This Day in History

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Marla Gibbs birthday - YAY
Trump's birthday - EWW

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1937 – Spam, the luncheon meat, is introduced into the market by the Hormel Foods Corporation.

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1937 – Spam, the luncheon meat, is introduced into the market by the Hormel Foods Corporation.

I Love Spam.

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July 6

1947 – The AK-47



goes into production in the Soviet Union.

1957 – At a concert by the Quarrymen at the St. Peter's Church Woolton Garden fete, band member John Lennon met Paul McCartney,



triggering a series of events that led to the forming of the Beatles.

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August 2

1776 – The signing of the United States Declaration of Independence took place.

1923 – Vice President Calvin Coolidge becomes U.S. President upon the death of President Warren G. Harding.

1934 – Gleichschaltung: Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany following the death of President Paul von Hindenburg.

1943 – World War II: The Motor Torpedo Boat PT-109 is rammed by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri and sinks. Lt. John F. Kennedy, future U.S. President, saves all but two of his crew.

1990 – Iraq invades Kuwait, eventually leading to the Gulf War.

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August 15

1281 – Mongol invasion of Japan: The Mongolian fleet of Kublai Khan is destroyed by a "divine wind" for the second time in the Battle of Kōan.

1914 – A servant of American architect Frank Lloyd Wright murders seven people and sets fire to the living quarters of Wright's Wisconsin home, Taliesin.

1935 – Will Rogers and Wiley Post are killed after their aircraft develops engine problems during takeoff in Barrow, Alaska.

1939 – Thirteen Stukas dive into the ground during a disastrous air-practice at Neuhammer. There are no survivors.

1939 – The Wizard of Oz premieres at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Los Angeles, California.

1948 – The Republic of Korea is established south of the 38th parallel north.

1977 – The Big Ear, a radio telescope operated by Ohio State University as part of the SETI project, receives a radio signal from deep space; the event is named the "Wow! signal" from the notation made by a volunteer on the project.

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August 20

Today is World Mosquito Day, so, get bit.


Events

1858 – Charles Darwin first publishes his theory of evolution through natural selection in The Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, alongside Alfred Russel Wallace's same theory.

1866 – President Andrew Johnson formally declares the American Civil War over.

1882 – Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture debuts in Moscow, Russia.

1938 – Lou Gehrig hits his 23rd career grand slam, a record that stood for 75 years until it was broken by Alex Rodriguez.

1940 – In Mexico City, Mexico, exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky is fatally wounded with an ice axe by Ramón Mercader. He dies the next day.

1940 – World War II: British Prime Minister Winston Churchill makes the fourth of his famous wartime speeches, containing the line "Never was so much owed by so many to so few".

1986 – In Edmond, Oklahoma, U.S. Postal employee Patrick Sherrill guns down 14 of his co-workers and then commits suicide. The phrase "going postal" is inspired by this event.

1988 – Fires in the United States' Yellowstone National Park



destroyed more than 150,000 acres (610 km2), the single-worst day of the conflagration.

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1858 – Charles Darwin first publishes his theory of evolution through natural selection in The Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, alongside Alfred Russel Wallace's same theory.

Neither predicted the current devolution.

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August 29

Today is marked as an International Day Against Nuclear Tests.


1898 – The Goodyear



tire company is founded.

1911 – Ishi,



considered the last Native American to make contact with European Americans, emerges from the wilderness of northeastern California.

1949 – Soviet atomic bomb project: The Soviet Union tests its first atomic bomb, known as First Lightning or Joe 1, at Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan.

1958 – United States Air Force Academy



opens in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

1966 – The Beatles perform their last concert before paying fans at Candlestick Park in San Francisco.

1996 – Vnukovo Airlines Flight 2801, a Tupolev Tu-154, crashes into a mountain on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen, killing all 141 aboard.

2005 – Hurricane Katrina devastates much of the U.S. Gulf Coast from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle, killing an estimated 1,836 people and causing over $108 billion in damage.

2007 – United States Air Force nuclear weapons incident: Six US cruise missiles armed with nuclear warheads are flown without proper authorization from Minot Air Force Base to Barksdale Air Force Base.

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September 11

Today is Patriot Day

This day is also marked as a Nat'l Day of Service and Remembrance.

1985 – Pete Rose breaks Ty Cobb's baseball record for most career hits with his 4,192nd hit.

2001 – Two hijacked aircraft crash into the World Trade Center in New York City, while a third smashes into The Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia, and a fourth into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, in a series of coordinated suicide attacks by 19 members of al-Qaeda. A total of 2,996 people are killed.

2012 – The U.S. embassy in Benghazi, Libya is attacked, resulting in four deaths.

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:ahem:

09/11/1973
CIA-supported military coup overthrows the democratically-elected Socialist President of Chile, ending rule of Democratic elections that had been in place since 1932. Thousands killed, tens of thousands tortured, economy driven into depression, and a major terrorist operation was established which suppressed all Left-leaning political voices and set about overthrowing governments and setting up more Right-wing dictatorships all over the world.



But we don't talk about that.

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You just talked about it.