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Terry Farrell, who played Jadzia Dax

"Rejoined" is the sixth episode of the fourth season of the American science-fiction television series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, originally airing on October 30, 1995. Marking one of the first televised lesbian kisses, it received a record volume of feedback from series viewers, both positive and negative. In the episode, Jadzia Dax struggles with taboo feelings for the widow of an individual whose body she used to inhabit as a symbiont. The episode was the first that series writers Ronald D. Moore and René Echevarria wrote together, and it was directed by main cast member Avery Brooks. The taboo was intended to be an allegory for homosexuality and homophobia. "Rejoined" received a Nielsen rating of seven percent on the first broadcast in syndication. Reviews of the episode were mostly positive, especially for the acting and the message, but the plot was faulted as tedious. (Full article...)

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October 30: Mischief Night

George I of Greece

1863 – Seventeen-year-old Vilhelm, Prince of Denmark, arrived in Athens to become King George I of Greece (pictured).
1888 – King Lobengula of Matabeleland granted the Rudd Concession to agents of Cecil Rhodes, setting in motion the creation of the British South Africa Company.
1918 – The Armistice of Mudros was signed in Greece, ending hostilities in the Middle Eastern theatre of World War I and paving the way for the occupation of Constantinople and the subsequent partition of the Ottoman Empire.
1938 – CBS Radio broadcast the radio drama The War of the Worlds, causing panic among some listeners who believed that an actual Martian invasion was in progress.
1991 – The Madrid Conference, an attempt by the international community to revive the Israeli–Palestinian peace process through negotiations, convened.

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George M. Bibb (October 30, 1776 – April 4, 1859) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the seventeenth United States secretary of the treasury from 1844 to 1845. He was also Chief Justice of the Kentucky Court of Appeals, and twice represented Kentucky as a U.S. senator, serving from 1811 to 1814 and from 1829 to 1835. This line engraving of Bibb was produced around 1902 by the Department of the Treasury's Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP) as part of a BEP presentation album of the first 42 secretaries of the treasury.

Engraving credit: Bureau of Engraving and Printing; restored by Andrew Shiva

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