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Today in history

18 April 1802 - Death of Erasmus Darwin FRS

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1233 (some say 1232): Pope Gregory IX appoints full-time papal inquisitors and gives the Dominican order authority to carry out the Inquisition. For their vigilant and persistent work, the order won the moniker "Domini canes" or "God's dogs.

1853: Fugitive slave Harriet Tubman, who had escaped from the eastern shore of Maryland four years earlier, makes a return trip to the South to rescue other slaves. By the time slavery was abolished, she had made 19 such trips, liberating at least 300 fellow African Americans.
 
Thirteen students were slaughtered at Columbine High School in Colorado on this day in 1999:

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smokeshadow said:
1906 - the largest recorded earthquake to hit the United States struck San Francisco. Thought to be a 7.9, it may be the largest recorded on earth.
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It was a horrific quake and the fire was a living nightmare, no doubt.

But, the quake was not the largest recorded, unless it was at that time, which may be due to the nacent science of measuring quakes.

There have been at least three quakes of 9.0 or larger on the Richter Scale, at Seward, Alaska in the US, in the Kuril Islands off Russia and Japan, and in the sea off Chile in South America.

I don't think anyone among us can imagine a 9.0. And I hope we never will be able to feel anything that terrible.
 
^^from everything I've read about the quake; the 7.9 figure is a guestimate, since the science of seismology had not been fully established at the time and the Richter Scale didn't come into existance until 1935 :=D:
 
I read up on the Seward quake before moving to Anchorage for a job in 2007. I wanted to understand the odds. I think it was rated to be a 400 year cycle.

There was a 5.0 somewhere along the archipelago while I lived there, triggered by a volcanic eruption, barely noticeable in Anchorage.

A 9.0 near Anchorage would almost certainly be capable of giving heart attacks. The Seward quake lasted over 3 minutes. That is incredible.
 
NotHardUp1 said:
Thirteen students were slaughtered at Columbine High School in Colorado on this day in 1999:
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Stopped by the little memorial site for that yesterday.
Hard to believe it was 27 years ago that all went down.
(and sadly these days stuff like that has basically become a 'regular thing' )
 
1944: In "United States v. Ballard," the Supreme Court ruled that no governmental agency can determine "the truth or falsity of the beliefs or doctrines" of anyone—even if the beliefs "may seem incredible, if not preposterous to most people." But the court also reiterated its position that while freedom of belief is absolute, the freedom to act on those beliefs is not.
 
1667: Blind, bitter, and poor, Puritan poet John Milton sells for ten pounds the copyright for Paradise Lost—a book that would later sell by the tens of millions and influence English thought and language nearly as much as the King James Version and the plays of Shakespeare. The theme of the epic appears in its opening lines: "Of man's disobedience, and the fruit / Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste / Brought death into the world, and all our woe, / With loss of Eden.
 
I am a day late posting...but this was a dark, evil day in US history.

Once again, thousands of careers and lives were ruined.

All because of the 'Red' Scare.

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