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The Man is always up to his dirty little
tricks. Let's take a step back and review the timeline of The Man
and the fight against Him in history:
July 16:
1439 - Kissing is banned in England
1935 - 1st automatic parking meter in US installed, Oklahoma
City, Ok
July 17:
1862 - US army authorized to accept blacks as laborers
1990 - Sadam Hussein's Revolutionary Day speech claims
Kuwait stole oil from Iraq
July 18:
1969 - A car driven by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass.,
plunged off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island near Martha's Vineyard.
His passenger, 28-year-old Mary Jo Kopechne, died.
2001 - The U.S. Justice Department revealed that 449 weapons
including handguns, submachine guns and rifles as well as over 180 computers
were missing from the FBI's inventory.
July 19:
1848 - 1st women's rights convention
(Seneca Falls, NY)
July 21:
1925 - Following a sensational 12-day
trial, high school biology teacher John T. Scopeswas found guilty of
teaching evolution in his Dayton, TN classroom and was fined $100.
July 22:
1967 - Who dreamed up this billing? Jimi Hendrix quits
as opening act of the Monkees' tour.
1980 - "The report on Teenage Smokers (14-17) indicates
that RJR continues to gradually decline and between the spring and
fall 1979 periods, RJR's total share declined from 21.3 to 19.9. Hopefully,
our various planned activities that will be implement this fall will
aid in some way in reducing or correcting these trends." (R.J.
Reynolds interoffice correspondence, July 22, 1980) (More
Info)
1992 - Wayne McLaren, who posed for some promotional photographs
as the Marlboro Man in 1976, succumbed to lung cancer at age 51.
July 23:
 1829
- A tool of The Man was born - the first U.S. patent of a typewriter.
William Austin Burt of Mount Vernon, Michigan, patented the first typewriter
on July 23, 1829.
For decades, typing was primarily performed by secretaries and clerks,
not executives. This lack of adoption by executives has also been suggested
as a contributor to the slow adoption of early desktop computers in
the 1980's.
1993 - In the middle of the night Lorena Bobbit severs
her husband John's penis and drives off into the night, casually discarding
the organ in a farm field. Surgeons successfully reattach the penis,
allowing John to enter the porn industry.
1996 - A story by Watergate reporter Bob Woodward in the
Washington Post reveals that Hillary Clinton employed psychic Jean Houston
to help her get in touch with her inner "Eleanor Roosevelt".
July 24:
1997 - AOL is definitely in cahoots with The Man. On July
24, 1997, America Online announced it had changed a previously announced
policy and would not give telemarketers the phone numbers of its 8.5
million customers. Damn right it wouldn't! AOL members had created an
outcry when the company announced it would provide subscribers' home
phone numbers.
July 25:
1990 - US Ambassador tells Iraq, US
won't take sides in Iraq-Kuwait dispute.
July 26:
1953 - Fidel Castro leads attack on
Moncada Barracks, begins Cuban revolution.
July 27:
1974 - House Judiciary Committee votes 27-11 recommends
Nixon impeachment .
July 28:
1983 - AL Pres Lee MacPhail threw out
umpire's decision & allows George Brett's 2 run HR against Yanks
on July 24 (pine tar game).
July 29:
1918 - Richard Joshua (R.J.) Reynolds
(of tobacco fame), 68, dies of pancreatic cancer in Winston-Salem, N.C.
Go figure.
1988 - Last US Playboy Club (Lansing
Mich) closes .
1988 - South African govt bans anti-apartheid
film "Cry Freedom".
July 30:
1975 - Teamsters Pres Jimmy Hoffa disappears
in suburban Detroit.
July 31:
1998 - Good idea surpressed by The
Man. Vice President Al Gore urged Congress to protect online privacy
through laws that would ban the collection of personal data from children
and impose other strict penalties for Internet fraud. He called for
legislation forcing businesses to protect medical, financial, and other
personal data, and for harsh punishment for criminals stealing Social
Security numbers or other private information. The White House said
it would appoint a "privacy czar" to oversee the creation
of the privacy policy.(History
Channel)
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