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Today in History
| 1758 | James Abercrombie is replaced as supreme commander of British forces after his defeat by French commander the Marquis de Montcalm at Fort Ticonderoga during the French and Indian War. | |
| 1759 | Quebec surrenders to the British after a battle which sees the deaths of both James Wolfe and Louis Montcalm, the British and French commanders. | |
| 1793 | George Washington lays the foundation stone for the U.S. Capitol. | |
| 1830 | Tom Thumb, the first locomotive built in the United States, loses a nine-mile race in Maryland to a horse. | |
| 1850 | Congress passes the second Fugitive Slave Bill into law (the first was enacted in 1793), requiring the return of escaped slaves to their owners. | |
| 1862 | After waiting all day for a Union attack which never came at Antietam, Confederate General Robert E. Lee begins a retreat out of Maryland and back to Virginia. | |
| 1863 | Union cavalry troops clash with a group of Confederates at Chickamauga Creek. | |
| 1874 | The Nebraska Relief and Aid Society is formed to help farmers whose crops were destroyed by grasshoppers swarming throughout the American West. | |
| 1911 | Russian Premier Pyotr Stolypin dies four days after being shot at the Kiev opera house by socialist lawyer Dimitri Bogroff. | |
| 1914 | The Irish Home Rule Bill becomes law, but is delayed until after World War I. | |
| 1929 | Charles Lindbergh takes off on a 10,000 mile air tour of South America. | |
| 1934 | The League of Nations admits the Soviet Union. | |
| 1939 | A German U-boat sinks the British aircraft carrier Courageous, killing 500 people. | |
| 1948 | Margaret Chase Smith becomes the first woman elected to the Senate without completing another senator’s term when she defeats Democratic opponent Adrian Scolten. Smith is also the only woman to be elected to and serve in both houses of Congress. | |
| 1960 | Two thousand cheer Fidel Castro’s arrival in New York for the United Nations session. | |
| 1961 | UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold is killed in a plane crash while attempting to negotiate peace in the Congo. | |
| 1964 | U.S. destroyers fire on hostile targets in Vietnam. | |
| 1973 | East and West Germany and The Bahamas are admitted to the United Nations. | |
| 1975 | Patty Hearst, granddaughter of newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst, is kidnapped by violent radical group SLA (Symbionese Liberation Army); she will later take part in some of the group’s militant activities and will be captured by FBI agents. | |
| 1977 | Voyager I takes first photo of Earth and the Moon together. | |
| 1980 | Cosmonaut Arnaldo Tamayo, a Cuban, becomes the first black to be sent on a mission in space. | |
| 1998 | ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) is formed to coordinate unique identifying addresses for Websites worldwide. | |
| 2009 | The US television soap opera The Guiding Light broadcasts its final episode, ending a 72-year run that began on radio. |
‘America is a country of weirdos!’
“America is a country of weirdos! Celebrate
it!” shouted one of Saturday’s marchers in the gathering of so-called
“Juggalos” — fans of rap band Insane Clown Posse — before sweeping up
reporter Daniel Dale in a hug.
Some people have trouble telling left from right
Nighttime Alcohol
The ‘internet of things’ is sending us back to the Middle Ages
Cop who bullied Utah nurse has history of 'unwanted physical contact' with female officer
Salt Lake City Police Detective Jeff Payne, who is currently being investigated by the FBI for his arrest of Alex Wubbels on July 26, made “unwanted physical contact” with a female officer multiple times, according to the police chief in a May 2013 letter obtained by the Salt Lake Tribune.
In addition, Payne also sent a “disparaging email” that was “profane in its content” to his female colleague — using official department accounts.
“Your harassing behavior was severe and persistent and created a hostile, intimidating work environment for this employee, significantly interfering with her ability to work,” the chief wrote.
Despite the incidents, Payne only received written reprimand that warned any additional harassment could result in his dismissal.
Jerry Sandusky's son pleads guilty to 14 child sex-abuse charges
Jeffrey Sandusky, 42, of State College, is one of the six adopted children of Jerry Sandusky, the retired Penn State defensive coordinator whose 2011 arrest and 2012 conviction on 45 of 48 counts of child sex abuse crimes rocked the university.
Pastor Decides Straight Couple Can’t Even SUPPORT Marriage Equality, Cancels Their Wedding
This makes refusing to bake a cake look like child’s play.
Texas cult blocked volunteer from helping Hurricane Harvey victims because she is a Jewish lesbian
A Texas woman who volunteered at a cult to
help families in need after Hurricane Harvey has been ‘fired’ after the
cult found she’s Jewish and a lesbian.
A deadly herpes virus is threatening oysters around the world
Today a deadly herpes virus, Ostreid herpesvirus 1 (OsHV-1), is threatening Pacific oysters (Crassostrea gigas), the world’s most popular and valuable oyster species. It is almost certain to spread more widely in our globally connected world.
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