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Handrails on monorail = FAIL
about 11 hours ago
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Waiting to board the plane to Houston. Next stop from there: Paris!
about 15 hours ago
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On 5 Jan 1836, Davy Crockett arrived in Texas, about 5 weeks before the Battle of the Alamo.
8:07 AM Jan 5th
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On 1 Jan 1892 the Ellis Island Immigrant Station in New York opened.
11:12 AM Jan 1st
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@ It's downright balmy!
7:02 PM Dec 30th, 2009
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@ Amazing!
2:56 PM Dec 29th, 2009
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On Dec. 29, 1170 Archbishop Thomas Becket was murdered in Canterbury Cathedral in England by unknown assailants.
10:53 AM Dec 29th, 2009
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On Dec. 21, 1968, Apollo 8 was launched on a mission to orbit the moon.
9:05 AM Dec 21st, 2009
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On Dec. 18, 1865 slavery in the United States was abolished with the ratification of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution.
8:27 AM Dec 18th, 2009
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On Dec. 17, 1903 Orville & Wilbur Wright made the first successful man-powered airplane flight near Kitty Hawk, NC.
3:04 PM Dec 17th, 2009
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On Dec. 16, 1773 the Boston "Tea Party" took place as American colonists dumped 300 chests of tea off a British ship to protest tea taxes.
8:02 AM Dec 16th, 2009
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Ozzie likes to share popcorn
7:17 PM Dec 12th, 2009
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On Dec. 11, 1792 the treason trial of France's King Louis XVI started; he was convicted and executed in January 1793.
9:10 AM Dec 11th, 2009
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On Dec. 8, 1941 the US entered World War 2 as Congress declared war against Japan one day after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
8:11 AM Dec 8th, 2009
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In 1963, President Lyndon Johnson named a commission headed by Earl Warren to investigate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy
8:33 AM Nov 29th, 2009
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On Nov. 25, 1783 the British evacuated New York, abandoning their final military position in the US during the Revolutionary War.
8:01 AM Nov 25th, 2009
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@ Excellent use of the word 'pachyderm' in a sentence.
10:57 AM Nov 23rd, 2009
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On Nov. 17, 1800 Congress held its first session in Washington DC in the partially completed Capitol building.
11:48 AM Nov 17th, 2009
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On November 15, 1777, the Continental Congress approved the Articles of Confederation, precursor to the U.S. Constitution.
9:19 AM Nov 15th, 2009
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On Nov. 12, 1954 Ellis Island closed after processing over 20 million immigrants in its 62 years of operation.
12:09 PM Nov 12th, 2009
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