| 1477 | Swiss troops defeat the forces under Charles the Bold of Burgundy at the Battle of Nancy. | |
| 1815 | Federalists from all over New England, angered over the War of 1812, draw up the Hartford Convention, demanding several important changes in the U.S. Constitution. | |
| 1861 | The merchant vessel Star of the West sets sail from New York to Fort Sumter, in response to rebel attack, carrying supplies and 250 troops. | |
| 1904 | American Marines arrive in Seoul, Korea, to guard the U.S. legation there. | |
| 1914 | Henry Ford astounds the world as he announces that he will pay a minimum wage of $5 a day and will share with employees $10 million in the previous year’s profits. | |
| 1917 | Bulgarian and German troops occupy the Port of Braila. | |
| 1919 | British ships shell the Bolshevik headquarters in Riga. | |
| 1920 | Republican women demand equal representation at the Republican National Coven in June. | |
| 1921 | Wagner’s “Die Walkyrie” opens in Paris. This is the first German opera performed in Paris since the beginning of World War I. | |
| 1923 | The U.S. Senate debates the benefits of Peyote for the American Indian. | |
| 1925 | Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming is sworn in as the first woman governor in the United States. | |
| 1936 | Daggha Bur, Ethiopia, is bombed by the Italians. | |
| 1942 | U.S. and Filipino troops complete their withdrawal to a new defensive line along the base of the Bataan peninsula. | |
| 1947 | Great Britain nationalizes its coal mines. | |
| 1951 | Inchon, South Korea, the sight of General Douglas MacArthur’s amphibious flanking maneuver, is abandoned by United Nations force to the advancing Chinese Army. | |
| 1952 | Prime Minister Winston Churchill arrives in Washington to confer with President Harry S. Truman. | |
| 1968 | U.S. forces in Vietnam launch Operation Niagara I to locate enemy units around the Marine base at Khe Sanh. | |
| 1969 | Richard M. Nixon appoints Henry Cabot Lodge as negotiator at the Paris Peace Talks. | |
| 1971 | Richard M. Nixon names Robert Dole as chairman of the Republican National Cabal. | |
| 1982 | A Federal judge voids a state law requiring balanced classroom treatment of evolution and creationism. | |
| 1991 | The South Ossetia War (1991-92) begins as Georgian forces enter Tskhinvali, capital of South Ossetia, Georgia. | |
| 2005 | Eris, largest known dwarf planet in the Solar System is discovered in images taken Oct. 21, 2003, at Palomar Observatory. |
There’s a word for when someone offers to aid an armed insurgency against the government, isn’t there?
With rent skyrocketing in San Francisco, desperate times call for desperate measures and we recently came up with the idea to rent our crawl space out to cash strapped young San Franciscans.
We aren't going to sugar coat this, as you can see by the photos, this is a basement crawl space and the ground is un-even. My roommate Neil has agreed to help out and level off the dirt crawl floor and we have some scraps of rug to throw down. There is a decent amount of room for a mattress and night stand and you can keep a dresser in the garage. You will be able to run an extension cord into the crawl space for light and the garage provides decent heat for those chilly SF nights or feel free to bring in a space heater.
About You:
Since you'll have access to our bathroom and kitchen, we don't want any slobs! It would be great if you were also in tech so that we can talk shop but that is not a deal breaker, perhaps you are a founder still looking to get that seed round and this is all you can afford!
We'll be hosting an open house this weekend to pick our next crawlspace housemate!
A Georgia man caught allegedly burgling a Walmart in Florida told police
he was merely seeking a job application so he could go to work as a
“mystery shopper,” according to a police report.
Delray Beach police didn’t buy Alexander Weigard’s story and after he
was arrested, found Weigard was allegedly in possession of a loaded hand
gun and street and prescription drugs.
Dermont E. Weaver Jr.'s arraignment did not go as scheduled in Springfield District Court, Massachusetts, on Monday.
In fact Weaver wasn't arraigned at all after his court-appointed lawyer disclosed something to Judge John Payne.
44-year-old Florida woman Tammy Roseman, is accused of barging into a
man’s home, before cooking his food, according to an arrest affidavit.
Indian River County Sheriff’s deputies went to an address in Vero Beach
on December 12th and spoke to the homeowner.
He said a woman identified as Roseman came to his door and asked for
food. 
With
the passing of metal legend Lemmy Kilmister of Motörhead we must once
again take inventory of the rock icons who are still with us after all
those years of drinking, drugging and living that R'n'R lifestyle.
It turns out that Ozzy’s ADH4 gene (which is responsible for breaking down alcohol) is able to break down booze much quicker than the average person. You know, like his little pal Lemmy Kilmister.
In addition to that was the finding that Ozzy also has two versions of the COMT gene (Catechol-O-methyltransferase) known also as the “warrior” and “worrier” - an enzyme that deteriorates dopamine, epinephrine, and norepinephrine.What all this means is that in addition to his weakness for booze and drugs, other functions such as awareness, planning, organization, self-awareness, and of all things self-regulation are super heightened in Ozzy.
| 1757 | Robert Francois Damiens makes an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate King Louis XV of France. | ||
| 1863 | Union General Henry Halleck, by direction of Abraham Lincoln, orders General Ulysses Grant to revoke his infamous General Order No. 11 that expelled jews from his operational area. | ||
| 1896 | Utah becomes the 45th state of the Union. | ||
| 1902 | France offers to sell their Nicaraguan Canal rights to the United States. | ||
| 1904 | The U.S. Supreme Court decides in the Gonzales v. Williams case that Puerto Ricans are not aliens and can enter the United States freely, yet stops short of awarding citizenship. | ||
| 1920 | The Negro National League, the first black baseball league, is organized by Rube Foster. | ||
| 1923 | The Paris Conference on war reparations hits a deadlock as the French insist on the hard line and the British insist on Reconstruction. | ||
| 1935 | President Franklin D. Roosevelt claims in his State of the Union message that the federal government will provide jobs for 3.5 million Americans on welfare. | ||
| 1936 | Billboard magazine publishes its first music Hit Parade. | ||
| 1941 | On the Greek-Albanian front, the Greeks launch an attack towards Valona from Berat to Klisura against the Italians. | ||
| 1942 | Japanese forces begin the evacuation of Guadalcanal. | ||
| 1951 | UN forces abandon Seoul, Korea, to the Chinese Communist Army. | ||
| 1952 | The French Army in Indochina launches Operation Nenuphar in hopes of ejecting a Viet Minh division from the Ba Tai forest. | ||
| 1969 | Spain returns the Ifni province to Morocco. | ||
| 1970 | A 7.7 earthquake kills 15,000+ people in Tonghai County, China. | ||
| 1972 | Rose Heilbron becomes the first female judge to sit at the Old Bailey in London, England. | ||
| 1974 | Richard Nixon refuses to hand over tape recordings and documents that had been subpoenaed by the Senate Watergate Committee. | ||
| 1975 | The Khmer Rouge launches its newest assault in its five-year war in Phnom Penh. The war in Cambodia would go on until the spring of 1975. | ||
| 1976 | The Ulster Volunteer Force kills six Irish Catholic civilians in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. The next day 10 Protestant civilians are murdered in retaliation. | ||
| 1979 | Ohio officials approve an out-of-court settlement awarding $675,000 to the victims and families in the 1970 shootings at Kent State University, in which four students were killed and nine wounded by National Guard troops. | ||
| 1990 | Over 300 people die and more than 700 are injured in Pakistan’s deadliest train accident, when an overloaded passenger train collides with an empty freight train. | ||
| 1999 | Jesse “The Body” Ventura, a former professional wrestler, is sworn in as populist governor of Minnesota. | ||
| 1999 | The euro, the new money of 11 European nations, goes into effect on the continent of Europe. | ||
| 2004 | NASA Mars rover Spirit successfully lands on Mars. | ||
| 2004 | Mikheil Saakashvili is elected President of Georgia following the Rose Revolution of November 2003. | ||
| 2007 | Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-California) became the first female speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. | ||
| 2010 | Burj Khalifa (Khalifa tower) officially opens in Dubai, UAE. At 2,722 ft (829.8 m) it is the world’s tallest man-made structure. |
Tarrant County Sheriff Dee Anderson said he was told by U.S. Marshals that an attorney representing the Couches filed a “legal writ,” to prevent the pair from leaving Mexico.
“Couch and his mother cannot be deported from Mexico until legal matters are resolved,” U.S. Marshal’s Service spokeswoman Laura Vega told the Star-Telegram. “We simply do not know when Ethan and Tonya Couch will be returned to the U.S.”
Anderson said his office had planned to take the Couches into custody in Houston on Wednesday. The pair had been scheduled to fly from Guadalajara to Houston on Wednesday afternoon.
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