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Connor Shaw's hands on the first play, and Florida punched it in to start a 44-11 rout in Gainesville.
• Jeff Driskel threw four touchdown passes -- three of them after turnovers -- and the Gators matched their win total from last season.
• Florida avenged consecutive losses to the Gamecocks, including one a couple of years ago that ended with Steve Spurrier and his players celebrating a division title on the Gators' home field.
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Today in History
The Associated Press
• Today is Sunday, Oct. 21, the 295th day of 2012. There are 71 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On Oct. 21, 1962, the Seattle World's Fair closed after six months and nearly 10 million visitors. (President John F. Kennedy, scheduled to attend the closing ceremony, canceled because of what was described as a "head cold"; the actual reason turned out to be the Cuban Missile Crisis.)
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• On this date:
• In 1797, the U.S. Navy frigate Constitution, also known as "Old Ironsides," was christened in Boston's 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 1912, classical music conductor Sir Georg Solti (johrj SHOL'-tee) was born Gyorgy Stern in Budapest.
• In 1917, members of the 1st Division of the U.S. Army training in Luneville (luhn-nay-VEEL'), France, became the first Americans to see action on the front lines of World War I.
• In 1944, during World War II, U.S. troops captured the German city of Aachen (AH'-kuhn).
• In 1959, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, opened to the public in New York.
• In 1960, Democrat John F. Kennedy and Republican Richard M. Nixon clashed (Continued on page 45)
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