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Topic: OT - Weird History

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SFBadger96

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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #6776 on: Today at 10:36:54 AM »
Re no. 5: when I was a kid, I had a "rich" friend whose parents took him to that establishment. It sounded so cool. My parents never took me there, so I figured we were too poor for it. Not so much--our local athletics and toys store was probably more expensive. Unless maybe it was for the sheer gimme factor--the indulgence--of being in a giant store focused almost entirely on toys.

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« Reply #6777 on: Today at 10:51:31 AM »
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 
Hermine Braunsteiner Becomes First Nazi Extradited from the US (1973)
Nicknamed the "Stomping Mare" for her violent kicking of prisoners, Braunsteiner was a Nazi concentration camp guard during WWII. After the war, she spent a brief period in jail for war crimes before marrying an American and becoming a US citizen. In 1964, she was confronted at her home in New York by a reporter tipped off about her past by Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal. When her role in the war came to light, she was stripped of her citizenship and extradited to West Germany.
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« Reply #6778 on: Today at 01:31:28 PM »

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« Reply #6779 on: Today at 04:06:52 PM »
Birthdays
1560 Elizabeth Báthory  the world's most prolific female serial killer
1742 Nathanael Greene
1872 Mata Hari
1945 Alan Page, American NFL football defensive tackle and Associate Justice Minnesota Supreme Court 
1975 Charlize Theron
1998 Jalen Hurts

Events
1606 First performance of Shakespeare's tragedy "Macbeth" takes place in the Great Hall at Hampton Court Palace for King James I

1802 Napoleon orders the reinstatement of slavery in Saint-Domingue, Haiti

1882 Hatfields of southwest West Virginia and McCoys of eastern Kentucky feud, with 100 wounded or dead

1896 New Jersey fishermen George Harbo and Frank Samuelson are the first to row across the Atlantic, arriving in Le Havre after leaving Manhattan on June 6 - bad asses

1950 Police bar white players Lou Chirban, Stan Mierko, and Frank Dyle from playing in the Negro League

1956 Boston Red Sox fine slugger Ted Williams $5,000 for spitting at heckling Boston fans in the third incident in three weeks

1970 British keyboard playing singer-songwriter Christine McVie (née Perfect) joins rock band Fleetwood Mac

1987 Lynne Cox becomes the first woman to swim from the US to the Soviet Union,3.1 miles across the Bering Sea in water temperatures averaging 43-44°F

2018 China bans the release of the Winnie the Pooh movie "Christopher Robin" after the character is used to mock Chinese President Xi Jinping


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