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Today in History
| 68 | Vespian, a gruff-spoken general of humble origins, enters Rome and is named emperor by the Senate. | |
| 1620 | The Pilgrims land at or near Plymouth Rock. | |
| 1708 | French forces seize control of the eastern shore of Newfoundland after winning a victory at St. John’s. | |
| 1790 | Samuel Slater opens the first cotton mill in the United States (in Rhode Island). | |
| 1862 | The U.S. Congress authorizes the Medal of Honor to be awarded to Navy personnel who have distinguished themselves by their gallantry in action. | |
| 1866 | Indians, led by Red Cloud and Crazy Horse, kill Captain William J. Fetterman and 79 other men who had ventured out from Fort Phil Kearny (in present-day northeastern Wyoming) to cut wood. | |
| 1910 | Over 2.5 million plague victims are reported in the An-Hul province of China. | |
| 1928 | President Calvin Coolidge signs the Boulder Dam bill. | |
| 1944 | German troops surround the 101st Airborne Division at Bastogne in Belgium. | |
| 1945 | General George S. Patton dies at the age of 60 after being injured in a car accident. | |
| 1946 | An earthquake and tidal wave kill hundreds in Japan. | |
| 1963 | The Turk minority riots in Cyprus to protest anti-Turkish revisions in the constitution. | |
| 1964 | Great Britain’s House of Commons votes to ban the death penalty. | |
| 1965 | Four pacifists are indicted in New York for burning draft cards — Thomas C. Cornell, 31, co-secretary of the Catholic Peace Fellowship; Roy Lisker, 27, a volunteer of the Catholic Worker Movement; James E. Wilson, 21, a volunteer at the Catholic Worker Movement and a member of the Fellowship for Reconciliation; and M P, Edelman, a full-time worker for the War Resisters League. | |
| 1969 | American draft evaders gather for a holiday dinner in Montreal, Canada. | |
| 1986 | 500,000 Chinese students gather in Shanghai’s People’s Square calling for democratic reforms, including freedom of the press. | |
| 1988 | Pan Am Flight 103 from London to New York explodes in midair over Lockerbie, Scotland, an hour after departure. All 259 passengers were killed in the explosion caused by a bomb– hidden inside an audio cassette player — that detonated inside the cargo area when the plane was at an altitude of 31,000 feet. A shower of airplane parts falling from the sky also killed 11 Lockerbie residents. | |
| 1994 | Popocatepetl, a volcano in Mexico spews forth gases and ash after nearly a half-century of dormancy. | |
| 1995 | The city of Bethlehem passes from Israeli to Palestinian control. | |
| 2004 | A suicide bomber attacks the forward operating base next to the US military airfield at Mosul, Iraq, killing 22 people; it is the deadliest suicide attack on US soldiers during the Iraq War. |
FBI to investigate mysterious $30 million in ‘missing’ funds from Oklahoma Department of Health
Somehow, $30 million disappeared from the
Oklahoma Department of Public Health. The news comes at a time when the
Oklahoma legislature hasn’t been able to pass a budget to account for a
nearly $900 million budget hole.
Ohio megacult 'stalked' elderly dementia patient
Teacher at 'christian' school arrested after being caught in bed with teen student
A 29-year-old teacher at a 'christian' school
was caught by her own husband in bed with a 17-year-old male
student, the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office revealed this week.
Colorado man builds a bigger and better ‘Fuck Nazis’ sign after his first one is stolen from yard
“The day I take the sign down is the day I take the American flag down,” Rubial said.
Security guard who shot himself and falsely blamed a black man may avoid jail
On September 12, Ahlers called 911 to report
he’d been shot by a black male with “a short Afro” whom he’d confronted
for smoking marijuana on the St. Catherine University.
White South Carolina woman arrested for chasing a black man with a hammer
Early Tuesday morning, a manager at the Sand
Dollar Motel in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina was awoken to screams and
racial slurs.
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