Forum: General Discussion
10-20-2009, 09:54 PM
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Forum: General Discussion
08-28-2009, 10:44 PM
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Re: This Day In History
August 29th
1533
Atahualpa, the last ruler of the Incas, was murdered as Francisco Pizarro completed his conquest of Peru.
1786
Shays's rebellion, an insurrection of Massachusetts farmers...
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Forum: General Discussion
08-27-2009, 10:26 PM
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Re: This Day In History
August 28th
1609
Henry Hudson discovered Delaware Bay.
1850
Richard Wagner's opera, Lohengrin, premiered at Weimar, Germany.
1922
The first commercial to be broadcast on radio aired on...
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Forum: General Discussion
08-22-2009, 10:39 PM
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Re: This Day In History
August 23rd
1305
William Wallace, Scottish patriot, is executed for high treason by Edward I of England.
1591
Luis Ponce de León a Spanish lyric poet and an Augustinian canon, of the Spanish...
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Forum: General Discussion
08-21-2009, 11:06 PM
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Re: This Day In History
August 22nd
1775
King George III proclaimed the American colonies to be in open rebellion.
1846
The United States annexed New Mexico.
1851
The U.S. yacht America outraced the British...
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Forum: General Discussion
08-20-2009, 10:19 PM
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Re: This Day In History
August 21st
1878
The American Bar Association was founded in Saratoga, N.Y.
1911
The Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre museum in France by an Italian waiter, Vicenzo Perruggia.
1959...
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Forum: General Discussion
08-19-2009, 10:40 PM
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Re: This Day In History
August 20th
1882
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture debuts in Moscow.
1938
Lou Gehrig hits his 23rd career grand slam – a record that still stands.
1977
The space probe Voyager 2...
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Forum: General Discussion
08-19-2009, 09:28 AM
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Re: This Day In History
August 19th
1812
The U.S. frigate Constitution, Old Ironsides, defeated the British ship Guerriere during the War of 1812.
1921
Ty Cobb (Detroit Tigers) recorded his 3,000 career hit.
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Forum: General Discussion
08-17-2009, 10:49 PM
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Re: This Day In History
August 18th
1227
Mongol conqueror Genghis Khan died in China.
1587
Virginia Dare became the first child of English parents born in North America.
1894
Congress established the Bureau of...
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Forum: General Discussion
08-17-2009, 12:11 AM
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Re: This Day In History
August 17
1807
Robert Fulton's steamboat, the Clermont, began its trip up the Hudson River to Albany.
1863
Fort Sumter, S.C. was bombarded by Union ships during the Civil War.
1896...
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Forum: General Discussion
08-15-2009, 11:05 PM
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Re: This Day In History
August 16th
1777
The Revolutionary War battle of Bennington, Vt., won by American forces.
1829
Chang and Eng, a pair of conjoined twins from Siam, arrived in Boston to be exhibited to the...
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Forum: General Discussion
08-14-2009, 11:06 PM
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Re: This Day In History
August 15th
1057
Macbeth, king of Scotland, was killed by Malcolm Canmore.
1911
Proctor & Gamble Company introduced Crisco vegetable shortening.
1935
Aviator Wiley Post and actor Will...
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Forum: General Discussion
08-13-2009, 11:29 PM
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Re: This Day In History
August 14th
1900
International forces entered Beijing, China, in an effort to suppress the antiforeign uprising known as the Boxer Rebellion.
1935
The Social Security Act became law.
1945...
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Forum: General Discussion
08-12-2009, 10:38 PM
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Re: This Day In History
August 13th
1521
Spanish conqueror Hernando Cortez captured present-day Mexico City from the Aztecs.
1889
German Ferdinand von Zeppelin patents his "Navigable Balloon".
1942
Disney's...
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Forum: General Discussion
08-10-2009, 10:30 PM
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Re: This Day In History
August 11th
1909
Arapahoe became the first American ship to use the S.O.S. distress signal.
1929
Babe Ruth hit his 500th career home run.
1934
The first inmates arrived at the federal...
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Forum: General Discussion
08-09-2009, 10:33 PM
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Re: This Day In History
August 10th
1821
Missouri became the 24th state in the United States.
1846
The Smithsonian Institution was established in Washington, D.C., from funds left by British scientist James...
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Forum: General Discussion
08-08-2009, 10:34 PM
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Re: This Day In History
August 9th
1854
Henry David Thoreau's Walden, recounting his experiment in solitary life on the shores of Massachusetts' Walden Pond, was published.
1945
The United States exploded a nuclear...
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Forum: General Discussion
08-08-2009, 12:01 AM
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Re: This Day In History
August 8th
1588
English forces attacked the Spanish Armada, permanently crippling Spain's "invincible" fleet.
1876
Thomas Edison patented the mimeograph machine.
1900
The first Davis Cup...
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Forum: General Discussion
08-04-2009, 11:11 PM
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Re: This Day In History
August 5th
1861
For the first time, the U.S. government levied an income tax.
1864
Union Adm. David G. Farragut is said to have given his famous order "Damn the torpedoes, full speed...
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Forum: General Discussion
08-04-2009, 03:37 PM
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Re: This Day In History
August 4th
1735
Printer John Peter Zenger, defended by Andrew Hamilton, was acquitted of libel in a case that helped foster freedom of the press.
1884
Thomas Stevens became the first person...
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Forum: General Discussion
07-31-2009, 11:33 AM
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Re: This Day In History
July 31st
1498
Columbus arrived at the island of Trinidad.
1790
The first U.S. patent was issued to Samuel Hopkins of Vermont for a process of making fertilizer.
1875
Andrew Johnson, the...
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Forum: General Discussion
07-30-2009, 11:46 AM
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Re: This Day In History
July 30th
1619
The first legislative assembly in English North America convened in Jamestown, Va.
1729
The U.S. city of Baltimore was founded.
1945
The USS Indianapolis was torpedoed by...
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Forum: General Discussion
07-28-2009, 11:47 PM
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Re: This Day In History
July 29th
1874
Major Walter Copton Winfield of England received U.S. patent for the lawn-tennis court.
1890
Artist Vincent van Gogh died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in Auvers, France,...
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Forum: General Discussion
07-27-2009, 11:55 PM
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Re: This Day In History
July 28th
1750
Composer Johann Sebastian Bach died in Leipzig, Germany, at age 65.
1794
Robespierre, one of the leading figures of the French Revolution, was sent to the guillotine.
1868...
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Forum: General Discussion
07-27-2009, 09:55 PM
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