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| 1571 | In the last great clash of galleys, the Ottoman navy is defeated at Lepanto, Greece, by a christian naval coalition under the overall command of Spain’s Don Juan de Austria. | |
| 1765 | Delegates from nine of the American colonies meet in New York to discuss the Stamp Act Crisis and colonial response to it. | |
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| 1849 | Edgar Allan Poe, aged 40, dies a tragic death in Baltimore. Never able to overcome his drinking habits, he is found in a delirious condition outside a saloon that was used as a voting place. | |
| 1870 | French Minister of the Interior Leon Gambetta escapes besieged Paris by balloon, reaching the French provisional government in Tours. | |
| 1913 | In attempting to find ways to lower the cost of the automobile and make it more affordable to ordinary Americans, Henry Ford took note of the work of efficiency experts like Frederick Taylor, the “father of scientific management.” The result was the assembly line that reduced the time it took to manufacture a car, from 12 hours to 93 minutes. | |
| 1944 | A prisoner uprising takes place at Birkenau concentration camp. | |
| 1949 | Iva Toguri D’Aquino, better known as Tokyo Rose, is sentenced to 10 years in prison for treason. | |
| 1949 | East Germany, the German Democratic Republic, is formed. | |
| 1976 | Hua Guofeng, premier of the People’s Republic of China, succeeds the late Mao Zedong as chairman of the Communist Party of China. | |
| 1985 | Four Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) hijackers seize the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro and demand the release of 50 Palestinians held by Israel. | |
| 2001 | The US invasion of Afghanistan in reaction to the terrorist attacks of 9/11 begins; it will become the longest war in US history. |
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Here's the story behind the social media trend
Huge celestial fireball appears over China
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Researchers uncover drain pipes in our brains
By scanning the brains of healthy volunteers, researchers at the
National Institutes of Health saw the first, long-sought evidence that
our brains may drain...
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faster at configuring a new smartphone, but does all of that screen
time...
Robot For Sale
A father buys a lie detector robot that slaps people when they lie.He decides to test it out at dinner one night.
The father asks his son what he did that afternoon.
The son says, “I did some schoolwork.”
The robot slaps the son.
The son says, “OK, OK. I was at a friend’s house watching movies.”
Dad asks, “What movie did you watch?”
Son says, “Toy Story.”
The robot slaps the son.
Son says, “OK, OK, we were watching porn.”
Dad says, “What? At your age, I didn’t even know what porn was.”
The robot slaps the father.
Mom laughs and says, “Well, he certainly is your son.”
The robot slaps the mother…….
Robot for sale!
For the first time, LGBT pride flag to fly on federal land
It’s a rainbow-colored triumph whose meaning is compounded by the shadow Dumbass Trump’s junta has cast over LGBTQ rights. A
rainbow flag will soon fly at the Stonewall National Monument in
Manhattan, the first such flag to be permanently placed on federal land
and maintained by the National Park Service, activists announced on
Thursday.
Urban noise pollution is worst in poor and minority neighborhoods and segregated cities
Columnist calls for repeal of 2nd Amendment — and destroys gun nuts’ favorite arguments
New York Times columnist Bret
Stephens said in an explosive op-ed piece on Thursday that the Second
Amendment should be repealed. “I have never understood the wingnut
fetish for the Second Amendment,” Stephens wrote.
Perpetrators of genocide say they’re ‘good people’
The men who were tried for their role in the 1994 Rwandan genocide that
killed up to 1 million people want you to know that they’re...
Milwaukee mother accused of burning autistic son to death in a bathtub
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School district punishes teachers for discussing anti-Semitism with students after swastika vandalism
A senior English teacher discussed
anti-Semitism with her students after swastikas were drawn on the school
— only to be reprimanded by the school district’s superintendent.
Nazi calls for 'action' against Illinois Jewish man
Meet Madagascar’s oldest animal lineage
There are precious few species today in the biodiversity hotspot of
Madagascar that scientists can trace directly back to when all of
Earth’s continents...
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