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Today in History
| 1066 | William of Normandy defeats King Harold in the Battle of Hastings. | |
| 1651 | Laws are passed in Massachusetts forbidding the poor to adopt excessive styles of dress. | |
| 1705 | The English Navy captures Barcelona in Spain. | |
| 1773 | Britain’s East India Company tea ships’ cargo is burned at Annapolis, Md. | |
| 1806 | Napoleon Bonaparte crushes the Prussian army at Jena, Germany. | |
| 1832 | Blackfeet Indians attack American Fur Company trappers near Montana’s Jefferson River, killing one. | |
| 1912 | Former U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt is shot and wounded in an assassination attempt in Milwaukee. He is saved by the papers in his breast pocket and, though wounded, insists on finishing his speech. | |
| 1933 | The Geneva disarmament conference breaks up as Germany proclaims its withdrawal from the disarmament initiative, as well as from the League of Nations, effective October 23. This begins the German policy of independent action in foreign affairs. | |
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| 1944 | German Field Marshal Rommel, suspected of complicity in the July 20th plot against Adolf Hitler, is visited at home by two of Hitler’s staff and given the choice of public trial or suicide by poison. He chooses suicide and it is announced that he died of wounds. | |
| 1947 | Test pilot Chuck Yeager breaks the sound barrier aboard a Bell X-1 rocket plane. | |
| 1950 | Chinese Communist Forces begin to infiltrate the North Korean Army. | |
| 1962 | The Cuban Missile Crisis begins; a USAF U-2 reconnaissance pilot photographs Cubans installing Soviet-made missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads. | |
| 1964 | Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for advocating a policy of non-violence. | |
| 1966 | Montreal, Quebec, Canada, opens its underground Montreal Metro rapid-transit system. | |
| 1968 | US Defense Department announces 24,000 soldiers and Marines will be sent back to Vietnam for involuntary second tours of duty. | |
| 1968 | Jim Hines, USA, breaks the “ten-second barrier” in the 100-meter sprint at the Olympics in Mexico City; his time was 9.95. | |
| 1969 | The British 50-pence coin enters the UK’s currency, the first step toward converting to a decimal system, which was planned for 1971. | |
| 1983 | Prime Minister of Grenada Maurice Bishop is overthrown and later executed by a military coup. | |
| 1994 | The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, Israel’s Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres for establishing the Oslo Accords and preparing for Palestinian Self Government. | |
| 1998 | Eric Robert Rudolph is charged with the 1996 bombing during the Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia; It was one of several bombing incidents Rudolph carried out to protest legalized abortion in the US. | |
| 2012 | Felix Baumgartner breaks the world record for highest manned balloon flight, highest parachute jump, and greatest free-fall velocity, parachuting from an altitude of approximately 24 miles (39km). |
Puerto Rico’s Governor Pleads For Help After Dumbass Trump Threatens To Abandon Recovery Efforts
Dumbass Trump is a monster.
‘Stop the genocide’
‘Stop the genocide’: San Juan mayor begs UN and UNICEF for help Dumbass Trump won’t give Puerto Rico
After her lambasting of Dumbass Trump
on Twitter, San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz issued an incendiary press
statement in which she called for international agencies to intervene
in Puerto Rico.
Federal employees brought in Puerto Ricans to provide them a ‘spa day’ while doing disaster relief
A veteran doctor who’s worked on humanitarian
missions in ten countries affected by disaster quit abruptly after
witnessing federal disaster relief staffers in Puerto Rico
bring in citizens to provide them with a “spa day” on the taxpayers
dime.
Jailed anti-vax mom 'devastated' when she learned her son has been vaccinated
‘We should have hung all u niggas’
‘I will continue to stand tall’
Gem Aimable, a 19-year-old Army National Guard
private, was in uniform when a white man she cut off in traffic
followed her multiple blocks to accost her.
Yale investigating after fraternity accused of blocking black woman from a party
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