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>We are 90 weeks from election 2020

"Alrighty then"!

45 Weeks: Sunday, December 22, 2019. Lots of happenings on December 22.

The December Solstice 2019 is on Sunday, December 22, 2019 (in 316 days).

Winter Camps 2019 — Muslim Youth of North America

https://www.myna.org/upcoming-events/2019/12/22/winter-camps-2019.

1944 – World War II: Battle of the Bulge

1964 – The first test flight of the SR-71 (Blackbird) took place at Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, California.

1968 – Cultural Revolution: People's Daily posted the instructions of Mao Zedong that "The intellectual youth must go to the country, and will be educated from living in rural poverty

1974 – The house of former British Prime Minister Edward Heath is attacked by members of the Provisional IRA

1989 – Communist President of Romania Nicolae Ceaușescu is overthrown

1989 – Berlin's Brandenburg Gate re-opens after nearly 30 years, effectively ending the division of East and West Germany.

2010 – The repeal of the Don't ask, don't tell policy,

2017 – The UN Security Council votes 15–0 in favor of additional sanctions on North Korea

1943 – Paul Wolfowitz, American banker and politician, 25th United States Deputy Secretary of Defense

I don't have salient dates for FISA/SpyGate handy. Anyone have them, toss them into the salad.

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>>We are 90 weeks from election 2020

>"Alrighty then"!

60 Weeks: Sunday April 5, 2020. Happenings on that date:

1614 – In Virginia, Native American Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe.

1621 – The Mayflower sets sail from Plymouth, Massachusetts on a return trip to England.

1792 – United States President George Washington exercises his authority to veto a bill, the first time this power is used in the United States.

1862 – American Civil War: The Battle of Yorktown begins.

1922 – The American Birth Control League, forerunner of Planned Parenthood, is incorporated.

1933 – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs two executive orders: 6101 to establish the Civilian Conservation Corps, and 6102 "forbidding the Hoarding of Gold Coin, Gold Bullion, and Gold Certificates" by U.S. citizens.

1951 – Cold War: Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are sentenced to death for spying for the Soviet Union.

1969 – Vietnam War: Massive antiwar demonstrations occur in many U.S. cities.

1976 – In China, the April Fifth Movement leads to the Tiananmen Incident.

2009 – North Korea launches its controversial Kwangmyŏngsŏng-2 rocket. The satellite passed over mainland Japan,

Palm Sunday in 2020 is on Sunday, April 5 (first Sunday of April).

Born:

1944 – Peter T. King, American soldier, lawyer, and politician

1981 – Michael A. Monsoor, American sailor, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 2006)

Deaths:

1976 – Howard Hughes, American pilot, engineer, and director (b. 1905)

1994 – Kurt Cobain, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1967)

1997 – Allen Ginsberg, American poet (b. 1926)

2004 – Sławomir Rawicz, Polish lieutenant (b. 1915)

2008 – Charlton Heston, American actor, director, and political activist (b. 1923)

Lots of interesting connections on this date.

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>>5108841

>>5106760 (pb)

>>5108501 ((lb)

>>We are 90 weeks from election 2020

>>"Alrighty then"!

90 Weeks: Sunday November 1, 2020:

All Saints' Day 2020 is on Sunday, November 1, 2020 (in 630 days).

Daylight Saving Time 2020 ends on Sunday, November 1st 2020 (in 630 days). "Dark to light"?

1683 – The British Crown colony of New York is subdivided into 12 counties.

1765 – The British Parliament enacts the Stamp Act on the Thirteen Colonies in order to help pay for British military operations in North America.

1800 – John Adams becomes the first President of the United States to live in the Executive Mansion (later renamed the White House).

1848 – In Boston, Massachusetts, the first medical school for women, Boston Female Medical School (which later merged with the Boston University School of Medicine), opens.

1861 – American Civil War: U.S. President Abraham Lincoln appoints George B. McClellan as the commander of the Union Army, replacing General Winfield Scott.

1894 – Buffalo Bill, 15 of his Indians, and Annie Oakley were filmed by Thomas Edison in his Black Maria Studio in West Orange, New Jersey.

1896 – A picture showing the bare breasts of a woman appears in National Geographic magazine for the first time.

1897 – The first Library of Congress building opens its doors to the public

1911 – World's first combat aerial bombing mission takes place in Libya during the Italo-Turkish War.

1914 – World War I: The first British Royal Navy defeat of the war with Germany, the Battle of Coronel,

1938 – Seabiscuit defeats War Admiral

1941 – American photographer Ansel Adams takes a picture of a moonrise over the town of Hernandez, New Mexico

1942 – World War II: Matanikau Offensive begins during the Guadalcanal Campaign and ends three days later with an American victory.

1943 – World War II: In the Battle of Empress Augusta Bay, United States Marines, the 3rd Marine Division, land on Bougainville in the Solomon Islands.

1943 – World War II: In support of the landings on Bougainville, U.S. aircraft carrier forces attack the huge Japanese base at Rabaul.

1944 – World War II: A United States Army Air Forces B-29 Superfortress conducted the first flight by an Allied aircraft over the Tokyo region of Japan since the 1942 Doolittle Raid.

1945 – The official North Korean newspaper, Rodong Sinmun, is first published under the name Chongro.

1952 – Nuclear weapons testing: The United States successfully detonates Ivy Mike, the first thermonuclear device, at the Eniwetok atoll.

1955 – The Vietnam War begins.

1956 – Hungarian Revolution:1

960 – While campaigning for President of the United States, John F. Kennedy announces his idea of the Peace Corps.

1963 – The South Vietnamese coup begins

1973 – Watergate scandal: Leon Jaworski is appointed as the new Watergate Special Prosecutor.