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9/6/2015
« on: September 06, 2015, 12:00:24 AM »
What's up cigar enthusiasts?!  Any cigar 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: 9/6/2015
« Reply #1 on: September 06, 2015, 01:31:52 AM »
Good morning guys.
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Re: 9/6/2015
« Reply #2 on: September 06, 2015, 01:32:38 AM »
Today is Sunday, Sept. 6, the 249th day of 2015. There are 116 days left in the year.

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Re: 9/6/2015
« Reply #3 on: September 06, 2015, 01:33:14 AM »
Today's Highlight in History:

On Sept. 6, 1925, the silent film horror classic "The Phantom of the Opera," starring Lon Chaney, had its world premiere at the Astor Theater in New York.

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Re: 9/6/2015
« Reply #4 on: September 06, 2015, 01:33:37 AM »
On this date:

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Re: 9/6/2015
« Reply #5 on: September 06, 2015, 01:34:12 AM »
In 1861, Union forces led by Gen. Ulysses S. Grant occupied Paducah, Kentucky, during the Civil War.

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Re: 9/6/2015
« Reply #6 on: September 06, 2015, 01:34:46 AM »
In 1901, President William McKinley was shot and mortally wounded by anarchist Leon Czolgosz (CHAWL'-gawsh) at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. (McKinley died eight days later; Czolgosz was executed on Oct. 29.)
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Re: 9/6/2015
« Reply #7 on: September 06, 2015, 01:35:08 AM »
1916, the first self-service grocery store, Piggly Wiggly, was opened in Memphis, Tennessee, by Clarence Saunders.

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Re: 9/6/2015
« Reply #8 on: September 06, 2015, 01:35:37 AM »
In 1939, the Union of South Africa declared war on Germany.

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Re: 9/6/2015
« Reply #9 on: September 06, 2015, 01:35:58 AM »
In 1943, 79 people were killed when a New York-bound Pennsylvania Railroad train derailed and crashed in Philadelphia.
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Re: 9/6/2015
« Reply #10 on: September 06, 2015, 01:36:36 AM »
In 1954, groundbreaking took place for the Shippingport Atomic Power Station in western Pennsylvania.

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Re: 9/6/2015
« Reply #11 on: September 06, 2015, 01:37:08 AM »
In 1966, South African Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd (fehr-FOORT') was stabbed to death by an apparently deranged page during a parliamentary session in Cape Town.

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Re: 9/6/2015
« Reply #12 on: September 06, 2015, 01:37:31 AM »
In 1970, Palestinian guerrillas seized control of three U.S.-bound jetliners. (Two were later blown up on the ground in Jordan, along with a London-bound plane hijacked on Sept. 9; the fourth plane was destroyed on the ground in Egypt. No hostages were harmed.)

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Re: 9/6/2015
« Reply #13 on: September 06, 2015, 01:38:02 AM »
In 1975, 18-year-old tennis star Martina Navratilova of Czechoslovakia, in New York for the U.S. Open, requested political asylum in the United States.

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Re: 9/6/2015
« Reply #14 on: September 06, 2015, 01:38:29 AM »
In 1985, all 31 people aboard a Midwest Express Airlines DC-9 were killed when the Atlanta-bound jetliner crashed just after takeoff from Milwaukee's Mitchell Field.

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