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Today in History
| 1512 | The laws of Burgos give New World natives legal protection against abuse and authorize Negro slavery. | |
| 1831 | HMS Beagle, with Charles Darwin on board, departs from Plymouth. It will eventually visit the Galapagos Islands where Darwin will form his theories on evolution. | |
| 1862 | Union General William Rosecrans‘ army begins moving slowly toward Murfreesboro, Tennessee, from Nashville. | |
| 1913 | Charles Moyer, president of the Miners Union, is shot in the back and dragged through the streets of Chicago. | |
| 1915 | In Ohio, iron and steel workers go on strike for an eight-hour day and higher wages. | |
| 1932 | Radio City Music Hall opens. | |
| 1933 | Josef Stalin calls tensions with Japan a grave danger. | |
| 1939 | A series of vicious earthquakes takes 11,000 lives in Turkey. | |
| 1941 | Japanese bombers attack Manila, despite its claim as an open city. | |
| 1944 | General George S. Patton’s Third Army, spearheaded by the 4th Armored Division, relieves the surrounded city of Bastogne in Belgium. | |
| 1945 | The International Monetary Fund and the Bank for Reconstruction and Development are created. | |
| 1947 | The new Italian constitution is promulgated in Rome. | |
| 1950 | The United States and Spain resume relations for the first time since the Spanish Civil War of the 1930s. | |
| 1956 | Segregation on buses in Tallahassee, Florida, is outlawed. | |
| 1968 | The United States agrees to sell F-4 Phantom jets to Israel. | |
| 1979 | President Hafizullah Amin of Afghanistan is ousted and murdered in a coup backed by the Soviet Union, beginning a war that will last more than 10 years. | |
| 1983 | Reagan takes all responsibility for the lack of security in Beirut that allowed a terrorist on a suicide mission to kill 241 Marines. | |
| 1984 | Four Polish officers are tried for the slaying of Reverend Jerzy Popieluszko. | |
| 1985 | Palestinian guerrillas kill 18 people at airports in Rome and Vienna. | |
| 1996 | Taliban forces retake strategic Bagram Airfield during the Afghan civil war. | |
| 2001 | China receives permanent normal trade relations with the US. | |
| 2004 | Radiation reaches Earth from the brightest extrasolar event ever witnessed, an explosion of magnetar SGR 1806-20. | |
| 2007 | Former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto assassinated. | |
| 2007 | After Mwai Kibaki is declared the winner of Kenya’s presidential elections, rioting begins in Mombasa, precipitating an economic, humanitarian and political crisis. |
NASA shows Saturn's moons dancing along to Tchaikovsky’s ‘Nutcracker Suite’
Friends of 60 years finally find out they are biological brothers
Why apocalypse predictions are so appealing
The appeal of stories about predicting the
future, even those that have no basis in fact, may also be akin to that
of so-called doomsday stories predicting how the world could end.
The Deadliest Shipwreck in History
The first torpedo which struck Wilhelm Gustloff's bow caused the watertight doors to seal off the bow which contained the crews' quarters where off-duty crew members were sleeping. The second torpedo hit the accommodations for the women’s naval auxiliary located in the ship's drained swimming pool, dislodging the pool tiles at high speed, which caused heavy casualties; only three of the 373 quartered there survived. The third torpedo was a direct hit on the engine room located amidships, disabling all power and communications. Reportedly, only nine lifeboats were able to be lowered; the rest had frozen in their davits and had to be broken free. About 20 minutes after the impact of the torpedoes, Wilhelm Gustloff listed dramatically to port so that the lifeboats lowered on the high Starboard side crashed into the ship's tilting side, destroying many lifeboats and spilling their occupants across the ship's side.[11] The water temperature in the Baltic Sea at that time of year is usually around 4 °C (39 °F); however, this was a particularly cold night, with an air temperature of −18 to −10 °C (0 to 14 °F) and ice floes covering the surface. Many deaths were caused either directly by the torpedoes or by drowning in the onrushing water. Others were crushed in the initial stampede caused by panicked passengers on the stairs and decks. Many others jumped into the icy Baltic. The majority of those who perished succumbed to exposure in the freezing water.[14]German forces rescued 996 people, but that left 9,343 dead, including thousands of children. Read about the sinking of the MV Wilhelm Gustloff at Wikipedia, and see plenty of pictures at The Daily Mail.
JetBlue plane skids off snowy taxiway in Boston
California governor grants immigrant pardons despite Dumbass Trump
Chicago police union opposing Taser rule prohibiting cops from using it ...
4,700 Taser uses over the last decade found
that the weapon’s use has been loosely overseen and that
African-Americans made up nearly three-quarters of the people targeted.
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