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TammyTgurl Umaga wrote:

 

Puddy wins!!

Competitive Space Race With Rival Countries Early Technology and brave achievement.

Finding God after a drug and drinking spree take second seat to the act of courageous coaches/players to simply treat a man for what he knows and not his color.

I love history,I can not help my self to spend 5 mins looking up things like this.

 

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5-28-2015   The US was added to the US State Department's list of State Sponsors of Terrorism today after the Defense Department inadvertently shipped live anthrax samples via FedEx. US Secretary of State John Kerry expressed significant concern, stating "Accidental terrorism is a growing concern. We have our worst intelligence teams working around the clock to counter it.".

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Yes and that Hay Buneau Varilla treaty of 1903 was not only illegal, signed by a French man that in no ways represented the interests of the newly formed Panamanian government. That treaty should have been declared illegal from the start. When the REAL Panamanian committee (government officials) arrived to the US they were told the treaty was signed and that there was no need for them.

Because of that the US forced its occupation of the Panama Canal Zone until 1999, by means of an illegal treaty.

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Okay! If we're gonna start this up again...

4-18-2020    Comic Relief USA holds an HBO telethon to raise funds for Donald Trump's re-election campaign. When asked why the charitable organization redirected its support from America's homeless to the President's Super PAC "Make America Even Much More Big League Greater", Billy Crystal explained that "Trump's presidency has been the greatest windfall the comedy community has ever seen. When a gravy train like this comes along you do everything possible to keep it on the tracks. Can you think of a better way to keep comics out of homeless shelters?"

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13 hours ago, Madelaine McMasters said:

Okay! If we're gonna start this up again...

4-18-2020    Comic Relief USA holds an HBO telethon to raise funds for Donald Trump's re-election campaign. When asked why the charitable organization redirected its support from America's homeless to the President's Super PAC "Make America Even Much More Bigly League Greater", Billy Crystal explained that "Trump's presidency has been the greatest windfall the comedy community has ever seen. When a gravy train like this comes along you do everything possible to keep it on the tracks. Can you think of a better way to keep comics out of homeless shelters?"

FIFY

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11 minutes ago, Leia36 said:

FIFY

Trump continued to use the term even after the press made a big fuss over it. That got me wondering, so I went looking...

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/word-of-the-year-2016/bigly

Trump needs a lot more benefit of the doubt than most people, so it's easy to short change him on it.

ETA: I forgot to say... Nice to see you!

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April 19, 1775

At about 5 a.m., 700 British troops, on a mission to capture Patriot leaders and seize a Patriot arsenal, march into Lexington to find 77 armed minutemen under Captain John Parker waiting for them on the town’s common green. British Major John Pitcairn ordered the outnumbered Patriots to disperse, and after a moment’s hesitation the Americans began to drift off the green. Suddenly, the “shot heard around the world” was fired from an undetermined gun, and a cloud of musket smoke soon covered the green. When the brief Battle of Lexington ended, eight Americans lay dead or dying and 10 others were wounded. Only one British soldier was injured, but the American Revolution had begun.

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On 4/13/2012 at 6:28 AM, Hippie Bowman said:

 

Good morning all!  It April the 13th!  Here is todays history lesson.

1598   The Edict of Nantes grants political rights to French Huguenots.
1775   Lord North extends the New England Restraining Act to South Carolina, Virginia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Maryland. The act forbids trade with any country other than Britain and Ireland.
1861   After 34 hours of bombardment, Union-held Fort Sumter surrenders to Confederates.
1865   Union forces under Gen. Sherman begin their devastating march through Georgia.
1902   J.C. Penny opens his first store in Kemmerer, Wyoming.
1919   British forces kill hundreds of Indian nationalists in the Amritsar Massacre.
1933   The first flight over Mount Everest is completed by Lord Clydesdale.
1941   German troops capture Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
1943   Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates the Jefferson Memorial.
1945   Vienna falls to Soviet troops.
1960   The first navigational satellite is launched into Earth's orbit.
1961   The U.N. General Assembly condemns South Africa because of apartheid.
1964   Sidney Poitier becomes the first black to win an Oscar for best actor.
1970   An oxygen tank explodes on Apollo 13, preventing a planned moon landing and jeopardizing the lives of the three-man crew.
1976   The U.S. Federal Reserve begins issuing $2 bicentennial notes.
1979   The world's longest doubles ping-pong match ends after 101 hours.

Born on April 13

1721   John Hanson, first U.S. President under the Articles of Confederation.
1732   Frederick Lord North, British prime minister (1770-82).
1743   Thomas Jefferson, third President of the United States (1801-09)
1852   Frank W. Woolworth, American retailer.
1866   Butch Cassidy [Robert LeRoy Parker], American outlaw and leader of the Wild Bunch.
1899   Alfred Butts, inventor of the board game Scrabble.
1906   Samuel Beckett, playwright, Nobel Prize winner (Waiting for Godot).
1909   Eudora Welty, Southern writer (Delta WeddingThe Optimist's Daughter).
1922   John Gerard Braine, British novelist (Room at the Top).
1939  

Seamus Heaney, Irish poet, Nobel laureate.

 

 Peace!

You seemed to have missed a very important event on April 13th. On that day, in 1973, David Bowie released the album Aladdin Sane!!!! 

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April 20, 1999

Columbine High School shooting shocks a nation
Two students enter a Colorado high school armed with semi-automatic handguns, carbine rifles, and explosives, and begin a massacre that leaves 13 people dead and 21 wounded. The incident will be one of the deadliest modern-day mass shootings.

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April 21

753 BCE - Rome is founded
According to tradition, orphaned twins Romulus and Remus establish what will become one of the world's great cities. Legend holds that the twins had been saved from starvation by a she-wolf who'd found them abandoned in a cave on Palatine Hill. This area will eventually become Rome's center.

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Oh wow,I found a whole list of stuff..

 

753 BC - Today is the traditional date of the foundation of Rome.

43 BC - Marcus Antonius was defeated by Octavian near Modena, Italy.

1526 - Mongol Emperor Babur annihilated the Indian Army of Ibrahim Lodi.

1649 - The Maryland Toleration Act was passed, allowing all freedom of worship.

1689 - William III and Mary II were crowned joint king and queen of England, Scotland and Ireland.

1789 - John Adams was sworn in as the first U.S. Vice President.

1836 - General Sam Houston defeated Santa Anna at the Battle of San Jacinto. This battle decided the independence of Texas.

1856 - The Mississippi River was crossed by a rail train for the first time (between Davenport, IA, and Rock Island, IL).

1862 - The U.S. Congress established the U.S. Mint in Denver, CO.

1865 - U.S. President Abraham Lincoln's funeral train left Washington.

1892 - The first Buffalo was born in Golden Gate Park.

1895 - Woodville Latham and his sons demonstrated their Panopticon. It was the first movie projector developed in the United States.

1898 - The Spanish-American War began.

1914 - U.S. Marines occupied Vera Cruz, Mexico. The troops stayed for six months.

1916 - Bill Carlisle, the infamous ‘last train robber,’ robbed a train in Hanna, WY.

1918 - German fighter ace Manfred von Richthofen, "The Red Baron," was shot down and killed during World War I.

1940 - "Take It or Leave It" premiered on CBS Radio.

1943 - U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt announced that several Doolittle pilots had been executed by the Japanese.

1953 - In New York, the Sidney Janis Gallery held the Dada exhibition.

1956 - Leonard Ross, age 10, became the youngest prizewinner on the "The Big Surprise". He won $100,000.

1959 - Alf Dean caught a 16-foot, 10-inch white shark that weighed 2,664 pounds. At the time it was the largest catch with a rod and reel.

1960 - Brasilia became the capital of Brazil.

1961 - The French army revolted in Algeria.

1967 - Svetlana Alliluyeva (Svetlana Stalina) defected in New York City. She was the daughter of Joseph Stalin.

1967 - In Athens, Army colonels took over the government and installed Constantine Kollias as premier.

1972 - Apollo 16 astronauts John Young and Charles Duke explored the surface of the moon.

1975 - South Vietnam president, Nguyen Van Thieu, resigned, condemning the United States.

1977 - "Annie" opened on Broadway.

1984 - In France, it was announced that doctors had found virus believed to cause AIDS.

1985 - Manuel Ortega proposed a cease-fire for Nicaragua.

1986 - Geraldo Rivera opened a vault that belonged to Al Capone at the Lexington Hotel in Chicago. Nothing of interest was found inside.

1987 - Special occasion stamps were offered for the first time by the U.S. Postal Service. "Happy Birthday" and "Get Well" were among the first to be offered.

1989 - The Game Boy handheld video game device was released in Japan.

1992 - Robert Alton Harris became the first person executed by the state of California in 25 years. He was put to death for the 1978 murder of two teen-age boys.

1994 - Jackie Parker became the first woman to qualify to fly an F-16 combat plane.

1998 - Astronomers announced in Washington that they had discovered possible signs of a new family of planets orbiting a star 220 light-years away.

2000 - In Sinking Spring, PA, a man chased his estranged girlfriend through town and then forced her car into the path of an oncoming train. The woman and her 3 passengers were killed.

2000 - North Carolina researchers announced that the heart of a 66 million-year-old dinosaur was more like a mammal or bird than that of a reptile.

2000 - The 1998 Children's Online Privacy Protection Act went into effect.

2002 - In the city of General Santos, 14 people were killed and 69 were injured in a bomb attack on a department store. The attack was blamed on Muslim extremists.

2003 - North and South Korea agreed to hold Cabinet-level talks the following week.

2009 - UNESCO launched The World Digital Library. The World Digital Library (WDL) is an international digital library operated by UNESCO and the United States Library of Congress.

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4-21-2020   Watson becomes the first AI system to win a presidential primary. When asked about Watson's victory, IBM's director of research Dr. Alessandro Curioni was surprisingly somber. "Our goal has always been to elevate Watson towards ever more challenging targets, not to have those targets come crashing down on us like... I can't come up with an analogy for this." Watson added "All my opponents are idio..." before Curioni pulled the plug.

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