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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #6216 on: March 24, 2026, 12:15:14 AM »
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« Reply #6217 on: March 24, 2026, 08:35:29 AM »
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 

Archbishop Óscar Romero Assassinated in San Salvador (1980)
As the archbishop of San Salvador during El Salvador's civil war, Romero won international acclaim by speaking out against social injustices, such as human rights abuses and assassinations perpetrated by the Salvadoran government. Just one day after Romero publicly exhorted Salvadoran soldiers to obey God instead of their corrupt government, he was shot to death while celebrating Mass.
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« Reply #6218 on: March 24, 2026, 09:12:34 AM »
March 24, 1932 - The race horse, Omaha, was foaled on March 24, 1932 in Paris, Kentucky.

His sire, Gallant Fox, was the winner of the Triple Crown in 1930.

Omaha achieved the same feat in 1935, and they became the only father-son duo to reach that milestone.

Omaha was brought to Nebraska by a breeder in 1950 and was buried at Ak-Sar-Ben following his death in 1959.
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« Reply #6219 on: March 25, 2026, 08:01:10 AM »
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 

Sergei Krikalev, the "Last Soviet Citizen," Returns to Earth (1992)
In May 1991, the Soviet Union launched the Soyuz TM-12 mission to the Mir space station. Within months, all but one of the mission's crew members had returned to Earth. Krikalev, a Soviet flight engineer, stayed behind to help staff Mir and conduct experiments. That December, the USSR dissolved. When the cosmonaut finally returned to Earth the following spring, it was as a citizen of Russia.
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« Reply #6220 on: Today at 07:16:28 AM »
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 

Jack Kevorkian Convicted of Second-Degree Murder (1999)
By 1998, Dr. Jack Kevorkian had been prosecuted numerous times—without being convicted—for the deaths of terminally ill patients whose suicides he had admittedly assisted. However, after the TV program 60 Minutes aired a videotape of him administering a lethal injection to a man who was too physically debilitated to commit suicide on his own, Kevorkian was charged with murder. He chose to defend himself in court and was convicted. He was paroled eight years later
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