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Inspired Living
The entire book of Deuteronomy is evidence that Moses learned his lesson well. And so should we
Prevent A Divorce!
The author's most asked question about love and marriage. She explains what husbands and wives can do to create more intimacy and trust in their relationship
Wealth Strategies
What do retirees do with their money when interest rates are next to nothing? Here's how pulling annuities into the mix can help
Ess, Ess/ Eat, Eat!
How cooking with Impossible's Burger meat stands up to the real thing (2 RECIPES!)
[ W O R T H 1 0 0 0 W O R D S ]
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[ T O D A Y I N H I S T O R Y ]
On this day in . . . • 1487, citizens of Leeuwarden, Netherlands strike against ban on foreign beer
• 1858, Republican senatorial candidate Abraham Lincoln formally challenged Democrat Stephen A. Douglas to a series of political debates; the result was seven face-to-face encounters
• 1866, Tennessee became the first state to be readmitted to the Union after the Civil War
• 1929, President Hoover proclaimed the Kellogg-Briand Pact, which renounced war as an instrument of foreign policy
• 1943, British bombers raid Hamburg, Germany, by night in Operation Gomorrah, while Americans bomb it by day in its own "Blitz Week"
• 1959, During the grand opening ceremony of the American National Exhibition in Moscow, Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev engage in a heated debate about capitalism and communism in the middle of a model kitchen set up for the fair. The so-called "kitchen debate" became one of the most famous episodes of the Cold War.
• 1967, during an official state visit to Canada, French President Charles de Gaulle declares to a crowd of over 100,000 in Montreal: Vive le Quebec libre! ("Long live free Quebec!"). The statement, interpreted as support for Quebec independence, delighted many Quebecers but angered the Canadian government and many English Canadians
• 1969, the Apollo 11 astronauts -- two of whom had been the first men to set foot on the moon -- splashed down safely in the Pacific. The American effort to send astronauts to the moon had its origins in a famous appeal President John F. Kennedy made to a special joint session of Congress on May 25, 1961: "I believe this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to Earth."
• 1974, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that President Nixon had to turn over subpoenaed White House tape recordings to the Watergate special prosecutor
• 1975, an Apollo spacecraft splashed down in the Pacific, completing a mission which included the first-ever docking with a Soyuz capsule from the Soviet Union
• 1983, George Brett batting for the Kansas City Royals against the New York Yankees, has a game-winning home run nullified in the "Pine Tar Incident"
• 1996, two bombs blamed on Tamil separatists ripped through a commuter train near Colombo, Sri Lanka, killing 64 civilians and wounding more than 400
• 1997, the Scottish scientists who produced Dolly the cloned sheep announced they had cloned a sheep with human genes
• 1998, a gunman opened fire at the Capitol in Washington, killing two police officers and wounding a tourist. Police shot the gunman, who survived and was later charged with murder
• 2002, nine coal miners were trapped in a flooded mine in western Pennsylvania; the story ended happily three days later with the rescue of all nine. ALSO: Democrat James Traficant is expelled from the United States House of Representatives on a vote of 420 to 1
• 2011, thousands of protesters angry about Spain's brutal economic woes once again filled Madrid's downtown Sol square after many had spent weeks marching hundreds of miles from far-flung cities across the country
• 2014, an Air Algerie plane carrying 118 people dropped from radar en route to Algiers from Ouagadougou, the capital of the West African country of Burkina Faso, and crashed in Mali. There were no survivors
• 2018, Brian Kemp, a self-described "politically incorrect conservative" carrying the endorsement of President Donald Trump, won Georgia's GOP gubernatorial runoff. His opponent, black Dem Stacey Abrams, stil disputes her eventual loss. ALSO: Ivanka Trump announced the folding of her fashion line, which had been targeted by boycotts
• 2019, the Federal Trade Commission charged Facebook a record-breaking $5 billion penalty for violating a 2012 order related to fooling users about their ability to control the privacy of their personal information
[ I N S I G H T ]
David Harsanyi: Who you calling a fascist?
News of the Weird: Creme de la Weird
Lenore Skenazy: Dad Can't Be Penalized for Raising Competent Kids
Greg Crosby: I'm Done With Baseball
MediaWatch by Tim Graham: The Real Collusion Scandal of the 2016 Campaign
Jeff Jacoby: Voting is a privilege that prisoners rightly forfeit
Deroy Murdock: Old Gray Lady's family history: All the slavery that's fit to conceal
• Judge orders Seattle Times, four TV stations to give photos, videos of protests to police
Josh Hammer: The Ruling Class Has Sold Out the American People on Communist China
Rich Lowry: In Defense of Liz Cheney
David Limbaugh: Trump Must Directly Appeal to African Americans
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