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Post by BillG on Jul 11, 2024 6:24:51 GMT -5
Who Knew??? July 11TH is "All American Pet Photo Day"!
 
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Post by soutxed on Jul 11, 2024 8:10:12 GMT -5
July 11, 1804, Deadly duel ends political rivalry. US Vice President Aaron Burr and former Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton arrive at New Jersey's Palisades and proceed with a pistol duel after years of public rivalry. Hamilton fires into the air, but Burr shoots directly at Hamilton, felling him with a fatal bullet.
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Post by johnmori on Jul 11, 2024 11:36:36 GMT -5
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July 11, 1914
Babe Ruth makes his debut in Major League Baseball.
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Post by sandipaws on Jul 12, 2024 1:27:49 GMT -5
Who Knew???Grab a slice on July 12 and celebrate National Pecan Pie Day!
Mix up the ingredients using primarily corn syrup, pecan nuts, salt, and vanilla. Occasionally, recipes vary by including sugar syrup and molasses or maple syrup.
Other additions include chocolate and bourbon whiskey in some regions of the country.
Top it all off with vanilla ice cream or whipped cream.
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Post by MidnightSun on Jul 12, 2024 3:13:54 GMT -5
Stop signs used to be yellow. In 1922, the American Association of State Highway Officials met to determine a standard design for stop signs, and that's where they decided on the color — yellow. Wait, what? Yes, according to Business Insider, stop signs were yellow because they thought that would grab drivers' attention. They'd also considered red, but there was no dye available at the time that wouldn't eventually fade. By 1954, however, sign makers had access to fade-resistant porcelain enamel, and could finally start making stop signs the red color we recognize today.
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Post by soutxed on Jul 12, 2024 8:03:46 GMT -5
July 12, 1804, Former United States Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton dies after being shot in a pistol duel the previous day by Vice President Aaron Burr.
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Post by johnmori on Jul 12, 2024 8:43:28 GMT -5
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July 12, 1862
The Medal of Honor is authorized by the United States Congress.
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Post by MidnightSun on Jul 12, 2024 21:23:40 GMT -5
New York was briefly named "New Orange." Yes, before it was the Big Apple, it was New Orange. As History reports, when the Dutch captured New York from the English in 1673, they renamed it New Orange in honor of William III of Orange. The following year, the English regained control and ditched the "Orange."
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Post by sandipaws on Jul 12, 2024 23:58:11 GMT -5
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National Delaware Day on July 13 recognizes the First State to declare independence from the British.
in history, Delaware's lands once belonged to New York and later Pennsylvania.
But the independent spirit of this beautiful coastal countryside is more than just legendary.
 Delaware became official in 1776 when the 13 colonies declared their independence from the
British government and Delaware adopted its first territorial state constitution.
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Post by soutxed on Jul 13, 2024 8:11:31 GMT -5
July 13, 1934, Babe Ruth hits 700th career home run against Detroit.
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Post by BillG on Jul 13, 2024 8:13:02 GMT -5
Who Knew??? July 13TH is "National Beans ’N’ Franks Day"!
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Post by VanIsleRover on Jul 13, 2024 8:25:59 GMT -5
Who Knew?? 13 July 1985The benefit concert Live Aid was held simultaneously at Wembley Stadium in London and JFK Stadium in Philadelphia. Organized by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure, the event drew an estimated 1.5 billion television viewers and raised millions of dollars for famine relief in Ethiopia. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9pfbgpYDsk en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_Aid1939Backed by trumpeter Harry James, American singer Frank Sinatra recorded his first single, From the Bottom of My Heart. 1861General George B. McClellan and Union troops defeated Confederate forces in northwestern Virginia, an area that subsequently became West Virginia.
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The U.S. Congress passed the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, which laid the basis for the government of the Northwest Territory and for the admission of its constituent parts as states of the union. |
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Post by johnmori on Jul 13, 2024 9:19:14 GMT -5
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July 13, 1977
New York City: Amidst a period of financial and social turmoil experiences an electrical blackout lasting nearly 24 hours that leads to widespread fires and looting.
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Post by MidnightSun on Jul 14, 2024 1:04:14 GMT -5
There was a successful Tinder match in Antarctica in 2014. The dating app is popular across the globe, but it didn't have a connection on the least-inhabited continent until 2014, when a pair of research scientists — a man working at Antarctica's McMurdo Station and a woman camping a 45-minute helicopter ride away — found they had matched.
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Post by johnmori on Jul 14, 2024 7:07:07 GMT -5
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July 14, 2015
NASA's New Horizons probe performs the first flyby of Pluto, and thus completes the initial survey of the Solar System.
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