On this day in
1763,
King George III of Great Britain (Mad King George) issues British Royal Proclamation of 1763, closing aboriginal lands in North America north and west of Alleghenies to white settlements. This may or may not have had something to do with the fight for “independence”, which pretty much turned into the right to ignore all treaties with North America’s native peoples.
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On this day in
1916, Georgia Tech defeats Cumberland University
222-0 in the most lopsided college football game in American history.
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On this day in
1933,
Air France is inaugurated, after being formed by a merger of 5 French airlines. Their stewardesses are really freaking hot.
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On this day in
1940, the
McCollum memo proposes bringing the United States into the war in Europe by provoking the Japanese to attack the United States. Its existence still spawns talk of
conspiracy.
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On this day in
1955, American poet
Allen Ginsberg performs his poem
Howl for the first time at the Six Gallery in San Francisco.
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On this day in
1958, the U.S. manned space-flight project is renamed
Project Mercury. This nomenclature has some
interesting significance.
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Thanks to the
USSR's
Luna 3 lunar orbiter, mankind gets its first look at the far side of the moon on this day in the year
1959. Much to the disappointment of billionaire sex tourists and sexless science-fiction geeks the world over, there are no slutty Moon Chicks to be found.
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On this day in
1985, the
Achille Lauro cruise ship is hijacked by
Palestine Liberation Organization. One elderly Jewish man in a wheelchair,
Leon Klinghoffer, was murdered by the hijackers and thrown overboard.
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On this day in
1996, the
FOX News Channel begins broadcasting. Shit journalism aka Far Right Propaganda ensues. Sorry, reality seems to have a liberal slant.
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On this day in
1998,
Matthew Shepard, a gay student at the University of Wyoming, is found tied to a fence after being savagely beaten by two young adults in Laramie, Wyoming.
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On this day in
2001, the US invasion of Afghanistan begins with an air assault and "covert operations" on the ground.
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On this day in
2003, a historic recall election takes place in the U.S. State of California in which the sitting Governor
Gray Davis, a Democrat, is overwhelmingly voted out of office. Actor and bodybuilder (and Republican candidate)
Arnold Schwarzenegger is elected to be the 38th Governor of California. This was the first recall election in the history of the State of California in which a sitting Governor has been successfully recalled from office.
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