Today in history

[MadCow]

In 1913, the Federal Reserve System was created as President Woodrow Wilson signed the Federal Reserve Act.

[Jolsen]

Yeah, PCC, I screwed that up. Picked the wrong day.

-cc

And this is why I don't believe a damn thing on the mass sheeple news. They don't cite their sources.

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[Suzuki Johnny]

1968 The first pictures of an Earth-rise over the moon are seen as the crew of Apollo 8 orbits the moon.

[Jolsen]

Wounded creditability?

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[Jolsen]

Its the end of the world.

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[Jolsen]

Or just lie alot

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[Jolsen]

I learned not to lie years ago.

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[Jolsen]

Can't you post something happy?

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[Jolsen]

Murder on Christmas is not happy.

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[Suzuki Johnny]

1991 Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet Union's first and last executive president, resigns. The Soviet Union no longer exsists.

[Suzuki Johnny]

Can't you post something happy?

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1976 Over 100 Muslims, returning from a pilgrimage to Mecca, die when their boat sinks.

[Jolsen]

Muslims are people too...

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[Jolsen]

Got to love druggies

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[Suzuki Johnny]

1944 General George S. Patton's Third Army, spearheaded by the 4th Armored Division, relieves the surrounded city of Bastogne in Belgium.




"The purpose of war is not to die for your country...but to make the other poor bastard die for his"

[Suzuki Johnny]

1920 The United States resumes the deportation of communists and suspected communists.







"The purpose of war is not to die for your country...but to make the other poor bastard die for his".....George Patton..2nd Armored Division ... Hell on Wheels

[YoDude]

"The purpose of war is not to die for your country...but to make the other poor bastard die for his".....George Patton..2nd Armored Division ... Hell on Wheels

The only problem with that thinking now days is, it's not about country anymore, it's about what you believe in.

Yo-

[Jolsen]

1607 Indian chief Powhatan spares John Smith's life after the pleas of his daughter Pocahontas.

1849 Gas lighting is installed in the White House.

1890 The last major conflict of the Indian wars takes place at Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota after Colonel James W. Forsyth of the 7th Cavalry tries to disarm Chief Big Foot and his followers.

1921 Sears Roebuck president Julius Rosenwald pledges $20 million of his personal fortune to help Sears through hard times.

Born on December 29
1800 Charles Goodyear, inventor of vulcanized rubber for tires.
Who we can thank for good tires

1907 Robert C. Weaver, the first African American to serve on a president's cabinet. He was Lyndon Baines Johnson's secretary of Housing and Urban Development, the first man ever to hold that post.

[Suzuki Johnny]

And another one bites the dust................



2006 Saddam Hussein, former Iraq dictator, is executed by hanging for crimes committed against his own people during his rule. -

[Spitfire]

Dec 30 1922

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) is established, also known as the Soviet Union, the new communist state was the successor to the Russian Empire and the first country in the world to be based on Marxist socialism.

[Suzuki Johnny]

1852 The richest year of the gold rush ends with $81.3 million in gold produced.

1910 John B. Moisant and Arch Hoxsey, two of America's foremost aviators, die in separate plane crashes.

1915 The Germans torpedo the British liner Persia without any warning killing 335 passengers.

1923 The Sahara is crossed by an automobile for the first time.

1930 Brewery heir Adolphus Busch is kidnapped.

1941 General MacArthur reports that U.S. lines in Manila have been pushed back by the Japanese.

1942 After five months of battle, Emperor Hirohito allows the Japanese commanders at Guadalcanal to retreat.