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« Reply #5866 on: December 08, 2025, 08:04:03 AM »
In this photo of the keel being laid in 1914 for USS Arizona, the little boy holding Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt's hand is Henry Williams, Jr.

Roosevelt would later become President and in 1941, Lt. Henry Williams would be at Pearl Harbor and would watch the Arizona explode. He is the only known person who was present at the beginning and at the end of the USS Arizona. #PearlHarbor84


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« Reply #5867 on: December 08, 2025, 08:06:58 AM »
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 

Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty Is Signed (1987)
Signed by US President Ronald Reagan and USSR General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev, the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty represented a historic shift in superpower relations. The first treaty to mandate a reduction in stockpiled weapons rather than just a limit on them, it required the destruction of 1,752 Soviet and 859 US missiles.
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« Reply #5868 on: December 08, 2025, 09:25:58 PM »
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« Reply #5869 on: December 08, 2025, 11:22:44 PM »
 How is it that Miami fires Manny Diaz who then goes to DUKE as H.C. and wins an A.C.C. Championship before Miami does?
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« Reply #5870 on: December 09, 2025, 11:28:51 AM »
the canes are cursed from their cocaine hay daze????
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« Reply #5871 on: December 09, 2025, 11:42:11 AM »
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 

Eradication of Smallpox Is Certified (1979)
One of the deadliest diseases in history by sheer loss of life, smallpox was the target of a concerted, worldwide eradication campaign in the 20th century, and it became the first disease to have been successfully wiped out. Efforts focused on vaccination and quickly responding to and curtailing outbreaks. The last person to die from smallpox caught it at a laboratory, where samples of the now-vanquished disease remain.
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« Reply #5872 on: December 10, 2025, 10:54:53 AM »
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 

The Brown Dog Affair: Rioting Peaks in London (1907)
In 1903, anti-vivisectionists enrolled as medical students at University College London and published an eyewitness account of a brown dog that had endured months of surgical experimentation while allegedly conscious. A professor named in the story sued for defamation and won. After the trial, anti-vivisectionists put up a statue of the dog as a monument in a park, but mobs of angry medical students rioted and tried to destroy it. In 1910, it was taken down by authorities.
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« Reply #5873 on: December 10, 2025, 10:55:30 PM »
December 10, 1977 - One of the worst traffic jams in the city of Lincoln happened on Dec. 10, 1977, when over 1,000 tractors and farm trucks journeyed to the capital to announce a farm strike.

It was reported that a line of vehicles along I-80 waiting to enter the city stretched for about 13 miles.

The event, organized by the American Agricultural Movement, was part of a nationwide protest in response to a farm crisis.
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