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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:
March 19:
1965 - 49 arrested in New York City for protesting
Chase Manhattan Bank loans to South Africa.
1987 - PTL leader Jim Bakker resigns from PTL after
sex scandal with Jessica Hahn.
March 20:
1852 - Harriet Beecher Stowe's controversial "Uncle
Tom's Cabin" published (Boston). For more info about this, check
out the History of The Man for June 5.
1969 - John Lennon married Yoko Ono (If you ever heard
her music, she is definitely part of an evil conspiracy!)
1997 - Liggett admits cigarettes are addictive
March 21:
1965 - Martin Luther King Jr. faught The Man as he led
the start of a civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.
2000 - A divided Supreme Court ruled the government lacked
authority to regulate tobacco as an addictive drug.
March 22:
1765 - Stamp Act passed: 1st direct British tax on colonists
1882 - Congress outlawed polygamy.
1972 - Congress sent the proposed Equal Rights Amendment
to the Constitution to the states for ratification. (It fell three states
short of the 38 needed for approval.)
1972 - Nixon Commission recommends legalizing marijuana.
1990 - A jury in Anchorage, Alaska, found former tanker
captain Joseph Hazelwood innocent of three major charges in connection
with the Exxon Valdez oil spill, but convicted him of a minor charge
of negligent discharge of oil.
March 23:
1925 - Tennessee banned the teaching of evolution in schools.
Teacher John Scopes ignored the ban and was prosecuted later in what
became known as "The Monkey Trial".
March 24:
1989 - In one of worst oil spills in recent history, the
tanker, Exxon Valdez, ran aground and released 240,000 barrels of oil
into Prince William Sound.
March 25:
1911 - A turning point in labor laws -- especially concerning
health and safety -- occurred as a result of a tragic fire in a New
York City garment factory. Fire broke out at about 4:30p.m. at the Triangle
Shirtwaist Company trapping young, mostly female immigrant workers behind
locked doors. Many jumped to their deaths or were burned beyond recognition.
The 18-minute fire left 146 dead; but they did not die in vain as new
laws were passed to protect children and others from slave-type labor
conditions. The owners of the Triangle Shirtwaist Company were indicted
for manslaughter.(The
History Channel)
2002- Army secretary Thomas E. White, a former Enron executive,
lists 44 previously undisclosed phone calls made from his home to Enron
executives prior to his decision to sell more than 200,000 shares.
March 26:
1804 - Congress orders removal of Indians
east of Mississippi to Louisiana
March 27:
1866 - President Johnson vetoes civil
rights bill; it later becomes 14th Amendment.
March 28:
1915 - Emma Goldman arrested for telling first U.S. audience
how to use contraceptives; chooses 15 days in jail over $100 fine.
1979 - Nuclear power plant accident at Three Mile Island,
near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
March 29:
1936 - Nazi propaganda claims 99% of Germans voted for
Nazi candidates
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