On this day.... 1804 Jefferson presented with a “mammoth loaf” of bread Two yrs earlier he was sent a 1200 lb hunk of cheese so Tom threw a party. According to written observations, the party quickly degenerated into a noisy, drunken affair.
Pretty sure the cheese was given to Jackson. There was a Memory Palace episode about it. http://thewestwingweekly.com/episodes/005
Au contraire Bon Ami...Jackson was an Andy come lately! Two years earlier, a group of Baptist women from Massachusetts had sent Jefferson a 1,200- pound hunk of cheese in gratitude for his support of religious tolerance.
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
Tomorrow we celebrate a milestone of history. The Jack Grimes [F] Presidential Campaign Thread 11 years since his magnificence was 1st thrust upon us. HAIL GRIMES!!!
Not sure. Some stories say it was before, some say it was in the early stages of building the city. I like the story that Rumulus killed Remus cause Remus kept leaping over the wall on the Palantine Hill pointing out it was too short.
1965 – U.S. president Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law (pictured), outlawing literacy tests and other discriminatory voting practices that had been responsible for the widespread disfranchisement of African Americans.
Today is Katyn Massacre Victims Remembrance Day The #Katyn massacre was a series of mass executions of Polish intelligentsia - officers & prisoners of war - committed in April 1940 by the NKVD who were fulfilling the orders of Stalin and Soviet Union high command pic.twitter.com/963cBgLipP— Embassy of Poland U.S. (@PolishEmbassyUS) April 13, 2018 22,000 Polish prisoners of war were executed by the Soviets in the Katyn, Tver and Kcharkiv forests. Amongst the victims were: officers, lawyers, doctors, professors and priests pic.twitter.com/tPdJGO2zp0— Embassy of Poland U.S. (@PolishEmbassyUS) April 13, 2018
Cup Winners Cup Lechia vs Juventus Return match (2:3) after losing the game at Turin (0:7) earlier that September Lechia won the Polish Cup the previous season while in the Third Division (won the 3rd to be promoted) So when they played Juve, they were in the Polish 2nd Division 40,000 thousands fans (including Lech Wałęsa) in the stands chanting "Solidarność! Solidarność! Solidarność!" caused the start of the second half to be delayed and the official Polish broadcast to be muted for the entire second half (posted in other relevant threads)