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  1. 1867. The last shogun. Tokugawa Yoshinobu resigns, ending the Tokugawa shogunate — the feudal military government in power from 1600 — leading to the Meiji Restoration and return of authority to the emperor.
  2. Gas station maps. Forgot all about those. When I bought my first car I went to the map store and bought the tear-resistant map and street atlases for the glovebox. Navigated from the passenger seat while my dad drove. Drew detailed neighborhood maps for my first science fair to illustrate different scales. A friend had a 3D topographic map in his cubicle and I commented how nice it was. "Yeah, I really love maps." He must have. Worked as an emergency road service dispatcher for AAA.
  3. 1974. Ed Sullivan died. The Ed Sullivan Show, a television variety program which he created and hosted, was my favorite. Every week I'd wait for Sunday. Watch the afternoon football broadcast, eat supper, put on my pajamas and be ready for Ed Sullivan to start. I especially liked the circus-type acts and The Rolling Stones. The Beatles wore wearing matching outfits but the not the Stones. On their first appearance, Mick Jagger did not even wear a tie or jacket! In one the the great moments of censorship, the Stones had to change the lyrics of "Let's Spend the Night Together" to "let's spend some time together" as Mick rolled his eyes. Good times.
  4. I do not recall seeing a shirt on backwards in mugshots before.
  5. 2004. Rex Baum murdered by Nathan Moore, Luis Oyola and Andrew Ihrcke. Please burn in hell.
  6. 1989. Cowboys trade Herschel Walker to Vikings.
  7. I was born in 1956 and this is the first I'm hearing of an official observance.
  8. According to three articles I read, meteor fragments are cold to the touch. It had been a hot and dry summer. People did not practice good fire safety by putting out campfires and using fire to clear land. Wisconsin and Michigan were being clear cut by the lumber industry. Lots of fuel in the form of branches lay on the ground. When the winds came that night ... perfect conditions for a disaster.
  9. In 1871: Peshtigo, Wisconsin. Deadliest fire in American history. Between 1,700 and 2,500 people perished; estimates inaccurate as many town halls with birth, marriage and tax records were lost and superheated flames cremated victims. 1.2 million acres burned. Door County, Wisconsin. It was assumed fire vortices from the Peshtigo firestorm jumped across Green Bay but has been disproven. It had been a hot and dry summer and extremely strong winds created dangerous conditions. Aprx 200 killed. Aprx 1.000.000 acres burned. There was a wiidfire along the Lake Michigan near Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. Four fires in Michigan, the Peshtigo fire jumped the Menominee River and burned in Menominee County, Michigan on the Upper Peninsula, one on the Lake Michigan near Manistee and another near Holland, the other on Lake Huron. Estimated loss of life 500(?). 2,500,000 acres burned. The Great Chicago Fire. Nothing to do with Catherine O'Leary's cow kicking over a lantern. Estimated 200 people died. 3.5 square miles burned leaving estimated 100,000 homeless.
  10. No. I'm driving the car.
  11. 1912. The Vanderbilt Cup Race went through my neighborhood.
  12. Police raid on the Rainbow Players musical Tutankhamun! ?
  13. Tiki was in the line up for criminal trespass 6/11/18. DOB: 6/6/78. Brand new neck tattoo and hair color. This is one of her better mugshots over the past eleven years.
  14. September 29,1888. On this date 130 years ago, Scotland Yard receives a letter signed Jack the Ripper forwarded from Central News Agency. The letter was regarded as a fake due to Central News Agency's dubious reputation (police suspected journalist Thomas John Bulling of writing the "Dear Boss" letter and "Saucy Jack" postcard to boost circulation) but we continue to refer to the killer as Jack the Ripper and not the Whitechapel Murderer or Leather Apron.
  15. At this time in 1990, Texan blues guitarist Stevie Ray Vaughan died when his helicopter crashed into a ski hill at Alpine Valley Resort after a concert with Eric Clapton at the Alpine Valley amphitheater in East Troy, Wisconsin.
  16. How did Bambi evolve from The Prince Of The Forest to a stripper name?
  17. Airport vehicles blocking runway in desperate attempt to prevent Post Malone from landing.
  18. Valerie Bertinelli reprises her role of Barbara Cooper Royer from the beloved television program One Day At A Time. Stinging from a fresh divorce, Barbara moves to a lake house in a small rural community. A series of unsettling events (footprints in dirt, broken window, a locked door left open while she is on her weekly trip to the city offices of the women's fashion magazine she edits) leads plucky Barbara to believe she is being stalked. The one-man police force is helpless to act without solid evidence and even casts doubt on Barbara's claims. Is she imagining things? In a Lifetime Movie Network plot twist, the stalker is revealed as Julie Cooper, Barbara's sister from One Day At A Time, played by wingding extraordinaire Mackenzie Phillips. Or maybe Valerie's real life former husband, guitarist Eddie Van Halen.
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