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    This Date in Baseball History- Feb. 11th

    ByTom Knuppel February 11, 2016February 11, 2016

    What went on This Date in Baseball History

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    February 10, 1967- 25th Amendment to Constitution Ratified

    ByTom Knuppel February 10, 2016February 10, 2016

      The Twenty-fifth Amendment (Amendment XXV) to the United States Constitution deals with succession to the Presidency and establishes procedures both for filling a vacancy in the office of the Vice President, as well as responding to Presidential disabilities. It supersedes the ambiguous wording of Article II, Section 1, Clause 6 of the Constitution, which…

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    Volleyball Invented February 9, 1895

    ByTom Knuppel February 9, 2016March 2, 2020

    On February 9, 1895, in Holyoke, Massachusetts (USA), William G. Morgan, a YMCA physical education director, created a new game called Mintonette as a pastime to be played (preferably) indoors and by any number of players. The game took some of its characteristics from tennis and handball. Another indoor sport, basketball, was catching on in…

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    February 9, 1870- National Weather Bureau Signed Into Law

    ByTom Knuppel February 8, 2016February 8, 2016

    A Joint Congressional Resolution requiring the Secretary of War “to provide for taking meteorological observations at the military stations in the interior of the continent, and at other points in the States and Territories…and for giving notice on the northern lakes and on the seacoast, by magnetic telegraph and marine signals, of the approach and…

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    February 8th- The Dawes Act of 1887 was Passed- It Divided Up Indian Land

    ByTom Knuppel February 8, 2016March 2, 2020

    The Dawes Act of 1887 (also known as the General Allotment Act or the Dawes Severalty Act of 1887), adopted by Congress in 1887, authorized the President of the United States to survey American Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians. Those who accepted allotments and lived separately from the tribe…

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    The Beatles Land in NYC February 7, 1964

    ByTom Knuppel February 7, 2016March 2, 2020

      An estimated four thousand Beatles’ fans were present on 7 February 1964 as Pan Am Flight 101 left Heathrow Airport. Among the passengers were the Beatles, on their first trip to the United States as a band, with their entourage of photographers and journalists, and Phil Spector. When the group arrived at New York’s…

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    “Miniaturized Electronic Circuits” Patent on February 6, 1959

    ByTom Knuppel February 6, 2016February 4, 2016

      Jack St. Clair Kilby Kilby received his bachelor of science degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he was an honorary member of Acacia Fraternity. In 1947, he received a degree in Electrical Engineering. He obtained his master of science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Extension in Milwaukee (which later…

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    February 5th, 1917- The Immigration Act Passed Even Though President Vetoed It

    ByTom Knuppel February 5, 2016March 2, 2020

    On February 5, 1917, the United States Congress passed the Immigration Act of 1917 (also known as the Asiatic Barred Zone Act) with an overwhelming majority, overriding President Woodrow Wilson’s December 14, 1916, veto. This act added to the number of undesirables banned from entering the country, including but not limited to “homosexuals”, “idiots”, “feeble-minded…

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    Yalta Conference February 4-11,1945- Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt in Attendance

    ByTom Knuppel February 4, 2016

    The Yalta Conference, sometimes called the Crimea Conference and codenamed the Argonaut Conference, held from February 4 to 11, 1945, was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union, represented by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Premier Joseph Stalin,…

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    What if God said, “I’m Calling in Sick?”

    ByTom Knuppel January 5, 2016January 4, 2016

    What would happen if God took a day off? What would you do if you knew that just for one day you couldn’t have access to the Creator of all that is known and unknown?  Can you imagine what nonsense and horror that might occur if the “gates of hell” got advance notice of the…

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