Though veterans of all wars account for only 11% of the US population, they make up 26% of the country’s homeless. Unemployment for Iraq/Afghanistan veterans hit a record high 14.7% this year.
Christian Science Monitor 08/16/2010
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Quote of the month"A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself." - John Stuart Mill
Numbers of the monthThough veterans of all wars account for only 11% of the US population, they make up 26% of the country’s homeless. Unemployment for Iraq/Afghanistan veterans hit a record high 14.7% this year. Christian Science Monitor 08/16/2010
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09/01/1939 - WWII began as Nazi Germany invaded Poland. |
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09/01/1942 - A federal judge in Sacramento upheld the wartime detention of Japanese-Americans as well as Japanese nationals. |
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09/01/1951 - The US, Australia and New Zealand signed a mutual defense pact - ANZUS. |
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09/01/1961 - The Soviet Union ended a moratorium on atomic testing with an aboveground nuclear explosion in central Asia. |
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09/01/2010 - 1st Parkash (Nanakshahi) - Sikhism |
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09/02/1666 - The Great Fire of London broke out claiming thousands of homes but only a few lives. |
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09/02/1789 - The US Treasury Department was established. |
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09/02/1864 - Sherman occupied Atlanta. |
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09/02/1901 - VP Theodore Roosevelt offered the advice: Speak softly and carry a big stick. |
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09/02/1945 - Ho Chi Minh declared Vietnam an independent republic. |
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09/02/1945 - Japan formally surrendered in ceremonies aboard the USS Missouri, ending WWII. |
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09/02/1963 - Alabama Governor George Wallace prevented the integration of Tuskegee High School by encircling the building with state troopers. |
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09/02/2010 - Janamashtami / Krishna Jayanti (Birthday of Krishna) - Hinduism |
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09/03/1783 - The Treaty of Paris between the US and Great Britain officially ended the Revolutionary War. |
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09/03/1939 - Britain and France declared war on Germany, two days after the Nazi invasion of Poland. |
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09/03/1978 - The Roman Catholic Church installed Pope John Paul I as its 264th pontiff. |
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09/04/1781 - Spanish settlers founded Los Angeles. |
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09/04/1957 - Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus called out the National Guard to prevent nine black students from entering Central High School in Little Rock. |
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09/05/1793 - The Reign of Terror began during the French Revolution as the National Convention instituted harsh measures to repress counterrevolutionary activities. |
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09/05/1863 - The Republic of Texas elected Sam Houston as president. |
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09/05/1972 - Arab guerrillas attacked the Israeli delegation at the Munich Olympic Games. They killed eleven Israelis, five guerrillas and a police officer. |
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09/06/1941 - Germany ordered Jews over the age of six in German-occupied areas to wear yellow Stars of David. |
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09/06/1975 - Czechoslovak tennis star Martina Navratilova, in NY for the US Open, requested political asylum. |
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09/06/2010 - Labor Day |
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09/06/2010 - Laylat al Kadar - Muslim |
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09/07/1901 - The Peace of Beijing ended the Boxer Rebellion in China. |
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09/07/1940 - Nazi Germany began its initial blitz on London during WWII. |
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09/07/1977 - The Panama Canal treaties, calling for the US to eventually turn over control of the waterway to Panama, were signed in Washington. |
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09/07/2010 - First Parkash (Bikarami) - Sikhism |
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09/08/1664 - The Dutch surrendered New Amsterdam to the British, who renamed it New York. |
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09/08/1900 - A hurricane that killed about 6,000 people stuck Galveston TX. |
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09/08/1935 - Senator Huey P. Long (The Kingfish) of Louisiana politics was shot and morally wounded. He died two days later. |
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09/08/1952 - Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea was 1st published. |
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09/08/1971 - The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts opened in Washington DC with a performance of Leonard Bernstein's Mass. |
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09/08/1974 - President Ford granted an unconditional pardon to former President Nixon. |
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09/08/2010 - Rosh Hashanah begins at sundown - Judaism |
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09/09/1776 - The Second Continental Congress made the term United States official, replacing United Colonies. |
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09/09/1948 - The People's Democratic Republic of Korea (North Korea) was created. |
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09/09/1957 - President Eisenhower signed into law the 1st civil rights bill to pass Congress since Reconstruction. |
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09/09/1976 - Communist Chinese leader Mao Tse-tung died in Beijing at the age of 82. |
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09/09/2002 - Iraq challenged the US to produce "one piece of evidence" that it was producing weapons of mass destruction. |
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09/10/1608 - John Smith became president of the Jamestown colony council in Virginia. |
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09/10/1846 - Elias Howe received a patent for his sewing machine. |
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09/10/1939 - Canada declared war on Nazi Germany. |
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09/10/1955 - Gunsmoke premiered on CBS. |
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09/10/1963 - Twenty black students entered Alabama public schools following a standoff between federal authorities and Governor George Wallace. |
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09/10/1991 - The Senate Judiciary Committee opened hearings on the nomination of Clarence Thomas to the US Supreme Court. |
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09/10/2010 - Eid-al Fitr (Ramadan ends) - Muslim |
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09/11/1962 - The Beatles made their 1st record for EMI - Love Me Do and P.S. I Love You. |
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09/11/1973 - Chilean President Salvador Allende died in a violent military coup. |
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09/11/1997 - Scots voted to create their own Parliament after 290 years of union with England. |
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09/11/2001 - Terrorists flew hijacked airliners into the World Trade towers in NYC and the Pentagon in Washington. A fourth plane crashed in Pennsylvania. |
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09/11/2010 - Rastafarian New Year's Day |
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09/11/2010 - Patriot Day |
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09/11/2010 - Ganesh Chaturathi - Hinduism |
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09/12/1609 - English explorer Henry Hudson sailed into the river that now bears his name. |
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09/12/1944 - During WWII, US Army troops entered Germany for the 1st time near Trier. |
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09/12/2000 - Hillary Rodham Clinton became the only First Lady to win an election as she claimed victory in the NY Democratic Senate primary. |
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09/12/2010 - Grandparents Day |
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09/13/1943 - Chiang Kai-shek became president of China. |
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09/13/1948 - Elected to the US Senate, Republican Margaret Chase Smith of Maine became the 1st woman to serve in both houses of Congress. |
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09/14/1814 - On this evening, Francis Scott Key stood onboard the ship Minden in Chesapeake Bay and composed the lines known as The Star-Spangled Banner. |
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09/14/1940 - Congress passed the Selective Service Act, providing for the 1st peacetime draft in US history. |
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09/15/1821 - Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and El Salvador proclaimed their independence from Spain. |
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09/15/1935 - The Nuremberg laws deprived German Jews of their citizenship and made the swastika the official symbol of Nazi Germany. |
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09/15/1963 - A bomb went off during Sunday services at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham killing four black girls. |
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09/15/2010 - September 15 through October 15 is National Hispanic Heritage Month. |
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09/16/1810 - Mexico began its revolt against Spanish rule. |
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09/16/1919 - The American Legion was incorporated by an act of Congress. |
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09/16/1940 - Sam Rayburn of Texas became Speaker of the House. |
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09/16/1940 - President Franklin Roosevelt signed into law the Selective Training and Service Act which set up the 1st peacetime military draft in US history. |
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09/16/2010 - Mexican Independence Day |
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09/16/2010 - Mayflower Day |
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09/17/1787 - A majority of delegates attending the constitutional convention in Philadelphia completed and signed the Constitution of the US. |
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09/17/1920 - The American Professional Football Association, a precursor of the National Football League, was formed in Canton OH. |
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09/17/1939 - The Soviet Union invaded Poland, more than two weeks after Nazi Germany launched its assault. |
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09/17/1978 - After meeting at Camp David, Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat signed a framework for a peace treaty. |
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09/17/2010 – Citizenship Day & Constitution Day (Federal law now requires all schools receiving federal funding to teach the Constitution on this day. Doesn’t that seem a little contrary to the spirit of the Constitution?) |
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09/17/2010 - Yom Kippur (Atonement) begins at sundown - Judaism |
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09/18/1850 - Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act which allowed slave owners to reclaim slaves who had escaped to other states. |
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09/18/1970 - Jimmy Hendrix died in London at age 27. |
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09/19/1796 - President Washington's farewell address was published. |
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09/19/1912 - When feminist Rebecca West, 19, reviewed Marriage by HG Wells, 45, and called him "the old maid among novelists," Wells asked to meet her. By the next spring, they had embarked on what became a 10-year love affair. |
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09/19/1957 - The US conducted its 1st underground nuclear test in the Nevada desert. |
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09/19/1986 - Federal health officials announced that the experimental drug AZT would be made available to thousands of AIDS patients. |
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09/20/1519 - Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan set out from Spain on a voyage to find a western passage to the Spice Islands in Indonesia. |
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09/20/2001 - President George W. Bush gave an address to a joint session of Congress cautioning the nation that there were "struggles ahead and dangers to face." |
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09/21/1792 - The French National Convention voted to abolish the monarchy. |
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09/21/1897 - The New York Sun ran its famous editorial that declared, "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus." |
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09/21/1949 - The People's Republic of China was established. |
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09/21/1970 - NFL Monday Night Football made its debut on ABC. |
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09/21/1981 - The Senate unanimously confirmed the nomination of Sandra Day O'Connor to become the 1st female justice on the Supreme Court. |
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09/22/1776 - Nathan Hale was hanged as a spy by the British during the Revolutionary War. |
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09/22/1862 - President Lincoln issued the preliminary Emancipation Proclamation which declared all slaves in rebel states should be free as of January 1, 1863. |
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09/22/1949 - The Soviet Union exploded its 1st atomic bomb. |
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09/22/1980 - The Persian Gulf conflict between Iran and Iraq erupted into full-scale war. |
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09/22/2010 - Sukkot begins at sundown - Judaism |
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09/23/1806 - The Lewis and Clark expedition returned to St. Louis from the Pacific Northwest. |
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09/23/1846 - German astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle discovered the planet Neptune. |
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09/23/1957 - A white mob forced nine black students who had entered Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas to withdraw. |
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09/23/2010 - First Day of Autumn |
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09/23/2010 - Equinox - Wicca, Celtic |
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09/23/2010 - Shubun no Hi / Autumnal Equinox Day - Shinto |
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09/24/1789 - Congress passed the First Judiciary Act which provided for an Attorney General and a Supreme Court. |
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09/25/1789 - The 1st US Congress adopted 12 amendments to the Constitution and sent them to the states for ratification. Ten of those amendments became the Bill of Rights. |
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09/25/1897 - Author William Faulkner was born in New Albany MS. |
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09/25/1957 - With 300 US Army troops standing guard, nine black children forced to withdraw from Central High School in Little Rock, because of unruly white crowds, were escorted to class. |
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09/25/1979 - Evita opened on Broadway. |
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09/25/1981 - Sandra Day O'Connor became the 1st female justice on the US Supreme Court. |
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09/25/2010 - Roi Wangol, Mousindi - Voudon |
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09/26/1789 - Thomas Jefferson became America's 1st secretary of state. |
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09/26/1914 - The Federal Trade Commission was established. |
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09/26/1950 - UN troops recaptured the South Korean capital of Seoul from the North Koreans. |
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09/26/1960 - The 1st televised debate between presidential candidates Richard Nixon and John Kennedy took place in Chicago. |
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09/26/1962 - The Beverly Hillbillies premiered on CBS. |
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09/26/1986 - William Rehnquist became the 16th chief justice of the US. |
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09/26/2010 - Gold Star Mother’s Day |
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09/27/1779 - John Adams was named to negotiate the Revolutionary War's peace terms with Britain. |
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09/27/1954 - Tonight, hosted by Steve Allen, debuted on NBC. |
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09/27/1964 - The Warren Commission issued a report concluding that Lee Harvey Oswald had acted alone in assassinating President Kennedy. |
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09/27/1996 - Afghanistan's Taliban drove the government out of Kabul and captured the capital. |
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09/28/1066 - William the Conqueror invaded England to claim the English throne. |
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09/28/1850 - The US Navy abolished flogging as a form of punishment. |
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09/29/1542 - Portuguese navigator Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo arrived at present-day San Diego. |
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09/29/1789 - The US War Department established a regular army with several hundred men. |
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09/29/2010 - Manman Aloumandia - Voudon |
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09/30/1791 - Mozart's opera The Magic Flute premiered in Vienna. |
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09/30/1868 - The 1st volume of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women was published. |
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09/30/1954 - The US Navy commissioned the 1st atomic-powered vessel, the submarine Nautilus. |
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09/30/1962 - Black student James Meredith succeeded on his fourth try in registering for classes at the University of Mississippi. |
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09/30/2010 - Maitresse Délai - Voudon |
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09/30/2010 - Shemini Atzeret - Judaism |
o Law Library of Congress: North Korea - Collection of links to websites on North Korea government, politics, and law. Includes legal guides, country studies, and links to constitutions and branches of government (where available).
o Council on Foreign Relations: North Korea - Background, articles, and opinion pieces about North Korea government and politics. Many of the articles focus on North Korea's nuclear program. From the Council on Foreign Relations, "an independent membership organization and a nonpartisan think tank and publisher."
o State of the Union (SOTU) - The site uses an interactive timeline to provide a visual representation of prominent words in presidential State of the Union addresses by displaying significant words as "determined by comparing how frequently the word occurs in the document to how frequently it appears throughout the entire body of SOTU addresses." The "Appendices" section describes the statistical methods used. Also includes the full text of addresses.
o Supreme Court Nominations Not Confirmed - Reasons include "Senate opposition to the nominating President, nominee's views, or incumbent Court; senatorial courtesy; perceived political unreliability of the nominee; perceived lack of ability; interest group opposition; and fear of altering the balance of the Court. These nominations have been the subject of extensive legal, historical, and political science writing, a selected list of which is included in this report." A Congressional Research Service (CRS) report for Congress. Opens directly into a PDF file.
o Small Town Papers - This site provides access to scanned images of recent issues of dozens of small town newspapers from throughout the United States. "Newspapers are updated periodically, 2-3 weeks after publication." The site also includes a searchable archive (of articles, photos, and advertisements), which covers different periods for each paper, some as far back as the 1890s. Access to the archives requires free registration.
o A summary of the US Supreme Court's 2005 ruling on eminent domain allowing "local governments to expropriate private property for development." Includes links to statements from organizations on both sides of the argument as well as to Supreme Court documents about the case (Kelo v. New London). From JURIST: The Legal Education Network.
o This website "serves as a centralized location to learn about the Congressional Research Service and search for CRS reports that have been released to the public by members of Congress." ("CRS Reports do not become public until a member of Congress releases the report.") Features a searchable database with more than 8,000 reports, a list of recently released reports, other collections of CRS reports, and a FAQ about CRS.
o Stem Cell Research - The official National Institutes of Health resource for stem cell research is at http://stemcells.nih.gov/index.asp. In 2005, NOVA aired an overview of the issue, at www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/3209/04.html. A 2001 Time Magazine feature is at www.time.com/time/2001/stemcells.
o Instances of Use of United States Armed Forces Abroad, 1798 - 2004 - This report lists hundreds of instances in which the United States has used its armed forces abroad in situations of military conflict or potential conflict or for other than normal peacetime purposes. It was compiled in part from various older lists and is intended primarily to provide a rough survey of past US military ventures abroad, without reference to the magnitude of the given instance noted.
o Homeland Security Knowledgebase
o If you're worried about retirement, try some of the following sites:
IRS Tax Information for Retirement Plans
Social Security Retirement Planner
Retirement Planning Resources from Smart Money
Personal Financial Planning Tools from Business Week
o Keeping the Shi'ites Straight - Based on the opinion that "no story has been more confusing for the Western news media to cover in postwar Iraq than the politics of the country's Shi'ite majority," this article provides a basic outline of Shi'ite religious history. Discusses the Sadr family (Muhammad Baqir as-Sadr, Ayatollah Muhammad Sadiq al-Sadr, and Muqtada as-Sadr), Muhammad Baqir al-Hakim, and other figures.
o MILITARY DEATH TOLL IN IRAQ - Developed "to provide information that has been scrupulously culled from government sources and cross-checked against other existing lists" about the military death toll in Iraq. It features statistics about fatalities and injuries for Iraqi Coalition armed forces. Data may be retrieved by month, name, location of occurrences, cause of death, state residence and more. Includes links to sources of information.
o This commercial site presents brief information about dozens of Black inventors from the United States. Some entries include portraits and images. Also includes a searchable timeline covering 1721-1988. Does not include bibliographic information.
o Annenberg Political Fact Check - This site describes itself as "a nonpartisan, nonprofit, 'consumer advocate' for voters that aims to reduce the level of deception and confusion in US politics." The site provides original articles, with summaries and sources, analyzing factual accuracy in "TV ads, debates, speeches, interviews and news releases." Searchable. From the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania.
o White House Tapes: The President Calling - "Three of America's most compelling presidents -- Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon -- bugged their White House offices and tapped their telephones. In this documentary project, American Radio Works eavesdrops on presidential telephone calls to hear how each man used one-on-one politics to shape history." Includes audio, a transcript of the documentary and background information on each president and the tapes.
o The Government Performance Project: The Way We Tax: A 50-State Report - This report from Congressional Quarterly analyzes "the tax structures and tax management of the 50 states" and evaluates "the way each state raises its revenues." It includes an overview of major sources of state revenue (sales taxes, personal income taxes, property taxes and corporate taxes) and features a description of the tax structure for each state. Also provides related reports back to 1999.
o History of Guantanamo Bay - Based on two volumes of "the history of both the area and of the base, contributed to the base by a former Commander of Naval Base Guantanamo Bay." It begins with Columbus' discovery of the Cuban bay in the Caribbean through the Spanish loss in 1898 and until 1982. Includes appendices for flora and fauna, treaties and agreements of 1934, bibliography and more. Also provides related links.
o First Amendment Library - Provides info on Supreme Court First Amendment jurisprudence, including rulings, arguments, briefs, historical material, commentary and press coverage.
o What Home Pages Tell (and Don't Tell) About a Candidate
o American Choices: Understanding Foreign Policy Debates - This "foreign policy self-assessment ... asks you to weigh some of the fundamental trade-offs facing US policymakers. At the end of it, you get a summary of your beliefs, and how they compare with others." Also includes annotated listings of foreign policy Web resources. From "e-the People, a nonprofit organization whose nonpartisan mission is to improve civic participation through Internet technologies."
o Interested in lowering your medication costs? Try Doctor Solve at 866-732-0305, www.needymeds.com, 800-PMA-INFO or www.benefitscheckup.org.
o If you are thinking of changing your electricity provider, go to www.powertochoose.org or call 866-797-4839.
o Drug Policy Alliance - This group claims to be "the leading organization working to broaden the public debate on drug policy and to promote realistic alternatives to the war on drugs based on science, compassion, health and human rights." The searchable site includes information about various topics such as specific drugs, national and international drug policies, drugs and race, drug treatment options and drugs and law enforcement. Also includes the Lindesmith Library catalog, a discussion forum, news and alerts.
o Check out www.unitedhealthalliance.com or www.CrossBorderPharmacy.com for ordering prescription drugs from Canadian pharmacies.
o Primary Documents in American History
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