Friday, November 8, 2024
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Misc. History
1872 - A fire destroyed nearly a thousand buildings in Boston, MA.
1911 - George Claude of Paris, France, applied for a patent on neon advertising signs.
1938 - Nazi troops and sympathizers destroyed and looted 7,500 Jewish businesses, burned 267 synagogues, killed 91 Jews, and rounded up over 25,000 Jewish men in an event that became known as Kristallnacht or "Night of Broken Glass."
1953 - The U.S. Supreme Court upheld a 1922 ruling that major-league baseball did not come within the scope of federal antitrust laws.
1967 - The first issue of Rolling Stone was published in San Francisco. John Lennon was on the cover.
1984 - A bronze statue titled "Three Servicemen," by Frederick Hart, was unveiled at the site of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC.
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It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows. - Erma Bombeck
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