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« Reply #3108 on: March 08, 2024, 08:39:28 AM »
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 

US President Ronald Reagan Dubs the USSR an "Evil Empire" (1983)
Reagan's strong anti-communist position, evident from the time he began his presidential career, was highlighted in a 1983 speech in which he referred to the USSR as an "evil empire." The phrase became common in Cold War rhetoric and has since entered popular culture, taking on a nearly iconic status. It has been used in a variety of contexts to refer to entities as varied as Wal-Mart and the British Empire.
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« Reply #3109 on: March 08, 2024, 09:13:12 AM »
William J. Guarnere Sr. (Wild Bill) passed away 10 yrs ago Today
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« Reply #3110 on: March 09, 2024, 08:30:39 AM »
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WWII: Bombing of Tokyo Kills 100,000 (1945)
During WWII, Allied bombing devastated half of Tokyo, destroyed or damaged many famous landmarks, and ruined nearly all of the city's industrial plants. In the US firebombing raid that began on March 9, 1945, nearly 2,000 tons of incendiary bombs were dropped on the Japanese capital, killing roughly 100,000 people and destroying about 16 mi² (41 km²) of the city—making it the most destructive conventional bombing raid in history.
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« Reply #3111 on: March 09, 2024, 08:52:26 AM »
If there was any justice tomorrow's THIS DAY IN HISTORY would read. Citizens hang Hirohito
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« Reply #3112 on: March 09, 2024, 09:15:58 AM »
perhaps the same for Ismail Haniyeh
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« Reply #3113 on: March 09, 2024, 10:41:54 PM »
American servicemen load paintings and sculptures looted by Hermann Göring, discovered in a cave near Berchtesgaden in May, 1945.

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« Reply #3114 on: March 10, 2024, 05:00:20 AM »
I toured Tokyo today. 
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« Reply #3115 on: March 10, 2024, 05:51:25 AM »
Walked over 9 miles today.  
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« Reply #3116 on: March 10, 2024, 07:44:45 AM »
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 
Pink Floyd Releases Dark Side of the Moon (1973)
Dark Side of the Moon is a concept album by the rock group Pink Floyd that explores the nature of the human experience through themes such as money, war, mental illness, and death. It is considered by many fans to be the band's magnum opus. It is one of the best-selling albums of all time—it is estimated that one in every 14 people in the US under the age of 50 owns or owned a copy of this album.
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« Reply #3117 on: March 10, 2024, 07:45:17 AM »
TODAY'S BIRTHDAY: 

James Earl Ray (1928)
Ray was a petty criminal who escaped from prison in 1967, while serving a sentence for armed robbery. On April 4, 1968, he is believed to have shot Martin Luther King, Jr., as King was emerging from his Memphis motel room. Ray then fled to Canada, England, Portugal, and back to England, where he was apprehended. He pled guilty and was sentenced to 99 years in prison but later recanted his confession.
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« Reply #3118 on: March 11, 2024, 10:38:23 AM »
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 
The Great Blizzard of '88 Begins (1888)
The Great Blizzard of '88 was one of the most severe blizzards in US history. Snowfalls of 40 to 50 in (102 to 127 cm) fell in parts of New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts, and Connecticut, and snowdrifts exceeded 50 ft (15 m) in some places. Railroads were shut down, and people were confined to their houses for up to a week. More than 400 people died from the storm and the ensuing cold, including 200 in New York City alone.
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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #3119 on: March 11, 2024, 10:44:23 AM »
Quote from: FearlessF on March 09, 2024, 08:30:39 AM
THIS DAY IN HISTORY:

WWII: Bombing of Tokyo Kills 100,000 (1945)
During WWII, Allied bombing devastated half of Tokyo, destroyed or damaged many famous landmarks, and ruined nearly all of the city's industrial plants. In the US firebombing raid that began on March 9, 1945, nearly 2,000 tons of incendiary bombs were dropped on the Japanese capital, killing roughly 100,000 people and destroying about 16 mi² (41 km²) of the city—making it the most destructive conventional bombing raid in history.
I'm not 100% positive of this, but I think that the qualifier "conventional" is unnecessary in this sentence because the firebombing of Tokyo was more destructive than either of the atomic bombings.
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« Reply #3120 on: March 12, 2024, 05:15:09 PM »
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 

California's St. Francis Dam Fails (1928)
Constructed between 1924 and 1926, the St. Francis Dam was a concrete gravity-arch dam designed to act as a reservoir to store water for the Los Angeles Aqueduct. In 1928, the dam catastrophically failed, and the resulting flood of 12 billion US gallons (45 billion liters) of water killed more than 450 people. The dam's collapse was the worst American civil engineering failure of the 20th century and remains the second-greatest loss of life disaster in California's history
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« Reply #3121 on: March 12, 2024, 09:25:52 PM »
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