This day in history

[67ctbug]

[cdennisg]

On this day in 1904 the New York city subway system opened for business.

And in 1932 Sylvia Plath was born.
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[BSQUARE]

This day in 1969, Sesame Street premiered.

[Zundfolge1432]

1982 Vietnam war memorial opens in DC. 57,939 names on the wall.

[hazetguy]

1975


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[Zundfolge1432]

1918 president Woodrow Wilson proclaimed Armistice Day on the first anniversary of the end of WW1. Congress changed the name to Veterans Day in 1954.

[Zundfolge1432]

1969, 500,000 people march against the Vietnam war in Washington, mass demonstrations also in San Francisco numbered 250,000. Pete Seeger,Arlo Guthrie,Peter,Paul and Mary and four touring casts of the musical Hair entertained the demonstrators.

[Zundfolge1432]

1973 Richard Nixon tells about 400 AP managing editors during a hour long meeting in Florida "I am not a crook".

[TDCTDI]

On this day in 1777, Congress submits the Articles of Confederation to the states for ratification.
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Everybody born before 1975 has a story, good, bad, or indifferent, about a VW.


GOFUNDYOURSELF, quit asking everyone to do it for you!


An air cooled VW will make you a hoarder.


Do something, anything, to your project every day, and you will eventually complete it.

[Zundfolge1432]

1978, A massacre and mass suicide of cult leader Jim Jones followers left 910 dead in The Guyana jungle of South America where Jones had promised utopia.

[TDCTDI]

The origin of the phrase "drinking the Kool-aid"

In 1978, the mass suicide of the Jim Jones founded cult American Temple in Jonestown Guyana.
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Everybody born before 1975 has a story, good, bad, or indifferent, about a VW.


GOFUNDYOURSELF, quit asking everyone to do it for you!


An air cooled VW will make you a hoarder.


Do something, anything, to your project every day, and you will eventually complete it.

[TDCTDI]

In 1996 Volkswagen opens their "Dream Factory" in Resende Brazil.
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Everybody born before 1975 has a story, good, bad, or indifferent, about a VW.


GOFUNDYOURSELF, quit asking everyone to do it for you!


An air cooled VW will make you a hoarder.


Do something, anything, to your project every day, and you will eventually complete it.

[Zeen]

The centenary of the end of Battle of the Somme. After a million casualties, the lines moved five miles.
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The consequences of your decisions should not be confused with fate.

[TDCTDI]

In 1863, Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address.
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Everybody born before 1975 has a story, good, bad, or indifferent, about a VW.


GOFUNDYOURSELF, quit asking everyone to do it for you!


An air cooled VW will make you a hoarder.


Do something, anything, to your project every day, and you will eventually complete it.

[TDCTDI]

[TDCTDI]

In 1906 Morse code signal S O S was adopted as the international distress symbol.

& in 1718 Blackbeard was killed in battle off Ocracoke island, NC.
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Everybody born before 1975 has a story, good, bad, or indifferent, about a VW.


GOFUNDYOURSELF, quit asking everyone to do it for you!


An air cooled VW will make you a hoarder.


Do something, anything, to your project every day, and you will eventually complete it.

[Long-roofs]

[Air-Cooled Head]

Today, in 1986, Mike Tyson demolished Trevor Berbick in 2 rounds, to become the Unified Heavy Weight Champion.

Wow, 30 years ago.
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[67ctbug]

The first completely computer generated film,Toy Story, premiers in 1995.
Now, all films are computer generated, kind of sad don't you think...
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