<div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px">On this day in </span><b style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px">1812</b><span style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px">, poet </span><b style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px">Lord Byron</b><span style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px"> gives his first address as a member of the House of Lords, in defense of Luddite violence against Industrialism in his home county of Nottinghamshire.</span><br style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px"><br style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px"><div style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px;text-align:center">***</div><br style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px"><span style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px">On this day in </span><b style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px">1827</b><span style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px">, </span><i style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px">Mardi Gras</i><span style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px"> is celebrated for the first time ever in the city of New Orleans, and aside from a few floods, a Civil War, a deadly influenza epidemic and the birth of disco… it's been one long party ever since!</span><br style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px"><br style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px"><div style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px;text-align:center">***</div><br style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px"><span style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px">On this day in </span><b style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px">1860</b><span style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px">, </span><b style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px">Abraham Lincoln</b><span style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px"> makes a speech at Cooper Union in the city of New York that is largely responsible for his election to the Presidency.</span><br style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px"><br style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px"><div style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px;text-align:center">***</div><br style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px"><span style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px">On this day in </span><b style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px">1900</b><span style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px">, the British Labour Party is founded.</span><br style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px"><br style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px"><div style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px;text-align:center">***</div><br style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px"><span style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px">On this day in </span><b style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px">1933</b><span style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px">, Germany's parliament building in Berlin, the Reichstag, is set on fire. Some people say the Nazis set it on fire on purpose, to assume draconian anti-terrorism powers. But they could have done so either way.</span><br style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px"><br style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px"><div style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px;text-align:center">***</div><br style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px"><span style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px">On this day in </span><b style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px">1951</b><span style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px">, the Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution, limiting Presidents to two terms, is ratified.</span><br style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px"><br style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px"><div style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px;text-align:center">***</div><br style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px"><span style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px">On this day in </span><b style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px">1957</b><span style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px">, Chinese leader </span><b style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px">Mao Tse Dung</b><span style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px"> delivers his stirring oratory: "On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among People." The codicil decreeing that "the family should be billed for the bullet" was later added to the printed version by persons unknown.</span><br style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px"><br style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px"><div style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px;text-align:center">***</div><br style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px"><span style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px">On this day in </span><b style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px">1971</b><span style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px">, doctors in the first Dutch abortion clinic (the Mildredhuis in Arnhem) start to perform </span><i style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px">aborti provocati</i><span style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px">.</span><br style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px"><br style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px"><div style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px;text-align:center">***</div><br style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px"><span style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px">On this day in </span><b style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px">1973</b><span style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px">, the </span><b style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px">American Indian Movement</b><span style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px"> (AIM) occupies Wounded Knee, South Dakota.</span><br style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px"><br style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px"><div style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px;text-align:center">***</div><br style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px"><span style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px">On this day in </span><b style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px">1974</b><span style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px">, </span><i style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px">People Magazine</i><span style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px"> publishes its first issue. Collective brain damage via celebrity trivia overload ensues.</span><br style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px"><div style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px"><div style="text-align:center">***</div></div><div style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px">On this day in <b>1981</b>, <b>Paul McCartney</b> and <b>Stevie Wonder</b> record <i>Ebony & Ivory</i>, the song which ended all racism, everywhere. </div><div style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px"><br><div style="text-align:center">***</div><br>On this day in <b>1991</b>, U.S. President <b>George H. W. Bush</b> announces that "Kuwait is liberated", thus bringing an end to the first Gulf War. Also on this day, millionaire pornography impresario <b>Artie Mitchell</b> is shot to death by his brother and business partner <b>Jim</b> at his luxurious home in San Francisco. After an OJ-esque trial where extensive use was made of computer-generated re-creations of the crime scene, Jim Mitchell was found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to a mere six years in the slammer. He's back on the streets, now, running a strip club.<br><br><div style="text-align:center">***</div><br>On this day in <b>1998</b>, Apple discontinues developing their Newton line of computers. All together now… AWWWW!!!</div><div style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px"><div style="text-align:center">***</div></div><div style="color:rgb(94,94,94);font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,FreeSans,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16.5454540252686px">On this day in <b>2003</b>, <b>Fred Rogers</b>, ordained Presbyterian minister and beloved host of PBS's long-running <i>Mister Roger's Neighborhood</i>, dies of stomach cancer at his home in Pittsburgh. He was seventy four years old. Over a career that spanned children's educational television from its humble, black and white beginnings in the early sixties, through the elaborate musical numbers of the seventies, beyond the eighties and its cults of personality, and all the way through the surrealism of the nineties, Mister Rogers' brand of gentle entertainment not only survived, but thrived. His show was, in fact, at its most popular in the mid-80's. The fact that his show did so well without ever making any substantial changes makes his achievement doubly amazing. By all accounts, Fred Rogers was the proverbial "good man." His family loved him. Kids truly loved him. People caught in the grips of grindingly bad acid trips loved him for the Valium-like effect he had on the state of their souls. But hey... he had to kick the bucket some time! Am I right, people?!<br><br><div style="text-align:center">***</div><br>On this day in <b>2004</b>, the initial version of the <b>John Jay Report</b>, with details about the Catholic sexual abuse scandal in the United States, is released.</div></div>