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Today in History
| 1777 | At Germantown, Pa., British General Sir William Howe repels George Washington‘s last attempt to retake Philadelphia, compelling Washington to spend the winter at Valley Forge. | |
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| 1861 | The Union ship USS South Carolina captures two Confederate blockade runners outside of New Orleans, La. | |
| 1874 | Kiowa leader Satanta, known as “the Orator of the Plains,” surrenders in Darlington, Texas. He is later sent to the state penitentiary, where he commits suicide on October 11, 1878. | |
| 1905 | Orville Wright pilots the first flight longer than 30 minutes. The flight lasted 33 minutes, 17 seconds and covered 21 miles. | |
| 1914 | The first German Zeppelin raids London. | |
| 1917 | The Battle of Broodseinde takes place near Ypres, Flanders, as a part of the larger Battle of Passchendaele, between the British 2nd and 5th armies and the defenders of the German 4th Army; it is the most successful Allied attack of the Passchendaele offensive. | |
| 1927 | Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting the heads of 4 US presidents on Mount Rushmore. | |
| 1940 | Germany’s Adolf Hitler and Italy’s Benito Mussolini meet at the Brenner Pass. | |
| 1941 | Willie Gillis Jr., a fictional everyman created by illustrator Norman Rockwell, makes his first appearance, on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post; a series of illustrations on several magazines’ covers would depict young Gillis throughout World War II. | |
| 1943 | The US captures the Solomon Islands in the Pacific. | |
| 1957 | Sputnik 1, the first man-made satellite, is launched, beginning the “space race.” The satellite, built by Valentin Glushko, weighed 184 pounds and was launched by a converted Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM). Sputnik orbited the earth every 96 minutes at a maximum height of 584 miles. In 1958, it reentered the earth’s atmosphere and burned up. | |
| 1963 | Hurricane Flora storms through the Caribbean, killing 6,000 in Cuba and Haiti. | |
| 1965 | Pope Paul VI arrives in New York, the first Pope ever to visit the US and the Western hemisphere. | |
| 1968 | Cambodia admits that the Viet Cong use their country for sanctuary. | |
| 1972 | Judge John Sirica imposes a gag order on the Watergate break-in case. | |
| 1976 | In Gregg v. Georgia, the U.S. Supreme Court lifts the ban on the death sentence in murder cases. This restores the legality of capital punishment, which had not been practiced since 1967. The first execution following this ruling was of Gary Gilmore in 1977. | |
| 1985 | The Free Software Foundation is founded to promote universal freedom to create, distribute and modify computer software. | |
| 1992 | Mozambique’s 16-year civil war ends with the Rome General Peace Accords. | |
| 1993 | Russia’s constitutional crisis over President Boris Yeltsin’s attempts to dissolve the legislature takes place: the army violently arrests civilian protesters occupying government buildings. | |
| 2004 | SpaceShipOne, which had achieved the first privately funded human space flight on June 21, wins the Ansari X Prize for the first non-government organization to successfully launch a reusable manned spacecraft into space. |
The Northernmost Places You Can Live
Half as Interesting gives us a short delightfully snarky tour of the world's most northern settlements and how you might want to join them. We also learn how to pronounce Thule.
The Mysterious Teenage Ghost That Haunted Taft's White House
Several of the White House staff reported feeling this mysterious pressure on their shoulder, only to turn around to an empty room. Just one member of the household, though, said she actually saw the ghost. Marsh, First Lady Helen Taft’s personal maid, reported not just feeling the ghost leaning over her shoulder, but seeing the ethereal figure, whom she described as a young boy with light, unkempt hair and sad blue eyes. “Now who on Earth this can be,” Butt mused, “I cannot imagine.”Although Butt wasn't afraid of any ghost, he did investigate the reports. Read about "The Thing" that haunted the White House at Mental Floss.
Taft responded to news of the spooky rumor with “towering rage,” Butt said, banning anyone in the house from speaking of the ghost under threat of firing. The president worried that the story would get out and the press would have a field day with the news. But his aide seemed to have a sense of humor about the whole situation. “I reminded him that the help was in such a state of mind that, if it was positively believed that the upper floor of the White House was haunted, the servants there could not be kept in their places by executive order,” Butt wrote.
SETI: We’ll find intelligent alien life within 20 years
Seth Shostak, from the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute, was speaking to Futurism at the Worlds Fair Nano NY, a festival held in New York, when he “bet everybody a cup of coffee” that the existence of intelligent extraterrestrials will be confirmed within the next two decades.
Physician licensing laws keep doctors from seeking care
Despite growing problems with psychological distress, many physicians
avoid seeking mental health treatment due to concern for their license.
Mayo Clinic research shows that...
A Canadian Couple Got in a Heated Custody Battle Over ..
Edmonton Oilers season tickets were the subject of a massive divorce court dispute
Kansas ‘Crusaders’ plotted to bomb Somali families in anti-Muslim attacks
According to WRAL, one member of a Kansas militia group wore a wire while members of a splinter group of the Kansas Security Force that called itself “the Crusaders” discussed the proposed attacks on Muslims in their community.
The three men were identified as Patrick Eugene Stein, Gavin Wright and Curtis Allen, with all three men facing charges of conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction and conspiracy against civil rights for the terrorist attack which was planned following the 2016 election.
According to the report, the men met in August of 2016 and planned the attack on a Garden City apartment complex and discussed how to create homemade bombs, while picking out various targets where Muslims congregated.
A Houston man reportedly slipped out of his parents’ house with two
knives in his hands, leaving his 70-year-old mother’s decapitated body
on the floor behind him.Her head was "completely separated from her body," according to court records obtained by the Houston Chronicle. His father, wounded, ran to the neighbors for help.
There's a mass shooting almost every day in the United States
Mass shootings are a near daily occurrence in America, but what happened in Las Vegas stands out: It was the deadliest such incident in U.S. history, with more than 50 killed and 200 injured.
Las Vegas shooter often ‘berated’ his girlfriend in public
Stephen Paddock, the multi-millionaire real
estate investor who killed 59 and wounded over 500 others, reportedly
verbally abused his wife in public.
Giant Snail The Size Of A Small Cat
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