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Originally Posted by TimSJ
Feb 1 1861
Texas secedes from the Union, becoming independent once again. Since the articles of statehood passed by the U.S. Congress give Texas this right, it is perhaps the only state whose secession was legal.
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yeah - that whole civil war business is still a touchy issue! amazing...
'the war of northern agression' - jeez just this week i heard on texan radio the term 'carpetbagger' referring to an illinoisan who had moved south!
the south shall rise again...
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Originally Posted by TimSJ
Feb 1 1964
Governor Matthew Welsh of Indiana declares "Louie, Louie" as recorded by The Kingsmen (originally by Richard Berry & The Pharaohs) "pornographic". And while the FCC couldn't figure out the lyrics, the governor's move backfires by making the song one of the most covered titles in existence.
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see also england and marilyn manson. most had never heard of the hack before that, i knew of manson only from reading my roomate's heavy metal magazine that manson had performed a certain (ahem) fellacious act on trent reznor of nine inch nails on stage in front of his parents. lovely.
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Originally Posted by TimSJ
Feb 1 1968
In Saigon, South Vietnam's national police chief Brig. Gen. Nguyen Ngoc Loan summarily executes an accused Viet Cong spy with a bullet to the head. Unfortunately for the general, he happens to shoot him right in front of NBC cameraman Vo Suu and Associated Press photographer Eddie Adams.
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that's almost as famous a photo from the vietnam war (if it's the one i'm thinking of) as johnson collapsed over a white house baordroom chair in front of that tape recorder playing the dying whimpers of his cousin's son in country.
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Originally Posted by TimSJ
Feb 1 1970
US Government report reveals that 31% of college students have tried pot, man.
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something tells me that the number may have been 'higher'...
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Originally Posted by TimSJ
Feb 1 1974
A fire on the 12th floor of the 25 story Joelma Bank Building in Sao Paulo Brazil, killing 177 and seriously burning 293. A crowd of 10,000 spectators hampered firefighters near the building. The new building's cheap construction was primarily at fault.
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cheap construction, in brazil? no problemo!
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Originally Posted by TimSJ
Feb 1 1976
Heisenberg may have died today.
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BAD joke.
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Originally Posted by TimSJ
Feb 1 1998
Michael King of Clayton, Georgia is charged with the baseball bat beating death of Kenneth Paul Smith. King urinated in Smith's front yard, and after the property owner complained, he was severely beaten with a bat kept in King's Ford Mustang.
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neighbours - isn't there some bad reality show documenting this kind of thing? bizarre.
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Originally Posted by TimSJ
Feb 1 2003
The Space Shuttle Columbia blows up on re-entry, with its debris hitting homes and businesses in Nacogdoches Texas.
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these shuttles are getting long in the tooth, i really hope a replacement pops up soon.