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| 1135 | Henry I of England dies and the crown is passed to his nephew, Stephen of Blois. | |
| 1581 | Edmund Champion and other Jesuit martyrs are hanged at Tyburn, England, for sedition, after being tortured. | |
| 1861 | The U.S. gunboat Penguin seizes the Confederate blockade runner Albion carrying supplies worth almost $100,000. | |
| 1862 | Lincoln gives the State of the Union address to the 37th Congress. | |
| 1863 | Belle Boyd, a Confederate spy, is released from prison in Washington. | |
| 1881 | Virgil, Wyatt and Morgan Earp are exonerated in court for their action in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, AZ. | |
| 1900 | Kaiser Wilhelm II refuses to meet with Boer leader Paul Kruger in Berlin. | |
| 1905 | Twenty officers and 230 guards are arrested in St. Petersburg, Russia, for the revolt at the Winter Palace. | |
| 1908 | The Italian Parliament debates the future of the Triple Alliance and asks for compensation for Austria’s action in Bosnia-Herzegovina. | |
| 1909 | President William Howard Taft severs official relations with Nicaragua’s Zelaya government and declares support for the revolutionaries. | |
| 1916 | King Constantine of Greece refuses to surrender to the Allies. | |
| 1918 | An American army of occupation enters Germany. | |
| 1925 | After a seven-year occupation, 7,000 British troops evacuate Cologne, Germany. | |
| 1933 | Nazi storm troops become an official organ of the Reich. | |
| 1934 | Josef Stalin’s aide, Sergei Kirov, is assassinated in Leningrad. | |
| 1941 | Japan’s Tojo rejects U.S. proposals for a Pacific settlement as fantastic and unrealistic. | |
| 1941 | Great Britain declares a state of emergency in Malaya following reports of Japanese attacks. | |
| 1941 | The first Civil Air Patrol is organized in the United States. | |
| 1942 | National gasoline rationing goes into effect in the United States. | |
| 1955 | Rosa Parks refuses to sit in the back of a Montgomery, Alabama, bus, defying the South’s segregationist laws. | |
| 1969 | America’s first draft lottery since 1942 is held. | |
| 1971 | The Indian Army recaptures part of Kashmir, which had been occupied by Pakistan. | |
| 1981 | The AIDS virus is officially recognized. | |
| 1986 | Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North pleads the 5th Amendment before a Senate panel investigating the Iran-Contra arms sale. | |
| 1988 | Benazir Bhutto, politician, becomes the first woman to serve as Prime Minister of Pakistan and the first woman elected to lead a Muslim state | |
| 1989 | East Germany’s parliament changes its constitution, abolishing a section that gave the Communist Party the leading role in the state. | |
| 1990 | Channel Tunnel sections from France and the UK meet beneath the English Channel. | |
| 1991 | Ukraine’s voters overwhelmingly approve a referendum for independence from the USSR. | |
| 2001 | Trans World Airlines’ final flight takes place following the carrier’s purchase by American Airlines; TWA began operating 76 years earlier. The final flight, 220, piloted by Capt. Bill Compton, landed at St. Louis International Airport. |
A supervolcano eruption could be just around the corner
This giant iceberg just broke off Chile's Grey Glacier
The iceberg detached from Grey Glacier in the Torres del National Park in Chile, known for its backpacking opportunities and astounding views of tower-like peaks in southern Patagonia. Images from Chile’s forestry service reveal the blue and white colored ice, floating from its parent ice into the Grey Lake this month. The iceberg is around 1,150 by 1,250 feet—much larger dimensions than usual, according to Ricardo Jaña, a Chilean glaciologist from the Institute Antártico Chileno.
First evidence of Julius Caesar's invasion of Britain could rewrite the history of the Roman Empire
US scientists take step toward creating artificial life
The work, published in the journal Nature, brings scientists closer to the development of designer proteins made to order in a laboratory.
Meghan Markle is related to Shakespeare, Churchill
Meghan Markle facing ‘existential problem’ as Crown expected to gag her anti-Dumbass Trump speech
Markle, whose African American mother has a
master’s degree in social work from the University of Southern
California, was raised “with a social consciousness to do what I could
and speak up when I knew something was wrong.”
Man arrested, to be charged with murder in four Tampa shootings
Facebook suspends ability to target ads by excluding racial groups
Racist Fox drones seethe at news that Philando Castille’s girlfriend got $800K police shooting settlement
Diamond Reynolds, who watched in horror when
her boyfriend Philando Castile was fatally shot in front of her by a
police officer in 2016, has received a settlement from two Minnesota
cities for the trauma she endured.
Texas child molester sentenced to 1000 years in jail
Prison sentences are usually measured in
months or years, but one Texas man has received a sentence in excess of a
full millennium after being convicted of sexually abusing two young
girls in his care.
Idaho man said it was 'Dog's will' that he rape a teen girl and take her as his wife
The messy reality of religious liberty in America
The case involves a Denver bakery owner who refused to make a wedding cake for a gay couple, citing his religious belief that marriage can be between only a man and woman. The couple sued, and a lower court ruled the baker violated Colorado’s public accommodations law. The statute forbids discrimination by businesses serving the public, including on the basis of sexual orientation.
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