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    On this day in history, War in Iraq begins: March 19, 2003. On this day in 2003, the United States, along with coalition forces primarily from the United Kingdom, initiates war on Iraq. Just after explosions began to rock Baghdad, Iraq’s capital, U.S. President George W. Bush announced in a televised address, “At this hour, American and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations to disarm Iraq, to free its people and to defend the world from grave danger.” President Bush and his advisors built much of their case for war on the idea that Iraq, under dictator Saddam Hussein, possessed or was in the process of building weapons of mass destruction.

    Will it ever end...?

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    The Exxon Valdez Oil Spill

    In 1989 -- the Exxon Valdez struck Prince William Sound's Bligh Reef. https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history

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    It was later revealed that Joseph Hazelwood, the captain of the Valdez, was drinking at the time of the accident and allowed an uncertified officer to steer the massive vessel. In March 1990, Hazelwood was convicted of misdemeanor negligence, fined $50,000, and ordered to perform 1,000 hours of community service. In July 1992, an Alaska court overturned Hazelwood’s conviction, citing a federal statute that grants freedom from prosecution to those who report an oil spill.
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    VIAGRA Approved

    On this date in 1998 the FDA approved the use of the drug Viagra

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    Quote Originally Posted by DGUtley View Post
    On this date in 1998 the FDA approved the use of the drug Viagra

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    On this date: LINCOLN SHOT

    On this date in history: April 14, 1865, On this day in 1865, John Wilkes Booth, an actor and Confederate sympathizer, fatally shoots President at a play at Ford’s Theater in , D.C. The attack came only five days after Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his massive army at Appomattox Court House, effectively ending the American Civil War.

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    It is a must see if you are in DC. It is on 10th Street. And there is a very good French Bistro next door.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Peter1469 View Post
    It is a must see if you are in DC. It is on 10th Street. And there is a very good French Bistro next door.
    In 1981, after my freshman year in college, two buddies and I went to DC for the 4th of July. Not only did we see the Beach Boys on the Mall but we went to where they took Lincoln after he was shot. It was closed but we knocked on the door and the security guard came to the door. We told him we were there from Ohio and he let us in. He walked us up to the room with the bed that Lincoln died on. It was so impressive for these three farm boys from Ohio.
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    First execution by guillotine in France

    On this date in history

    : First execution by guillotine in France -- On April 25, 1792, highwayman Nicolas-Jacques Pelletier became the first person beheaded by the guillotine in France.


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    Happy Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas Day!!!

    Happy Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas Day!!!


    Today is the anniversary of a very important legal decision in our country. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_...d_of_Education The Brown v. Board of Education case reversed Plessy v. Ferguson which held that "separate but equal" was legal. Handed down on May 17, 1954, the Warren Court's unanimous (9–0) decision stated that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal." As a result, de jure racial segregation was ruled a violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution. This ruling paved the way for integration and was a major victory of the Civil Rights Movement,[2] and a model for many future impact litigation cases.[3] However, the decision's fourteen pages did not spell out any sort of method for ending racial segregation in schools, and the Court's second decision in Brown II (349 U.S. 294 (1955)) only ordered states to desegregate "with all deliberate speed".



    I don't think one can overstate the importance of the Brown decision regarding the civil rights movement. Not everyone accepted the Brown v. Board of Education decision. In Virginia, Senator Harry F. Byrd, Sr. organized the Massive Resistance movement that included the closing of schools rather than desegregating them.[44] See, for example, The Southern Manifesto. For more implications of the Brown decision, see School integration in the United States.



    Read the decision itself: https://supreme.justia.com/cases/fed.../483/case.html



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    May 14, 1804 - Lewis and Clark depart

    One year after the United States doubled its territory with the Louisiana Purchase, the Lewis and Clark expedition leaves St. Louis, Missouri, on a mission to explore the Northwest from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean.

    Even before the U.S. government concluded purchase negotiations with France, President Thomas Jefferson commissioned his private secretary Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, an army captain, to lead an expedition into what is now the U.S. Northwest. On May 14, the “Corps of Discovery”–featuring approximately 45 men (although only an approximate 33 men would make the full journey)–left St. Louis for the American interior.


    The expedition traveled up the Missouri River in a 55-foot long keelboat and two smaller boats. In November, Toussaint Charbonneau, a French-Canadian fur trader accompanied by his young Native American wife Sacagawea, joined the expedition as an interpreter. The group wintered in present-day North Dakota before crossing into present-day Montana, where they first saw the Rocky Mountains. On the other side of the Continental Divide, they were met by Sacagawea’s tribe, the Shoshone Indians, who sold them horses for their journey down through the Bitterroot Mountains. After passing through the dangerous rapids of the Clearwater and Snake rivers in canoes, the explorers reached the calm of the Columbia River, which led them to the sea. On November 8, 1805, the expedition arrived at the Pacific Ocean, the first European explorers to do so by an overland route from the east. After pausing there for the winter, the explorers began their long journey back to St. Louis.


    On September 23, 1806, after almost two and a half years, the expedition returned to the city, bringing back a wealth of information about the largely unexplored region, as well as valuable U.S. claims to Oregon Territory.
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