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THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 
September Massacres Break Out in Paris (1792)
After an abortive insurrection in June 1792, French revolutionaries followed it with a decisive one in August. Under pressure from the insurrection, the Assembly suspended Louis XVI and ordered elections for a National Convention to draw up a new constitution. Mass arrests of royalist sympathizers were followed by the September massacres, in which frenzied mobs entered jails throughout Paris and killed approximately 2,000 prisoners, many in grisly fashion.

THIS DAY IN HISTORY:
Maiden Flight of the First US Airship (1923)
The USS Shenandoah was the first American-built rigid dirigible. Its design was based on a German zeppelin downed during WWI, and it was the first ship to be filled with helium—making it safer than hydrogen-filled crafts. A year after its maiden voyage, it became the first rigid airship to cross North America. While on another tour in 1925, it passed through a storm and was torn apart. Thirteen crew members died in the crash.

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Not gonna answer the other two, but Sichuan peppercorn isn't a chile pepper. So they may have already had it.

Yeah, that's what I am thinking, the spiciness was derived from other pepper types.

True. They definitely added the chilies once they got them.

BTW if you like spicy Chinese, find yourself a good Hunanese restaurant. Delicious and they love some hot peppers. 

1940

Nothing weird about that if you ever got out into rural areas. I think there was still some stores that had PO's  in then in Tn. up through the 90's. Probably was in some places in KY as well

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Last Captive Thylacine Dies in Hobart Zoo (1936)
The thylacine, known also as the Tasmanian wolf and Tasmanian tiger, was a carnivorous marsupial once found on the Australian mainland, New Guinea, and Tasmania. Often cited as an example of convergent evolution, it was superficially similar to a wolf or dog, though it evolved entirely independently of these animals. It was hunted to probable extinction in the 1930s, and the last captive thylacine died in the Hobart Zoo in 1936.

THIS DAY IN HISTORY:
Maiden Flight of the First US Airship (1923)
The USS Shenandoah was the first American-built rigid dirigible. Its design was based on a German zeppelin downed during WWI, and it was the first ship to be filled with helium—making it safer than hydrogen-filled crafts. A year after its maiden voyage, it became the first rigid airship to cross North America. While on another tour in 1925, it passed through a storm and was torn apart. Thirteen crew members died in the crash.

It crashed near Caldwell Ohio in the SE portion of the state. There is a sign marking the place of the crash visible from I-77. I've driven by it a number of times.