal entry for that day describes the people he encountered:

They should be good servants and intelligent, for I observed that they quickly took in what was said to them, and I believe that they would easily be made Christians, as it appeared to me that they had no religion. I, our Lord being pleased, will take hence, at the time of my departure, six natives for your Highnesses, that they may learn to speak.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ta%C3%ADno_genocide

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbian_exchange

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“We offended a lot of people in those days by having what's spoken of as 'neo-communistic' ideas like a multiracial crew and sexual equality,” said Roddenberry. “I dearly hope I will offend some of you with this new one, because we must continue to do that. We must continue to talk about exciting and different things.”

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screenshot of linked wikipedia article's infobox, with a map and this text:
United States invasion of Afghanistan
Part of the Afghan conflict, war in Afghanistan and the war on terror
(map caption) The invasion of Afghanistan by the US-led coalition (19 October - 17 December)
Date: 7 October – 17 December 2001 (2 months, 1 week and 3 days)
Location:
Afghanistan
Result:
American-led coalition victory
Territorial changes:
Collapse of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (1996–2001)
Establishment of the Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan
Start of the war in Afghanistan and Taliban insurgency

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