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On this day July 3, 1988
United States Navy warship USS Vincennes shot down Iran Air Flight 655 over the Strait of Hormuz, toward the end of the Iran-Iraq War, killing all 290 people aboard. Will C. Rogers III in 1988 The air… more →
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On this day July 3, 1988
FormaeMentis wrote 2 days ago: United States Navy warship USS Vincennes shot down Iran Air Flight 655 over the Strait of Hormuz, to … more →
On this day June 30, 1934
FormaeMentis wrote 5 days ago: The Night of the Long Knives, Adolf Hitler’s violent purge of his political rivals in Germany, … more →
On this day June 28, 1956
FormaeMentis wrote 1 week ago: Workers demanding better conditions held massive protests in Poznań, Poland, but were violently repr … more →
On this day June 24, 1938
FormaeMentis wrote 1 week ago: PIeces of a meteor, estimated to have weighed 450 metric tons when it hit the Earth’s atmosphe … more →
Dear Lorena Bobbit
kaylaayres wrote 1 week ago: On this day in 1993, Lorena Bobbit sexually mutilated her husband and threw his member out of her ca … more →
On this day June 23, 1963
FormaeMentis wrote 1 week ago: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson meets with Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin in Glassboro, New Jersey … more →
On this day June 22, 1854
FormaeMentis wrote 1 week ago: The British Parliament abolished the Seigneurial system of New France, formally abolished by the Leg … more →
On this day June 21, 1948
FormaeMentis wrote 2 weeks ago: The Manchester Small-Scale Experimental Machine (SSEM), nicknamed Baby, was the world’s first … more →
Big Tobacco gives up the fight
jkaufeld wrote 2 weeks ago: After five days of non-stop (and, I’m sure, very loud) negotiation, a team of state attorneys … more →
Quite the day for civil rights
jkaufeld wrote 2 weeks ago: Civil rights take center stage today (and that’s no small feat — they had to wrest it aw … more →
Churchill rallies the country in "their finest hour"
jkaufeld wrote 2 weeks ago: I originally planned to post something light and fun today, but after finding this event in my resea … more →
On this day June 18, 1979
FormaeMentis wrote 2 weeks ago: The United States and the Soviet Union signed in Vienna the SALT II treaty, placing specific limits … more →
Microsoft's first brush with the Vista effect
jkaufeld wrote 2 weeks ago: Turning to technology, on this day in 1988, Microsoft released DOS 4.0. It introduced many advances, … more →
On this day June 17, 1631
FormaeMentis wrote 2 weeks ago: Mumtaz Mahal dies during childbirth, her husband, Mughal emperor Shah Jahan I, then spends more than … more →
The Inaugural Post
kaylaayres wrote 2 weeks ago: Hello, and welcome to the inaugural Bird Brains post. Contain your excitement. Now that wasn’t so ha … more →
A great day for sticky food
jkaufeld wrote 2 weeks ago: Apparently there’s something about the middle of June that brings out the creativity in people … more →
On this day June 16, 1963
FormaeMentis wrote 2 weeks ago: Aboard Vostok 6, Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space. After watchi … more →
A Quayle in the hand...
jkaufeld wrote 2 weeks ago: On this day in 1992, William Figueroa, age 12, a sixth-grade speller from Trenton, New Jersey, succe … more →
On this day June 15, 1667
FormaeMentis wrote 2 weeks ago: French physician Jean-Baptiste Denys, eminent physician to King Louis XIV of France, administered th … more →
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