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Today in History (1862) - The U.S. government forbids all Union army officers from returning fugitive slaves, thus effectively annulling the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 and setting the stage for the Emancipation Proclamation. On the same day in 1865, the Confederate Congress voted to enlist 300,000 black troops, granting them freedom with the consent of their owners. Lee surrendered a few weeks later. |
Today in History (1979) - With the explanation "I don't like Mondays," 16-year-old Brenda Ann Spencer kills two people and wounds nine in a shooting spree at Cleveland Elementary School in San Diego, California.
Um, PG? Wrong link, I think.
Posted by: k at January 28, 2007 11:07 PMThanks for checking, but the link was intentional: the Boomtown Rats song "I Don't Like Mondays," written by Bob Geldof, is based on this incident.
Posted by: PG at January 29, 2007 05:19 PM