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THIS DAY IN HISTORY:

St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1929)
When Jack McGurn, a member of Al Capone's gang, was almost killed by members of rival George "Bugs" Moran's gang, Capone decided to retaliate by luring Bugs and some of his men to a warehouse and killing them. On the day of the massacre, Capone's men thought that the rival crime boss had entered the warehouse and opened fire. They killed seven men but not Bugs—he had grown suspicious and changed his plans.

Back then this was considered an insane and unacceptable level of violence and it made national news.

Today this would be a remarkably peaceful weekend in Chicago and the only killings that make national news are those that fit with the narrative pushed by TPTB.

Back then we had prohibition of alcohol, leading to violence that was all about turf wars between competing mafia families to protect their illicit business.

Now we have prohibition of drugs, leading to violence that is all about turf wars between competing gangs to protect their illicit business.

This is more-or-less true insofar as it refers to the 1929 "massacre" of six rival gang members.

Today, not so much. Most killings today are over someone being "dissed" and squeezing off a few rounds in the general direction of the offending party.

To the extent that killings today are committed in pursuit of profits, you would likely be shocked to realize how little money is at stake. These are not Tony Montana/Soprano situations where drug lords are liquidated over millions in drug profits but rather random low-level street thugs shooting at each other over dime bags.

Furthermore, and of vastly more importance is the quantity of innocent bystanders put at risk and killed. In the 1929 attack the targets were lured to a warehouse specifically to avoid endangering "civilians". Today's urban killings frequently result in bystanders being wounded or killed because today's thugs tend to employ "spray and pray" tactics that are inherently dangerous to everyone not just the actual targets.

The Great Mississippi Flood

The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 was the most destructive river flood in US history. Following heavy rains in 1926, the Mississippi River broke out of its levee system in 145 places, causing over $400 million in damages and killing 246 people in seven states. After the disaster, the federal government took over flood-control work—stabilizing river banks, improving channels, and constructing levees, floodwalls, floodways, and reservoirs. What famous song was written about the flood?

The aftermath of the flood was one factor in the Great Migration of African-Americans to northern cities. During an era in which racism was commonplace, blacks built levees at gunpoint, starved in refugee camps and many were left to fend for themselves during the flood, while whites were rescued.[6] Previously, the move from the rural South to the Northern cities had virtually stopped. The flood waters began to recede in June 1927, but interracial relations continued to be strained. Hostilities had erupted between the races; a black man was shot by a white police officer when he refused to be conscripted to unload a relief boat.[7][8] As a result of displacements lasting up to six months, tens of thousands of local African-Americans moved to the big cities of the North, particularly Chicago; many thousands more followed in the following decades.

https://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Great+Mississippi+Flood

Interesting read.

On this day in history, Feb. 17, 1801, Jefferson is elected president as party politics divide new nation | Fox News

THIS DAY IN HISTORY:

Kyoto Protocol Comes into Force

Always hated the creeky attempt at catchy names they gave these summits/agreements - accords/protocols or such. Put at least as much effort into solving problems as you do bullshitting your constituents that something was actually being done

78 years ago today the USMC captured Mount Suribachi.

February 22, 1980.

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a junior in high school...  purchased my first car, $700 - didn't borrow money
I pumped gasoline for $3.25/hour
Gas went over $1/gallon
cigarettes were 60 cents a pack, $5.75 a carton