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Today in History
| 1499 | Pretender to the English throne Perkin Warbeck is executed. | |
| 1778 | Indians, led by William Butler, massacre the inhabitants of Cherry Valley, N.Y. | |
| 1831 | Nat Turner, a slave who led a revolt against slave owners, is hanged in Jerusalem, Virginia. | |
| 1889 | Washington becomes the 42nd state of the Union. | |
| 1909 | Construction begins on the naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. | |
| 1918 | German leaders sign the armistice ending World War I. | |
| 1919 | The first two-minutes’ silence is observed in Britain to commemorate those who died in the Great War. | |
| 1921 | The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington Cemetery is dedicated. | |
| 1922 | Canada’s Vernon McKenzie urges his government to fight U.S. propaganda with taxes on U.S. magazines. | |
| 1933 | The first of the great dust storms of the 1930s hits North Dakota. | |
| 1935 | Albert Stevens and Orvil Anderson set a new altitude record in South Dakota, when they float to 72,395 feet in a balloon. | |
| 1938 | Irving Berlin‘s “God Bless America” is performed for the first time by singer Kate Smith. | |
| 1940 | Britain’s Royal Navy attacks the Italian fleet at Taranto. | |
| 1944 | Private Eddie Slovik is convicted of desertion and sentenced to death for refusing to join his unit in the European Theater of Operations. | |
| 1953 | The polio virus is identified and photographed for the first time in Cambridge, Massachusetts. | |
| 1966 | The United States launches Gemini 12, a two-man spacecraft, into orbit. | |
| 1970 | U.S. Army Special Forces raid the Son Tay prison camp in North Vietnam but find no prisoners. | |
| 1973 | Israel and Egypt sign a cease-fire. | |
| 1973 | The Soviet Union is kicked out of World Cup soccer for refusing to play Chile. | |
| 1987 | An unidentified person buys Vincent Van Gogh’s painting “Irises” from the estate of Joan Whitney Payson for $53.9 million at Sotheby’s in New York. | |
| 1993 | A sculpture honoring women who served in the Vietnam War is dedicated at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC. | |
| 1999 | The House of Lords Act reforming Britain’s House of Lords, is given Royal Assent; the act removed the right to hereditary seats (sitting members were permitted to remain). | |
| 2001 | Journalists Pierre Billaud (France), Johanne Sutton (France) and Voker Handlock (Germany) are killed in Afghanistan during an attack on the convoy in which they were traveling. | |
| 2004 | New Zealand’s Tomb of the Unknown Warrior is dedicated at the National War Museum, Wellington. | |
| 2004 | The Palestine Liberation Organization confirms the death of its longtime chairman Yasser Arafat; the cause of death has never been conclusively determined. | |
| 2006 | Queen Elizabeth II unveils the New Zealand War Memorial in London. | |
| 2008 | RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 (QE2)sets sail on her final voyage, bound for Dubai. |
The mystery of the Berlin patient, who was cured of HIV
Archaeologists find rare ancient Roman sundial
The 2,000-year-old sundial, a rare find because it is intact, according to the University of Cambridge, contains an inscription in ancient Roman lettering on its base that translates to the man’s name, “Marcus Novius Tubula, son of Marcus” and another on the dial that says he was a plebeian tribune.
First visitor from beyond our solar system has an origin
What is melting Antarctica from beneath?
Carrier to lay off hundreds more workers
Dumbass Trump last year struck a deal
with the Carrier Corporation last year that was supposed to save
American manufacturing jobs at the company and prevent it from moving
them overseas.
TripAdvisor to flag reports of sexual assault
The site will now put red badges on the pages for locations that have faced allegations, and they will remain there for up to three months. The badges will not include the words “sexual assault,” but will encourage customers to beware, similar to notices for fake reviews or recent violent incidents.
Police lieutenant says Memphis neglected rape cases
Retired Lt. Cody Wilkerson, a 26-year veteran of the force, gave “bombshell” testimony he complained to top brass, who ignored his calls for reform, the Memphis Commercial Appeal reported.
Wilkerson testified that police administrators went so far as to muzzle him from talking to an advocate for victims at the Rape Crisis Center.
Elizabeth Smart speaks out against religious fanatics
Smart’s abduction was followed carefully across the United States when she was kidnapped from her bedroom by a homeless street preacher at the age of 14. In a conversation with Reddit users on Monday, Smart talked openly about her nine months in captivity in 2002, and about integrating back into society after she was rescued by police.
94-year-old escapes trunk of kidnapper's car after 7 hours
Wingnut criminal O’Keefe is fighting his insurance company for not paying his massive legal bills
It turns out criminal wingnut 'filmmaker' James
O’Keefe, who is best known for his infamous phony “sting” into Planned
Parenthood, is fighting a new battle — against his insurer.
Florida cop quits after being busted for drunken road rage incident
According to News4Jax, Baker County sergeant Christopher Ariail was taken into custody and charged after police followed up on a report that he had pulled his service revolver after a traffic dispute while he was driving drunk.
'So vile, so demeaning'
“Niceties aside, what is your blunt take on Dumbass Trump and what he is doing?” Allen asked.
Referencing an article by wingnut columnist David Brooks, Biden argued “there is an invisible moral fabric that glues and holds up this society, and you know what it is: It’s decency, treating people with respect.”
“This has gotten so coarse, so vile, so demeaning, and our children are listening,” Biden warned.
Nazi Richard Spencer bounced a $10,000 check
Emails between the University of Florida and
Nazi Richard Spencer’s National Policy Institute think tank show that the
white nationalist provocateur didn’t get his ducks in order before his
speech in Gainesville last month — and that his $10,564 check bounced.
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