On this date:

In 1777, the second Battle of Saratoga began during the American Revolution. (British forces under Gen. John Burgoyne surrendered 10 days later.)

In 1949, the Republic of East Germany was formed.

In 1985, Palestinian gunmen hijacked the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro in the Mediterranean. (The hijackers, who killed an elderly Jewish American tourist, Leon Klinghoffer, surrendered two days after taking over the ship.) And no, we STILL aren't at war with Islamic Fundamentalists...

In 2004, Two bombs exploded at a gathering of Sunni Muslim radicals in Multan, Pakistan, killing some three dozen people. And still no war against I F...
Starting to see a pattern here..

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On this day in 1947, President Harry Truman (1884-1972) makes the first-ever televised presidential address from the White House. Politics would never be the same...

On this day in 1793, The revolutionary government in France abolishes Christianity.
Proving the French wrong again.

On this day in 1921, The WJZ radio station in Newark, New Jersey, broadcasts the first radio play-by-play coverage of the World Series, between the New York Giants and the New York Yankees. Thus started the American obsession with broadcast sports.

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In 1941, Adolf Hitler declared in a speech in Berlin that Russia had been "broken" and would "never rise again."

In 1990, East and West Germany reunite after 45 years.

In 1863, expressing gratitude for a pivotal Union Army victory at Gettysburg, President Abraham Lincoln announces that the nation will celebrate an official Thanksgiving holiday on November 26, 1863.
(The speech, which was actually written by Secretary of State William Seward, declared that the fourth Thursday of every November thereafter would be considered an official U.S. holiday of Thanksgiving.)

In 1917 Congress passed the War Revenue Act. Under the 1917 act, a taxpayer with an income of only $40,000 was subject to a 16 percent tax rate, while one who earned $1.5 million faced a rate of 67 percent. While only five percent of the U.S. population was required to pay taxes, U.S. tax revenue increased from $809 million in 1917 to a whopping $3.6 billion the following year. By the time World War I ended in 1918, income tax revenue had funded a full one-third of the cost of the war effort.

(Congress realized what a Golden Goose they had in the WRA and never looked back.)

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On this date in 1959 Writer/Producer Rod Serling debuted a new television series that coined a term that succinctly describes the worldview from which the Liberal/Progressive factions of our society operate from.

The term?

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