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Knee Deep in the Hoopla
So much winning: markets tank worldwide.
Video: Bernie Sanders: U.S. under Trump faces "unprecedented level of danger"
Video: Fareed Zakaria explains why Trump’s tariffs are “dumb.”
Trump family’s cash registers ring as financial meltdown plays out. The party was on at a Saudi-backed LIV Golf tournament at the president’s Doral resort in Florida and a fund-raiser at Mar-a-Lago, even as markets tumbled.
What could possibly go wrong? DOGE to rapidly rebuild Social Security codebase. A safe and proper rewrite should take years, not months.
Infidelity for the social media age: What is microcheating, and is it a big deal?
Sea lions are attacking people in the waters off California’s coast.
Sounds like a ‘50s sci-fi movie: Beneath the ocean, a volcano reveals thousands of giant eggs—still alive.
Sorry, Elon: Mars is covered in toxic dust – and it’s a serious threat to human exploration.
Good to know: Every major socket set brand, ranked worst to best.
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KGB Quote of the Day:
"Marriage is a lot like the army, everyone complains, but you'd be surprise at the large number that re-enlist."
--James Garner (Wikipedia link)
(More James Garner quotes from the KGB Quotations Database)
Among other things, today is- in no particular order of importance-
KGB REPORT STUFF! (Click on link) On This Day:
529 First draft of Corpus Juris Civilis or the Justinian Code (a fundamental work in jurisprudence) was issued by Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I.
1724 – Premiere performance of Bach's St John Passion, BWV 245, at St. Nicholas Church, Leipzig. (Video)
1788 – Settlers established Marietta, Ohio, the first permanent settlement created by U.S. citizens in the recently organized Northwest Territory.
1795 – France adopted the metric system.
1805 – German composer Ludwig van Beethoven premiered his Third Symphony, at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna. (Video)
1906 – Mount Vesuvius erupted and devastated Naples. (Video)
1922 – Teapot Dome scandal: United States Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall leased federal petroleum reserves to private oil companies on excessively generous terms.
1927 – AT&T engineer Herbert Ives transmitted the first long-distance public television broadcast (from Washington, D.C., to New York City, displaying the image of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover).
1933 – Prohibition in the United States was repealed for beer of no more than 3.2% alcohol by weight, eight months before the ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution. (Now celebrated as National Beer Day in the United States.)
1940 – Booker T. Washington became the first African American to be depicted on a United States postage stamp.
1943 – The National Football League made helmets mandatory.
1948 – The World Health Organization was established by the United Nations.
1959 – Oklahoma ended prohibition after 51 years.
1964 – IBM announced the System/360. (Video)
1968 – Gangsters Henry Hill and Tommy DeSimone committed the Air France robbery, stealing $420,000 from cargo terminal at New York City's JFK International Airport.
1969 – In Stanley v. Georgia, the Supreme Court struck down laws prohibiting private possession of obscene material.
1969 – The Internet's symbolic birth date: Publication of RFC 1.
1978 – Development of the neutron bomb was canceled by President Jimmy Carter.
1994 – Rwandan genocide: Massacres of Tutsis began in Kigali, Rwanda, and soldiers killed the civilian Prime Minister Agathe Uwilingiyimana.
2003 – Iraq War: U.S. troops captured Baghdad; Saddam Hussein's Ba'athist regime falls two days later.
2022 – Ketanji Brown Jackson was confirmed for the Supreme Court of the United States, becoming the first black female justice.
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Quotes by or about persons born on this date (Click on link after name for quotes):
1897 – Walter Winchell, American journalist and radio host (d. 1972)
1915 – Billie Holiday, American singer-songwriter and actress (d. 1959) (Video)
1928 – James Garner, American actor, singer, and producer (d. 2014)
1938 – Jerry Brown, American lawyer and politician, 34th and 39th Governor of California.
1939 – Francis Ford Coppola, American director, producer, and screenwriter
1939 – David Frost, English journalist and game show host (d. 2013) (Video)
1951 – Janis Ian, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Video)
Other birthdays:
1860 – Will Keith Kellogg, American businessman, founded the Kellogg Company (d. 1951)
1890 – Marjory Stoneman Douglas, American journalist and activist (d. 1998)
1908 – Percy Faith, Canadian composer, conductor, and bandleader (d. 1976) (Video)
1915 – Stanley Adams, American actor and screenwriter (d. 1977) (Video)
1920 – Ravi Shankar, Indian-American sitar player and composer (d. 2012) (Video)
1922 – Mongo Santamaría, Cuban-American drummer (d. 2003) (Video)
1931 – Daniel Ellsberg, American activist and author (d. 2023) (Video)
1933 – Wayne Rogers, American actor, investor, and producer (d. 2015) (Video)
1946 – Stan Winston, American special effects designer and makeup artist (d. 2008) (Video)
1954 – Jackie Chan, Hong Kong martial artist, actor, stuntman, director, producer, and screenwriter (Video)
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