On this day: October 4
POSTED: 8:01 PM Oct 03 2012
UPDATED: 2:00 AM Oct 04 2012
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Work begins on Mount Rushmore, Sputnik is launched into space, the pope visits America for the first time, Janis Joplin is found dead of an overdose, all on this day.
- Caffeinated toothbrush in the works
- Google Maps leads kidnapped boy home
- Giant mechanical animals stalk theme park
- Man finds $4.8M lotto ticket in cookie jar
- An election decided by the flip of a coin
- Buckets of KFC smuggled into Gaza
- Man wins lottery four times
- Watt's grandson steals spotlight at Holder hearing
- Hindu deity on mural sparks Ten Commandments request
