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I had the highest respect for him until one day he told me the guys in Nam blew it. They were "pussies and hippies, who didn't care if they won or lost." If his generation fought that war it'd have been over in months not years. And the US would have been the clear victor. Whenever Nam came up he's call out "fucking nam pussies!" He's not the first WWII vet I've met that seem to feel this way, but he was the most vocal about it. |
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Nope! Sorry to tell you but he thought the guys in the battles were pussies and hippies and that's why we lost the war. I had many conversations about this with him and there was no mistaking his meaning. He also thought the Jews control much of the world and on the day Thomas was confirmed to the SCOTUS he stood in his driveway and called out to me that "I can't believed they put that nigger on the court!" Turns out surviving a terrible event or even being a war hero doesn't make you either a good person or a smart man. I honor and admire his service to his country during WWII. But disagree with just about everything that ever came out of his mouth once I got to know him. |
On April 4, 1914, the first known serialized moving picture opened in New York City, NY. It was "The Perils of Pauline..."
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On April 5, 1614, American Indian Pocahontas married English colonist John Rolfe in Virginia...
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John Rolfe!?!?
Disney lied to me! how could they!?!.:rolleyes: |
On April 6, 1875, Alexander Graham Bell was granted a patent for the multiple telegraph, which sent two signals at the same time...
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On this day in history (today) my son turned 13. (OK, it is important history to me)
April 6, 1883 Start of the serialization of Sherlock Holmes in the "Adventure of Speckled Band" April 6, 1896 1st modern Olympic games open in Athens Greece [3/25 OS] American, James Connolly, wins 1st Olympic gold medal in modern history. April 6, 1917, the United States formally declared war against Germany and entered the conflict in Europe. April 6, 1924 Italy fascists receives 65% of vote of parliament April 6, 1924 Volkische Block (Nazi's) receives 17.8% of vote in Bayern April 6, 1976 1st quadraphonic movie track: "Ladies and Gentlemen the Rolling Stones. April 6, 1977 Kingdome opens, Seattle Mariners 1st game, loses to Angels 7-0. April 6, 1992 U.S. Supreme Court rules a Nebraska farmer was entrapped by postal agents into buying mail-order child pornography. April 6, 1994 Supreme Court Justice Blackmun (Roe vs. Wade) retired from the Court. |
On April 7, 1953, IBM unveiled the IBM 701 Electronic Data Processing Machine. It was IBM's first commercially available scientific computer...
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529 - First draft of Corpus Juris Civilis (a fundamental work in jurisprudence) is issued by Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I.
1805 - First public performance of Beethoven's Third Symphony 1906 - Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples. 1945 - World War II: The Japanese battleship Yamato, the largest battleship ever constructed, is sunk 200 miles north of Okinawa while en-route to a suicide mission in Operation Ten-Go. 1954 - U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower gives his "domino theory" speech during a news conference. 1990 - Iran Contra Affair: John Poindexter is found guilty of five charges for his part in the scandal (the conviction was reversed on appeal). 2003 - U.S. troops capture Baghdad; Saddam Hussein's regime falls two days later. 1718 - Hugh Blair, Scottish preacher and man of letters (d. 1800) was born. 1770 - William Wordsworth, English poet (d. 1850) was born. 1964 - Russell Crowe, New Zealand actor was born. 2001 - David Graf, American actor (b. 1950) died. Today the following holidays are observed around the world: * World Health Day - Celebrated by the 191 member countries of the World Health Organization * Mozambique - Women's Day. * Compton, California - Eazy-E Day * The feast of Annunciation is celebrated by the Western Orthodox Church. * The Feast Day of Saint John Baptist de La Salle (d. 1719) |
On April 8, 1988, former U.S. President Reagan aide Lyn Nofzinger was sentenced to prison for illegal lobbying for Wedtech Corp...
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1942 - the Siege of Leningrad opens the Leningrad railway link, vital to Soviet war efforts.
And yesterday we missed an important one: 75 years since prohibition ended. |
On April 9, 1913, the Brooklyn Dodgers' Ebbets Field opened...
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On April 10, 1849, Walter Hunt patented the safety pin. He sold the rights for $100...
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On April 11, 1947, Jackie Robinson became the first black player in major-league history. He played in an exhibition game for the Brooklyn Dodgers...
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On April 12, 1864, Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest captured Fort Pillow, in Tennessee and slaughters the black Union troops there...
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On April 13, 1963, Pete Rose of the Cincinnati Reds got his first hit in the major leagues...
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On April 14, 1925, WGN became the first radio station to broadcast a regular season major league baseball game. The Cubs beat the Pirates 8-2...
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On April 15, 1912, the ocean liner Titanic sank at 2:27 a.m. in the North Atlantic after hitting an iceberg the evening before. 1,517 people died and more than 700 people survived...
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End thread jack. On this day in 1861 President Abraham Lincoln declared a state of insurrection and called out Union troops three days after the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter in South Carolina. And four years, to the day, later... In 1865 Andrew Johnson became the 17th president of the United States after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. |
On April 16, 1705, Queen Anne of England knighted Isaac Newton...
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On April 17, 2008, Uncle Phil was in Ft. Myers, FL...
On April 18, 1923, Yankee Stadium opened in the Bronx, NY. The Yankees beat the Boston Red Sox 4-1. John Phillip Sousa's band played the National Anthem... |
On April 19, 1982, NASA named Sally Ride to be first woman astronaut...
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April 19th, 1775, the shot heard round the world.
At about 5 a.m., 700 British troops, on a mission to capture Patriot leaders and seize a Patriot arsenal, march into Lexington to find 77 armed minutemen under Captain John Parker waiting for them on the town's common green. British Major John Pitcairn ordered the outnumbered Patriots to disperse, and after a moment's hesitation the Americans began to drift off the green. Suddenly, the "shot heard around the world" was fired from an undetermined gun, and a cloud of musket smoke soon covered the green. When the brief Battle of Lexington ended, eight Americans lay dead or dying and 10 others were wounded. Only one British soldier was injured, but the American Revolution had begun. By 1775, tensions between the American colonies and the British government approached the breaking point, especially in Massachusetts, where Patriot leaders formed a shadow revolutionary government and trained militias to prepare for armed conflict with the British troops occupying Boston. In the spring of 1775, General Thomas Gage, the British governor of Massachusetts, received instructions from England to seize all stores of weapons and gunpowder accessible to the American insurgents. On April 18, he ordered British troops to march against the Patriot arsenal at Concord and capture Patriot leaders Samuel Adams and John Hancock, known to be hiding at Lexington. The Boston Patriots had been preparing for such a military action by the British for some time, and upon learning of the British plan, Patriots Paul Revere and William Dawes were ordered to set out to rouse the militiamen and warn Adams and Hancock. When the British troops arrived at Lexington, Adams, Hancock, and Revere had already fled to Philadelphia, and a group of militiamen were waiting. The Patriots were routed within minutes, but warfare had begun, leading to calls to arms across the Massachusetts countryside. When the British troops reached Concord at about 7 a.m., they found themselves encircled by hundreds of armed Patriots. They managed to destroy the military supplies the Americans had collected but were soon advanced against by a gang of minutemen, who inflicted numerous casualties. Lieutenant Colonel Frances Smith, the overall commander of the British force, ordered his men to return to Boston without directly engaging the Americans. As the British retraced their 16-mile journey, their lines were constantly beset by Patriot marksmen firing at them Indian-style from behind trees, rocks, and stone walls. At Lexington, Captain Parker's militia had its revenge, killing several British soldiers as the Red Coats hastily marched through his town. By the time the British finally reached the safety of Boston, nearly 300 British soldiers had been killed, wounded, or were missing in action. The Patriots suffered fewer than 100 casualties. The battles of Lexington and Concord were the first battles of the American Revolution, a conflict that would escalate from a colonial uprising into a world war that, seven years later, would give birth to the independent United States of America. |
On April 19, 1943 Dr. Hofmann intentionally ingested 250 µg of LSD, which he hypothesized would be a threshold dose, based on other ergot alkaloids. After ingesting the substance Hofmann was struggling to speak intelligibly and asked his laboratory assistant, who knew of the self-experiment, to escort him home on his bicycle, due to the lack of available vehicles during wartime restrictions. On the bicycle ride home, Hofmann's condition became more severe and in his journal he stated that everything in his field of vision wavered and was distorted, as if seen in a curved mirror. Hofmann also stated that while riding on the bicycle, he had the sensation of being stationary, unable to move from where he was, despite the fact that he was moving very rapidly. Once Hofmann arrived safely home, he summoned a doctor and asked his neighbor for milk, believing it may help relieve the symptoms. Hofmann wrote that despite his delirious and bewildered condition, he was able to choose milk as a nonspecific antidote for poisoning. Upon arriving the doctor could find no abnormal physical symptoms other than extremely dilated pupils. After spending several hours terrified that his body had been possessed by a demon, that his next door neighbor was a witch, and that his furniture was threatening him, Dr. Hofmann feared he had become completely insane. In his journal Hofmann said that the doctor saw no reason to prescribe medication and instead sent him to his bed. At this time Hofmann said that the feelings of fear had started to give way to feelings of good fortune and gratitude, and that he was now enjoying the colors and plays of shapes that persisted behind his closed eyes. Hofmann mentions seeing "fantastic images" surging past him, alternating and opening and closing themselves into circles and spirals and finally exploding into colored fountains and then rearranging themselves in a constant flux. Hofmann mentions that during the condition every acoustic perception, such as the sound of a passing automobile, was transformed into optical perceptions. Eventually Hofmann slept and upon awakening the next morning felt refreshed and clearheaded, though somewhat physically tired. He also stated that he had a sensation of well being and renewed life and that his breakfast tasted unusually delicious. Upon walking in his garden he remarked that all of his senses were "vibrating in a condition of highest sensitivity, which then persisted for the entire day".
btw, I didn't write that, it's from Wikipedia :lol: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_LSD#Bicycle_Day |
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On April 20, 1912, Fenway Park opened as the home of the Boston Red Sox...
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On April 21, 1984,in France, it was announced that doctors had found virus believed to cause AIDS...
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On April 22, 1987, the American Physical Society said that the "Star Wars" missile system was "highly questionable" and would take ten years to research...
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April 22 1970 was the first Earth Day. The focus of the first Earth Day was to promote awareness of environmental issues such as pollution, the effects of over-population, and to address the crisis of the impending ice age brought on by ... wait for it ...
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People once thought the earth was flat and the sun revolved around it. Advances in technology convinced most, not all but most, that those beliefs too were wrong. :shakehead: |
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On April 23, 1896, the Vitascope system for projecting movies onto a screen was demonstrated in New York City...
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23 April 1962, the Ranger 4 lunar probe was launched. The first NASA Probe that reached the moon. Contact was lost soon after the start. the probe crashed on the moon 3 days later
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Playwrite William Shakespear was born and died today ...
born April 23, 1564 died April 23, 1616 |
jeebus, i can't get 'em all...
On April 23, 1969, Sirhan Sirhan was sentenced to death for killing U.S. Senator Robert Kennedy. The sentence was later reduced to life in prison... |
On April 24, 1948, the Berlin airlift began to relieve the surrounded city...
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On this day in 1934 Shirley MacLaine was born... again? What's that make it? 12,000 times?
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On April 25, 1953, Dr. James D. Watson and Dr. Francis H.C. Crick suggested the double helix structure of DNA...
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i have to be australian here. on april 25th 1915 australian and new zealand troops (among other allies) landed at gallipoli witht he intention of capturing istanbul. they met with fierce resistance and eventually withdrew. this day is celebrated in australia as anzac day and curiously enough i´m under the impression that australia is the only day in the world that celebrates, even has a public holiday for what was a military defeat.
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On this day 1599 - The Birth of English statesman, Oliver Cromwell.
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On April 26, 1983, the Dow Jones Industrial average broke the 1,200 mark for the first time...
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On April 27, 1899, the Western Golf Association was founded in Chicago, IL...
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On April 28, 1947, Norwegian anthropologist Thor Heyerdahl and five others set out in a balsa wood craft known as Kon Tiki to prove that Peruvian Indians could have settled in Polynesia. The trip began in Peru and took 101 days to complete the crossing of the Pacific Ocean...
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On April 29, 1952, IBM President Thomas J. Watson, Jr., informed his company's stockholders that IBM was building "the most advanced, most flexible high-speed computer in the world." The computer was unveiled April 7, 1953, as the IBM 701 Electronic Data Processing Machine...
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On April 30, 1964, the FCC ruled that all TV receivers should be equipped to receive both VHF and UHF channels...
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On May 1, 1912, in London's Kensington Gardens, a statue of Peter Pan was erected...
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On May 2, 1974, former U.S. Vice President Spiro T. Agnew was disbarred by the Maryland Court of Appeals...
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On May 3, 1988, the White House acknowledged that first lady Nancy Reagan had used astrological advice to help schedule her husband's activities...
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Phil, you have been, and continue to be, a forum treasure! Keep it up, buddy!
May 3, 2008, is FREE COMIC BOOK DAY!!!!! (it ain't exactly history, but in a way, it's historical!) Check your local comic book store to see if they are participating. Don't believe me? Check it out: http://freecomicbookday.com/ |
On May 4, 1970, the Ohio National Guard opened fire on students during an anti-Vietnam war protest at Kent State University. Four students were killed and nine others were wounded...
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On May 5, 1925, John T. Scopes, a biology teacher in Dayton, TN, was arrested for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution...
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On May 6, 1981, a jury of international architects and sculptors unanimously selected Maya Ying Lin's entry for the design of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial...
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On May 7, 1912, the first airplane equipped with a machine gun flew over College Park, MD...
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On May 8, 1794, Antoine Lavoisier was executed by guillotine. He was the French chemist that discovered oxygen...
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On May 9, 1785, Joseph Bramah patented the beer-pump handle...
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On May 10, 1872, Victoria Woodhull became the first woman nominated for the U.S. presidency...
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On May 11, 1967, the siege of Khe Sanh ended...
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On May 12, 1970, Ernie Banks, of the Chicago Cubs, hit his 500th home run...
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On May 13, 1968, peace talks between the U.S. and North Vietnam began in Paris...
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On May 14, 1878, the name Vaseline was registered by Robert A. Chesebrough...
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On May 15, 1972, Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace was shot by Arthur Bremer in Laurel, MD while campaigning for the U.S. presidency. Wallace was paralyzed by the shot...
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On this day in 1942 the US began gasoline rationing. Limit was 3 gallons a week for nonessential vehicles.
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On May 16, 1888, the first demonstration of recording on a flat disc was demonstrated by Emile Berliner...
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On May 17, 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled for school integration in Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka. The ruling declared that racially segregated schools were inherently unequal...
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On May 18, 1926, evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson vanished while visiting a beach in Venice, CA. She reappeared a month later with the claim that she had been kidnapped...
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On May 18th 1979, I was born
On May 18th 1980, Mt. St Helens Blew up. On May 18th 2008, It was a nice day out, and Shauk went out for a day on the lake. Later :D |
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We shoveled ash for a few days then the winds changed more easterly. My guess is since you were one you don't remember much of it. |
On May 19, 1962, Marilyn Monroe performed a sultry rendition of "Happy Birthday" for U.S. President John F. Kennedy. The event was a fund-raiser at New York's Madison Square Garden...
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On this day in 1536 Anne Boleyn, Henry the 8th second wife, lost her head.
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Just thinking about her singing that practically gives me an orgasm. Part of the reason might be that it was on this day a few years ago, if I recall correctly, that I was kidnaped by aliens and after extracting everything from my brain they let me go. |
On this day in 1929 Charles Lindbergh took off for Paris from Long Island, N.Y., his plane- the Spirit of St. Louis. Several hours (33 1/2) later he became the first man to do a nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
And five years to the day later... Amelia Earhart took off from Newfoundland landing in Ireland to become the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. Newfoundland to Ireland? What is that? The aviation version of a ladies tee? Also on this day in 1969 U.S. and South Vietnamese forces finally captured Apbia Mountain, AKA Hamburger Hill. One of the bloodiest battles of the Vietnam War. |
May 21, 1881 Clara Barton founded what became the American Red Cross.
On May 21, 1999 Susan Lucci finally won a Daytime Emmy on her 19th nomination...persistence pays off? |
On May 23, 1701, in London, Captain William Kidd was hanged after being convicted of murder and piracy...
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On May 24, 1844, Samuel F.B. Morse formally opened America's first telegraph line. The first message was sent from Washington, DC, to Baltimore, MD. The message was "What hath God wrought?"
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On May 25, 1925, John Scopes was indicted for teaching the Darwinian theory in school...
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On May 26,1959, the word "Frisbee" became a registered trademark of Wham-O...
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On May 27, 1647, Achsah Young, a resident of Windsor, CT, was executed for being a "witch." It was the first recorded American execution of a "witch."
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On May 28, 585BC, the Persian-Lydian battle ended...
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On May 29, 1910, an airplane raced a train from Albany, NY, to New York City. The airplane pilot Glenn Curtiss won the $10,000 prize...
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doesnt seem like much of a race now-a-days.
i wonder how close the race was....time for google to do its thing. |
On May 30, 1868, Memorial Day was observed for the first time in the U.S...
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On May 31, 1879, New York's Madison Square Garden opened...
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On June 1, 1921, a race riot erupted in Tulsa, Oklahoma. 85 people were killed...
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On June 2, 1851, Maine became the first U.S. state to enact a law prohibiting alcohol...
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On June 3, 1923, in Italy, Benito Mussolini granted women the right to vote...
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June 3, 1989, in Beijing China, military troops and tanks descended upon thousands of unarmed protesters, killing hundreds and arresting thousands, in hardline efforts to take control of tiananmen square.
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On June 4, 1919, the U.S. Senate passed the Women's Suffrage bill...
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On June 5, 1968, U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy was mortally shot in Los Angeles by Sirhan Sirhan. Kennedy died early the next morning...
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On June 6, 1813, the U.S. invasion of Canada was halted at Stony Creek, Ontario...
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