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1/30/2015
« on: January 30, 2015, 12:02:22 AM »

Short Story:
Please consider supporting a local athlete, Rich Riopel, at the (IAU) 24 Hour World Championship in Torino, Italy on April 11-12, 2015 by making a donation and/or getting a tee shirt from:

http://booster.com/runrichrun 

Long Story:
Follow this link ==> http://cigarbanter.com/forum/index.php/topic,267.0.html
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Re: 1/30/2015
« Reply #1 on: January 30, 2015, 02:27:16 AM »

Good morning guys.
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Re: 1/30/2015
« Reply #2 on: January 30, 2015, 02:45:06 AM »

Today is Friday, Jan. 30, the 30th day of 2015. There are 335 days left in the year.
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Re: 1/30/2015
« Reply #3 on: January 30, 2015, 02:45:46 AM »

Today's Highlights in History:

On Jan. 30, 1945, during World War II, more than 500 Allied captives held at the Japanese prison camp in Cabanatuan (kah-bah-nah-TOO'-ahn) in the Philippines were liberated by U.S. Army Rangers, Alamo Scouts and Filipino guerrilla fighters. Adolf Hitler marked the 12th anniversary of his appointment as Germany's chancellor with his last public speech in which he called on Germans to keep resisting until victory.
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Re: 1/30/2015
« Reply #4 on: January 30, 2015, 02:46:43 AM »

On this date:
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Re: 1/30/2015
« Reply #5 on: January 30, 2015, 02:47:08 AM »

In 1615, Thomas Rolfe, the only child of John Rolfe and his wife, Rebecca (the former Pocahontas), was born in Jamestown in the Virginia Colony.
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Re: 1/30/2015
« Reply #6 on: January 30, 2015, 02:47:35 AM »

In 1649, England's King Charles I was executed for treason.
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Re: 1/30/2015
« Reply #7 on: January 30, 2015, 02:48:11 AM »

In 1815, the U.S. House of Representatives joined the Senate in agreeing to purchase the personal book collection of former President Thomas Jefferson to replace volumes lost when the British burned the U.S. Capitol and its congressional library during the War of 1812.
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Re: 1/30/2015
« Reply #8 on: January 30, 2015, 02:48:37 AM »

In 1882, the 32nd president of the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, was born in Hyde Park, New York.
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Re: 1/30/2015
« Reply #9 on: January 30, 2015, 02:49:12 AM »

In 1911, James White, an intellectually disabled black man who'd been convicted of rape for having sex with a 14-year-old white girl when he was 16, was publicly hanged in Bell County, Kentucky.
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Re: 1/30/2015
« Reply #10 on: January 30, 2015, 02:49:38 AM »

In 1933, Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany. The first episode of the "Lone Ranger" radio program was broadcast on station WXYZ in Detroit.
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Re: 1/30/2015
« Reply #11 on: January 30, 2015, 02:50:17 AM »

In 1948, Indian political and spiritual leader Mohandas K. Gandhi, 78, was shot and killed in New Delhi by Nathuram Godse (neh-too-RAHM' gahd-SAY'), a Hindu extremist. (Godse and a co-conspirator were later executed.) Aviation pioneer Orville Wright, 76, died in Dayton, Ohio.
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Re: 1/30/2015
« Reply #12 on: January 30, 2015, 02:50:47 AM »

In 1962, two members of "The Flying Wallendas" high-wire act were killed when their seven-person pyramid collapsed during a performance at the State Fair Coliseum in Detroit.
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Re: 1/30/2015
« Reply #13 on: January 30, 2015, 02:51:11 AM »

In 1968, the Tet Offensive began during the Vietnam War as Communist forces launched surprise attacks against South Vietnamese provincial capitals.
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Re: 1/30/2015
« Reply #14 on: January 30, 2015, 02:51:38 AM »

In 1969, The Beatles staged an impromptu concert atop Apple headquarters in London; it was the group's last public performance.
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