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Truth is a three-edged sword...
Today is the 3rd day of the 4th week, the 22nd day of the 1st month, the 22nd day of 2019, and: - Answer Your Cat's Questions Day
- Celebration of Life Day
- Come in From the Cold Day
- Dance of the Seven Veils Day
- National Blonde Brownie Day
- National Hot Sauce Day
- National Polka Dot Day
- Roe VS Wade Day – in 1973 The Supreme Court of the United States delivers its decisions in Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton, legalizing elective abortion in all fifty states.
- Speak Up and Succeed Day
ON THIS DAY IN ...
1506 – The first contingent of 150 Swiss Guards arrives at the Vatican.
1807 - Curling - Founding of the Montréal Curling Club, Canada's first, by 20 merchants and a chaplain, in Gillis Tavern. The Royal Montreal Curling Club is the oldest active athletic club in North America
1879 – Battle of Rorke's Drift: British garrison of 150 holds off 3,000-4,000 Zulu warriors. Eleven Victoria Crosses and a number of other decorations were awarded to the defenders. (( they made a totally awesome movie about this ))
1889 – Columbia Phonograph is formed in Washington, D.C.
1890 – The United Mine Workers of America is founded in Columbus, Ohio.
1908 - Katie Mulcahey is arrested for lighting a cigarette, violating the 1-day old "Sullivan Ordinance" banning women from smoking in public, and is fined $5. Appearing before the judge she stated “I’ve got as much right to smoke as you have. I never heard of this new law, and I don’t want to hear about it. No man shall dictate to me.”
1927 – Teddy Wakelam gives the first live radio commentary of a football match anywhere in the world, between Arsenal F.C. and Sheffield United at Highbury.
1938 - Thornton Wilder's play "Our Town" premiered in Princeton, N.J.
1946 – Creation of the Central Intelligence Group, forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency.
1947 – KTLA, the first commercial television station west of the Mississippi River, begins operation in Hollywood.
1953 - The Arthur Miller drama "The Crucible" opened on Broadway.
1964 - World's largest cheese (15,723 kg) manufactured in Wisconsin for New York's World Fair
1965 - US launches TIROS 9 weather satellite
1968 - "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In" premiered on NBC.
1968 – Apollo 5 lifts off carrying the first Lunar module into space.
1970 – The Boeing 747, the world's first "jumbo jet", enters commercial service for launch customer Pan American Airways with its maiden voyage from John F. Kennedy International Airport to London Heathrow Airport.
1973 – The crew of Apollo 17 addresses a joint session of Congress after the completion of the final Apollo moon landing mission.
1973 – In a bout for the world heavyweight boxing championship in Kingston, Jamaica, challenger George Foreman knocks down champion Joe Frazier six times in the first two rounds before the fight is stopped by referee Arthur Mercante
1975 - Landsat 2, an Earth Resources Technology Satellite, launched
1984 – The Apple Macintosh, the first consumer computer to popularize the computer mouse and the graphical user interface, is introduced during a Super Bowl XVIII television commercial.
1992 – Roberta Bondar, a Canadian Space Agency Mission Specialist born in Sault Ste. Marie, blasts into Space from the Kennedy Space Center on an eight-day flight aboard the shuttle Discovery with six other astronauts; performs life and material-science experiments, Canada's first woman astronaut.
2002 – Kmart becomes the largest retailer in United States history to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
2003 - Last successful contact with NASA spacecraft Pioneer 10, one of the most distant man-made objects
2014 - Water vapour is detected on the dwarf planet Ceres
Yes I was one of those who posted about the disrespect shown by a group of smirking little twerps to a Native American singer. No I am not convinced by the subsequent stories about their innocence. Yes I have looked at the different videos. No I will not call either of them “fake news” although I have snarled a bit about “alternative facts”. Yes I agree that justice by social media is deeply flawed, and as much as I deplore the rampant racism, I cannot condone those who respond to this idiocy with threats and intimidation.
This is exactly why I often make the statement that there is no such thing as an historical fact.
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