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Today in History
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| 1799 | George Washington dies on his Mount Vernon estate. | |
| 1819 | Alabama is admitted as the 22nd state, making 11 slave states and 11 free states. | |
| 1861 | Prince Albert of England, one of the Union’s strongest advocates, dies. | |
| 1863 | Confederate General James Longstreet attacks Union troops at Bean’s Station, Tenn. | |
| 1900 | Max Planck presents the quantum theory at the Physics Society in Berlin. | |
| 1906 | The first U1 submarine is brought into service in Germany. | |
| 1908 | The first truly representative Turkish Parliament opens. | |
| 1909 | The Labor Conference in Pittsburgh ends with a “declaration of war” on U.S. Steel. | |
| 1911 | Roald Amundsen and four others discover the South Pole. | |
| 1920 | The League of Nations creates a credit system to aid Europe. | |
| 1939 | The League of Nations drops the Soviet Union from its membership. | |
| 1941 | German Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel orders the construction of defensive positions along the European coastline. | |
| 1946 | The United Nations adopt a disarmament resolution prohibiting the A-Bomb. | |
| 1949 | Bulgarian ex-Premier Traicho Kostov is sentenced to die for treason in Sofia. | |
| 1960 | A U.S. Boeing B-52 bomber sets a 10,000-mile non-stop record without refueling. | |
| 1980 | NATO warns the Soviets to stay out of the internal affairs of Poland, saying that intervention would effectively destroy the détente between the East and the West. | |
| 1981 | Israel’s Knesset passes the Golan Heights Law, extending Israeli law to the Golan Heights area. | |
| 1994 | Construction begins on China’s Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River. | |
| 1995 | The Dayton Agreement is signed in Paris establishing a general framework for ending the Bosnian War between Bosnia and Herzegovina. | |
| 1999 | Tens of thousands die as a result of flash floods caused by torrential rains in Vargas, Venezuela. | |
| 2003 | Pervez Musharraf, President of Pakistan, narrowly escapes an assassination attempt. | |
| 2004 | The Millau Viaduct, the world’s tallest bridge, official opens near Millau, France. | |
| 2008 | Iraqi broadcast journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi throws his shoes at US President George W. Bush during a press conference in Baghdad. | |
| 2012 | At Sandy Hook Elementary School, Newtown, Conn., 20 children and six adults are shot to death by a 20-year-old gunman who then commits suicide. |
Extremely rare Charles Darwin letter sells for $125,000
Two Ohio families have burned down their homes trying to kill bed bugs in two weeks
Those who have suffered from bed bugs know how difficult it is to get rid of them.
US soldier who deserted to North Korea in 1965 dies aged 77
One of the Cold War’s strangest dramas began in 1965 when Charles Robert Jenkins, then a 24-year-old army sergeant nicknamed “Scooter” from tiny Rich Square in North Carolina, disappeared one January night while on patrol near the demilitarized zone between the two Koreas.
At an emotional court martial in Japan in 2004, Jenkins – who had never gone to high school – said he deserted to avoid hazardous duty in South Korea and escape combat in Vietnam.
The median net worth of African-Americans in Boston: $8
The first part of their investigation was released Sunday. Spotlight concluded that despite important stopgaps, racism is alive and well in The Cradle of Liberty.
Study finds men with older brothers likely to be gay
US not granting loan relief to defrauded students
Advocates ready legal showdown with FCC on net neutrality
Dumbass Trump junta is trying to argue that young Americans do not have a Constitutional right to a stable climate
Suspect evidence informed a momentous Supreme Court decision on criminal sentencing
More than 30 years ago, Congress identified what it said was a grave
threat to the American promise of equal justice for all: Federal judges
were giving wildly different punishments to defendants who had committed
the same crimes.The worries were many. Some lawmakers feared lenient judges were giving criminals too little time in prison. Others suspected African-American defendants were being unfairly sentenced to steeper prison terms than white defendants.
In 1984, Congress created the U.S. Sentencing Commission with remarkable bipartisan support. The commission would set firm punishment rules, called “guidelines,” for every offense. The measure, signed by President Ronald Reagan, largely stripped federal judges of their sentencing powers; they were now to use a chart to decide penalties for each conviction, with few exceptions.
Five years later, a legal challenge to the sentencing commission wound up before the U.S. Supreme Court. In a case titled Mistretta v. U.S., the court was asked to consider whether Congress had overreached by taking on what seemed to be a role for the judiciary. In an 8-1 decision, the justices determined that the sentencing commission was constitutional. And they took care to say that the commission was also needed — to end the widespread and “shameful” sentencing disparities produced by the biases of individual judges.
Mistretta was a momentous decision, but it’s now clear the high court relied on evidence that was flimsy and even flat-out wrong.
Child marriage is still legal in every single state of America
Brooklyn teen used her last breath to identify man who shot her after she rejected his advances
Google employee found dead in San Francisco Bay
Chuchu Ma, 23, was found dead half naked in the water near the trail Dec. 7. KTVU reported the body was found by a bicyclist on the trail shortly after 10 a.m. on Thursday. He called 911 and reported a dead body floating face down in a drainage canal in Baylands waterway.
Texas shooting range employee kills customer
Missouri man kills 3-year-old for not wearing pajamas
Kim Jong Un’s brutal regime worse than Nazis
The alt-right tried to make their own Internet after being banned from social media
US citizen arrested for trying to aid Islamic State
Kaan Sercan Damlarkaya, who is a U.S. citizen, was arrested on Friday in Houston after the filing of a criminal complaint by federal prosecutors, the Justice Department said in an emailed statement.
Los Angeles cops kept secret list of officer misconduct
Religio-wingnut leader accused of sexually abusing teenage boy
Pressler is a leading figure among the religio-wingnuts in Texas and was a key player in the “wingnut resurgence” of southern baptism, a movement in the 1970s and 1980s that aimed to oust
liberals and moderates from the cult’s organizational structure.
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