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1504		Michelangelo’s 13-foot marble statue of David is unveiled in Florence, Italy.
1529		The Ottoman Sultan Suleiman re-enters Budapest and establishes John Zapolya as the puppet king of Hungary.
1565		Spanish explorers found St. Augustine, Florida, the first permanent European settlement in what is now the United States.
1628		John Endecott arrives with colonists at Salem, Massachusetts, where he will become the governor.
1644		The Dutch colony of New Amsterdam surrenders to the British fleet that sails into its harbor. Five years later, the British change the name to New York.
1755		British forces under William Johnson defeat the French and the Indians at the Battle of Lake George.
1760		The French surrender the city of Montreal to the British.
1845		A French column surrenders at Sidi Brahim in the Algerian War.
1863		Confederate Lieutenant Dick Dowling thwarts a Union naval landing at Sabine Pass, northeast of Galveston, Texas.
1903		Between 30,000 and 50,000 Bulgarian men, women and children are massacred in Monastir by Turkish troops seeking to check a threatened Macedonian uprising.
1906		Robert Turner invents the automatic typewriter return carriage.
1915		Germany begins a new offensive in Argonne on the Western Front.
1921		Margaret Gorman of Washington, D.C., is named the first Miss America.
1925		Germany is admitted into the League of Nations.
1935		Senator Huey Long of Louisiana is shot to death in the state capitol, allegedly by Dr. Carl Austin Weiss, Jr.
1944		Germany’s V-2 offensive against England begins.
1945		Korea is partitioned by the Soviet Union and the United States.
1951		Japanese representatives sign a peace treaty in San Francisco.
1955		The United States, Australia, France, Great Britain, New Zealand, the Philippines, Pakistan, and Thailand sign the mutual defense treaty that established the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO).
1960		Penguin Books in Britain is charged with obscenity for trying to publish the D.H. Lawrence novel Lady Chatterley’s Lover.
1960		President Dwight Eisenhower dedicates NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
1971		The Kennedy Center opens in Washington, DC with a performance of Leonard Bernstein’s Mass.
1974		Ford pardons Nixon for any crimes arising from the Watergate scandal he may have committed while in office.
1988		Wildfires in Yellowstone National Park in the US, the world’s first national park, force evacuation of the historic Old Faithful Inn; visitors and employees evacuate but the inn is saved.
1991		Macedonian Independence Day; voters overwhelmingly approve a referendum to form the Republic of Macedonia, independent of Yugoslavia.
1994		USAir Flight 427 crashes on approach to Pittsburgh International Airport, killing all 132 people aboard; subsequent investigation leads to changes in manufacturing practices and pilot training.

Nationwide Immigration Protests Erupt After Dumbass Trump Ends DACA

Nationwide Immigration Protests Erupt After Dumbass Trump Ends DACA

DeVos to cut Obama rules forcing colleges to fight campus sex assault

DeVos expected to cut Obama rules forcing colleges to fight campus sex assault

And of course, it's more "on many sides" nonsense from the PRO-RAPE Dumbass Trump Junta

DeVos To Weaken Obama's Title IX Protections For Rape Victims

What men and women really desire in their sex lives

Men often get a reputation for having NSFW sex fantasies, but a new survey found they have a bit of a different desire: most men prefer more sensual and romantic forms of sexual behavior. The research found that both men and women of all ages prefer affectionate sexual behaviors such as kissing and cuddling above all else, suggesting that at the end of the day, we all just really want to be held.

Here is what men and women really desire in their sex lives

The Economic Fantasies We Share with the Characters We Watch on TV

The Economic Fantasies We Share with the Characters We Watch on TV

Is Bacon Better for You Than Tilapia?

Is Bacon Better for You Than Tilapia?

Using Zika virus to kill brain cancer may soon be a thing

If you’ve spent any time in North or South America lately, or simply read the news, it’s hard to have missed reports on outbreaks of the Zika virus, which causes flu-like symptoms, but can also lead to serious birth defects in children born to infected mothers. However, new research shows the virus has a silver lining: it may be useful in treating aggressive and difficult-to-reach brain cancer tumors called glioblastomas. 

Using Zika virus to kill brain cancer may soon be a thing

Your Facebook friends could be making you sick

Social media makes it easy for us to be connected 24/7 from the palms of our hands. Sites like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram allow us to scroll through our feeds to comment, like, and post content. Now, a recent study published in Computers in Human Behavior found people with more Facebook friends suffer from poorer health, and in particular, more upper respiratory infections.

Your Facebook friends could be making you sick

Got the End-of-Summer Blues?

Got the End-of-Summer Blues? Here’s How Marijuana Can Help

‘You’re speaking immigrant’

‘You’re speaking immigrant’: Oklahoma man goes on berserk after overhearing woman using Spanish on phone

An Oklahoma woman was accosted at a thrift store by another shopper who overheard her speaking Spanish on her cell phone.

Fun With Guns

Fun With Guns: 'Surrender The Walmart Notebook Or I'll Shoot!'

Firearm is drawn over school notebook at Michigan Walmart. "Police are now working with prosecutors to try to determine whether the woman’s actions could be classified as self-defense." Let that sink in for a minute.

Utah cop who assaulted nurse over blood draw fired

Utah cop who assaulted nurse over blood draw fired from paramedic job

Detective Jeff Payne has been fired from his part-time job as a paramedic.

Hurricane Irma leaves scientists at a 'loss for words'

Hurricane Irma made landfall on the small island of Barbuda as a Category 5 hurricane Wednesday as it heads toward the U.S. Virgin Islands and Florida.
The size of the storm left hurricane and weather scientists speechless. “I am at a complete and utter loss for words looking at Irma's appearance on satellite imagery,” wrote Taylor Trogdon, a scientist at the U.S. National Hurricane Center‏ on Twitter.

Hurricane Irma leaves scientists at a 'loss for words'

Boron findings on Mars might end celestial saga

Curiosity, the tiny rover exploring the Gale Crater on Mars, has sent back data confirming that the assigned area offered a habitable environment for micro organisms at some point in time.
Scientists at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in a paper published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters said the finding of boron by the rover has thrown open the possibility of whether life could have ever existed on the planet.

Boron findings on Mars might end celestial saga

How Tyrannical Is a Country?

How Tyrannical Is a Country? Look at How It Treats Captive Animals

When not to eat your kids

Even though it is known to be a cannibal, the mangrove rivulus or killifish of the Americas will never eat one of its own embryos, … Read more

Dogs have self-awareness

The sniff test of self-recognition confirmed

A new research carried out by the Department of Psychology of the Barnard College in the USA, in publication on the journal Behavioural Processes (Horowitz, … Read more

Research dog helps scientists save endangered carnivores

Scat-sniffing research dogs are helping scientists map out a plan to save reclusive jaguars, pumas, bush dogs and other endangered carnivores in the increasingly fragmented … Read more

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