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1/15/2016
« on: January 15, 2016, 12:00:34 AM »
Happy Friday!  Any deals on the various internet sites that are worth talking about?  Join in this discussion and perhaps learn something along the way.  Warning: don't proceed if you have thin skin but don't be afraid to post either...  And welcome aboard!
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Re: 1/15/2016
« Reply #1 on: January 15, 2016, 02:04:21 AM »
Good morning guys.
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Re: 1/15/2016
« Reply #2 on: January 15, 2016, 02:11:30 AM »
Today is Friday, Jan. 15, the 15th day of 2016. There are 351 days left in the year.
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Re: 1/15/2016
« Reply #3 on: January 15, 2016, 02:12:46 AM »
Today's Highlight in History:

On Jan. 15, 1976, Sara Jane Moore was sentenced to life in prison for her attempt on the life of President Gerald R. Ford in San Francisco. (Moore was released on the last day of 2007.)
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Re: 1/15/2016
« Reply #4 on: January 15, 2016, 02:13:33 AM »
On this date:
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Re: 1/15/2016
« Reply #5 on: January 15, 2016, 02:13:58 AM »
In 1559, England's Queen Elizabeth I was crowned in Westminster Abbey.
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Re: 1/15/2016
« Reply #6 on: January 15, 2016, 02:14:30 AM »
In 1777, the people of New Connecticut declared their independence. (The republic later became the state of Vermont.)
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Re: 1/15/2016
« Reply #7 on: January 15, 2016, 02:14:55 AM »
In 1862, the U.S. Senate confirmed President Abraham Lincoln's choice of Edwin M. Stanton to be the new Secretary of War, replacing Simon Cameron.
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« Reply #8 on: January 15, 2016, 02:15:16 AM »
In 1865, as the Civil War neared its end, Union forces captured Fort Fisher near Wilmington, North Carolina, depriving the Confederates of their last major seaport.
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Re: 1/15/2016
« Reply #9 on: January 15, 2016, 02:15:42 AM »
In 1929, civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. was born in Atlanta.
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Re: 1/15/2016
« Reply #10 on: January 15, 2016, 02:16:16 AM »
In 1943, work was completed on the Pentagon, headquarters of the U.S. Department of War (now Defense).
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Re: 1/15/2016
« Reply #11 on: January 15, 2016, 02:16:47 AM »
In 1947, the mutilated remains of 22-year-old Elizabeth Short, who came to be known as the "Black Dahlia," were found in a vacant Los Angeles lot; her slaying remains unsolved.
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« Reply #12 on: January 15, 2016, 02:17:18 AM »
In 1967, the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League defeated the Kansas City Chiefs of the American Football League 35-10 in the first AFL-NFL World Championship Game, known retroactively as Super Bowl I.
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Re: 1/15/2016
« Reply #13 on: January 15, 2016, 02:17:47 AM »
In 1981, the police drama series "Hill Street Blues" premiered on NBC.
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Re: 1/15/2016
« Reply #14 on: January 15, 2016, 02:18:13 AM »
In 1993, a historic disarmament ceremony ended in Paris with the last of 125 countries signing a treaty banning chemical weapons.
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