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  1. Rashmon

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    I was saving that one for the 10th...
     
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  3. rimrocker

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    A few things on tap for today in history:

    FDR won his first presidential election (1932), as did Teddy (1904) and JFK (1960).

    The first court filings are made after the 2000 presidential election.

    The first human heart transplant was made by Dr. Christiaan Barnard in 1922.
     
    #23 rimrocker, Nov 8, 2025
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    25 years ago was the 2000 election bush v gore.
     
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  5. Buck Turgidson

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    LBJ prodded Congress to allow the AFL/NFL merger

    HBO launched in 1972

    Doc Holliday and Alex Trebek died
     
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    1989: Fall of the Berlin Wall

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    I never would’ve guessed HBO started in 1972. I always thought it was late 70’s. Interesting.
     
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    Absolutely never would have guessed HBO being that early
     
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    One of the things I got to watch on live TV that I'll never forget
     
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    Don't care if yall don't like soccer, this is incredible:

     
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    Fun fact: In the 100 years before the Edmund Fitzgerald, almost 6,000 freighters sunk in the Great Lakes. In the 50 years since the Edmund Fitzgerald, there have been zero. Why? How?

    Well, after the sinking, there were lots of changes in ship design, navigation charts, inspection criteria, etc. However, the big reason is the National Weather Service modernized, restructured, and dramatically changed weather forecasting, including great improvements in predicting quickly developing storms.
     
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    OMG I remember staying up watching the Florida drama....hanging chads...
     
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    Our Dumb Century is such a brilliant book
     
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    62 years ago on this day, JFK landed at Love Field in Dallas.
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    47 years ago today:

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    70 years ago, Rosa Parks refused to get out of her seat.

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    Wasn't on the rotation in my house.
     
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