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…On this day in 1690 Publick Occurrences Both Forreign and Domestick, the first newspaper to appear in the Americas, was published for the first and only time.…
…On this day in 1890 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints officially renounced polygamy. …
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On this day in 1969 the trial of the Chicago Eight opened in Chicago. …
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On this day in 1897 the Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus editorial was published in the New York Sun.
Donald Trump said his renovation of the DC Post Office is under budget and ahead of schedule—and I think it’s fair to say the same applies to the businessman’s first political campaign.
A small anti-immigration protest was staged in Helsinki today, and there was also a demonstration at the border with Sweden. A group of pro-refugee demonstrators held their own event on the Swedish side of the border. Meanwhile, 4,500 illegal immigrants were rescued in one day off the coast of Libya.
In other news, Pope Francis arrived in the Western Hemisphere to visit Cuba and the United States.
…On this day in 1860 the Prince of Wales visited the US…
After being thwarted by new barriers along the Serbian border with Hungary, huge throngs of “refugees” are now making their way through Croatia in an attempt to continue onward through Austria into Germany. Locals in Croatia are warning the migrants to watch out for minefields, which are still in place along parts of the border with Serbia as a relic of the Balkan wars of the 1990s.
In other migration news, migrants who got off the welcome bus at a remote location in Sweden complained bitterly about their accommodations, which they said were too far away from shopping centers and other amenities. Meanwhile, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán warns that Europe may face an influx of up to 100 million migrants over the next several years.
…On this day in 1947 the United States Air Force became an independent branch of the United States armed forces.…
“Refugees” angry with Hungary’s closure of its Serbian border attempted to storm one of the border crossings, throwing rocks and other detritus at Hungarian police and soldiers on the other side. The Hungarians responded with tear gas and blasts from water cannons. Some migrants in Serbia took buses to the Croatian border, in hopes of finding an alternate route through Austria and thence to Germany.
In other news, an alert has been raised in Ghana over the recruitment of young Muslims for the Islamic State. It seems that impressionable young people in the Muslim-majority north of the country are showing susceptibility to propaganda from Boko Haram and other kinetic-activist groups.
…On this day in 2014 Trey Gowdy opened the Republican dominated Benghazi hearings.…
Hungary declared a state of emergency, sealed its border with Serbia, and began detaining migrants who attempted to enter the country illegally. The Hungarian government also announced that it would extend its fence to include part of the border with Romania, to help deter migration from that direction.
In other news, the Saudi government has barred the Binladin Group from receiving new state contracts in the wake of last week’s crane collapse at the Grand Mosque in Mecca. The company’s board of directors and top executives have also been ordered not to leave the country until the official investigation of the accident is complete.
…On this day in 1893 approximately 100,000 settlers made a land run for prime land in the Cherokee Strip in what is now Oklahoma.…
The “migration crisis” continues apace in Europe. Boat people, including children, are still drowning off the coast of Greece. And the coast guards of various European nations are still rescuing migrants in the Mediterranean. Meanwhile, Slovakia, the Netherlands, and other European countries have jumped on the bandwagon and reinstituted border controls.
In other news, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott was ousted from within his own party (the Conservatives) as both party leader and Prime Minister by Malcolm Turnbull. It is thought that Mr. Turnbull’s accession will help expedite gay marriage in Australia.
On this day in 1966 U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to a sniper attack by Charles Whitman at the University of Texas at Austin, wrote a letter to Congress urging the enactment of gun control legislation.…
Even as Germany closes its border with Austria in an attempt to slow down the flood of “migration”, native Europeans continue to gather en masse to celebrate and welcome the refugees. More demonstrations in support of migrants took place in Sweden, Denmark, Germany, and other Western European countries. Meanwhile, Canada says that it will donate aid money to help Syrian refugees, but it will not take any more in.
In other news, leaders of the Scottish Nationalist Party are planning another referendum on independence, which they hope will take place before the next regional elections in 2016.
…On this day in 1814 the poem Defence of Fort McHenry was written by Francis Scott Key.…
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Needless to say, the European “migration crisis” dominates tonight’s news. Mass rallies in support of the “refugees” took place in Britain, Denmark, Germany, and Austria. Mass rallies opposed to immigration took place in Slovakia, Hungary, and several cities in Poland. The new Iron Curtain, or so it seems.
Meanwhile, Hungary has completed its fence along the Serbian border, Austria has stopped the flow of refugees coming in from Hungary, and a Turk rammed his car into a crowd of Kurds in Bern, killing two people and injuring an unknown number (that last one is not in the feed, but Vlad gave me some video links).
In other news, an engineer from the Bin Laden Group says that there was no technical fault responsible for yesterday’s crane collapse in Mecca. He insists that the tragedy can only be described as an act of Allah.…
On this day in 70 AD Romans under Titus sacked Jerusalem. Many gold artifacts from the temple were carried off to Rome as plunder.…
On this day in 1876 in Northfield, Minnesota, the James-Younger Gang attempted to rob the town's bank but were driven off by armed citizens.…
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