| 1391 | Castilian sailors in Barcelona, Spain set fire to a Jewish ghetto, killing 100 people and setting off four days of violence against Jews. | |
| 1763 | Colonel Henry Bouquet decisively defeats the Indians at the Battle of Bushy Run in Pennsylvania during Pontiac‘s rebellion. | |
| 1762 | Russia, Prussia and Austria sign a treaty agreeing on the partition of Poland. | |
| 1815 | A peace treaty with Tripoli–which follows treaties with Algeria and Tunis–brings an end to the Barbary Wars. | |
| 1861 | Congress adopts the nation’s first income tax to finance the Civil War. | |
| 1864 | The Union Navy captures Mobile Bay in Alabama. | |
| 1892 | Harriet Tubman receives a pension from Congress for her work as a nurse, spy and scout during the Civil War. | |
| 1914 | The British Expeditionary Force mobilizes for World War I. | |
| 1915 | The Austro-German Army takes Warsaw, in present-day Poland, on the Eastern Front. | |
| 1916 | The British navy defeats the Ottomans at the naval battle off Port Said, Egypt. | |
| 1921 | Mustafa Kemal is appointed virtual ruler of the Ottoman Empire. | |
| 1941 | The German army completes taking 410,000 Russian prisoners in the Uman and Smolensk pockets in the Soviet Union. | |
| 1951 | The United Nations Command suspends armistice talks with the North Koreans when armed troops are spotted in neutral areas. | |
| 1964 | President Lyndon Johnson begins bombing North Vietnam in retaliation for the Gulf of Tonkin incident and asks Congress to go to war against North Vietnam. | |
| 1974 | Nixon admits he ordered a cover-up for political as well as national security reasons. | |
| 1992 | Four police officers are indicted on civil rights charges in the beating of Rodney King. | |
| 1995 | Croatian forces capture the city of Knin, a Serb stronghold, during Operation Storm. | |
| 1997 | The mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, Ramzi Yousef, goes on trial. | |
| 2012 | A gunman in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, opens fire in a Sikh temple, killing six before committing suicide. |
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The solution proposed by Bazalgette was to construct 1,100 miles of street sewers with 82 miles of underground brick sewers to intercept the raw sewage which until then had freely flowed through the streets of London. These intercepting sewers were to divert the sewage from the street sewers to far downstream where it could be collected and dumped, untreated, into the Thames to be carried away at high tide.Read the intriguing (and profusely illustrated) story of Joseph Bazalgette and his ingenious intercepting sewer system at the Heritage Group.
Bazalgette’s proposals met with fierce resistance and were rejected time and time again, but all this changed in 1858. That year the stench from the Thames was so overpowering that Parliament was unable to function and this became known as the year of the “Great Stink.” It prompted politicians into action and the Government gave approval and financial backing to the intercepting sewers proposals, amounting to 3 million pounds.
The El Paso Gazette was one of many to run with the Voodoo angle. After their story hit newsstands, several local papers also printed the possibility that the murders were connected to Voodoo. Around the same time, rumors were swirling that Clementine was the leader of some kind of cult called the "Church of Sacrifice," which was supposedly led by one Reverend King Harris, a Pentecostal revival preacher with a small congregation connected to the Christ Sanctified Holy Church. Police took Harris in for interrogation after rumors of religious involvement ran rampant, but the reverend had never heard of a "Church of Sacrifice," and was visibly shaken to think that his sermons could have possibly inspired a series of bloody ax murders.There are problems with Barnabet's confession. Her story changed constantly, possibly reflecting the publicity and moral panic surrounding the murders. And the murders did not stop when she was arrested. There was also scant evidence that the sacrificial Voodoo cult even existed. But there was physical evidence, such as Barnabet's blood-soaked clothing. Read the mysterious story of Clementine Barnabet at Mental Floss.
