Wednesday, December 17, 2025


Tomorrow in
Misc. History


1865 - Slavery was abolished in the United States with the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution being ratified.

1936 - Su-Lin, the first giant panda to come to the U.S. from China, arrived in San Francisco, CA. The bear was sold to the Brookfield Zoo for $8,750.

1956 - Japan was admitted to the United Nations.


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The birth of a man is the birth of his sorrow. The longer he lives, the more stupid he becomes, because his anxiety to avoid unavoidable death becomes more and more acute. What bitterness! He lives for what is always out of reach! His thirst for survival in the future makes him incapable of living in the present.
- Chuang Tzu



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