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Could You Pass The Literacy Test Given To Black Voters In The 1960s? The test was to be taken in 10 minutes flat, and a single…
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The last time a major political figure was assassinated in Japan was back in 1960 when a 17-year-old by the name of Otoya Yamaguchi used a…
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Dust Bowl Farm. Coldwater District north of Dalhart, Texas. This house is occupied; most of the houses here have been abandoned. 1938 The Dust Bowl was…
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Marine Lance Corporal Ernest Delgado at Khe Sahn, Vietnam, 1968. Note his blood type and Tour of Duty countdown calendar on his cover, with “California”across front
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The Code of Hammurabi, written nearly 4000 years ago, had progressive laws such as minimum wage, the right to be born a free man, the need…
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During the Battle of Loos in 1915, German machine gunners stopped firing out of sheer disgust for the amount of casualties they were inflicting on the…
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A Japanese balloon bomb drifted 6,000 miles to deliver a deadly blow to a party of Sunday school picnickers in Bly, Oregon. In 1945, In Bly,…
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Before alarm clocks existed, people used nails fixed onto candles to wake up. they knew hoe to calculate the burning time and put the nail at…
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Grigori Rasputin, Russian mystic and self-proclaimed holy man who befriended the family of Tsar Nicholas II, the last monarch of Russia, and gained considerable influence in…
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On This Day In History – April 11, 1976
April 11, 1976 – The Apple Computer 1 is released by the Apple Computer Company On March 5, 1975, Steve Wozniak attended the first meeting of…