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Post by sandipaws on Jan 7, 2021 23:54:51 GMT -5
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 On January 8th, National JoyGerm Day annually reminds people across the country that by being positive and treating people with kindness, they can influence those around them and pass that positive attitude on to others. When we share good moods, we impact the lives of people around us and those people become infected with that same positive joy and spread it to others.
Laugh, smile, be kind, inspire and spread the one type of germ that is good for everyone to catch!
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Post by MidnightSun on Jan 8, 2021 0:16:06 GMT -5
Superman helped take down the KKK. In the 1940s, the popular Adventures of Superman radio program ran a 16-episode series, incorporating the findings of activist Stetson Kennedy, who had infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan but couldn't get local authorities to use the information to crack down on them. The creators of the Superman show used Kennedy's spy secrets to help tell the story of the "Clan of the Fiery Cross," exposing the organization to the public and earning it widespread mockery and condemnation.
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Post by johnmori on Jan 8, 2021 6:02:57 GMT -5
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January 8, 1982
Breakup of the Bell System: In the United States, AT&T agrees to divest itself of twenty-two subdivisions.
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Post by BillG on Jan 8, 2021 10:25:52 GMT -5
Who knew??? On January 8th, 1963 for the first time in history Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece 'The Mona Lisa' is exhibited at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. . The loan of painting was made by the government of the French Republic. 
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Post by sandipaws on Jan 8, 2021 21:06:33 GMT -5
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Post by MidnightSun on Jan 9, 2021 0:35:02 GMT -5
Tons of countries celebrate their independence from the U.K. The British Empire grew ridiculously large — before scaling back down. Some 62 countries eventually declared their independence from the empire, and 48 of which celebrate an Independence Day from the United Kingdom.
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Post by soutxed on Jan 9, 2021 8:39:59 GMT -5
On this day in 1861 The first shots of the American Civil War are fired. The steamer, Star of the West, was fired upon by the Confederates as it attempted to enter Charleston Harbor.
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Post by johnmori on Jan 9, 2021 9:38:04 GMT -5
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January 9, 2007
Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduces the original iPhone at a Macworld keynote in San Francisco.
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Post by BillG on Jan 9, 2021 16:12:31 GMT -5
Who knew??? On January 9th, 1941: The maiden flight by Canada's British-built Avro Lancaster bomber.
 
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Post by sandipaws on Jan 9, 2021 23:13:42 GMT -5
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Post by MidnightSun on Jan 10, 2021 1:19:28 GMT -5
Sears used to sell houses. Before every city had a Walmart, most Americans got their stuff from mail-order catalogs, such as Sears. Among its many, many offerings were so-called "kit houses," or entire homes that were shipped on a train. You had to assemble the house yourself using the 75-page instruction book. Between 1908 and 1940, Sears sold about 70,000 kit homes in 48 states through their mail-order Modern Homes program, with 370 designs that you might not readily recognize as a kit.
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Post by johnmori on Jan 10, 2021 8:39:30 GMT -5
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January 10, 1812
The first steamboat on the Ohio River or the Mississippi River arrives in New Orleans, 82 days after departing from Pittsburgh.
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Post by soutxed on Jan 10, 2021 8:54:27 GMT -5
Jan. 10, 1776, Thomas Paine anonymously published his influential pamphlet, “Common Sense,” which argued for American independence from British rule.
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Post by soutxed on Jan 10, 2021 8:54:57 GMT -5
January 10, 1984, the United States and the Vatican established full diplomatic relations for the first time in more than a century.
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Post by sandipaws on Jan 10, 2021 22:16:49 GMT -5
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