1519
Hernán Cortés enters Tenochtitlán and Aztec ruler Moctezuma welcomes him with a great celebration.
1576
Eighty Years’ War: Pacification of Ghent – The States-General of the Netherlands meet and unite to oppose Spanish occupation.
1602
The Bodleian Library at Oxford University is opened to the public.
1605
Robert Catesby, ringleader of the Gunpowder Plotters, is killed.
1745
Charles Edward Stuart invades England with an army of ~5000 that would later participate in the Battle of Culloden.
1861
American Civil War: The “Trent Affair” – The USS San Jacinto stops the United Kingdom mail ship Trent and arrests two Confederate envoys, sparking a diplomatic crisis between the UK and US.
1895
While experimenting with electricity, Wilhelm Röntgen discovers the X-ray.
1923
Beer Hall Putsch: In Munich, Adolf Hitler leads the Nazis in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the German government.
1942
World War II: French resistance coup in Algiers, in which 400 civilian French patriots neutralize Vichyist XIXth Army Corps after 15 hours of fighting, and arrest several Vichyst generals, allowing the immediate success of Operation Torch in Algiers.
1942
World War II: Operation Torch – United States and United Kingdom forces land in French North Africa.
1950
Korean War: United States Air Force Lt. Russell J. Brown, while piloting an F-80 Shooting Star, shoots down two North Korean MiG-15s in the first jet aircraft-to-jet aircraft dogfight in history.
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“The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class—it is the cause of humankind”--ANNA JULIA COOPER
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The European Court of Human Rights has now declared that Europeans have both a right to smoke in prison and a right not to be exposed to smoke in prison.
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Foreign nationals seeking to immigrate to the United States could now be denied visas and green cards based on pre-existing chronic health conditions such as diabetes and heart disease, under new guidance issued by the Trump administration.
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James Watson, a renowned molecular biologist and one of the Nobel Prize winners for discovering the structure of DNA, died Thursday after a brief illness, according to a statement from his former employer.
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AI might well homogenize the information available to the citizenry, but information is not knowledge, and knowledge is not wisdom.
Should we, instead, start referring to disparities in the country as results of 'the wisdom gap?'
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SatStats
American Murder
Since 1999, an average of about 18,816 murders per year have been committed in the United States.
At the present rate, 1 in 200 Americans will ultimately be murdered.
In the United States, the portion of murders in which a suspect is identified and acted upon by the criminal justice system declined from 92% in 1960 to 58% in 2023.[70] [71] In some cities like Chicago, this figure has been as low as 25%
In 2023, the police chief of Washington DC reported that “the average homicide suspect has been arrested 11 times prior to them committing a homicide.”
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The average Muslim family in England has 6-8 children. 63% of Muslims in England do not work.
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In 2024, federal, state, and local governments in the U.S. spent $1.4 trillion on education.
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Earnings
In 2023, U.S. residents aged 25 to 64 reported average cash earnings of $60,709. Cash earnings do not include non-cash compensation, such as employee fringe benefits.
In 2023, 80% of U.S. residents aged 25 to 64 reported at least some cash earnings, and 20% did not report any cash earnings.
Among U.S. residents aged 25 to 64 who reported cash earnings in 2023, the average was $75,720. Among the same group, the median was $56,150.
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37% of U.S. adults were able to answer a question similar to this one requiring basic logic, addition, and division:
How much would you pay during the sale if you purchase the two pairs of shoes shown?
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