Year | Event |
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1600 | The Inquisition condemns Giordano Bruno to be burnt at the stake for supporting Copernican astronomy and suggesting the possibility of more than one world. |
1815 | President Madison declares the War of 1812 at an end. |
1863 | The International Red Cross is founded in Geneva, Switzerland. (From the Encarta® 2000 New World Timeline © Copyright 1998, Helicon Publishing Ltd. All rights reserved.) |
1913 | First minimum wage law {pdf} in US takes effect, in Oregon. |
1964 | The US Supreme Court issued its "one man, one vote" decision in "Wesberry vs Sanders". |
1993 | Under pressure from a 2-year-long boycott called by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) in 1991, General Motors abandoned animal crash-testing of its cars. |
2004 | The U.S. government's national debt -- the accumulated debt from past budget shortfalls -- totaled more than $7 trillion for the first time as of this date, according to a Treasury Department report. [Thank goodness we have the Big-Government-Fighters, the Republicans, in charge or who knows what it would be!] |
2009 | Obama signs into law the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, aimed at rescuing the economy. A website, Recovery.gov, has been set up so taxpayers can track the programme's spending in their area. He also approves the sending of 17,000 more troops to Afghanistan. [What happened to "I will promise you this, that if we have not gotten our troops out by the time I am president, it is the first thing I will do. I will get our troops home. We will bring an end to this war. You can take that to the bank."?] |
2009 | National Debt Limit increased from $11,315 billion to $12,104 billion. It's only paper and the presses are running! |
2011 | Libya: Activists designate February 17 as a day of rage, a day after first riots in Benghazi. |
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