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Friday, December 1, 2017
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Today in History
| 1135 | Henry I of England dies and the crown is passed to his nephew, Stephen of Blois. | |
| 1581 | Edmund Champion and other Jesuit martyrs are hanged at Tyburn, England, for sedition, after being tortured. | |
| 1861 | The U.S. gunboat Penguin seizes the Confederate blockade runner Albion carrying supplies worth almost $100,000. | |
| 1862 | Lincoln gives the State of the Union address to the 37th Congress. | |
| 1863 | Belle Boyd, a Confederate spy, is released from prison in Washington. | |
| 1881 | Virgil, Wyatt and Morgan Earp are exonerated in court for their action in the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, AZ. | |
| 1900 | Kaiser Wilhelm II refuses to meet with Boer leader Paul Kruger in Berlin. | |
| 1905 | Twenty officers and 230 guards are arrested in St. Petersburg, Russia, for the revolt at the Winter Palace. | |
| 1908 | The Italian Parliament debates the future of the Triple Alliance and asks for compensation for Austria’s action in Bosnia-Herzegovina. | |
| 1909 | President William Howard Taft severs official relations with Nicaragua’s Zelaya government and declares support for the revolutionaries. | |
| 1916 | King Constantine of Greece refuses to surrender to the Allies. | |
| 1918 | An American army of occupation enters Germany. | |
| 1925 | After a seven-year occupation, 7,000 British troops evacuate Cologne, Germany. | |
| 1933 | Nazi storm troops become an official organ of the Reich. | |
| 1934 | Josef Stalin’s aide, Sergei Kirov, is assassinated in Leningrad. | |
| 1941 | Japan’s Tojo rejects U.S. proposals for a Pacific settlement as fantastic and unrealistic. | |
| 1941 | Great Britain declares a state of emergency in Malaya following reports of Japanese attacks. | |
| 1941 | The first Civil Air Patrol is organized in the United States. | |
| 1942 | National gasoline rationing goes into effect in the United States. | |
| 1955 | Rosa Parks refuses to sit in the back of a Montgomery, Alabama, bus, defying the South’s segregationist laws. | |
| 1969 | America’s first draft lottery since 1942 is held. | |
| 1971 | The Indian Army recaptures part of Kashmir, which had been occupied by Pakistan. | |
| 1981 | The AIDS virus is officially recognized. | |
| 1986 | Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North pleads the 5th Amendment before a Senate panel investigating the Iran-Contra arms sale. | |
| 1988 | Benazir Bhutto, politician, becomes the first woman to serve as Prime Minister of Pakistan and the first woman elected to lead a Muslim state | |
| 1989 | East Germany’s parliament changes its constitution, abolishing a section that gave the Communist Party the leading role in the state. | |
| 1990 | Channel Tunnel sections from France and the UK meet beneath the English Channel. | |
| 1991 | Ukraine’s voters overwhelmingly approve a referendum for independence from the USSR. | |
| 2001 | Trans World Airlines’ final flight takes place following the carrier’s purchase by American Airlines; TWA began operating 76 years earlier. The final flight, 220, piloted by Capt. Bill Compton, landed at St. Louis International Airport. |
A supervolcano eruption could be just around the corner
This giant iceberg just broke off Chile's Grey Glacier
The iceberg detached from Grey Glacier in the Torres del National Park in Chile, known for its backpacking opportunities and astounding views of tower-like peaks in southern Patagonia. Images from Chile’s forestry service reveal the blue and white colored ice, floating from its parent ice into the Grey Lake this month. The iceberg is around 1,150 by 1,250 feet—much larger dimensions than usual, according to Ricardo Jaña, a Chilean glaciologist from the Institute Antártico Chileno.
First evidence of Julius Caesar's invasion of Britain could rewrite the history of the Roman Empire
US scientists take step toward creating artificial life
The work, published in the journal Nature, brings scientists closer to the development of designer proteins made to order in a laboratory.
Meghan Markle is related to Shakespeare, Churchill
Meghan Markle facing ‘existential problem’ as Crown expected to gag her anti-Dumbass Trump speech
Markle, whose African American mother has a
master’s degree in social work from the University of Southern
California, was raised “with a social consciousness to do what I could
and speak up when I knew something was wrong.”
Man arrested, to be charged with murder in four Tampa shootings
Facebook suspends ability to target ads by excluding racial groups
Racist Fox drones seethe at news that Philando Castille’s girlfriend got $800K police shooting settlement
Diamond Reynolds, who watched in horror when
her boyfriend Philando Castile was fatally shot in front of her by a
police officer in 2016, has received a settlement from two Minnesota
cities for the trauma she endured.
Texas child molester sentenced to 1000 years in jail
Prison sentences are usually measured in
months or years, but one Texas man has received a sentence in excess of a
full millennium after being convicted of sexually abusing two young
girls in his care.
Idaho man said it was 'Dog's will' that he rape a teen girl and take her as his wife
The messy reality of religious liberty in America
The case involves a Denver bakery owner who refused to make a wedding cake for a gay couple, citing his religious belief that marriage can be between only a man and woman. The couple sued, and a lower court ruled the baker violated Colorado’s public accommodations law. The statute forbids discrimination by businesses serving the public, including on the basis of sexual orientation.
Thursday, November 30, 2017
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Today in HIstory
| 1782 | The British sign a preliminary agreement in Paris, recognizing American independence. | |
| 1838 | Mexico declares war on France. | |
| 1861 | The British Parliament sends to Queen Victoria an ultimatum for the United States, demanding the release of two Confederate diplomats who were seized on the British ship Trent. | |
| 1864 | The Union wins the Battle of Franklin, Tennessee. | |
| 1900 | The French government denounces British actions in South Africa, declaring sympathy for the Boers. | |
| 1900 | Oscar Wilde dies in a Paris hotel room after saying of the room’s wallpaper: “One of us has got to go.” | |
| 1906 | President Theodore Roosevelt publicly denounces segregation of Japanese schoolchildren in San Francisco. | |
| 1919 | Women cast votes for the first time in French legislative elections. | |
| 1935 | Non-belief in Nazism is proclaimed grounds for divorce in Germany. | |
| 1945 | Russian forces take Danzig in Poland and invade Austria. | |
| 1948 | The Soviet Union completes the division of Berlin, installing the government in the Soviet sector. | |
| 1950 | President Harry Truman declares that the United States will use the A-bomb to get peace in Korea. | |
| 1956 | The United States offers emergency oil to Europe to counter the Arab ban. | |
| 1961 | The Soviet Union vetoes a UN seat for Kuwait, pleasing Iraq. | |
| 1974 | India and Pakistan decide to end a 10-year trade ban. | |
| 1974 | Pioneer II sends photos back to NASA as it nears Jupiter. | |
| 1979 | Pope John Paul II becomes the first pope in 1,000 years to attend an Orthodox mass. | |
| 1981 | Representatives of the US and the USSR meet in Geneva, Switzerland, to begin negotiations on reducing the number of intermediate-range nuclear weapons in Europe. | |
| 1982 | Thriller, Michael Jackson’s second solo album, is released; the album, produced by Quincy Jones, became the best-selling album in history. | |
| 1993 | US President Bill Clinton signs the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act (better known as the Brady Bill) into law. | |
| 1994 | The MS Achille Lauro, a ship with a long history of problems, including a 1985 terrorist hijacking, catches fire off the coast of Somalia. | |
| 1995 | Operation Desert Storm officially comes to an end. | |
| 1998 | Exxon and Mobil Oil agree to a $73.7 billion merger, creating the world’s largest company, Exxon-Mobil. | |
| 2004 | On the game show Jeopardy! contestant Ken Jennings loses after 74 consecutive victories. It is the longest winning streak in game-show history, earning him a total of over $3 million. | |
| 2005 | John Sentamu becomes Archbishop of York, making him the Church of England’s first black archbishop. |
Shady company hired by Dumbass Trump’s FEMA never delivered on helping Puerto Rico
A company that was only founded this past
August was given a $30 million contract from the Federal Emergency
Management Agency to help supply Puerto Rico with emergency tarps and
plastic sheeting — but it never delivered on its promises.
Barbie shows support for LGBTQ rights on Instagram
Michigan parents furious 15-year-old rapist coming back to school
The 15-year-old was sentenced to 45 days in juvenile detention last month after pleading guilty to sexual assault, and he could return to Brighton High School as early as next week, reported WXYZ-TV.
The teenager was originally charged with 31 felonies but pleaded guilty to six counts as part of an agreement with prosecutors that called for 15 months in a sexual offender rehabilitation facility.
The judge decided to shorten that sentence and place the boy in a juvenile facility, and parents remain outraged.
Millionaire South Carolina developer charged with raping woman
A prominent South Carolina property developer
and former board member of local Episcopal school has been arrested and
charged with raping a woman after reportedly slipping something into her
wine.
Husband beat wife every time she received a Facebook like
The brutality came to light last week when 21-year-old Adolfina Camelli Ortigoza was rescued from her home in the Pa'i Ñu neighborhood of the city of Ñemby by agents of the National Police.
Massachusetts man tried to mow down four Latino Walmart shoppers
A Lynn, MA man has been taken into custody after he attempted run down Hispanic shoppers in Walmart parking lot on Black Friday.
Baltimore Police refusing to let FBI join investigation of murdered detective
Police in Baltimore have made no arrests in
the shooting death of homicide Detective Sean Suiter, who was slain with
his own gun the day before testifying against fellow officers before a
federal grand jury.
US jury acquits accused Benghazi attack organizer of most serious charges
'Christian' apologist who stresses the importance of truth caught lying
A theologist known as a leading 'christian'
apologist scrubbed his ministry’s website of multiple biographical
embellishments and falsehoods.
Nazi couple raising money on an alt-right crowdfunding site after being fired from their jobs
The “Nazi sympathizer” couple in New Carlisle,
Ohio featured in a Sunday New York Times profile is raising money on
the alt-right fundraising site “Goy Fund Me."
Wednesday, November 29, 2017
The Daily Drift
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Today in History
| 1760 | Major Roger Rogers takes possession of Detroit on behalf of Britain. | |
| 1787 | Louis XVI promulgates an edict of tolerance, granting civil status to Protestants. | |
| 1812 | The last elements of Napoleon Bonaparte‘s Grand Armee retreat across the Berezina River in Russia. | |
| 1863 | The Battle of Fort Sanders, Knoxville, Tenn., ends with a Confederate withdrawal. | |
| 1864 | Colonel John M. Chivington’s 3rd Colorado Volunteers massacre Black Kettles’ camp of Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians at Sand Creek, Colo. | |
| 1903 | An Inquiry into the U.S. Postal Service demonstrates the government has lost millions in fraud. | |
| 1923 | An international commission headed by American banker Charles Dawes is set up to investigate the German economy. | |
| 1929 | Commander Richard Byrd makes the first flight over the South Pole. | |
| 1931 | The Spanish government seizes large estates for land redistribution. | |
| 1939 | Soviet planes bomb an airfield at Helsinki, Finland. | |
| 1948 | The Metropolitan Opera is televised for the first time as the season opens with “Othello.” | |
| 1948 | The popular children’s television show, Kukla, Fran and Ollie, premieres. | |
| 1949 | The United States announces it will conduct atomic tests at Eniwetok Atoll in the Pacific. | |
| 1961 | NASA launches a chimpanzee named Enos into Earth orbit. | |
| 1962 | Algeria bans the Communist Party. | |
| 1963 | President Lyndon B. Johnson appoints Chief Justice Earl Warren head of a commission to investigate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. | |
| 1967 | US Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara announces his resignation. | |
| 1972 | Atari announces the release of Pong, the first commercially successful video game. | |
| 2007 | Armed forces of the Philippines besiege The Peninsula Manila in response to a mutiny led by Senator Antonio Trillanes. |
Meghan Markle 'won't be allowed to be black princess'
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