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Today in History
| 480 BC | Themistocles and his Greek fleet win one of history’s first decisive naval victories over Xerxes‘ Persian force off Salamis. | |
| 1378 | The election of Robert of Geneva as anti-pope by discontented cardinals creates a great schism in the Catholic church. | |
| 1519 | Ferdinand Magellan embarks from Spain on a voyage to circumnavigate the world. | |
| 1561 | Queen Elizabeth of England signs a treaty at Hampton Court with French Huguenot leader Louis de Bourbon, the Prince of Conde. The English will occupy Le Havre in return for aiding Bourbon against the Catholics of France. | |
| 1565 | Pedro Menendez of Spain wipes out the French at Fort Caroline, in Florida. | |
| 1604 | After a two-year siege, the Spanish retake Ostend, the Netherlands, from the Dutch. | |
| 1784 | Packet and Daily, the first daily publication in America, appears on the streets. | |
| 1806 | Explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark pass the French village of La Charette, the first white settlement they have seen in more than two years. | |
| 1830 | The National Negro Convention convenes in Philadelphia with the purpose of abolishing slavery. | |
| 1850 | The slave trade is abolished in the District of Columbia. | |
| 1853 | The Allies defeat the Russians at the Battle of Alma on the Crimean Peninsula. | |
| 1863 | Union troops under George Thomas prevent the Union defeat at Chickamauga from becoming a rout, earning him the nickname “the Rock of Chickamauga.” | |
| 1934 | Bruno Hauptmann is arrested for the kidnapping and murder of the Lindbergh baby. | |
| 1952 | Scientists confirm that DNA holds hereditary data. | |
| 1971 | Hurricane Irene becomes the first hurricane known to cross from the Atlantic to Pacific, where it is renamed Hurricane Olivia. | |
| 1973 | In a pro tennis bout dubbed “The Battle of the Sexes,” Billie Jean King beats Bobby Riggs at the Houston Astrodome in Texas. | |
| 1977 | The Socialist Republic of Vietnam is admitted to the United Nations. | |
| 1984 | A suicide car bomber attacks the US embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, killing 22. | |
| 1985 | Australia introduces a capital gains tax. | |
| 1990 | South Ossetia declares its independence from Georgia in the former Soviet Union. | |
| 2000 | The British MI6 Secret Intelligence Service building in London is attacked by an unidentified group using an RPG-22 anti-tank missile. | |
| 2001 | US Pres. George W. Bush, addressing a joint session of Congress, declares a “war on terror.”. | |
| 2008 | A truck loaded with explosives detonates by Marriott hotel in Islamabad, Pakistan, killing 45 and injuring 226. | |
| 2011 | The US military ends its “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy and allows gay men and women to serve openly. |
Another Russian Turns Up Dead
Stanislav Petrov is big factor in why many of us are still here.
It has just come to light that Stanislav Petrov, a former Soviet Lieutenant Colonel, passed away on May 19 this year in
his apartment in the small town of Fryazino, northeast of Moscow. You
have probably never heard of him, but if it weren’t for Petrov’s actions
(or lack thereof), there is a good chance you wouldn’t be here to read
this today.
Hurricane Maria aims at Irma-battered Florida coast
Hurricane Maria has intensified into a Category 3 hurricane with strong 125 mph winds — and it's moving perilously towards a Sunshine State still struggling to recover from its sister Irma.
The Rapture starts on Saturday
The end is nigh, according to 'christian' numerologist David Meade.
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Rapture Party at our place, woo-who!
How the government can steal your stuff
But lawmakers on both sides of the aisle in Congress are challenging the Dumbass Trump juntan’s embrace of the arrangement, which strips billions of dollars a year from Americans – who often have not been charged with a crime. Law professor and criminal justice expert Nora V. Demleitner explains how this procedure works and why it irks wingnuts and progressives alike.
Fired Fox hack O’Reilly busted for floating smear story on black woman he sexually harassed
Still harassing her -- only trying to use the media to do his dirty work.
High schoolers paint ‘rape’ on chests at football game
Four high school students in South Carolina
are under fire after spelling out the word “rape” on their chests during
a football game.
Family seeks answers after Georgia Tech student killed by police
Scout Schultz, 21, died after being shot on campus on Saturday night. The student ignored repeated commands to drop the knife and stop moving toward officers, police said.
Chris Stewart, a lawyer representing the family, said at a news conference on Monday that Scout Schultz was carrying a fold-out utility knife.
“The narrative out there says he was wielding a knife,” Stewart said, adding that the knife was a multi-purpose tool with pliers and “a tiny little blade that was not even open.”
Father claims he set 6-year-old on fire in gun safety lesson gone wrong
A six-year-old whose father shot him with
flaming pellets from a firework gun gave a different account in court
from what his father originally told police.
‘I probably looked ridiculous’
An Oakland woman disrupted her own armed
mugging while traveling on mass transit by first “freaking out” then
recalling something she saw on the popular television show.
Mississippi teacher on Facebook calls for black people to be expelled from US
A teacher in Mississippi is claiming someone hacked her Facebook account
and posted racist messages that supported the expulsion of black people
from the United States. SC teacher suspended after asking 5th graders to come up with reasons for joining the Klan
“Why do you think your treatment of African Americans is justified?”
White supremacist finally served for ‘terror campaign’ targeting Jewish woman
Andrew Anglin, infamous founder of the
neo-Nazi Daily Stormer website and the subject of a lawsuit alleging he
unleashed an anti-Semitic “terror campaign” on a Jewish woman, has been
served via an Ohio newspaper.
Diner defaced with swastikas, other anti-Semitic graffiti
A popular diner was defaced over the weekend with anti-Semitic graffiti and authorities are seeking answers.Workers at the Airport Diner reported the vandalism after arriving Sunday morning.
Photos of the damage show two exterior walls marked with swastikas, "Heil Hitler," "Kill Jews," and "WPWW," which has come to stand for "White Power World Wide."
Additionally, a freezer was vandalized with contents removed, the New Jersey Herald reported.
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