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Today In History

In 1682 Swedish King Karel XI established an absolute monarchy.

In 1775 General Washington forbid officers to enlist blacks in the Revolutionary army.

In 1859 Jules Leotard performed the first flying trapeze circus act, in Paris. He went on later to design the garment that bears his name.

In 1899 British troops reached Durban, Natal, South Africa, during the Boer War.

In 1910 a man jumped into the Hudson river from a burning balloon as the first movie stunt.

In 1912 Robert Scott's body and diary was found in Antarctica.

In 1915 Theodore W. Richards became the first American to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, for determination of atomic weights.

In 1920 Judge Kennesaw Mountain Landis was elected the first major league baseball commissioner.

In 1927 the first underwater tunnel, the Holland Tunnel, connecting NY to NJ, opened.

In 1927 Leon Trotsky was expelled from the Russian Communist Party, and Stalin gained complete control.

In 1933 the first known purported photo of the legendary Loch Ness Monster was taken.

In 2000 the existence of the secret TLF Nuclear Bomb Project was revealed when the CIA found out about a secret chat room on their computers. Intelligence Officer Missphinx's cover is blown, and now the TLF must hide all weaponry ala Iraq before UN weapon inspectors find them.



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The Word of the Day is Decrepitation (n.) - The crackling noise which salt or minerals make over fire.

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In 1933 the Nazi Party in Germany recieved 92% of the vote on Election Day, making the Nazi Party the largest in the country.

In 1942 the Battle of Guadalcanal began in WW II.

In 1944 the RAF sank the German battleship Tirpitz at Troms Fjord, Norway.

In 1946 the first "autobank" (banking by car) formed in Chicago.

In 1948 Japanese premier Hideki Tojo was sentenced to death by the war crimes tribunal.

In 1953 U.S. District Judge Grim ruled that the NFL could black-out home games that are not sold-out.

In 1954 Ellis Island, entry point for millions of immigrants to America, was closed.

In 1955 this was the day returned to in the movies "Back to the Future" and "Back to the Future II".

In 1965 Ferdinand Marcos was elected president of the Philippines.

In 1968 the U.S. Supreme Court declared an Arkansas law banning the teaching of evolution in public schools to be unconstitutional.

In 1969 the U.S. Army announced it was investigating Lt. William Calley for the massacre of civilians in the Vietnamese village of My Lai on March 19th.

In 1969 author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was expelled from the Soviet Writers Union.

In 1979 President Carter announced an immediate halt to Iranian oil imports and the freezing of all Iranian assets in the U.S. in retaliation for the American hostages Iranian Revolutionists took.

In 1982 USSR KGB chief Yuri Andropov succeeded Brezhnev as the USSR's leader.

In 1984 the Space Shuttle astronauts snared a satellite as the first space salvage ever.

In 2000 a schism breaks out at the International House of Prophetic Pancakes as the faithful start a Holy War over which syrup is the one true Annointing Oil - maple or blueberry.

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The Word of the Day is Decrepitation (n.) - The crackling noise which salt or minerals make over fire.

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