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Today in History

1244
Turks expel the crusaders under Frederick II from Jerusalem.
1305
Scottish patriot William Wallace is hanged, drawn, beheaded, and quartered in London.
1541
Jacques Cartier lands near Quebec on his third voyage to North America.
1711
A British attempt to invade Canada by sea fails.
1775
King George III of England refuses the American colonies’ offer of peace and declares them in open rebellion.
1821
After 11 years of war, Spain grants Mexican independence as a constitutional monarchy.
1863
Union batteries cease their first bombardment of Fort Sumter, leaving it a mass of rubble but still unconquered by the Northern besiegers.
1900
Booker T. Washington forms the National Negro Business League in Boston, Massachusetts.
1902
Fanny Farmer, among the first to emphasize the relationship of diet to health, opens her School of Cookery in Boston.
1914
The Emperor of Japan declares war on Germany.
1926
American film star Rudolph Valentino dies, causing world-wide hysteria and a number of suicides.
1927
Immigrant laborers Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are executed for a robbery they did not commit. Fifty years later, in 1977, Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis establishes a memorial in the victims’ honor.
1939
Joseph Stalin and German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop sign a non-aggression pact between the Soviet Union and Germany, freeing Adolf Hitler to invade Poland and Stalin to invade Finland.
1942
German forces begin an assault on the major Soviet industrial city of Stalingrad.
1944
German SS engineers begin placing explosive charges around the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
1950
Up to 77,000 members of the U.S. Army Organized Reserve Corps are called involuntarily to active duty to fight the Korean War.
1952
The Arab League security pact linking seven Arab States in a military, political and economic alliance goes into effect.
1954
The first flight of the C-130 Hercules transport aircraft takes place.
1958
The Second Taiwan Strait crisis begins: the People’s Liberation Army bombards the island of Quemoy during Chinese Civil War.
1961
Belgium sends troops to Rwanda-Urundi during bloody Tutsi-Hutu conflict.
1966
Lunar Orbiter 1 takes the first photograph of Earth from the moon.
1975
Pathet Lao communists occupy Vientiane, Laos.
1977
Bryan Allen, piloting the Gossamer Condor, wins the Kremer prize for the first human-powered aircraft to fly a one-mile, figure-eight course.
1979
The Iranian army opens an offensive against the Kurds.
1979
Bolshoi Ballet dancer Alexander Godunov defects in New York City.
1990
Armenia declares independence from the USSR.
1990
East and West Germany announce they will unite on Oct 3.
1996
Osama bin Laden issues a message entitled “A declaration of war against the Americans occupying the land of the two holy places.”
2006
Natascha Kampusch,  abducted at the age of 10 in Austria, escapes from her captor, Wolfgang Priklopil, after 8 years of captivity.
2011
Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi is overthrown after National Transitional Council forces take control of the Bab al-Azizia compound during the 2011 Libyan Civil War.
2011
A 5.8 earthquake centered at Mineral, Virginia, damages the Washington Monument, forcing the landmark to close for repairs.

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Native American tribes eye lucrative marijuana market

An increasing number of Native American tribes are looking to the marijuana business to break the poverty on reservations, but they are treading quietly over uncertainties in federal policy, which could shift under Dumbass Trump. 
Cannabis is big business in states that have legalized its medical or recreational use. Arcview, a California cannabis investor network, says the U.S. marijuana market earned $6.7 billion in 2016.

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Fracked Gas Pipeline Crossing Several States Sets Record for Environmental Violations

Making the DEA Look Sane in Comparison

Pharma industry ‘getting away with murder' abroad

Seven months after Dumbass Trump accused the pharmaceutical industry of "getting away with murder," he is busy lining the pockets of large pharmaceutical companies worldwide by giving them more power to charge higher prices overseas. Their price monopolies are likely to be extended under a draft executive order promising "greater intellectual property protection" in multilateral and bilateral trade agreements. The North American Free Trade Agreement, for example, has already been pegged to harmonize foreign intellectual property standards to reflect those found in the United States. Canada, it seems, will be the first target of U.S. indoctrination.

Wisconsin teen pleads guilty to lesser charge in Slenderman attack

One of two Wisconsin girls accused of stabbing a classmate to please a fictional character named Slenderman on Monday pleaded guilty to a reduced charge.
Anissa Weier, 15, appeared in a Waukesha court on Monday to plead guilty to attempted second-degree homicide as a party to a crime with use of a deadly weapon, as part of a plea agreement, court records show.

Father of Ohio football player convicted of rape shoots judge

The father of a former Ohio high school football player who had been convicted of rape shot and wounded a judge in an ambush outside an Ohio courthouse on Monday and was fatally shot by a probation officer, law enforcement authorities said.

‘This makes you scared’

‘This makes you scared’: Muslim couple attacked after enraged passerby hears them speak Arabic

Thousands Of Advertisers Are Fleeing From Fake News Site Breitbart

And their traffic is plummeting. Sad!

Ohio sorority sister faces backlash after ranting it is ‘weird’ for men to hook up with black women

A 10-second video posted to Twitter Sunday night shows Katelyn Rust saying “Fuck yourself you are hooking up with a black girl. That’s weird. That’s weird as fuck. Fuck you.”

Virginia attorney’s office issues four warrants for weepy neo-Nazi Chris Cantwell

The Virginia Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office of Albemarle County has issued four warrants for the weepy men’s-right-activist-turned-neo-Nazi Christopher Cantwell.

Nazi Attorney Fired

Minneapolis attorney booted from law firm after he’s exposed as the owner of neo-Nazi record label

Dumbass Trump-loving Oregon neo-Nazi uses the eclipse to attack Jews

Drivers on Oregon’s Interstate 5 were shocked over the weekend to see anti-Semitic banners being displayed on overpasses — and now local media has figured out who is responsible.

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