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« Reply #4494 on: March 08, 2025, 09:24:53 AM »
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 
New York Stock Exchange Is Founded (1817)
The first agreement to form a stock exchange in New York was made in 1792 by 24 brokers standing under a buttonwood tree on Wall Street. The New York Stock Exchange was formally founded 25 years later. The exchange provided capital for the industrialization of the US in the 19th century and is today the world's largest securities market. The right to trade in the exchange can only be obtained by purchasing a seat from an existing member, and the number of seats is limited
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« Reply #4495 on: March 09, 2025, 09:17:24 AM »
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 

Edward R. Murrow's See It Now Airs McCarthyism Episode (1954)
In the early 1950s, US Senator Joseph McCarthy persecuted scores of people he deemed subversive in a series of widely-publicized hearings that whipped the public into an anti-Communist frenzy. In 1954, journalist Edward R. Murrow produced an episode of his TV show See It Now that criticized the Red Scare and turned public opinion against McCarthy using the senator's own words. Murrow later invited McCarthy to respond.
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« Reply #4496 on: March 09, 2025, 07:33:37 PM »
Strange,true and odd facts - Hitler,Stalin and Mussolini were all nominated for the Nobel Peace prize

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/oPVyIqY4lTo?feature=share
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« Reply #4497 on: March 10, 2025, 09:39:56 AM »
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 

French Foreign Legion Founded (1831)
The French Foreign Legion is a unit of the French Army largely composed of foreigners and commanded by French officers. It was created by King Louis Phillipe in 1831 to keep potential dissidents busy fighting for France rather than against it. Because enlistment historically required no official identification, many criminals joined under assumed names to hide their unsavory backgrounds.
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« Reply #4498 on: March 10, 2025, 10:11:52 AM »


1762 French Huguenot Jean Calas, who was wrongly convicted of killing his son, dies after being tortured by authorities; the event inspires Voltaire to begin campaign for religious tolerance and legal reform

1783 USS Alliance, under Captain Barry, fights and wins the final naval battle of the American Revolutionary War off Cape Canaveral



1874 Purdue University (Indiana) admits its 1st student

1876 First telephone call: Alexander Graham Bell says, "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you" to his assistant Thomas Watson

1910 Republic of China officially abolishes slavery

1945 Deadliest air raid of World War II sets Tokyo on fire after nighttime B-29 bombings; more than 100,000 people die, mostly civilians

1945 George S. Patton's 3rd U.S. Army makes contact with General Courtney Hodge's 1st U.S. Army

1951 FBI director J. Edgar Hoover declines post of baseball commissioner

1963 MLB infielder Pete Rose debuts with Cincinnati at spring training in Tampa, Florida; hits in his first 2 at bats

1990 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site (really??? WTF)

2014 German Chancellor Angela Merkel warns Russia's Vladimir Putin that making Crimea part of Russia is illegal and in violation of Ukraine's constitution - (Thanx,toots how'd that work out?)

2020 Russian lower house of Parliament passes legislation to allow Vladimir Putin to hold office of President for life

2020 Three months into the COVID-19 epidemic Chinese President Xi Jinping finally travels to Wuhan, epicenter of the outbreak as the rate of daily new infections declines in China falls to 19 new cases and 17 deaths (sure they did,of course)

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« Reply #4499 on: March 10, 2025, 11:29:18 AM »
2014 German Chancellor Angela Merkel warns Russia's Vladimir Putin that making Crimea part of Russia is illegal and in violation of Ukraine's constitution - (Thanx,toots how'd that work out?)

I'd blame President Obama and Vice President Biden for appeasing Putin and not standing up for Ukraine
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« Reply #4500 on: March 10, 2025, 12:22:40 PM »
In 927, Athelstan became the first king to rule over all of England — and it hadn't been an easy journey. Though he was the son of Edward the Elder, King of the Anglo-Saxons, he was born not to his wife but to his mistress, and was thus considered illegitimate and called a bastard. He'd inherited the kingdom of Mercia upon his father's death, then took over the kingdom of Wessex when his brother died, thus uniting the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms under his rule by 925. When his brother-in-law, the Viking king Sihtric of the Kingdom of York, died in 927, Athelstan took over that kingdom too, which made him the first king to rule all of England. But Athelstan wasn't satisfied with just that: https://inter.st/jvza
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« Reply #4501 on: March 10, 2025, 02:19:49 PM »
What North America looked like about 77 million years ago, during the Late Cretaceous period...



I'm sure some folks are quite sure how accurate this is.
Some folks wonder aloud why the names have been changed

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« Reply #4502 on: March 10, 2025, 02:28:11 PM »
here's one for Brutus...........

The Martin Brothers Monument Is One Of The Strangest In Nebraska

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« Reply #4503 on: March 10, 2025, 02:33:21 PM »
From the Battle of Little Big Horn“I had sung the war song, I had smelt power smoke, my heart was bad--I was like one who has no mind. I rushed in and took their flag; my pony fell dead as I took it. I cut the thong that bound me; I jumped up and brained the sword flag man with my war club, and ran back to our line with the flag. I was mad, I got a fresh pony and rushed back shooting, cutting and slashing. This pony was shot and I got another. This time I saw Little Hair (Tom Custer)--I remembered my vow, I was crazy; I feared nothing. I knew nothing would hurt me for I had my white weasel tail on. I didn't know how many I killed trying to get at him. He knew me. I laughed at him and yelled at him. I saw his mouth move but there was so much noise I couldn't hear his voice. He was afraid. When I got near enough I shot him with my revolver. My gun was gone. I didn't know where. I got back on my pony and rode off. I was satisfied and sick of fighting."Itoηagaju (Rain-in-the-Face) Lakota , 1835-1905

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« Reply #4504 on: March 10, 2025, 03:41:13 PM »
Make America Underwater Again!
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« Reply #4505 on: March 10, 2025, 03:52:08 PM »
the gulf of America hadn't even been named yet
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« Reply #4506 on: March 10, 2025, 08:24:46 PM »
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« Reply #4507 on: March 11, 2025, 07:36:39 AM »
537 Goths lay siege to Rome

1779 US Army Corps of Engineers established

1789 Benjamin Banneker and Pierre Charles L'Enfant begin to lay out Washington, D.C.

1862 Abraham Lincoln removes George McClellan as General-in-Chief of the US Army

1897 A meteorite enters the earth's atmosphere and explodes over New Martinsville, West Virginia. The debris causes damage but no human injuries are reported.

1935 Bank of Canada first opens on Wellington Street, Ottawa

1935 Hermann Goering officially creates the Luftwaffe (German Air Force)

1941 FDR signs Lend-Lease Bill, allowing US to provide material support to Great Britain's war effort in return for future use of land for US military bases in England

1954 US Army charges Senator Joseph McCarthy used undue pressure tactics

1964 Gene Roddenberry brings together a 16-page pitch for the original Star Trek series

1968 Episode of "The Monkees" TV show features musician Frank Zappa posing as Mike Nesmith and vice versa, debating qualities of each other's music

1968 Otis Redding is the first person in the US to posthumously receive gold record for his single "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay"

1971 Jim Morrison leaves for Paris, never to return

1974 Mount Etna in Sicily erupted

1982 Detroit Pistons play the Chicago Bulls, with final score of Detroit 152 to Chicago 144 and Detroit having 20 blocked shots

1985 Mikhail Gorbachev replaces Konstantin Chernenko as Soviet leader

1986 NFL adopts instant replay rule

2018 China's National People's Congress approves removal of term limits for a leader, allowing Xi Jinping to be president for life

2020 NBA suspends 2019-20 season until further notice after Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert tests positive for COVID-19

2024 Fertilizer spill in Red Oak, Iowa, kills an estimated 789,000 fish along a 60-mile stretch of river after valve was left open at NEW Cooperative

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