Friday, November 10, 2017

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Today in History

1493
Christopher Columbus discovers Antigua during his second expedition.
1556
The English explorer Richard Chancellor is drowned off Aberdeenshire on his return from a second voyage to Russia.
1647
All Dutch-held areas of New York are returned to English control by the treaty of Westminster.
1775
The U.S. Marine Corps is founded.
1782
In the last battle of the American Revolution, George Rogers Clark attacks Indians and Loyalists at Chillicothe, in Ohio Territory.
1871
Henry M. Stanley finds Dr. Livingstone at Ujiji near Unyanyembe in Africa.
1879
Little Bighorn participant Major Marcus Reno is caught window-peeping at the daughter of his commanding officer—an offense for which he will be courtmartialed.
1911
President Howard Taft ends a 15,000-mile, 57-day speaking tour.
1911
The Imperial government of China retakes Nanking.
1917
Forty-one US suffragettes are arrested protesting outside the White House.
1938
Fascist Italy enacts anti-Semitic legislation.
1941
Winston Churchill promises to join the U.S. “within the hour” in the event of war with Japan.
1942
Admiral Jean Darlan orders French forces in North Africa to cease resistance to the Anglo-American forces.
1952
The U.S. Supreme Court upholds the decision barring segregation on interstate railways.
1961
Andrew Hatcher is named associate press secretary to President John F. Kennedy.
1962
Eleanor Roosevelt is buried. She had died three days earlier.
1964
Australia begins a draft to fulfill its commitment in Vietnam.
1969
The PBS children’s program Sesame Street debuts.
1971
Two women are tarred and feathered in Belfast for dating British soldiers, while in Londonderry, Northern Ireland a Catholic girl is also tarred and feathered for her intention of marrying a British soldier.
1972
Hijackers divert a jet to Detroit, demanding $10 million and ten parachutes.
1975
The iron ore freighter Edmund Fitzgerald breaks in half and sinks at the eastern end of Lake Superior–all 29 crew members perish.
1986
Reagan refuses to reveal details of the Iran arms sale.
1989
German citizens begin tearing down the Berlin Wall.
1997
WorldCom and MCI Communications announce a merger, the largest in US history up to that time.
2008
NASA declares the Phoenix mission concluded after losing communications with the lander, five months after it began its exploration on the surface of Mars.
2009
North Korean and South Korean ships skirmish off Daecheong Island.

2,300 year-old Hellenistic gymnasium discovered in Egypt

Archaeologists in Egypt have unearthed an ancient gymnasium that dates back to the third century B.C., which falls in the ancient Hellenistic or Greek period. The discovery was made by a joint team of German and Egyptian archaeologists at Watfa in Fayoum province, about 50 miles southwest of Cairo.

What are the side effects of magic mushrooms?

A hopeful politician in California is trying to get something new on the ballot next year, psychedelic mushrooms. Kevin Saunders, a former heroin addict, told Vice that using the magic mushrooms helped him get clean from heroin and now he thinks that it could do the same for others as well.

Oklahoma collections firm is making sheriffs rich by sending poor people to jail

An Oklahoma court fees collection agency is jacking up debtors’ fees by an additional 30 percent, then working in concert with law enforcement to jail people who can’t pay.

Russians offered Dumbass Trump ‘five women’ for group sex

Keith Schiller — longtime bodyguard to Dumbass Trump — said on Thursday that after a meeting about the 2013 Miss Universe Pageant in Moscow, a Russian associate offered to send “five women” to Dumbass Trump’s hotel room.

Suspected serial killer arrested in Florida

Police arrested a possible serial killer in Florida Wednesday who was accused of murdering three homeless people. Nathaniel Petgrave, 22, was also homeless and worked as a security guard, according to the Sun-Sentinel.

Man gouged out teen's eyes and broke her neck when she refused to marry him

A 34-year-old Pennsylvania man has confessed to strangling a 19-year-old woman, gouging out her eyes, breaking her neck and beating her with a hatchet and a 25-pound weight plate — all because she turned down his marriage proposal.

Mariah Carey accused of sexual harassment

Mariah Carey is the latest celebrity to be accused of sexual harassment in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein scandal that rocked Hollywood in October.
The singer is accused of behaving in a sexual way toward her former personal security, Michael Anello. TMZ reports that Anello is also accusing Carey of denigrating him by calling him a skinhead, a Nazi and a white supremacist.

There was a terror attack in Colorado last week — but no one is talking about it

Scott Ostrem, a 47-year-old, white man, walked into a Walmart north of Denver on Nov. 1 and opened fire. Eyewitnesses described him as “nonchalantly” shooting shoppers with a handgun, killing three.

Elephant on fire

A photograph by Indian photographer Biplab Hazra, which shows an elephant and its calf fleeing after being set on fire by villagers in Bankura, West Bengal, India, was awarded the Sanctuary Wildlife Photography Award 2017 by Sanctuary Asia on Sunday.