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  1. You didn't fix shit. Godzilla is released nationally in Japan on this date in 1954. Not premiered nationally. Godzilla premiered October 27, 1954 in Nagoya. The name of the movie isn't even Godzilla. See how the movie poster reads ゴ ジ ラ in big red letters? Gojira. A combination of ゴリラ (gorilla) and クジラ (whale). Gorilla whale. From an early concept before the monster we know and love today was settled on. U.S. reintroduces the income tax. Not " "introduces" ". As I mentioned, the first income tax was during the Civil War. Whoever you copied that from fucked up. Production of Chevrolets began in 1913. The company was founded in 1912. Chevrolet was not intended to compete with Ford as it was more than twice as expensive. Series C Classic Six was $2150 vs the Model T at $850 in 1908 to less than $300 by 1925.
  2. Godzilla premiered October 27, 1954. Revenue Act of 1861, signed into law by Lincoln on August 5, 1861. First U.S. Federal income tax. Chevrolet was founded in 1912. Production began 1913. 1911 Chevrolet Series C Classic Six was a prototype.
  3. TURN OFF YOUR FUCKING TAPATALK SIGNATURE.
  4. 1946. Happy Birthday, Yuko Shimizu! Created Hello Kitty as a designer at Sanrio. 1974. Happy Birthday, Hello Kitty! FUN FACT: Japan produces 17.5 trillion metric tons of cute shit annually, most of it for export. Shimizu left Sanrio in 1976 to get married. Despite her character's enduring popularity and sales in the billions of dollars, she saw very little money.
  5. 1981. Lord Voldemort murders James and Lily Potter but fails to kill Harry.
  6. 1938. Orson Welles' version of H G Wells' The War of the Worlds about a Martian invasion of Earth is broadcast. Some people do not understand it is a radio drama.
  7. 1965. On this date, the Second Vatican Council addressed relations between Jews and Catholics. Nostra ætate (Declaration on the Relation of the Church with Non-Christian Religions) stopped blaming Jews for the death of Jesus, reversing Innocent III's 760-year-old declaration. I was born before Vatican II. There was no blaming or hatred for centuries. This was pretty much engineered between rabbis and cardinals to bring Jews and Catholics (and all religions) closer together. And there were other changes. The Holy Ghost became the Holy Spirit. Stopped speaking prayers and singing hymns in Latin. Instead of the altar facing the tabernacle, it was reversed to face the congregation. And I may be disremembering things but it seems around that time the girls in my class didn't have to wear veils in church any longer and the nuns wore more contemporary habits instead of the eighteenth century wimple and starched collar. Like Mary Tyler Moore in Change Of Habit.
  8. Yeah except Morticus and Gaul were Romans and did nail Christ to the cross and Catholicism is mainly derived from Judaism. Why do think think so many holy days and periods of fasting coincide? Just as Christian faiths are derived from Catholicism. We're all adults. You don't want to see anything bad happen to anyone.
  9. Iceland is probably thankful the marines weren't hungry for kæstur hákarl (fermented shark - as in a 400 hundred year old shark - which is a traditional delicacy).
  10. In Illinois, trucks must stay in the right lanes.
  11. 2002. Emmitt Smith breaks the NFL record for career rushing with 18,355 yards.
  12. Happy 69th Birthday, Robert William "Willy" Pickton! Pig farmer and serial killer. Fed his victims to his pigs. About the only things they don't digest are zippers and buttons and hair.
  13. Looks like a bloody handprint across her face.
  14. This is very interesting. I was saving Crippen for November 23 but this'll work. First suspect to be captured with the aid of wireless telegraph. Vulcana, Cora Crippen's friend who was a professional strongwoman, reported her as missing to police. The Crippen house was searched but nothing unusual was found. Crippen told Metropolitan Police Chief Inspector Walter Dew that he lied about his wife having died and that she'd run off for America with her lover. Crippen and his girlfriend tried to escape to Canada. Crippen shaved his mustache; his girlfriend was disguised as a boy. The captain of the ocean liner wasn't fooled and sent a wireless telegram to London police. Police went to Crippen's house and searched more thoroughly digging up the cellar finding the torso of a body. Chief Inspector Dew took a faster White Star ship and met Crippen in Canada. If Crippen hadn't tried to escape, suspicions wouldn't have risen. If he hadn't booked first class passage, he may not have been recognized. If Crippen had taken a ship to the USA, things would have been tied up in extradition. (Canada was still a British colony.) The jury was out for twenty-seven minutes until the guily verdict. Crippen was convicted and sentenced to death. In England, this meant being assigned to a condemned cell. The hangman and his assistant make calculations for the drop based on he prisoner's weight and height to achieve a swift death by broken neck without decapitation or strangulation. On November 23, 1910 at 9:00AM, guards entered Crippen's cell, removed a partition wall to the execution chamber. It was over within seconds. Cora's torso is buried in St Pancras and Islington Cemetery, East Finchley. Except it isn't Cora. Recent DNA testing revealed it was a man's torso in the cellar. 1910 coroner's exams note the torso had high levels of anaphrodisiac - the opposite of an aphrodisiac - which Crippen bought at a local pharmacy. The head, arms and legs were never found. Why go through the trouble of disposing of them and leaving the torso? Who is he? Was Crippen performing abortions? Did he murder Cora? Did she have syphilis? (Regarded as proof of her infidelity and a motive for Crippen to kill her.) There are more questions than answers.
  15. 1895, Paris (the one in France).
  16. Tom Torlino matriculates at The United States Indian Industrial School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania AKA Carlisle Indian School from October 21, 1882 until August 28, 1886. Same school later attended by Olympic gold medalist Jim Thorpe who was coached by Pop Warner in track and football and competed in lacrosse and baseball. And winner of the 1912 intercollegiate ballroom dancing championship.
  17. Not too much different from USA but we call it Mexican Cession, the Overthrow and Annexation of Hawaii, Opening of Japan, dominating Spain's former colonies, recognizing the rebel country of Panama, defending it from Columbia and signing the treaty to built a canal within a matter of days, etc. The rest of the world calls it American imperialism.
  18. Bullshit. One of the first things the emperor accomplished was establishment of prefectures for local governing and the Diet and a prime minister.
  19. Why do you say that? Japan was mired in the feudal system and the samurai class was dissolving.
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