Today In History
BUSH DID IT!! DAMN!!
AP Highlight in History: On Aug. 24, 1992, Hurricane Andrew smashed into Florida, causing record damage; 55 deaths in Florida, Louisiana and the Bahamas were blamed on the storm. |
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79- Mount Vesuvius erupted, burying the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum in volcanic ash. An estimated 20,000 people died.
1814-British forces invaded Washington, D.C., and set fire to the Capitol and the White House.
1949-The North Atlantic Treaty went into effect.
1954-The Communist Control Act went into effect, virtually outlawing the Communist Party in the United States.
Has the Communist Control Act been abolished?
1959 -Three days after Hawaiian statehood, Hiram L. Fong was sworn in as the first Chinese-American U.S. senator, while Daniel K. Inouye was sworn in as the first Japanese-American U.S. representative.
1970 -A bomb planted by anti-war extremists exploded at the University of Wisconsin's Army Math Research Center in Madison, killing a researcher.
I remember this incident and I also remember these same ass-lickers chanting, :Why should we kill people to prove to people that killing people is wrong?" Odd, isn't it?
2004-Chechen separatists set off bombs aboard two Russian airliners that crashed after taking off from the same Moscow airport, killing 90 people.
2006 -The International Astronomical Union declared that Pluto was no longer a planet, demoting it to the status of a "dwarf planet."
God will get them for that.
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