1960 - A partial blockade was imposed on West Berlin by East Germany.
1963 - The "Hotline" between Moscow and Washington, DC, went into operation.
1984 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan, and several others, were inducted into the Sportscasters Hall of Fame.
1994 - Rosa Parks was robbed and beaten by Joseph Skipper. Parks was known for her refusal to give up her seat on a bus in 1955, which sparked the civil rights movement.
1994 - The largest U.S. defense contractor was created when the Lockheed and Martin Marietta corporations agreed to a merger.
Mark Zuckerberg, the chief of Facebook's parent company Meta, has delivered a letter to Congress stunningly confessing to censoring Americans on the orders of the Joe Biden administration – and in an effort to help him politically.
It's the second major election influence scheme Zuckerberg now is known to have pursued during that time period.
The newest confession came in a letter to Congress in which he stated, "Senior officials from the Biden Administration, including the White House, repeatedly pressured our teams for months to censor COVID-19 content, including humor & satire. … I believe the government pressure was wrong & I regret we were not more outspoken about it."
"The attorney from the Department of Justice who defended the Food & Drug Administration in court ADMITTED on undercover camera that the agency’s actions were an abuse of authority by the government during its public campaign against ivermectin to treat COVID-19.
The FDA’s “horse medicine” tweets caused a deadly chain reaction - meet Drs Mary Talley Bowden, Robert L. Apter, who were victorious against FDA Medical Tyranny.
The Sounion was en route from Iraq to Greece with 150,000 tons of crude oil when it came under repeated attack by the Houthis, including pirate attacks with armed men in small boats...
The Houthis gleefully celebrated their successful terrorist attack by broadcasting images of the burning ship on their state media.
The Biden-Harris administration helplessly complained that the burning oil tanker, which is much larger than the infamous Exxon Valdez tanker at the heart of a historic environmental catastrophe in the late 1980s, posed a major threat to the surrounding sea...
Democratic media figures and activists expressed their fury at Arlington National Cemetery director Karen Durham-Aguilera, a longtime senior Army official, after Trump marked the third anniversary of the Kabul airport terrorist attack by attending a wreath-laying ceremony with the families of the fallen service members.
The Gold Star families invited Trump to attend the service.
Thirteen American soldiers were killed and 18 wounded in the Abbey Gate suicide bombing during the Biden-Harris administration’s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021...
Others flooded Durham-Aguilera with comments calling her a "disgrace" who should "RESIGN IMMEDIATELY"...
Gov. Tim Walz's ban on faithful Christians from teaching in Minnesota's public is set to hit the state's schools in just months.
It also bans adherent Jews and Muslims.
And a report at the Federalist warns that he is "poised to make similar bigoted, totalitarian and unconstitutional policies" for the entire nation, "should he be elected vice president."
They have learned how to evolve existing viruses to spread more easily through the air, and how to engineer viruses to make them more deadly...
Either way, it is clear that biological technology, now boosted by artificial intelligence, has made it simpler than ever to produce diseases. Should a human-made or human-improved pathogen escape or be released from a lab, the consequences could be catastrophic...
Doug Seaton, founder and president of the nonprofit Upper Midwest Law Center, told the Federalist that while some Christian universities in the state will object to training their students to "affirm" gender statements that run counter to their faith, most will comply or will sue only when the state forces their hand.
"Some are not willing to do it [file a lawsuit] until they actually have their college programs tagged for noncompliance or their graduates actually not licensed as a consequence of not adhering to these standards," Seaton told the outlet.
Honolulu claims energy companies are the source of “injuries” for its residents because the “climate crisis” is caused by the “use of fossil fuel products.” Using Hawaii tort law, it seeks billions of dollars in restitution and a court order that these companies stop “producing and promoting the sale and use of fuel products.” The sale of any fuel product in any state would be deemed a trespass against the Aloha State...
I’ll believe that Hawaii’s government is serious about their Gaia worship when they ban commercial jet airline. - Ed Driscoll
Last week, Benson, the state's Democratic Party, and a token Democratic Michigan voter challenged the standing of left-wing independent candidate Cornel West's appearance on the ballot...
Simultaneously, Benson this week made another decision about who will and who won't be on the Michigan ballot. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. made national news last Friday in Arizona when he announced he was suspending his campaign, and would be filing motions to withdraw from the ballot... Benson responded by rejecting the filing from Kennedy, in essence forcing his name to remain on the ballot...
Even today, many conservatives regard the military as one of the last institutions resisting capture by the new regime.
Will Thibeau, director of the American Military Project at the Claremont Institute’s Center for the American Way of Life, argues that precisely the opposite is true: that the Armed Forces were “among the first American institutions to formally embrace the radical logic of group quotas.“
This new organizing principle is directly linked to a steep decline in military standards and performance, with life-and-death consequences for Americans and America.
Part I of Identity in the Trenches: The Fatal Impact of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion on U.S. Military Readiness...
Gold Star Family members of several of the 13 U.S. servicemembers killed during the Biden-Harris administration’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan were highly critical of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday, with one saying, “They just want to pretend it never happened.”
1828 - A patent was issued to Robert Turner for the self-regulating wagon brake.
1842 - The Treaty of Nanking was signed by the British and the Chinese. The treaty ended the first Opium War and gave the island of Hong Kong to Britain.
1886 - In New York City, Chinese Ambassador Li Hung-chang's chef invented chop suey.
1944 - During the continuing celebration of the liberation of France from the Nazis, 15,000 American troops marched down the Champs Elysees in Paris.
1990 - Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, in a television interview, declared that America could not defeat Iraq.
On Saturday, the CEO of the popular messaging app Telegram was arrested at Le Bourget airport in France for refusing to comply with the country's censorship laws.
