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Illegal Immigration and the Bailout
One More Story you Won't see at MSNBC, CNN, CBS, Time, Newsweek, et.al.



This week's Blogs4Borders' video report takes a look at the connection between illegal immigrants and the massive proposed $700 billion bailout--defeated yesterday in the House of Representatives.

Vigilance Dispatch: Everyone is talking about the massive bailouts. How has illegal immigration fed into the financial crisis that Washington plans to fix using our taxpayer dollars?

Michelle Malkin addressed this very issue last week in "Kill the bailout: Illegal immigration and the mortgage mess": it is "the bailout angle no one wants to talk about: Open borders and the home loan debacle."

You’ve heard a lot about Fannie/Freddie and the minority lending shakedowns, but you haven’t heard most commentators/analysts on either the left or the right talk about the massive illegal alien mortgage racket — a topic I’ve reported on for the past five years. That’s because fault lies at the feet of the crime-enabling banking industry and the ethnic lobbyists and the illegal alien-enabling Bush administration.

They screwed us. Now, they want us to fork over a trillion dollars.

Screw them.

Kill this bailout.

And I second Mark Krikorian: Credit is not a civil right. It’s not a civil right for illegal aliens. For foreign banks. For American banks. For anyone. The bailout proposal, as I noted earlier, now includes student loans and auto loan debt. Will our tax dollars next cover foreign student loan debts? Illegal alien in-state discounted college tuition debt? Where and when will it end?

It's all about buying votes.

Democrats, as the party of a wide collection of special interests, are accomplished masters at the tactic. President Bush, with his Prescription Drug Benefits; and Republicans senators and congressmen--with their EarmarkMania--horned in on the racket.

It was one of Bush's singular failures. Republicans lost their majorities in Congress, at least partially, because of it. The Republican Party is home to a sizable constituency that sees securing votes at the the public expense as wrong.

Little wonder you hear little of this among a Mainstream Media anxious to throw more taxpayers' logs on the financial fire.


by Mondo
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Illegal Immigration: The Joke of Deportation

Blogs4Borders weekly blogburst video report has a reliable two-pronged approach to illegal immigration matters this week.

* Asking the hard questions: are illegal aliens the only problem?

* The Deportation Joke? Open borders + deportation =?



DON'T ask the American people to make one more sacrifice in the War on Terror until the 1969 miles of southern border is secure; no more laws attacking civil liberties of ordinary Americans enacted until we know who is entering our country.

To paraphrase angry Americans who may finally force the Democrat congress to lift restrictions on drilling for American oil, "Secure the Borders, Secure them here, Secure them now--before the next 9-11 terrorists slip across hidden in the wave of undocumented humanity.

by Mondoreb
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Study: British Immigration Has No Economic Benefits

"Preposterous" To Claim Otherwise



A British parlimentary committee of experts came to the conclusion that many British subjects had already reached: there is no justification for mass immigration into the U.K.

And, there's no benefits gained by the country from it.

The panel of experts' report, called a "landmark study--the most authoritative carried out by a parliamentary committee", demanded that a cap be instituted on new arrivals into the British Isles.

The report is sure to spread dismay among Euro-elites and multiculturalists worldwide. Among its blunt findings:

•Dismiss Ministers' "preposterous" assertion that migrants boost the economy by £6billion a year;

•Reject Government claims that foreigners will help to defuse the pensions timebomb;

•Demolish the "fundamentally flawed" Downing Street argument that migrants fill vacancies in the economy;

•And warn that migrants will force up house prices by 10 per cent in the next two decades.

The House of Lords committee didn't mince words.

The Lords economic affairs committee, which includes former Chancellors Nigel Lawson and Norman Lamont, economists and captains of industry, said immigration had "little or no positive impact" on the living standards of the existing population.

In fact, the big winners were the migrants themselves who earn higher wages than in their homeland and can also send money home.

Some British workers were even seeing their incomes fall, while up to 100,000 youngsters have been unable to find work.

And, by pushing up house prices, migrants will keep young families off the housing ladder, the committee found.

Britain has seen migration balloon its population by 190,00 per year and the Labour Party, like the Democrat Party and RINOs in the U.S., has been stressing the economic benefits of mass migration.

Euro-weenies like to cite the need to import workers to keep generous government pension systems financially solvent. But that argument, according to the peers, didn't "hold up to scrutiny" because the immigrants will grow older and claim pensions of their own one day.

The committee has among its ranks Labour and Liberal Democrat members with impeccable economic and business credentials. Many of them were the most trenchant in their remarks.

Downing Street's claim that migrants fill job vacancies in the economy was ruthlessly exposed.

The peers said that despite the influx of more than 700,000 workers from eastern Europe since May 2004, the number of vacancies has remained at between 600,000 and 700,000.

Allowing more and more migrants into the country created the need for ever more jobs because the new arrivals consume as well as provide services, the study found.

It called on the Government to set an "explicit target range" for immigration and set the rules to keep within that limit - effectively a cap.

A cap has been fought by the Labour Party Ministers who say it will harm the economy.

Sounds like the Ministers have either been reading the Wall Street Journal or the Democrat Party platform.

But committee member Lord Layard, a Labour peer and globally-respected economist, said the population would increase by around 190,000 a year for the next 50 years without a limit.

He warned: "We will have permanent pressure of people to move in our direction. Britain has an extra resource, which is the English language, for attracting people here.

"There is no doubt whatever that the pressure will remain for half a century or more.

"We are suggesting that the Government should set a target range for net immigration and then the rules should depend on the target range, rather than the numbers following from the rules as at pre-sent."

It's about time that a debate was started over the mindless shredding of borders. Instead of sensibly asking about the skills and background of immigrants, the "debate" has many times boiled down to a name-calling contest.

The discussion among the British political elites is the same one common British workingmen have been having for some time.

Better late than never.

by Mondoreb
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* 'Preposterous' claims by Labour in favour of mass migration rubbished by experts
* British Study: Immigration Has No Benefits


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Today in Weird History: March 28, 2008

WAR, TERRORISM, DISASTER, NUKES, HOSTAGES, IMMIGRATION, SWAP, PATENTS, SUICIDE, TRIAL LAWYERS, JEWS, BAGGED, ZULUS, BIRTHDAYS, DEATH


BAGGED

1939 Dutch hunter shoots English bombers down.

WAR!

1738 English parliament declares war on Spain (War of Jenkin's Ear).

2003 American-led forces in Iraq dropped thousand-pound bombs on Republican Guard units guarding the gates to Baghdad and battled for control of the strategic city of Nasiriyah. President Bush warned of "further sacrifice" ahead in the face of unexpectedly fierce fighting.

TERRORISM

1986 Extremist Sikhs kill 13 hindus in Ludhiana India.

2007 Iran aired a video of 15 captured British sailors and marines; the lone female captive, shown in a white tunic and a black head scarf, said the British boats had "trespassed." (The crew members were released April 4, 2007.)

DISASTER

1960 Scotch factory explodes burying 20 firefighters (Glasgow Scotland).

1970 1,086 die when 7.3 earthquake destroys 254 villages (Gediz Turkey).

TRIAL LAWYERS

1866 1st ambulance goes into service.

PATENTS

1797 Nathaniel Briggs of New Hampshire patents a washing machine.

NUKES

1979 America's worst commercial nuclear accident occurred inside the Unit 2 reactor at the Three Mile Island plant near Middletown, Pa.

HOSTAGES

2007 In the Philippines, dozens of children were taken hostage on a bus by a day-care center owner armed with grenades and guns; the crisis ended peacefully 10 hours later with the hostage-taker's surrender.

SUICIDE

1941 Filling her pockets with stones, novelist and critic Virginia Woolf walked into a river near her home and died in Lewes, England.

IMMIGRATION

1898 The Supreme Court ruled in United States v. Wong Kim Ark that a child born in the United States to Chinese immigrants was a U.S. citizen.

SWAP

1930 The names of the Turkish cities of Constantinople and Angora were changed to Istanbul and Ankara.

JEWS

1917 Jews are expelled from Tel Aviv & Jaffa by Turkish authorities.

ZULUS

1994 Armed Zulus demonstrate in Johannesburg, over 53 killed.

BIRTHDAYS

Former White House national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski is 80. Country musician Charlie McCoy is 67. Movie director Mike Newell is 66. Actress Conchata Ferrell is 65. Actor Ken Howard is 64. Actress Dianne Wiest is 60. Country singer Reba McEntire is 53. Olympic gold-medal gymnast Bart Conner is 50. Actress Tracey Needham is 41. Actor Max Perlich is 40. Movie director Brett Ratner is 39. Country singer Rodney Atkins is 39. Actor Vince Vaughn is 38. Rapper Mr. Cheeks (Lost Boyz) is 37. Actor Ken L. is 35. Rock musician Dave Keuning is 32. Actress Julia Stiles is 27.

DEATH

1953 Athlete Jim Thorpe died in Lomita, Calif.

1958 W.C. Handy, the "Father of the Blues," died in New York at age 84.

1969 Dwight D. Eisenhower, the 34th president of the United States, died in Washington at age 78.

March 28, the 88th day of 2008. There are 278 days left in the year.

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Illegal Immigration: Eisenhower Stopped it Cold

"We Can't Deport 12 Million People"
--Various illegal immigration shills



The Big Lie: a propaganda technique.

It was defined by Adolf Hitler in his 1925 autobiography Mein Kampf as a lie so "colossal" that no one would believe that someone "could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously".

We continue to see the Big Lie technique at work in the new century.

Right after Dwight D. Eisenhower took office in 1953, America's southern border was as bad as it is today: porous, with people streaming across into America.

Two years ago, the Christian Science Monitor did a report "How Eisenhower Solved Illegal Border Crossings from Mexico". It's a good read for the so-called immigration "experts" who insist that "you can't deport 12 million people".

It's estimated that as many as three million illegal migrant workers had crossed north for jobs in Arizona, California, Texas and beyond.

Unlike George W. Bush and Bill Clinton, Eisenhower cut this illegal flow off--and he did it in a matter of months with only a tenth of the Border Patrol agents the U.S. now has. Veteran Border Patrol agents still talk proudly of the operation, which took less than 1100 agents to implement.

Although there is little to no record of this operation in Ike's official papers, one piece of historic evidence indicates how he felt. In 1951, Ike wrote a letter to Sen. William Fulbright (D) of Arkansas. The senator had just proposed that a special commission be created by Congress to examine unethical conduct by government officials who accepted gifts and favors in exchange for special treatment of private individuals.

General Eisenhower, who was gearing up for his run for the presidency, said "Amen" to Senator Fulbright's proposal. He then quoted a report in The New York Times, highlighting one paragraph that said: "The rise in illegal border-crossing by Mexican 'wetbacks' to a current rate of more than 1,000,000 cases a year has been accompanied by a curious relaxation in ethical standards extending all the way from the farmer-exploiters of this contraband labor to the highest levels of the Federal Government."

But President Eisenhower has something going for him that neither Bush nor Clinton had: political will and determination about solving the problem. Eisenhower didn't rely on contributions from employers dependent on artificially-low wages, either.

Years later, the late Herbert Brownell Jr., Eisenhower's first attorney general, said in an interview with this writer that the president had a sense of urgency about illegal immigration when he took office.

America "was faced with a breakdown in law enforcement on a very large scale," Mr. Brownell said. "When I say large scale, I mean hundreds of thousands were coming in from Mexico [every year] without restraint."

Then in 1953, as now in 2008, the magnet north was work for the illegal aliens; the magnet was funded by companies looking to cut labor costs.

Although an on-and-off guest-worker program for Mexicans was operating at the time, farmers and ranchers in the Southwest had become dependent on an additional low-cost, docile, illegal labor force of up to 3 million, mostly Mexican, laborers.

According to the Handbook of Texas Online, published by the University of Texas at Austin and the Texas State Historical Association, this illegal workforce had a severe impact on the wages of ordinary working Americans. The Handbook Online reports that a study by the President's Commission on Migratory Labor in Texas in 1950 found that cotton growers in the Rio Grande Valley, where most illegal aliens in Texas worked, paid wages that were "approximately half" the farm wages paid elsewhere in the state.

The rest of this article relates how Eisenhower cut off the flow of illegal immigrants.

There's NO reason we can't do it today.

Except the American political elites (are we to follow Europeans down the road to a sneering, unresponsive political elite class who tells everyone else what to do--for their own good?), do not have the desire, nor the will, to take action.

Close the southern border, another 9/11. The U.S. can do it, if desired.

Anyone who says otherwise is telling The Big Lie.

by Mondoreb
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Source: How Eisenhower Solved Illegal Border Crossings from Mexico
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DBKP Today in Weird History: March 14 2008

WAR, TERRORISM, DISASTER, PATENTS, IMMIGRATION, LEVIATHAN, GUILTY, NOT GUILTY, SPIES, POLITICS, JEWS, TOP TEN, NICE GUYS, CLINTONS, BORN, BIRTHDAYS, DEATH

TOP TEN

1950 FBI's "10 Most Wanted Fugitives" program begins.

WAR!

1951 During the Korean War, United Nations forces recaptured Seoul.

TERRORISM

1991 a British court overturned the convictions of the "Birmingham Six," who had spent 16 years in prison for an Irish Republican Army bombing, and ordered them released.

2007 The Pentagon released the transcript of a military hearing in which Khalid Sheikh Mohammed said he "was responsible for the 9/11 operation from A to Z."

DISASTER

1940 27 killed, 15 injured when truck full of migrant workers collides with a train outside McAllen TX.

1960 14 die in a train crash in Bakersfield CA.

1980 A Polish airliner crashed while making an emergency landing near Warsaw, killing all 87 people aboard, including 22 members of a U.S. amateur boxing team.

1997 Iranian military plane crashes, killing 80.

1998 An earthquake killed at least five people and left some 10,000 homeless in southeastern Iran.

NICE GUYS

1983 OPEC cut oil prices for 1st time in 23 years.

MAINSTREAM MEDIA

1968 CBS TV suspends Radio Free Europe free advertising because RFE doesn't make it clear it is sponsored by the CIA.

PATENTS

1794 Eli Whitney received a patent for his cotton gin, an invention that revolutionized America's cotton industry.

NOT GUILTY

2003 Actor Robert Blake was released from jail on $1.5 million bail, 11 months after he was arrested on charges of murdering his wife, Bonny Lee Bakley. (Blake was later acquitted at trial.)

IMMIGRATION

1907 President Theodore Roosevelt signed an executive order designed to prevent Japanese laborers from immigrating to the United States as part of a "gentlemen's agreement" with Japan.

CLINTONS

1997 President Clinton trips & tears up his knee requiring surgery.

LEVIATHAN

1923 President Harding became the first chief executive to file an income tax return.

1971 The Rolling Stones leave England for France to escape taxes.

JEWS

1965 Israeli cabinet approves diplomatic relations with West Germany.

GUILTY

1964 A jury in Dallas found Jack Ruby guilty of murdering Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of President Kennedy.

POLITICS

1629 England granted a royal charter to Massachusetts Bay Colony.

1644 England grants patent for Providence Plantations (now Rhode Island).

SPIES

2003 Christopher Boyce, whose Cold War spying was immortalized on film in "The Falcon and the Snowman," was released from a halfway house in San Francisco after a quarter-century in prison.

BORN

1879 Albert Einstein Ulm Germany, (E=mc²/Theory of Relativity, Nobel 1921).

BIRTHDAYS

Former astronaut Frank Borman is 80. Singer Phil Phillips is 77. Actor Michael Caine is 75. Composer-conductor Quincy Jones is 75. Former astronaut Eugene Cernan is 74. Actor Raymond J. Barry is 69. Movie director Wolfgang Petersen is 67. Country singer Michael Martin Murphey is 63. Rock musician Walt Parazaider (Chicago) is 63. Actor Steve Kanaly is 62. Comedian Billy Crystal is 60. Country singer Jann Browne is 54. Actor Adrian Zmed is 54. Prince Albert II, the ruler of Monaco, is 50. Actress Tamara Tunie is 49. Actress Penny Johnson Jerald is 47. Producer-director-writer Kevin Williamson is 43. Actor Gary Anthony Williams is 42. Actress Megan Follows is 40. Rock musician Michael Bland is 39. Country singer Kristian Bush is 38. Rock musician Derrick (Jimmie's Chicken Shack) is 36. Actor Jake Fogelnest is 29. Actor Chris Klein is 29. Actress Kate Maberly is 26. Singer-musician Taylor Hanson (Hanson) is 25. Actor Jamie Bell is 22.

DEATH

1883 German political philosopher Karl Marx died in London.

1932 George Eastman US industrialist (Kodak-camera), suicide at 77.

1961 Akiba Rubinstein Polish chess player (opening theorist), dies at 78.

March 14, the 74th day of 2008. There are 292 days left in the year.


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* Today in History
* Today in History
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DBKP Today in Weird History: March 2, 2008

WAR, TERRORISM, DISASTER, EXPLORERS, ICONS, POLITICS, PARKS, MOVIES, SURE THEY DID, SCANDAL, TABLOIDS, ASSASSINATION, NANNY STATE, ZEAL, IMMIGRATION, PROGRESS, OUTLAWS, CRICKET, WOMEN, JEWS, MAINSTREAM MEDIA, TYPICAL, BELOVED, SPORTS, DISNEY, EURO-WEENIES, POLICE STATE, BORN, BIRTHDAYS, DEATH

ICONS

1904 Dr Seuss [Theodor Geisel] children's book author (Green Eggs and Ham, Horton Hears a Who!) was born in Springfield, Mass. He wrote and illustrated 44 children's books. However, they are still enjoyed by many adults.



WAR!

1776 Americans begin shelling British troops in Boston.

1943 The World War II Battle of the Bismarck Sea began; U.S. and Australian warplanes were able to inflict heavy damage on a Japanese convoy.

1966 215,000 US soldiers in Vietnam.

TERRORISM

1973 "Black September" terrorists occupy Saudi Embassy in Khartoum.

1981 Aircraft hijacked by 3 Pakistani terrorists.

1982 Terror group "The Illuminated Path" frees 260 prisoners in Peru.

1998 The U.N. Security Council unanimously endorsed Secretary-General Kofi Annan's deal to open Iraq's presidential palaces to arms inspectors.

2003 Iraq crushed another six Al Samoud II missiles, as ordered by U.N. weapons inspectors.

2007 The bodies of 14 kidnapped policemen were found northeast of Baghdad.

DISASTER

1910 2 trains crash in snow storm in Wellington WA, 118 die.

1933 Most powerful earthquake in 180 years hit Japan.

1938 Landslides & floods cause over 200 deaths (Los Angeles CA).

1944 Fumes from locomotive stalled in a tunnel suffocates 521 in Italy.

1989 Exxon Houston runs aground in Hawaii, spills 117,000 gallons of oil.

1995 Ferry boat sinks off Sumbe Angola, 42+ killed.

2007 A charter bus carrying a college baseball team from Bluffton University in Ohio plunged off an Atlanta highway ramp and slammed into the pavement below, killing seven people.

TYPICAL

1939 Massachusetts Legislature votes to ratify the Bill of Rights; 147 years late.


BELOVED

1950 Silly Putty invented.

SURE THEY DID

1977 The U.S. House of Representatives adopted a strict code of ethics.

TABLOIDS

2007 Anna Nicole Smith was buried in the Bahamas following a lavish memorial service.

NANNY STATE

1789 Pennsylvania ends prohibition of theatrical performances.

JEWS

1915 Vladmir Jabotinsky forms a Jewish military force to fight in Palestine.

ZEAL

1817 1st Evangelical church building dedicated, New Berlin PA.

POLITICS

1807 Congress bans slave trade effective January 1, 1808.

1836 The Republic of Texas formally declared its independence from Mexico.

1853 Territory of Washington organized after separating from Oregon Territory.

1861 US Congress creates Dakota & Nevada Territories out of the Nebraska & Utah territories.

1877 Republican Rutherford B. Hayes was declared the winner of the 1876 presidential election over Democrat Samuel J. Tilden, even though Tilden had won the popular vote. Shades of Al Gore and the 2000 election.

1917 Puerto Ricans were granted U.S. citizenship as President Wilson signed the Jones-Shafroth Act.

POLICE STATE

1994 Branch Davidian cult leader David Koresh promises to surrender if taped statement is broadcast; it is, but he doesn't.

PROGRESS

1866 1st US company to make sewing needles by machine incorporated, Connecticut.

MAINSTREAM MEDIA

1923 Time magazine debuts.

1977 Future Tonight Show host Jay Leno debuts with host Johnny Carson.

1978 1st broadcast of "Dallas" on CBS TV.

1983 Final episode of MASH; 125,000,000 viewers; most-viewed TV show ever.

DISNEY

1976 Walt Disney World logged its 50 millionth guest.

SPORTS

1962 Wilt Chamberlain scores incredible 100 points in an NBA game.

1991 Del Ballard Jr throws most famous gutter ball in PBA Tour history.

PARKS

1899 Mount Rainier National Park in Washington state was established.

IMMIGRATION

1819 US passed its 1st immigration law.

WOMEN

1903 Martha Washington Hotel, catering to women only, opens in New York NY.

MOVIES

1933 The motion picture "King Kong" had its world premiere in New York.

1965 The movie version of Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical "The Sound of Music" had its world premiere at New York's Rivoli Theater.

OUTLAWS

1867 Jesse James-gang robs bank in Savannah MO, 1 dead.

EURO-WEENIES

1989 12 European nations agree to ban chlorofluorocarbon production by 2000.

ASSASSINATION

1973 Cleo Noel US ambassador to Sudan is assassinated.

1979 Sir Richard Sykes British ambassador is assassinated in Holland.

CRICKET

1898 Australia complete a 4-1 series annihilation of England.

SCANDAL

2007 Army Secretary Francis J. Harvey resigned following a scandal over substandard conditions for wounded Iraq soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.

EXPORERS

1958 A multinational expedition led by British geologist and explorer Vivian Fuchs completed the first overland crossing of Antarctica by way of the South Pole in 99 days.

BORN

1793 The first president of the Republic of Texas, Sam Houston, was born near Lexington, Va.

1917 Desi Arnaz Santiago Cuba, singer/actor (Ricky Ricardo-I Love Lucy).

BIRTHDAYS

Actress Jennifer Jones is 89. Bluegrass singer-musician Doc Watson is 85. Actor John Cullum is 78. Author Tom Wolfe is 78. Former Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev is 77. Actress Barbara Luna is 69. Actor Jon Finch is 67. Author John Irving is 66. Singer Lou Reed is 66. Actress Cassie Yates is 57. Actress Laraine Newman is 56. Sen. Russell Feingold, D-Wis., is 55. Singer Jay Osmond is 53. Pop musician John Cowsill (The Cowsills) is 52. Tennis player Kevin Curren is 50. Country singer Larry Stewart (Restless Heart) is 49. Rock singer Jon Bon Jovi is 46. Blues singer-musician Alvin Youngblood Hart is 45. Actor Daniel Craig is 40. Rock musician Casey (Jimmie's Chicken Shack) is 32. Rock singer Chris Martin (Coldplay) is 31. Actress Heather McComb is 31. Actress Bryce Dallas Howard is 27. Actor Robert Iler ("The Sopranos") is 23.

DEATH

1991 James "Cool Papa" Bell Negro baseball league great, dies at 87.

March 2, the 62nd day of 2008. There are 304 days left in the year.


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DBKP Today in Weird History: February 26, 2008

WAR, TERRORISM, DISASTER, NATIONAL PARKS, ESCAPES, CURFEW, IMMIGRATION, A-BOMB, SHADOWS, REBUKES, OPRAH, GOVERNMENT OVERREACH, LYNCHED, CHESS, COMMIES, SHORT PEOPLE, BUFFALO, CLYDESDALES, MERGER, NAZI CARS, KO, JEWS, NANNY STATE, PRO WRESTLING, GOLD, SLURS, TIRED, BORN, BIRTHDAYS, DEATH

NATIONAL PARKS

1919 Congress established Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona.

1929 President Coolidge signed a measure establishing Grand Teton National Park.

WAR!

1942 WWII Navy flier Don Mason sends message "Sighted sub sank same".

2003 President Bush, offering new justification for war in Iraq, told a think tank that "ending this direct and growing threat" from Saddam Hussein would pave the way for peace in the Middle East and encourage democracy throughout the Arab world.

TERRORISM

1531 Earthquake in Lisbon Portugal, kills 20,000.

1993 A bomb built by Islamic extremists exploded in the parking garage of New York's World Trade Center, killing six people and injuring more than 1,000 others.

2007 Iraq's Shiite vice president, Adel Abdul-Mahdi, narrowly escaped death as a blast ripped through a government meeting hall just hours after it had been searched by U.S. teams with bomb-sniffing dogs; at least 10 people were killed.

DISASTER

1852 British frigate Birkenhead sinks off South Africa-458 die.

1918 Stands at Hong Kong Jockey Club collapse & burn, killing 604.

1972 Slag heap dam collapses above Buffalo Creek WV, kills 125.

2003 A fire at the Greenwood Health Center in Hartford, Conn., killed 16 nursing home patients; a patient charged with setting the blaze was later ruled incompetent to stand trial.

SHORT PEOPLE

1876 Pauline Musters shortest known adult (58.9 cm, 1' 11.2") born.

TIRED

1984 Pak Awang (84) marries 80th spouse

PRO WRESTLING

1960 Verne Gagne beats Doctor X in Omaha, to become NWA wrestling champion.

1967 Verne Gagne beats Mad Dog Vachon in St Paul, to become NWA champion.

GOLD

1974 Gold hits record $188 an ounce in Paris.

CURFEW

1945 A midnight curfew on nightclubs, bars and other places of entertainment was set to go into effect across the nation.

CLYDESDALES

1893 2 Clydesdale horses set record by pulling 48 tons on a sledge, Michigan.

KOs

1941 2 fighters unable to continue slugfest, referee declares double KO.

IMMIGRATION

1907 Congress created the Dillingham Commission to examine the impact of immigrants on America. (The panel later recommended curtailing immigration from southern and eastern Europe.)

UNREST

1946 2 killed & 10 wounded in race riot in Columbia TN.

ESCAPES

1815 Napoleon Bonaparte escaped from exile on the Island of Elba.

MERGER

1907 Royal Oil & Shell merge to form British Petroleum (BP).

GOVERNMENT OVERREACH

2003 In a victory for abortion foes, the Supreme Court ruled that federal racketeering and extortion laws had been wrongly used to try to stop blockades, harassment and violent protests outside clinics.

NAZI CARS

1936 Hitler introduces Ferdinand Porsche's "Volkswagen".

LYNCHED

1870 Wyatt Outlaw black leader of Union League in North Carolina, lynched.

A-BOMB

1952 Prime Minister Winston Churchill announced that Britain had developed its own atomic bomb.

BUFFALO

1891 1st buffalo purchased for Golden Gate Park.

JEWS

1941 Utrecht & Zaandam strike against raid on Jews.

1980 Egypt & Israel exchange ambassadors for the 1st time

SHADOWS

1979 A total solar eclipse cast a moving shadow 175 miles wide from Oregon to North Dakota before moving into Canada.

COMMIES

1848 Marx & Engels publish "The Communist Manifesto".

NANNY STATE

1954 Michigan Representative Ruth Thompson (R) introduces legislation to ban mailing "obscene, lewd, lascivious or filthy" phonograph (rock & roll) records.

SLURS

1984 Reverend Jesse Jackson acknowledges that he called NYC, "Hymietown".

REBUKES

1987 The Tower Commission, which probed the Iran-Contra affair, issued its report, which rebuked President Reagan for failing to control his national security staff.

CHESS

1859 Paul Morphy's chess match vs Augustus Mongredien begins; Morphy wins.

OPRAH

1998 A jury in Amarillo, Texas, rejected an $11 million lawsuit brought by Texas cattlemen who blamed Oprah Winfrey's talk show for a price fall after a segment on food safety that included a discussion about mad cow disease.

BORN

1846 William F "Buffalo Bill" Cody Davenport IA, killed 4000 buffaloes.

1852 John Harvey Kellogg surgeon, inspired flaked cereal industry.

1893 William Frawley Iowa, actor (Fred Mertz-I Love Lucy, Bub-My 3 Sons).

1916 Jackie Gleason Brooklyn NY, comedian (Ralph Kramden-Honeymooners).

BIRTHDAYS

Singer Fats Domino is 80. Political columnist Robert Novak is 77. Country-rock musician Paul Cotton (Poco) is 65. Actor-director Bill Duke is 65. Singer Mitch Ryder is 63. Rock musician Jonathan Cain (Journey) is 58. Singer Michael Bolton is 55. Actor Greg Germann is 50. Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine is 50. Bandleader John McDaniel is 47. Actress Jennifer Grant is 42. Rock musician Tim Commerford (Audioslave) is 40. Singer Erykah Badu is 37. Rhythm-and-blues singer Rico Wade (Society of Soul) is 36. Rhythm-and-blues singer Kyle Norman (Jagged Edge) is 33. Rhythm-and-blues singer Corinne Bailey Rae is 29. Country singer Rodney Hayden is 28. Actress Taylor Dooley is 15.

DEATH

1959 Lou Costello actor (Abbott & Costello), dies at 52.

February 26, the 57th day of 2008. There are 309 days left in the year.

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DBKP Today in Weird History: February 20, 2008

WAR, TERRORISM, DISASTER, PROGRESS, LEVIATHAN, DUELS, RESIGN, FALSE ALARMS, JEWS, MISTAKES, IMMIGRATION, KILLED, WINE, SCALPED, WIND, PATENTS, SURF, GOLF, ASSASSINATION, IRAN, NANNY STATE, VOLCANO, OOPS, RACES, PRO WRESTLING, SPORTS, SCIENCE, THAT SUCKING SOUND, BORN, BIRTHDAYS, DEATH

SCIENCE

1962 Astronaut John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth as he flew aboard the Mercury spacecraft Friendship 7.

WAR!

1942 Lieutenant E H O'Hare single-handedly shoots down 5 Japanese heavy bombers.

1944 During World War II, U.S. bombers began raiding German aircraft manufacturing centers in a series of attacks that became known as "Big Week."

1998 With the U.S. military poised to attack Iraq, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan began a final campaign to end the crisis over weapons inspections without bloodshed.

TERRORISM

1869 Tennessee Governor W C Brownlow declares martial law in Ku Klux Klan crisis.

1987 Bomb blamed on Unabomber explodes by computer store in Salt Lake City.

1994 3 Afghans take 70 Pakistani children hostage.

2007 In a victory for President Bush, a divided federal appeals court ruled that Guantanamo Bay detainees could not use the U.S. court system to challenge their indefinite imprisonment.

DISASTER

1835 Concepción, Chile destroyed by earthquake.

1856 John Rutledge, Liverpool-New York steamer, hits iceberg; many die.

1917 Ammunitions ship explodes in Archangelsk harbor, about 1,500 die.

1988 500 die in heavy rains in Rio de Janeiro Brazil.

2003 A fire broke out during a rock concert at The Station nightclub in West Warwick, R.I., killing 100 people and injuring about 200 others.

IMMIGRATION

1907 President Theodore Roosevelt signed an immigration act which excluded "idiots, imbeciles, feebleminded persons, epileptics, insane persons" from being admitted to the United States.

FALSE ALARMS

1971 The National Emergency Warning Center in Colorado erroneously ordered U.S. radio and TV stations off the air; some stations heeded the alert, which was not lifted for about 40 minutes.

RACE

1949 1st International Pancake Race held (Liberal KS).

THAT SUCKING SOUND

1992 Ross Perot says he'll run for President on Larry King Show.

GOLFERS

1927 Golfers in South Carolina arrested for violating Sabbath.

PRO WRESTLING

1978 Bob Backland beats Billy Graham in New York, to become WWF wrestling champion.

OOPS!

1947 Chemical mixing error causes explosion that destroys 42 blocks in Los Angeles CA.

VOLCANO

1943 New volcano Paracutin erupts in farmer's corn patch (México).

DUELS

1839 Congress prohibited dueling in the District of Columbia.

WINE

1673 1st recorded wine auction held (London).

WIND

1861 Steeple of Chichester Cathedral blown down during a storm.

SURF

1902 Heavy surf breaks over Seal Rocks & damages Sutro Baths, San Francisco.

SCALPED!

1725 10 sleeping Indians scalped by whites in New Hampshire for £100/scalp bounty.

SPORTS

1989 Members of 1949 Oklahoma football team cancelled an April reunion because of the deplorable conduct of Oklahoma players.

NANNY STATE

1933 House of Representatives completes congressional action to repeal Prohibition.

PROGRESS

1792 President Washington signed an act creating the U.S. Post Office.

SCIENCE

1989 Total eclipse of the Moon.

PATENTS

1872 Hydraulic electric elevator patented by Cyrus Baldwin.

1872 Luther Crowell patents a machine that manufactures paper bags.

1872 Silas Noble & JP Cooley patents toothpick manufacturing machine.

LEVIATHAN

1809 The Supreme Court, in United States v. Peters, ruled the power of the federal government is greater than that of any individual state.

MISTAKES

2003 A 17-year-old Mexican girl mistakenly given a heart and lungs with the wrong blood type received a second set of organs at Duke University Medical Center in North Carolina; however, Jesica Santillan suffered brain damage and later died.

KILLED

1983 Ray Vitte actor (Doc, Cody-Quest), killed by police at 33.

ASSASSINATION

1919 French premier Clemenceau injured during assassination attempt.

IRAN

1921 Riza Khan Pahlevi seizes control of Iran.

RESIGN

1938 Anthony Eden resigned as British foreign secretary following Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's decision to negotiate with Italian dictator Benito Mussolini.

SPIES

2003 Former Air Force Master Sgt. Brian Patrick Regan was convicted in Alexandria, Va., of offering to sell U.S. intelligence to Iraq and China but acquitted of attempted spying for Libya. (Regan was later sentenced to life without parole.)

JEWS

1941 Nazis order Polish Jews barred from using public transportation.

1941 1st transport of Jews to concentration camps leave Plotsk Poland.

1987 Soviet authorities released Jewish activist Josef Begun.

1995 Shlomo Averbach Rabbi, buried in Jerusalem, 250,000 attend.

BORN

1914 John Daly South Africa, newscaster/TV game show host (What's My Line).

1967 Kurt Cobain rock vocalist (Nirvana)/husband of Courtney Love.

BIRTHDAYS

Fashion designer Gloria Vanderbilt is 84. Actor Sidney Poitier is 81. Actress Marj Dusay is 72. Jazz-soul singer Nancy Wilson is 71. Singer-songwriter Buffy Sainte-Marie is 67. Hockey Hall-of-Famer Phil Esposito is 66. Movie director Mike Leigh is 65. Actress Brenda Blethyn is 62. Actress Sandy Duncan is 62. Rock musician J. Geils is 62. Actor Peter Strauss is 61. Rock singer-musician-producer Walter Becker (Steely Dan) is 58. Country singer Kathie Baillie is 57. Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst is 54. Actor Anthony Stewart Head is 54. Country singer Leland Martin is 51. Actor James Wilby is 50. Rock musician Sebastian Steinberg is 49. Comedian Joel Hodgson is 48. Basketball player Charles Barkley is 45. Rock musician Ian Brown (Stone Roses) is 45. Actor French Stewart is 44. Actor Ron Eldard is 43. Model Cindy Crawford is 42. Actor Andrew Shue is 41. Actress Lili Taylor is 41. Singer Brian Littrell is 33. Actress Lauren Ambrose is 30. Actor Jay Hernandez is 30. Actress Majandra Delfino is 27. Singer-musician Chris Thile is 27. Actor Jake Richardson is 23. Singer Rihanna is 20.

DEATH

1790 Holy Roman Emperor Joseph II died.

1976 Kathryn Kuhlman religious leader/faith healer, dies.

1992 Dick York actor (Darren on Bewitched), dies of emphysema at 63.

February 20, the 51st day of 2008. There are 315 days left in the year.

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EXPLORERS

1493 Columbus left new world on return from 1st voyage.

WAR!

871 Battle at Reading Ethelred of Wessex beats Danish invasion army.

1780 Snowstorm hit Washington's army at Morristown New Jersey.

1861 US Fort Morgan, Mobile, seized by Alabama.

1862 Battle of Fort Hindman, AR (Arkansas Post).

1862 Battle of Helena, AR.

1862 Romney Campaign-Stonewall Jackson occupies Bath.

1915 Trans-Caucausus Russian defeat Turkish troops.

1945 Germans execute resistance fighters in Amsterdam.

1945 US jeep-aircraft carrier Ommaney Bay sinks after kamikaze attack.

1951 During Korean conflict, North Korean forces captured Seoul.

REAGAN

1989 US F-14s shoot down 2 Libyan jet fighters over Mediterranean.

JEWS

1570 Spanish viceroy Alva banishes Zutphen City's only physician, Joost Sweiter, "because he is a Jew".

1915 1st elected Jewish Governor, Moses Alexander, takes office in Idaho.

1939 Hermann Goering appoints Reinhard Heydrich head of Jewish Emigration.

1969 France begins arms embargo against Israel.

CIVIL RIGHTS

1944 Ralph Bunche appointed 1st Negro official in US State Department.

POLITICS

1642 King Charles I with 400 soldiers attacks the English parliament.

1896 Following Mormon abandonment of polygamy, Utah admitted as 45th state.

1932 British East Indies Viceroy Willingdon arrests Gandhi & Nehru.

1965 LBJ's "Great Society" State of the Union Address.

1971 Ohio agrees to pay $675,000 to relatives of Kent State victims.

1971 Congressional Black Caucus organizes.

1975 Ford Executive Order on CIA Activities within the US (No 11828).

1989 Vice President Bush is 1st since Vice President Van Buren to declare himself President.

1995 Newt Gingrich (R) becomes speaker of the House.

EDUCATION

1754 Columbia University founded, as Kings College (New York City NY).

FAST

1861 President Buchanan appoints a fast on account of threatened succession.

INVENTIONS

1863 4 wheeled roller skates patented by James Plimpton of NY.

ENDANGERED SPECIES

1884 Last sighting of an eastern cougar (Ontario).

1968 Duck hunter accidentally shoots endangered whooping crane in Texas.

DICTATORS

1923 Lenin's "Political Testament" calls for removal of Stalin.

MEDICINE

1885 Dr W W Grant of Iowa, performs 1st appendectomy (on Mary Gartside, 22).

AMNESTY

1893 US President Harrison grants amnesty to Mormon polygamy.

IMMIGRATION

1904 Supreme Court rules Puerto Ricans cannot be denied admission to US.

LABOR

1920 Amsterdam actors decide to strike for retirement benefits.

1961 Longest recorded strike ends-33 years-Danish barbers' assistants.

PHILOSOPHY

1925 French psychologist Emil Coué brings his self-esteem therapy to US "Every day in every way I am getting better & better".

MUSIC

1936 Billboard magazine publishes its 1st music hit parade.

1954 Elvis Presley records a 10 minute demo in Nashville.

1968 Leo Fender sells Fender Guitars for $13 million.

1970 Beatles last recording session at EMI studios.

SPORTS

1920 1st Black baseball league, National Negro Baseball League, organizes.

1942 Rogers Hornsby is 14th player selected to the Hall of Fame.

1957 Dodgers buy 44 passenger twin-engine airplane for $775,000.

1986 NCAA basketball's David Robinson blocks a record 14 shots.

WATERGATE

1974 Nixon refuses to hand over tapes subpoenaed by Watergate Committee.

CLIMATE

1975 Ice thickness measured at 4776 m, Wilkes Land, Antarctica.

1982 Golden Gate Bridge closed for 3rd time by fierce storm.

BOYCOTTS

1980 President Carter announces US boycott of Moscow Olympics

SERIAL KILLERS

1981 British police arrest Peter Sutcliffe, the "Yorkshire Ripper".

MAINSTREAM MEDIA

1970 Walter Cronkite ends hosting weekly documentary.

1982 Chris Wallace becomes co-anchor of the Today Show.

1982 Bryant Gumbel became co-host of NBC's "Today Show".

1984 "Night Court" starring Harry Anderson premieres on NBC TV.

DISASTERS

1987 16 die in a train crash in Chase MD.

PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING

1992 8th largest wrestling crowd (60,000-Tokyo Dome).

SCIENCE

1958 Sputnik 1 reenters atmosphere & burns up.

1959 Luna 1 (Mechta) becomes 1st craft to leave Earth's gravity.

1963 Soviet Luna (4) reaches Earth orbit but fails to reach Moon.

1989 Comet Tempel 1 at perihelion.

BORN

1785 Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm Germany, librarian (fairy tale collector)
1813 Sir Isaac Pitman inventor (shorthand)
1883 Max F Eastman US, critic/essayist (Masses)
1890 Alfred G Jodl German Wehrmacht General/Chief of Staff
1908 Angela Maria "Geli" Raubal Austrian nude model/Hitler's lover
1914 Jane Wyman St Joseph MO, 1st Mrs Ron Reagan, (Magnificent Obsession)
1914 Mohammed Sahir shah (Afghanistan)
1920 William Egan Colby CIA director (Nixon)
1930 Don Shula winningest NFL coach (Miami Dolphins)
1935 Floyd Patterson heavyweight champ (1956-59, 1960-62) (Olympics-gold-1952)
1937 Dyan Cannon Tacoma WA, Mrs Cary Grant, actress (Heaven Can Wait)
1941 Maureen Reagan 1st daughter (Ronald Reagan)
1946 Bernard Sumner rocker (New Order-Round & Round)
1956 Ann Magnuson Charleston WV, actress (Anything But Love, Hunger)
1957 Patty Loveless [Ramey], Pikeville KY, singer (Blue Side of Town)
1966 Deana Carter country singer (Strawberry Wine)
1973 Todd Sauerbrun NFL punter/kicker (WVU, Chicago Bears)

DEATH

41 Caligula murdered
1761 Stephen Hales English vicar/inventor (ventilator), dies at 83
1877 Cornelius Vanderbilt US robber baron, dies at 82
1913 Alfred von Schlieffen Prussian General-field marshal, dies at 79
1946 Barney Oldfield daredevil, dies at 67
1960 Albert Camus French author (Stranger), dies in an automobile accident at 46
1961 Barry Fitzgerald actor (Going My Way), dies at 72
1965 T S Eliot poet (Washed Country), dies in London at 76
1986 Phil Lynott rocker (Thin Lizzy), dies of overdose at 34
1992 William Walker stuntman/actor (Our Man Flint), dies at 74
1997 Harry B Helmsley owner (Empire State Building), dies at 87

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In 1991, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) last day of existence.

WAR!

In 406, 80,000 Vandels attack the Rhine at Mainz.

In 1775, Battle of Québec; Americans unable to take British stronghold.

In 1862, Union ironclad ship "Monitor" sinks off Cape Hatteras NC.

In 1946, President Truman officially proclaims end of WWII.

DISASTER

In 1986 Dupont Plaza Hotel fire in San Juan, Puerto Rico kills 97

ECONOMICS

In 1600, British East India Company chartered.

In 1776, Rhode Island establishes wage & price controls to curb inflation: Limit is 70¢ a day for carpenters, 42¢ for tailors.

In 1896, 25th auto built in US.

In 1961, Marshall Plan expires after distributing more than $12 billion.

In 1974, Gold legal in US, Franklin Mint strikes Panamá's Gold 100 balboa coin.

In 1991, Dow Jones closes at record high 3168.83.

SMOKING



In 1910, US tobacco industry produced 9 billion cigarettes in 1910.
In 1930, US tobacco industry produced 123 billion cigarettes in 1930.

POLITICS

In 1857, Queen Victoria chooses Ottawa as new capital of Canada.

In 1862, President Lincoln signs act admitting West Virginia to the Union.

In 1897, Brooklyn's last day as a city, it incorporates into NYC (1/1/1898).

In 1945. Ratification of UN Charter completed.

In 1984, US leaves UNESCO.

In 1978, Taiwan's final day of diplomatic relations with the US.

In 1999, Control of Panamá Canal reverts to Panamá.

DICTATORS

In 1958, Cuban dictator Batista flees from advancing rebels led by Fidel Castro.

IMMIGRATION

In 1890, Ellis Island (New York NY) opens as a US immigration depot.

COMPUTERS

In 1997, Intel cuts price of Pentium II-233 MHz from $401 to $268.

In 1997, Microsoft buys Hotmail E-mail service.

SCIENCE

In 1879, Edison gives 1st public demonstration of his incandescent lamp.

In 1911, Marie Curie receives her 2nd Nobel Prize.

In 1923, 1st transatlantic radio broadcast of a voice, Pittsburgh-Manchester.

In 1924, Edwin Hubble announces existence of distant galactic systems.

In 1958, International Geophyscial Year (IGY) ends.

In 1968, 1st supersonic airliner flown (Russian Tupolev TU-144).

SERIAL KILLERS

In 1977, Ted Bundy escapes from jail in Colorado.

CULTURE

In 1907, for the 1st time a ball drops at Times Square to signal the new year.

1921 Last San Francisco firehorses retired.

In 1923, BBC begins using Big Ben chime ID.

In 1935, Charles Darrow patents Monopoly.

In 1990, The Sci-Fi Channel on cable TV begins transmitting.

In 1995, Cartoonist Bill Watterson ends his "Calvin & Hobbes" comic strip.

2nd AMENDMENT

In 1984, NYC subway gunman Bernhard Goetz surrenders to police in New Hampshire.

MAINSTREAM MEDIA

In 1981, CNN Headline News debuts.

COUP

In 1961, failed coup by Syrian group in Lebanon.

NANNY STATE

1938 Dr R N Harger's "drunkometer", 1st breath test, introduced in Indiana

ROCK AND ROLL

In 1963, Jerry Garcia & Bob Weir played music together for the 1st time.

In 1966, Monkee's "I'm a Believer" hits #1 & stays there for 7 weeks.

DEMOGRAPHY

1997 More Swedes died than were born in 1997, 1st time since 1809

BORN

1880 George C Marshall Uniontown PA, authored Marshall Plan (Nobel 1953)
1892 Jason Robards Sr Hillsdale MI, actor (Acapulco)
1908 Simon Wiesenthal Polish/Austrian nazi hunter (Wiesenthal Center)
1921 Rocky Graziano New York NY, boxer (Middleweight champion)/actor (Miami Undercover)
1942 Andy Summers Blackpool England, rock guitarist (Police-Roxanne)
1943 Ben Kingsley Scarborough England, actor (Gandhi, Betrayal, Maurice)
1943 John Denver [Henry John Deutschendorf Jr] Roswell NM, singer/songwriter/actor (Rocky Mountain High, Thank God I'm a Country Boy, Oh God!)
1946 Patti Smith Chicago IL, singer (Radio Ethiopia)
1947 Burton Cummings rock guitarist (Guess Who-These Eyes)
1947 Tim Matheson California, actor (Animal House, Fletch, Up the Creek)
1948 Donna Summer Boston MA, singer (Love to Love You Baby, On the Radio)
1959 Val [Edward] Kilmer actor (The Saint, Top Gun, The Doors)
1959 Bebe Neuwirth Princeton NJ, actress (Lilith-Cheers, Damn Yankees)
1970 Bryon Russell NBA forward (Utah Jazz)

DEATH

0192 Lucius Aurelius Commodus Emperor of Rome (180-192), murdered at 31
1384 John Wycliffe English religious reformer/bible translator, dies
1862 Joshua Woodrow Sill US Union Brigadier-General, dies in battle at 31
1972 Roberto Clemente Pittsburgh Pirate slugger, dies in a plane crash at 38
1980 Marshall McLuhan Canadian cultural philosopher, dies at 69
1985 Rick Nelson singer/actor (Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet), dies at 45
1990 George Allen US football coach (Los Angeles Rams, Washington Redskins), dies
1995 Calvin/Hobbes (comic strip), dies
1996 61 law enforcement officers killed by felons in US this year
1997 76 law enforcement officers killed by felons in US this year

HOLIDAYS

Austria : Imperial Ball
Benin : Feed Yourself Day
Congo : National Day
Japan : Omisoka Day/Grand Purification
Scotland : Hogmanay Day
World : New Year's Eve/Watch Night

December 31, 2007, the last day of the year. There are no days left in the year.

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WAR!

In 1940, Adolf Hitler signed a secret directive ordering preparations for a Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union. (Operation Barbarossa was launched in June 1941.)

1916 - During World War I, after 10 months of fighting the French defeated the Germans in the Battle of Verdun.

In 1944, in a pair of rulings, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the wartime relocation of Japanese-Americans (Korematsu v. United States), but also said undeniably loyal Americans of Japanese ancestry could not continue to be detained (Ex parte Endo).

1950 - NATO foreign ministers approved plans to defend Western Europe, including the use of nuclear weapons, if necessary.

In 1972, the United States began heavy bombing of North Vietnamese targets during the Vietnam War. (The bombardment ended 11 days later.)

1998 - Russia recalled its U.S. ambassador in protest of the U.S. attacks on Iraq.


POLITICS

1787 - New Jersey became the third state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.

TERRORISM

1973 - The IRA launched its Christmas bombing campaign in London.

CIVIL RIGHTS

In 1865, the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, abolishing slavery, was declared in effect.

IMMIGRATION

1912 - The U.S. Congress prohibited the immigration of illiterate persons.

SCANDAL

1987 - Ivan F. Boesky was sentenced to three years in prison for plotting Wall Street's biggest insider-trading scandal. He only served about two years of the sentence.

1998 - The U.S. House of Representatives began the debate on the four articles of impeachment concerning U.S. President Bill Clinton. It was only the second time in U.S. history that process had begun.

DISCOVERY!

In 1620, passengers from the Mayflower came ashore near Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts

CULTURE

In 1957, the World War II epic "The Bridge on the River Kwai" opened in New York.

NANNY STATE

1917 - The Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed by the U.S. Congress. It banned the manufacture, sale and transportation of alcohol.

2001 - Mark Oliver Gebel, a Ringling Bros. Circus star, went on trial for animal abuse. The charges stemmed from an incident with an elephant that was marching too slowly into a circus performance on August 25, 2001. He was acquitted on December 21, 2001.

DEATH PENALTY

1969 - Britain's Parliament abolished the death penalty for murder.

1998 - South Carolina proceeded with the U.S.' 500th execution since capital punishment was restored.

SERIAL KILLERS

2001 - In Seattle, WA, Gary Leon Ridgeway pled innocent to the charge of murder for four of the Green River serial killings. He had been arrested on November 30, 2001.

SCIENCE

1912 - The discovery of the Piltdown Man in East Sussex was announced. It was proved to be a hoax in 1953.

DEATH

In 1980, former Soviet Premier Alexei N. Kosygin died at age 76.


Dec. 18, the 352nd day of 2007. There are 13 days left in the year.


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