1792
Maximilien Robespierre presents the petition of the Commune of Paris to the Legislative Assembly, which demanded the formation of a revolutionary tribunal.
1793
French Revolution: a levée en masse is decreed by the National Convention.
1812
War of 1812: American General William Hull surrenders Fort Detroit without a fight to the British Army.
1819
Seventeen people die and over 600 are injured in cavalry charges at a public meeting at St. Peter’s Field, Manchester, England.
1841
U.S. President John Tyler vetoes a bill which called for the re-establishment of the Second Bank of the United States. Enraged Whig Party members riot outside the White House in the most violent demonstration on White House grounds in U.S. history.
1869
Battle of Acosta Ñu: A Paraguayan battalion made up of children is massacred by the Brazilian Army during the War of the Triple Alliance.
1896
Skookum Jim Mason, George Carmack and Dawson Charlie discover gold in a tributary of the Klondike River in Canada, setting off the Klondike Gold Rush.
1920
Ray Chapman of the Cleveland Indians is hit on the head by a fastball thrown by Carl Mays of the New York Yankees, and dies early the next day. Chapman was the second player to die from injuries sustained in a Major League Baseball game, the first being Doc Powers in 1909.
1929
The 1929 Palestine riots break out in the British Mandate of Palestine between Arabs and Jews and continue until the end of the month. In total, 133 Jews and 116 Arabs are killed.
1942
World War II: The two-person crew of the U.S. naval blimp L-8 disappears without a trace on a routine anti-submarine patrol over the Pacific Ocean. The blimp drifts without her crew and crash-lands in Daly City, California.
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Yet it is important to realize that the Revolution suddenly and effectively ended the cultural climate that had allowed black slavery, as well as other forms of bondage and unfreedom. With the revolutionary movement, black slavery became excruciatingly conspicuous in a way that it had not been in the older monarchial society with its many calibrations and degrees of unfreedom; and Americans in 1775-1776 began attacking it with a vehemence that was inconceivable earlier.--Wood
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Intel and the Trump administration are in talks about the U.S. government taking a financial stake in the chip maker.
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The White House confirmed to Forbes an Axios report that the West Wing created a scorecard rating 553 companies on how strongly they have supported President Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill.” The scorecards also take into account companies’ social media posts, press releases, video testimonials, advertisements, and attendance at White House events, Axios reported.
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SatStats
Over 26 years, the real (relative) price of Day Care and Preschool has increased by 36%, while Pet Services have gone up by 28%.
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The fraction of children living with two parents is the highest it’s been since 1991. But there are also fewer teen pregnancies.
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China alone accounts for almost 1000 hotels that include Vienna in their name, far more than any country, including Austria itself.
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Over 100,000 accounts are closed each month on Chess.com because of cheating.
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Young men with a college degree now have the same unemployment rate as young men who didn’t go to college, completely erasing the graduate employment premium.
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The average South African woman weighs more than the average South African man.
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A recent modeling study concluded that the global coronavirus vaccination campaign saved 2.5 million lives from 2020 to 2024, mainly among the elderly.
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6% of job seekers said they’d participated in interview fraud, either posing as someone else or having someone stand in for them, according to a survey by Gartner. The research group predicts that by 2028, one in four job-candidate profiles worldwide will be fake.
From July 2024 to July 2025, real average hourly earnings increased 1.2 percent, seasonally adjusted. This, combined with a 0.3 percent increase in the average workweek, resulted in a 1.4 percent increase in real average weekly earnings over this period.
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MAID, Canada's euthanasia program, now accounts for about one in 20 deaths in Canada—more than Alzheimer’s and diabetes combined—surpassing countries where assisted dying has been legal for far longer.
Fertility numbers:
Yet it is important to realize that the Revolution suddenly and effectively ended the cultural climate that had allowed black slavery, as well as other forms of bondage and unfreedom. With the revolutionary movement, black slavery became excruciatingly conspicuous in a way that it had not been in the older monarchial society with its many calibrations and degrees of unfreedom; and Americans in 1775-1776 began attacking it with a vehemence that was inconceivable earlier.--Wood
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Intel and the Trump administration are in talks about the U.S. government taking a financial stake in the chip maker.
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The White House confirmed to Forbes an Axios report that the West Wing created a scorecard rating 553 companies on how strongly they have supported President Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill.” The scorecards also take into account companies’ social media posts, press releases, video testimonials, advertisements, and attendance at White House events, Axios reported.
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SatStats
Over 26 years, the real (relative) price of Day Care and Preschool has increased by 36%, while Pet Services have gone up by 28%.
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The fraction of children living with two parents is the highest it’s been since 1991. But there are also fewer teen pregnancies.
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China alone accounts for almost 1000 hotels that include Vienna in their name, far more than any country, including Austria itself.
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Over 100,000 accounts are closed each month on Chess.com because of cheating.
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Young men with a college degree now have the same unemployment rate as young men who didn’t go to college, completely erasing the graduate employment premium.
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The average South African woman weighs more than the average South African man.
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A recent modeling study concluded that the global coronavirus vaccination campaign saved 2.5 million lives from 2020 to 2024, mainly among the elderly.
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6% of job seekers said they’d participated in interview fraud, either posing as someone else or having someone stand in for them, according to a survey by Gartner. The research group predicts that by 2028, one in four job-candidate profiles worldwide will be fake.
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The share of renters who are aged 65 and older has increased 30%,
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From July 2024 to July 2025, real average hourly earnings increased 1.2 percent, seasonally adjusted. This, combined with a 0.3 percent increase in the average workweek, resulted in a 1.4 percent increase in real average weekly earnings over this period.
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MAID, Canada's euthanasia program, now accounts for about one in 20 deaths in Canada—more than Alzheimer’s and diabetes combined—surpassing countries where assisted dying has been legal for far longer.
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--The UN projects the U.S. fertility rate will remain roughly stable through the end of the century at about 1.6.
--Total fertility rates have declined in every world region since 1950.
--Africa is the only world region where the fertility rate is currently higher than the global replacement-level fertility. Africa’s fertility rate is 4.0 births per woman, falling from 6.5. Europe has the world’s lowest fertility rate at 1.4.
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--Total fertility rates have declined in every world region since 1950.
--Africa is the only world region where the fertility rate is currently higher than the global replacement-level fertility. Africa’s fertility rate is 4.0 births per woman, falling from 6.5. Europe has the world’s lowest fertility rate at 1.4.
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