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Saturday, October 28, 2017
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Today in History
| 312 | Constantine the Great defeats Marcus Aurelius Valerius Maxentius at the Mulvian Bridge. | |
| 969 | After a prolonged siege, the Byzantines end 300 years of Arab rule in Antioch. | |
| 1216 | Henry III of England is crowned. | |
| 1628 | After a fifteen-month siege, the Huguenot town of La Rochelle surrenders to royal forces. | |
| 1636 | Harvard College, the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States, is founded in Cambridge, Mass. | |
| 1768 | Germans and Acadians join French Creoles in their armed revolt against the Spanish governor of New Orleans. | |
| 1793 | Eli Whitney applies for a patent on the cotton gin, a machine which cleans the tight-clinging seeds from short-staple cotton easily and effectively–a job which was previously done by hand. | |
| 1863 | In a rare night attack, Confederates under Gen. James Longstreet attack a Federal force near Chattanooga, Tennessee, hoping to cut their supply line, the “cracker line.” They fail. | |
| 1886 | The Statue of Liberty, originally named Liberty Enlightening the World, is dedicated at Liberty Island, N. Y., formerly Bedloe’s Island, by President Grover Cleveland | |
| 1901 | Race riots sparked by Booker T. Washington’s visit to the White House kill 34. | |
| 1904 | The St. Louis police try a new investigation method: fingerprints. | |
| 1914 | The German cruiser Emden, disguised as a British ship, steams into Penang Harbor near Malaya and sinks the Russian light cruiser Zhemchug. | |
| 1914 | George Eastman announces the invention of the color photographic process. | |
| 1919 | Over President Woodrow Wilson‘s veto, Congress passes the National Prohibition Act, or Volstead Act, named after its promoter, Congressman Andrew J. Volstead. It provides enforcement guidelines for the Prohibition Amendment. | |
| 1927 | Pan American Airways launches the first scheduled international flight. | |
| 1940 | Italy invades Greece, launching six divisions on four fronts from occupied Albania. | |
| 1944 | The first B-29 Superfortress bomber mission flies from the airfields in the Mariana Islands in a strike against the Japanese base at Truk. | |
| 1960 | In a note to the OAS (Organization of American States), the United States charges that Cuba has been receiving “substantial quantities of arms and numbers of military technicians” from the Soviet bloc. | |
| 1962 | Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev orders Soviet missiles removed from Cuba, ending the Cuban Missile Crisis. | |
| 1965 | Construction is completed on the St. Louis Arch; at 630 feet (192m), it is the world’s tallest arch. | |
| 1971 | Britain launches the satellite Prospero into orbit, using a Black Arrow carrier rocket; this is the first and so far (2013) only British satellite launched by a British rocket. | |
| 1982 | The Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party wins the election, giving Spain its first Socialist government since the death of right-wing President Francisco Franco. | |
| 2005 | Libby “Scooter” Lewis, chief of staff to Vice Pretender Cheney, resigns after being indicted for “outing” CIA agent Valerie Plame. | |
| 2007 | Argentina elects its first woman president, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner. |
Rare condition causes Italian woman to sweat blood
Ancient skull belonged to victim of deadly tsunami
Scientists studying a mysterious skull discovered in Papua New Guinea
88 years ago have said they believe it belonged to an early victim of a
violent tsunami in the southwest Pacific 6,000 years ago.The skull, named for the village of Aitape near where it was discovered, has been an item of longstanding archaeological interest because it is one of only a few rare skeletal remains to have been recovered from the area.
The universe as we know it should not exist
After performing the most precise experiments on antiprotons that have ever been carried out, researchers have discovered a symmetry in nature that they say just shouldn’t be possible.
Energy firm tasked with restoring power to Puerto Rico threatens to leave
The two-man Montana company that was awarded a
$300 million contract to restore electricity to Puerto Rico — thanks to
its connection to Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke — threatened to pull
out of the island territory in a tantrum over a request for more
transparency about its contract.
Reddit shuts down ‘alt-right’ forums
In an announcement posted on its website,
Reddit said it was cracking down on violent content in a way that it
hadn’t done before.
9-year-old banned from peewee football after calling opponent a ‘nigger’
A Massachusetts boy was banned from a peewee football league for using a racial slur against an opponent.
Man abandons 5-year-old son in the woods
Sheriff Jody Ashley of the neighboring Wayne County informed NBC and ABC affiliated television station, WDAM-TV on Monday the manhunt for 32-year-old Richard Dearman was in progress. She added Dearman told his son on Oct. 18 to hide by a tree because the “law was behind him.”
Cops arrest girl who attacked teen holding infant
Police and McCoy’s father Jeremy confirmed the incident took place Oct. 18 in Broken Bow, Oklahoma. No other arrests have been made yet.
Klan-defending Georgia lawyer calls for US to be divided into 'racial zones'
An Atlanta real estate lawyer who defended the Ku Klux Klan in the ’70s and ’80s is once again in the news for his claim that “desegregation was a mistake.”KKK Grand Dragon gets outed as Florida college student
Students at Jacksonville, Florida’s University
of North Florida were shocked when they discovered their
“normal”-looking classmate is a KKK “grand dragon.”
Friday, October 27, 2017
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| 97 | To placate the Praetorians of Germany, Nerva of Rome adopts Trajan, the Spanish-born governor of lower Germany. | |
| 1553 | Michael Servetus, who discovered the pulmonary circulation of the blood, is burned for heresy in Switzerland. | |
| 1612 | A Polish army that invaded Russia capitulates to Prince Dmitri Pojarski and his Cossacks. | |
| 1791 | President George Washington transmits to Congress the results of the first US census, exclusive of South Carolina which had not yet submitted its findings. | |
| 1806 | Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte enters Berlin. | |
| 1809 | President James Madison orders the annexation of the western part of West Florida. Settlers there had rebelled against Spanish authority. | |
| 1862 | A Confederate force is routed at the Battle of Georgia Landing, near Bayou Lafourche in Louisiana. | |
| 1870 | The French fortress of Metz surrenders to the Prussian Army. | |
| 1873 | Farmer Joseph F. Glidden applies for a patent on barbed wire. Glidden eventually received five patents and is generally considered to be the inventor of barbed wire. | |
| 1891 | D. B. Downing, inventor, is awarded a patent for the street letter (mail) box. | |
| 1904 | The New York subway officially opens running from the Brooklyn Bridge uptown to Broadway at 145th Street. | |
| 1907 | The first trial in the Eulenburg Affair ends in Germany. | |
| 1917 | 20,000 women march in a suffrage parade in New York. As the largest state and the first on the East Coast to do so, New York has an important effect on the movement to grant all women the vote in all elections. | |
| 1922 | In Italy, liberal Luigi Facta’s cabinet resigns after threats from Mussolini that “either the government will be given to us or we will seize it by marching on Rome.” Mussolini calls for a general mobilization of all Fascists. | |
| 1927 | Fox Movie-tone news, the first sound news film, is released. | |
| 1941 | In a broadcast to the nation on Navy Day, President Franklin Roosevelt declares: “America has been attacked, the shooting has started.” He does not ask for full-scale war yet, realizing that many Americans are not yet ready for such a step. | |
| 1954 | Benjamin O. Davis Jr. becomes the first African-American general in the US Air Force. | |
| 1962 | An American U-2 reconnaissance plane is shot down by a surface-to-air missile over Cuba, killing the pilot, Maj. Rudolf Anderson, the only direct human casualty of the Cuban Missile Crisis. | |
| 1962 | Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev offers to remove Soviet missile bases in Cuba if the U.S. removes its missile bases in Turkey. | |
| 1964 | The political career of Reagan is launched when he delivers a speech on behalf of wingnut presidential candidate Goldwater. | |
| 1971 | The Democratic Republic of the Congo is renamed Zaire. | |
| 1986 | The London Stock Exchange rules change as Britain suddenly deregulates financial markets, an event called the Big Bang. | |
| 1988 | US President Ronald Reagan decides to tear down a new US Embassy in Moscow because Soviet listening devices were built into the structure. | |
| 1997 | Stock markets crash around the world over fears of a global economic meltdown. |
Scientists discover entirely new form of diabetes
HIV-positive school aide faces 206 sex abuse charges
Carlos Deangelo Bell, 32 and of Waldorf, Maryland, was served with the 206-count indictment in court on Friday.
California officers at Las Vegas shooting denied comp
Brother of Vegas shooter suspected of child porn possession
A brother of Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock was arrested in Los
Angeles on suspicion of possessing child pornography, authorities said
Wednesday.
Bruce Paddock, 59, was arrested on a 20-count felony complaint, a police statement said.
His relationship to Stephen Paddock was confirmed by a law enforcement official briefed on the investigation but not authorized to discuss it publicly.
Bruce Paddock is not a suspect in the Las Vegas shooting.
The child porn case predated the Oct. 1 shooting, said the official who spoke on condition of anonymity.
It wasn't immediately known if Paddock has an attorney. He was being held on $60,000 bail at the Metropolitan Detention Center.
The felony complaint for his arrest alleges one count of possession of child or youth pornography and 19 counts of sexual exploitation of a child.
The complaint signed Tuesday by a Los Angeles County deputy district attorney specified that between Jan. 1 and Aug. 30 of 2014, Bruce Paddock knowingly possessed more than 600 images of child or youth pornography involving use of a person under age 18 engaging in or simulating sexual conduct.
The material included "10 or more images of a prepubescent minor or a minor who was under 12 years of age," the complaint said.
The police statement said Bruce Paddock came under investigation after evidence was discovered inside a business in the Sun Valley area of the city where he had been a squatter. The evidence was discovered after his eviction.
At the time, Bruce Paddock was a transient and couldn't be found, police said. He was recently located at an address in North Hollywood.
Fifty-eight people were killed and hundreds more were wounded Oct. 1 at the Route 91 Harvest Festival on the Las Vegas Strip. Stephen Paddock opened fire from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay casino-hotel tower. Stephen Paddock was found dead.
Another brother, Eric Paddock, spoke to media following the shooting but Bruce Paddock did not.
Texas father changes story about toddler's death
Service members see white nationalism as a bigger threat than conflicts in Iraq and Syria
White supremacist group posts recruiting fliers across Rutgers campuses
The fliers promoting Identity Evropa, a white nationalist group that has been recruiting on college campuses across the country this fall, were posted on walls and in campus buildings.
Nazi Stabs Father to Death for Calling Him a Nazi
Nazis really don't like it when you call them what they are.
'Speak American' teacher back in classroom after school-wide apology
English teacher Laura Amico, who sparked student protests when her videoed comments went viral, returned to work at Cliffside Park High School on Tuesday morning, according to Superintendent Michael Romagnino.
Florida deputy steals cash and drugs from elderly man fatally hurt during hurricane
A Florida sheriff’s deputy was arrested after
surveillance video showed him stealing from an elderly man who was
fatally injured during Hurricane Irma — and the victim’s family believe
he may have done it before.
Police handcuff black honor student after he gets attacked at towing company
Seventeen-year-old Christian Heath is alleging that he was assaulted at
an Oklahoma towing company but he has video to back up the claim. Ancient bones show warriors traveled hundreds of miles
Now, chemical analysis of those remains suggests soldiers came from hundreds of miles away to partake in the conflict, LiveScience reported Monday.
NASA releases new images of Saturn from space
Thursday, October 26, 2017
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Welcome to Today's Edition of
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Today in History
| 1774 | The first Continental Congress, which protested British measures and called for civil disobedience, concludes in Philadelphia. | |
| 1795 | General Paul Barras resigns his commission as head of France’s Army of the Interior to become head of the Directory; his second-in-command becomes the army’s commander—Napoleon Bonaparte. | |
| 1825 | The first boat on the Erie Canal leaves Buffalo, N.Y. | |
| 1881 | Three Earp brothers and Doc Holliday have a shootout with the Clantons and McLaurys at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona Territory. | |
| 1905 | Norway signs a treaty of separation with Sweden. Norway chooses Prince Charles of Denmark as the new king; he becomes King Haakon VII. | |
| 1918 | Germany’s supreme commander, General Erich Ludendorff, resigns, protesting the terms to which the German Government has agreed in negotiating the armistice. This sets the stage for his later support for Adolf Hitler and the Nazis, who claim that Germany did not lose the war on the battlefield but were “stabbed in the back” by politicians. | |
| 1942 | The Japanese attack Guadalcanal, sinking two U.S. carriers. | |
| 1942 | The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier Hornet is sunk in the Battle of Santa Cruz Island, in the South Pacific. | |
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| 1950 | A reconnaissance platoon for a South Korean division reaches the Yalu River. They are the only elements of the U.N. force to reach the river before the Chinese offensive pushes the whole army down into South Korea. | |
| 1955 | The Village Voice is first published, backed in part by Norman Mailer. | |
| 1955 | Ngo Dinh Diem declares himself Premier of South Vietnam. | |
| 1957 | The Russian government announces that Marshal Georgy Zhukov, the nation’s most prominent military hero, has been relieved of his duties as Minister of Defense. Khrushchev accuses Zhukov as promoting his own “cult of personality” and sees him as a threat to his own popularity. | |
| 1958 | The first New York – Paris transatlantic jet passenger service is inaugurated by Pan Am, while the first New York – London transatlantic jet passenger service is inaugurated by BOAC. | |
| 1967 | Mohammad Reza Pahlavi crowns himself Emperor of Iran and his wife Farah as Empress. | |
| 1970 | Garry Trudeau’s comic strip Doonesbury first appears. | |
| 1979 | The President of South Korea, Park Chung-hee, is asssasinated by Kim Jae-kyu, head of the country’s Central intelligence Agency; Choi Kyu-ha is named acting president. | |
| 1994 | Israel and Jordan sign a peace treaty. | |
| 2001 | The USA PATRIOT Act is signed into law by Pres. George W. Bush, greatly expanding intelligence and legal agencies’ ability to utilize wiretaps, records searches and surveillance. | |
| 2002 | Russian Spetsnaz storm the Moscow Theatre, where Chechen terrorists had taken the audience and performers hostage three days earlier; 50 terrorists and 150 hostages die in the assault. |
Cities aren't prepared for future flooding
500-year-old navigation device found in shipwreck
Russian singer vanishes amid reports of 'gay purge'
‘Who thought this was a good idea?’
On Monday, journalist Yashar Ali posted perhaps one of the most comical real advertisements in recent memory.
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