herstory today
Posted 8/27/2009 - DB Metzger | 0 comment(s)
The first hurricane is recorded and the first oil well drilled in the US. The addiction begins. The Income tax is struck down by the Supreme Court and Edgar Rice Burroughs Tarzan is published as is the Guiness Book of World records and The Beatles and Elvis meet. . . . .
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19th amendment passes
Posted 8/26/2009 - DB Metzger | 0 comment(s)
Roman Forces invade Britain. The typewriter is patented
and the new testament is published. The 19 th amendment if finally
ratified by the states in 1920. Sherri
Finkbine receives a legal abortion in Sweden. . . . .
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Bed in for peace 40th
Posted 8/25/2009 - DB Metzger | 0 comment(s)
Galileo demonstrates the telescope. New Orleans is founded. Paris liberated and Amelia completes her first transcontinental flight. Truman Capote dies and John and Yoko have their Bed in for pece 40 years ago today. Ivan the terrible is born. . . . .
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herstory today
Posted 8/24/2009 - DB Metzger | 0 comment(s)
Mt. Vesuvius buries Pompeii. The Visigoths over run rome and the Western Empire and the Magna Carta (rule of law) is ruled invalid by Bush 43 , (I mean the Pope). Jews are held responsible for the Bubonic plague and the British burn parts of Washington DC.. . . . .
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Lennonesque history
Posted 8/23/2009 - DB Metzger | 0 comment(s)
The first one way street opens in London. Britain abolishes slavery in its colonies. It’s 1850 and the first Women’s rights convention is convened in Mass. The Gasoline Alley comic strip appears and Sacco and Vanzetti are executed. . . . .
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herstory today
Posted 8/22/2009 - DB Metzger | 0 comment(s)
Today in Herstory. The Loch Ness monster is reported for the first time. The US annexes Mexico and the Geneva convention is sighned.. Teddy Roosevelt is the first president to ride in an auto and the Victor Victrola is manufactured. . . . .
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herstory today
Posted 8/21/2009 - DB Metzger | 0 comment(s)
The Nat Turner Slave Rebellion and the first of the Lincoln / Douglas debates. The American Bar Association is formed and Burroughs patents the adding machine. The Green Bay Football Club came into being. . . . .
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herstory today
Posted 8/20/2009 - DB Metzger | 0 comment(s)
Watson begins his scribbles about his friend Sherlock. The first Pilot parachutes from a plane. The first commercial radio begins broadcasting and that goes for TV on the old Dumont Network. It’ also the day beginning of the Algerian conflict with France and Soviet Troops invade Checkoslovakia. . . . .
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