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Today in History

48 BC
On landing in Egypt, Pompey is murdered on the orders of Ptolemy.
855
The Emperor Lothar dies in Gaul, and his kingdom is divided between his three sons.
1066
William, Duke of Normandy, soon to be known as William the Conqueror invades England.
1106
King Henry of England defeats his brother Robert at the Battle of Tinchebrai and reunites England and Normandy.
1238
James of Aragon retakes Valencia, Spain, from the Arabs.
1607
Samuel de Champlain and his colonists return to France from Port Royal Nova Scotia.
1794
The Anglo-Russian-Austrian Alliance of St. Petersburg, which is directed against France, is signed.
1864
Union General William Rosecrans blames his defeat at Chickamauga on two of his subordinate generals. They are later exonerated by a court of inquiry.
1874
Colonel Ronald Mackenzie raids a war camp of Comanche and Kiowa at the Battle of Palo Duro Canyon, Texas, slaughtering 2,000 of their horses.
1904
A woman is placed under arrest for smoking a cigarette on New York’s Fifth Avenue.
1912
W.C. Handy’s “Memphis Blues” is published.
1913
Race riots in Harriston, Mississippi, kill 10 people.
1924
Three U.S. Army aircraft arrive in Seattle, Washington after completing a 22-day round-the-world flight.
1928
Sir Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin when he notices a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory; it remained for Howard Florey and Ernst Chain to isolate the active ingredient, allowing the “miracle drug” to be developed in the 1940s.
1939
Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union agree on a division of Poland; Warsaw surrenders to German troops.
1958
France ratifies a new constitution.
1959
Explorer VI, the U.S. satellite, takes the first video pictures of Earth.
1961
A military coup in Damascus ends the Egypt-Syria union known as the United Arab Republic that was formed Feb. 1, 1958.
1963
Roy Lichtenstein’s pop art work Whaam!, depicting in comic-book style a US jet shooting down an enemy fighter, is exhibited for the first time; it will become one of the best known examples of pop art.
1995
Israel’s Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) leader Yasser Arafat sign an interim agreement concerning settlement on the Gaza Strip.
1996
Afghanistan’s former president (1986-92) Mohammad Najibullah is tortured and murdered by the Taliban.
2008
SpaceX launches the first private spacecraft, Falcon 1.

Saudi Arabia Finally Agrees To Let Women Drive

Saudi Arabia Finally Agrees To Let Women Drive

Gig Economy Has Created Permanent Low-Wage Nomads

Want Another Reason to Stop Drinking Soda?

meth found in Mexico 7up
Want Another Reason to Stop Drinking Soda? Some 7-Up Was Found to Contain Meth
Several people were hospitalized and one person died after drinking the contaminated soda

Common Stomach Problems That Could Signal Serious Health Issues

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5 Common Stomach Problems That Could Signal Serious Health Issues
Here's how to know when gas and diarrhea are more than just a nuisance

Losing weight at any age leads to cost savings

Losing weight at any age leads to cost savings
Helping an adult lose weight leads to significant cost savings at any age, with those savings peaking at age 50, a new Johns Hopkins...

Dark Secrets Behind Big Pharma's Renewed Push of Estrogen Supplement

Muslim women more likely to skip mammograms

Breast cancer screening with mammography is a controversial issue, but it can uncover a tumor at an early stage when it's easiest to treat. Currently, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommends annual mammograms for women between the ages of 50 and 74, with screening under 50 being an "individual" decision. But many women don't have access to this information, a challenge that is especially pronounced in Muslim communities, where standard public health messaging doesn’t address concerns related to religious beliefs.  

Musical tastes offer clues for spotting psychopaths

Was your ex who was completely obsessed with Eminem actually a psychopath? Probably not. But a recent study from New York University comparing people’s musical preferences with their scores on a personality test show that the two traits may be more closely linked than you’re comfortable believing.

Top US general recommends NOT kicking out transgender troops

The top U.S. general said on Tuesday he has urged the Dumbass Trump junta not to kick transgender service members out of the military despite Dumbass Trump’s ban on transgender people serving in the armed forces.
Marine Corps General Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was asked by Democratic Senator Kirsten Gillibrand during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing whether he agreed that the thousands of transgender men and women now in the military have served with honor and valor.
“I do, Senator,” Dunford responded. “I would just probably say that I believe any individual who meets the physical and mental standards, and is worldwide-deployable and is currently serving, should be afforded the opportunity to continue to serve.”
A fourth person was charged Monday in the death of a Houston transgender teenager, whose burned and mutilated body was found in southern Missouri earlier this month.
According to reports, 17-year-old Ally Steinfeld — whose real name was Joseph Matthew Steinfeld — had her genitals stabbed and her eyes gouged out before her burnt remains were put in a plastic bag and dumped in a chicken coop near a Cabool mobile home in early September.

Florida woman arrested 27 years later in killer clown cold case

Police in Florida said Tuesday they’ve arrested a woman, Sheila Keen Warren, 54, who has been accused of dressing up like a clown 27 years ago and fatally shooting her husband’s ex-wife.
Warren was arrested without incident in Washington County, Virginia. A Florida grand jury indicted her on a first-degree murder charge with use of a firearm in the shooting death of Marlene Warren, 40, in May 1990, reports said citing officials. Sheila Keen had been a suspect since the incident took place but was not arrested due to lack of evidence.

Why Police Violence Against Women of Color Stays Hidden

When Cops Kill Unarmed Black People, Lush Dimbulb Is The Real Victim

New Jersey professor suspended after undercover video catches him praising Hitler

A New Jersey professor at the center of an alt-right scandal since a video of him spouting anti-Semitic sentiments was revealed last week has been placed on administrative leave.

‘Right, I’m racist!’

‘Right, I’m racist!’ Watch substitute teacher freak out on student just for speaking Spanish

Immigrant family warned Oklahoma cops about neighbor’s racist obsession before killing

An Oklahoma family wants to know why police failed to act on their warnings about a neighbor’s racist obsession that ended in the killing of their loved one.
Stanley Vernon Majors is charged with murder and a hate crime in the August 2016 shooting death of 37-year-old Khalid Jabara, who was killed on his front porch after enduring years of racist taunts by his next-door neighbor, reported CNN.
“How many red flags does it take to keep somebody that’s obviously dangerous to the community, to the public in general, who’s a flight risk,” said the victim’s younger brother, Rami Jabara. “How many red flags does it take to keep this guy in custody so that he can face trial? It’s like the law can’t catch up with him.”
The Jabara family, who came from Lebanon decades ago, got a protection order against the 62-year-old Majors and then reported to police that he wasn’t complying — yet he remained free to run down their mother.
He was charged with hit and run after police found him later drunk and urinating in public, and he asked officers about Haifa Jabari — who suffered a brain hemorrhage and broken bones — by name before cursing her as “filthy Lebanese.”
Prosecutors later charged him with assault and battery with a deadly weapon.
Majors was released on $30,000 bond in that September 2015 incident and returned to his Tulsa home, where the Jabari family said he continued to harass them before killing their son and brother two months later.

Oregon man accused of ordering pit bull attack on black man

A white Oregon man is accused of making racist threats and ordering his dog to attack a black man he encountered at a bus stop.

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