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Religious Freedom Day
By Micro.Theater,
i would love to have religious freedom
the first amendment is the first for a reason.. its the MOST IMPORTANT
religious freedom from unwanted advancements by unknown bodys in a dream state to persuade one against performance or practice of ones religion
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right after solar eclipse we can celebrate the new Seattle art commune as a club in this crazy joint of a website
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Today In History: Events in November 24
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2016
The government of Colombia and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia—People's Army sign a revised peace deal, bringing an end to the country's more than 50-year-long civil war. -
2015
An explosion on a bus carrying Tunisian Presidential Guard personnel in Tunisia's capital Tunis leaves at least 14 people dead. -
2015
A terrorist attack on a hotel in Al-Arish, Egypt, kills at least seven people and injures 12 others. -
2015
A Russian Air Force Sukhoi Su-24 fighter jet is shot down by the Turkish Air Force over the Syria–Turkey border, killing one of the two pilots; a Russian marine is also killed during a subsequent rescue effort. -
2013
Iran signs an interim agreement with the P5+1 countries, limiting its nuclear program in exchange for reduced sanctions. -
2012
A fire at a clothing factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh, kills at least 112 people. -
1992
China Southern Airlines Flight 3943 crashes on approach to Guilin Qifengling Airport in Guilin, China, killing all 141 people on board. -
1976
The Çaldıran-Muradiye earthquake in eastern Turkey kills between 4,000 and 5,000 people. -
1974
Donald Johanson and Tom Gray discover the 40% complete Australopithecus afarensis skeleton, nicknamed "Lucy" (after The Beatles song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"), in the Awash Valley of Ethiopia's Afar Depression. -
1973
A national speed limit is imposed on the Autobahn in Germany because of the 1973 oil crisis. The speed limit lasts only four months. -
1971
During a severe thunderstorm over Washington state, a hijacker calling himself Dan Cooper (aka D. B. Cooper) parachutes from a Northwest Orient Airlines plane with $200,000 in ransom money. He has never been found. -
1969
Apollo program: The Apollo 12 command module splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean, ending the second manned mission to land on the Moon. -
1966
Bulgarian TABSO Flight 101 crashes near Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, killing all 82 people on board. -
1965
Joseph-Désiré Mobutu seizes power in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and becomes President; he rules the country (which he renames Zaire in 1971) for over 30 years, until being overthrown by rebels in 1997. -
1963
Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin of President John F. Kennedy, is killed by Jack Ruby. -
1962
The influential British satirical television programme That Was the Week That Was is first broadcast. -
1962
Cold War: The West Berlin branch of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany forms a separate party, the Socialist Unity Party of West Berlin. -
1944
World War II: The 73rd Bombardment Wing launches the first attack on Tokyo from the Northern Mariana Islands. -
1943
World War II: At the battle of Makin the USS Liscome Bay is torpedoed near Tarawa and sinks, killing 650 men. -
1941
World War II: The United States grants Lend-Lease to the Free French Forces. -
1940
World War II: The First Slovak Republic becomes a signatory to the Tripartite Pact, officially joining the Axis powers. -
1935
The Senegalese Socialist Party holds its second congress. -
1932
In Washington, D.C., the FBI Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory (better known as the FBI Crime Lab) officially opens. -
1922
Nine Irish Republican Army members are executed by an Irish Free State firing squad. Among them is author Erskine Childers, who had been arrested for illegally carrying a revolver. -
1917
In Milwaukee, nine members of the Milwaukee Police Department are killed by a bomb, the most deaths in a single event in U.S. police history until the September 11 attacks in 2001. -
1906
A 13-6 victory by the Massillon Tigers over their rivals, the Canton Bulldogs, for the "Ohio League" Championship, leads to accusations that the championship series was fixed and results in the first major scandal in professional American football. -
1877
Anna Sewell's animal welfare novel Black Beauty is published. -
1863
American Civil War: Battle of Lookout Mountain: Near Chattanooga, Tennessee, Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant capture Lookout Mountain and begin to break the Confederate siege of the city led by General Braxton Bragg. -
1859
Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species. -
1850
Danish troops defeat a Schleswig-Holstein force in the town of Lottorf, Schleswig-Holstein. -
1835
The Texas Provincial Government authorizes the creation of a horse-mounted police force called the Texas Rangers (which is now the Texas Ranger Division of the Texas Department of Public Safety). -
1832
South Carolina passes the Ordinance of Nullification, declaring that the Tariffs of 1832 and 1838 were null and void in the state, beginning the Nullification Crisis. -
1750
Tarabai, regent of the Maratha Empire, imprisons Rajaram II for refusing to remove Balaji Baji Rao from the post of peshwa. -
1642
Abel Tasman becomes the first European to discover the island Van Diemen's Land (later renamed Tasmania). -
1542
Battle of Solway Moss: An English army defeats a much larger Scottish force near the River Esk in Dumfries and Galloway. -
1429
Hundred Years' War: Joan of Arc unsuccessfully besieges La Charité. -
1359
Peter I of Cyprus ascends the throne of Cyprus after his father, Hugh IV of Cyprus, abdicates. -
1248
An overnight landslide on the north side of Mont Granier, one of the largest historical rockslope failures ever recorded in Europe, destroys five villages. -
1227
Gąsawa massacre: At an assembly of Piast dukes at Gąsawa, Polish Prince Leszek the White, Duke Henry the Bearded and others are attacked by assassins while bathing. -
1190
Conrad of Montferrat becomes King of Jerusalem upon his marriage to Isabella I of Jerusalem. -
380
Theodosius I makes his adventus, or formal entry, into Constantinople.
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