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Today in History

1627
Sir George Calvert arrives in Newfoundland to develop his land grant.
1637
King Charles of England hands over the American colony of Massachusetts to Sir Ferdinando Gorges, one of the founders of the Council of New England.
1664
Wealthy, non-church members in Massachusetts are given the right to vote.
1793
The French garrison at Mainz, Germany, falls to the Prussians.
1803
Irish patriots throughout the country rebel against Union with Great Britain.
1829
William A. Burt patents his “typographer,” an early typewriter.
1849
German rebels in Baden capitulate to the Prussians.
1863
Bill Anderson and his Confederate Bushwhackers gut the railway station at Renick, Missouri.
1865
William Booth founds the Salvation Army.
1868
The 14th Amendment is ratified, granting citizenship to African Americans.
1885
Ulysses S. Grant dies of throat cancer at the age of 63.
1894
Japanese troops take over the Korean imperial palace.
1903
The Ford Motor Company sells its first automobile, the Model A.
1944
Soviet troops take Lublin, Poland as the German army retreats.
1962
The Geneva Conference on Laos forbids the United States to invade eastern Laos.
1995
Two astronomers, Alan Hale in New Mexico and Thomas Bopp in Arizona, almost simultaneously discover a comet.

Baptist pastor gets busted in Texas prostitution sting

A Montgomery County, TX Baptist preacher was arrested and charged late Wednesday night when he solicited an undercover Harris County sheriff’s deputy for sex.

Tennessee inmates offered less jail time in return for vasectomies

A judge in Tennessee is offering inmates at a county jail reduced sentences if they agree to undergo a free vasectomy or birth control injections, drawing fire from opponents who say the program violates fundamental constitutional rights.
The program, which offers White County Jail inmates 30 days off their time behind bars, aims to encourage participants to be successful and avoid being “burdened with children,” Judge Sam Benningfield said in an interview on Thursday with Nashville’s News Channel 5.
“This gives them a chance to get on their feet and make something of themselves,” the judge said.
Benningfield’s order took effect on May 15 but only garnered national attention after the News Channel 5 report. Dozens of inmates are said to have signed up.

Nazi leader claims hate group is volunteering for ICE

As part of their investigation of the rise of hate crimes in Oregon, KPTV News interviewed the self-proclaimed leader of Oregon’s National Socialist Movement, a neo-Nazi political organization

Dumbass Trump Businesses Seeking Dozens Of Special Visas For Foreign Workers

During ‘Made In America’ week, an initiative which is supposedly to promote U.S. jobs and products, the Dumbass Trump Organization is asking the federal...

Scientists solve mystery of rogue signals

Earlier this week, astronomers detected some odd signals seeming to come from a star 11 light-years away, known as Ross 128. The researchers at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico were attempting to learn more about planets and objects orbiting a group of red dwarf stars, including Ross 128. During this time they found a strange transmission that they couldn’t at first explain, which gave rise to some speculation it could be alien in origin, though that possibility was ruled out.