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Today in History
| 1396 | The last great 'christian' invasion, led jointly by John the Fearless of Nevers and King Sigismund of Hungary, ends in disaster at the hands of Sultan Bayezid I’s Ottoman army at Nicopolis. | |
| 1598 | In Sweden, King Sigismund is defeated at Stangebro by his uncle Charles. | |
| 1775 | British troops capture Ethan Allen, the hero of Ticonderoga, when he and a handful of Americans try to invade Canada. | |
| 1789 | Congress proposes 12 new amendments to the Constitution. | |
| 1804 | The 12th Amendment is ratified, changing the procedure of choosing the president and vice-president. | |
| 1846 | American General Zachary Taylor’s forces capture Monterey, Mexico. | |
| 1909 | The first National Aeronautic Show opens at Madison Square Garden. | |
| 1915 | An allied offensive is launched in France against the German Army. | |
| 1918 | Brazil declares war on Austria. | |
| 1937 | German Chancellor Adolf Hitler meets with Italian Premier Benito Mussolini in Munich. | |
| 1938 | President Franklin Roosevelt urges negotiations between Hitler and Czech President Edvard Benes over the Sudetenland. | |
| 1942 | The War Labor Board orders equal pay for women in the United States. | |
| 1943 | The Red Army retakes Smolensk from the Germans who are retreating to the Dnieper River in the Soviet Union. | |
| 1959 | President Dwight Eisenhower and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev begin Camp David talks. | |
| 1974 | Scientists warn that continued use of aerosol sprays will cause ozone depletion, which will lead to an increased risk of skin cancer and global weather changes. | |
| 1981 | Sandra Day O’Connor, the first female Supreme Court Justice, is sworn in. | |
| 1983 | The Maze Prison escape takes place, County Antrim, Northern Ireland; 38 IRA prisoners escape in the largest prison breakout in British history; known among Irish republicans as the Great Escape. | |
| 1992 | NASA launches the Mars Observer probe; it fails 11 months later. | |
| 1996 | Ireland’s last Magdalene laundry closes; begun as asylums to rehabilitate “fallen women,” they increasingly took on prison-like qualities. | |
| 2008 | China launches the Shenzhou 7 spacecraft; its crew performs China’s first extra-vehicular activity (EVA). | |
| 2009 | US President Barack Obama, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, and French President Nicolas Sarkozy jointly accuse Iran of building a secret nuclear enrichment facility. |
Banned Books Week
France Is Considering Making Catcalling Illegal
The country is cracking down on street harassment in a bid to end macho culture
Funny Dudes Make The Best Lovers
According to new research, your sense of humor may be the most potent aphrodisiac
Things You Need to Know About Whiskey Dick
A shot might calm your nerves. But it'll also shut down your penis
The FDA Just Recalled "Death Wish" Coffee Over Very Real Death Risk
The canned coffee may have been harboring a fatal disease
Gatorade Tries to Say Water is Bad For You, Gets Sued
The sports drink company claimed that water would decrease performance
The anatomy of a hurricane
Ingredients
Tropical cyclones—the catch-all term for tropical depressions,
tropical storms, and hurricanes—require four key ingredients in order to
form: existing thunderstorms, warm water, moist air, and light winds.NASA asteroid mission uses earth’s gravity as a slingshot
Parents of white teen accused of hanging black child claim it was an accident
On August 28, an 8-year-old biracial boy was
playing with a group of teenagers in the small town of Claremont, New
Hampshire. Soon, however, their games took a dangerous turn. Somehow,
the boy—who is half black—wound up with a rope around his neck, hanging
from a tree.
Police shootings are killing Latinos
As Sanchez approached the officers holding the metal pipe in hand, the officers asked him to drop the pipe and to get on the ground, but the 35-year-old deaf man could not hear them. Even after his neighbors yelled to police that Sanchez was deaf and could not hear their orders, he was shot by one officer with a Taser and another officer with a gun.
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