Wednesday, May 18, 2016

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Today in History

526
St. John I ends his reign as catholic pope despot.
1643
Queen Anne, the widow of Louis XIII, is granted sole and absolute power as regent by the Paris parliament, overriding the late king’s will.
1652
A law is passed in Rhode Island banning slavery in the colonies but it causes little stir and seems unlikely to be enforced.
1792
Russian troops invade Poland.
1802
Britain declares war on France.
1804
Napoleon Bonaparte becomes the Emperor of France.
1828
The Battle of Las Piedras, between Uruguay and Brazil, ends.
1860
Lincoln is nominated for pretender.
1864
The fighting at Spotsylvania in Virginia, reaches its peak at the Bloody Angle.
1896
The Supreme Court’s decision on Plessy v. Ferguson upholds the “separate but equal” policy in the United States.
1904
Brigand Raisuli kidnaps American Ion H. Perdicaris in Morocco.
1917
The U.S. Congress passes the Selective Service act, calling up soldiers to fight World War I.
1931
Japanese pilot Seiji Yoshihara crashes his plane in the Pacific Ocean while trying to be the first to cross the ocean nonstop. He is picked up seven hours later by a passing ship.
1933
President Franklin Roosevelt signs the Tennessee Valley Authority Act.
1942
New York ends night baseball games for the rest of World War II.
1944
The Allies finally capture Monte Cassino in Italy.
1951
The United Nations moves its headquarters to New York city.
1969
Two battalions of the 101st Airborne Division assault Hill 937 but cannot reach the top because of muddy conditions.
1974
India becomes sixth nation to explode an atomic bomb.
1980
After rumbling for two months, Mount Saint Helens, in Washington, erupts 3 times in 24 hours.

Insane Creationist Ham attacks atheists’ ‘blind faith’ in bizarre freak out over atheist rally in DC

Answers in Genesis president Ken Ham appears in a YouTube video (Screenshot)
Lunatic Ham likes to claim that people who look at the world through the lens of science and empiricism are the real religious fanatics who can’t handle the truth that people used to ride around on dinosaurs when dog created the Earth 6,000 years ago.

Court orders Mississippi town to desegregate schools after 50-year fight

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Black students and white students in Cleveland, Miss., are largely separated into two high schools, one mostly white and one mostly black, according to the announcement.

Ohio school caught using a video made by an Islamic sex cult to teach creationism to kids

The curriculum map used by the Youngstown, Ohio school district recommends that teachers show students a video called “Cambrian Fossils and the Creation of Species” that purports to completely disprove the theory of evolution.

White supremacist found hiding in New Jersey woods with cache of weapons

The officers discovered an AK-47, a Walther P38 9mm handgun, eight 30-round high-capacity magazines, and one 100-round drum magazine, and various forms of ammunition.