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Posted: Mar 25, 2014 - 6:04am

1811 – Percy Bysshe Shelley is expelled from the University of Oxford for publishing the pamphlet The Necessity of Atheism.
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Posted: Mar 25, 2014 - 6:04am

1807 – The Slave Trade Act becomes law, abolishing the slave trade in the British Empire.
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Posted: Mar 24, 2014 - 6:59am

 Red_Dragon wrote:
1989 – Exxon Valdez oil spill: In Prince William Sound in Alaska, the Exxon Valdez spills 240,000 barrels (38,000 m3) of petroleum after running aground.

 
It was a Friday.  At the time I was managing the fueling part of a rest plaza on the Ohio Turnpike, and as a BP employee.  I got a call from HQ advising me that I was to raise prices across the board by 10¢ per gallon on Saturday morning and another 10¢ on Sunday morning.  Back in that time, 10¢ per was a big deal.  We were to spread it out over two days to soften the shock.

The Valdez basically hadn't even come to a stop yet and the prices were being jacked up before any real impact was known.  It was a turning point in my life regarding / revealing / proving how big oil will exploit any opportunity to make money.  At the time, I already had about 50,000 gallons in the ground.  Y'all can do the math ...


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Posted: Mar 24, 2014 - 6:30am

1989 – Exxon Valdez oil spill: In Prince William Sound in Alaska, the Exxon Valdez spills 240,000 barrels (38,000 m3) of petroleum after running aground.
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Posted: Mar 24, 2014 - 6:28am

1965 – NASA spacecraft Ranger 9, equipped to convert its signals into a form suitable for showing on domestic television, brings images of the Moon into ordinary homes before crash landing.
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Posted: Mar 24, 2014 - 6:28am

1958 – Rock'N'Roll teen idol Elvis Presley is drafted into the U.S. Army.
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Posted: Mar 23, 2014 - 7:51am

2001 – The Russian Mir space station is disposed of, breaking up in the atmosphere before falling into the southern Pacific Ocean near Fiji.
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Posted: Mar 23, 2014 - 7:49am

1989 – Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann announce their discovery of cold fusion at the University of Utah.
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Posted: Mar 23, 2014 - 7:48am

1965 – NASA launches Gemini 3, the United States' first two-man space flight (crew: Gus Grissom and John Young).
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Posted: Mar 23, 2014 - 7:48am

1956 – Pakistan becomes the first Islamic republic in the world.
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Posted: Mar 23, 2014 - 7:47am

1933 – The Reichstag passes the Enabling Act of 1933, making Adolf Hitler dictator of Germany.
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Posted: Mar 23, 2014 - 7:46am

1857 – Elisha Otis's first elevator is installed at 488 Broadway New York City.
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Posted: Mar 21, 2014 - 4:34am

1952 – Alan Freed presents the Moondog Coronation Ball, the first rock and roll concert, in Cleveland, Ohio.
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Posted: Mar 20, 2014 - 6:03am

1916 – Albert Einstein publishes his general theory of relativity.
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Posted: Mar 19, 2014 - 6:10am

1962 – Highly influential artist, Bob Dylan releases his first album, Bob Dylan, on Columbia Records label.
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Posted: Mar 19, 2014 - 6:07am

1931 – Gambling is legalized in Nevada.
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Posted: Mar 19, 2014 - 6:06am

1918 – The U.S. Congress establishes time zones and approves daylight saving time.
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Posted: Mar 19, 2014 - 6:06am

1895 – Auguste and Louis Lumière record their first footage using their newly patented cinematograph.
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Posted: Mar 18, 2014 - 6:01am

1968 – Gold standard: The U.S. Congress repeals the requirement for a gold reserve to back US currency.
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Posted: Mar 18, 2014 - 6:01am

1965 – Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov, leaving his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes, becomes the first person to walk in space.
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