History Schmistory: November 6. …hanging on a telephone wire!
Wednesday, November 6, 2024
1941: Soviet leader Joseph Stalin addresses the Soviet Union for only the second time in his 30 year reign to boldly claim that, even though they had lost more than 350,000 troops, the Germans had in fact lost over 4 million, so this war should be wrapped up in no time.
History Schmistory: November 5. Back in time.
Tuesday, November 5, 2024
1955: Doctor Emmett Brown conceives the design for the time-travel enabling flux capacitor after taking a nasty fall and bumping his head on a bathroom sink. Someone should tell Marco that movies are not real, because he has been searching for Doc Brown for a while now…
History Schmistory: November 4. So long ago…
Monday, November 4, 2024
2008: Barack Obama becomes the first African-American President of the United States. Despite his near superhero status, his hair quickly goes gray like all the others.
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By Official White House Photo by Pete Souza (P120612PS-0463 (direct link)) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Being President is tough on the hair.
History Schmistory: November 3. Say hello to our little friend!
Sunday, November 3, 2024
1913: The United States introduces permanent income taxes to it’s citizens, via the Sixteenth Amendment, securing the latter of only two certainties in life. Luckily, “Death” wasn’t on the table for this one.
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History Schmistory: November 2. The Perfect Cheer!
Saturday, November 2, 2024
1898: Cheerleading is born at a University of Minnesota football game. Here’
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s what some of the fist cheerleaders looked like…
History Schmistory: November 1. “Is that all we’ve got?”
Friday, November 1, 2024
1861: In the early stages of the American Civil war, US President Abraham Lincoln appoints George B. McClellan as the commander of the Union Army. Proof that even histories greatest leaders can make huge mistakes. Sometimes even twice.
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History Schmistory: October 31. Wait a minute, where’s Joe?
Thursday, October 31, 2024
1961: In the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin’s body is removed from Lenin’s Tomb. OR WAS IT?
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History Schmistory: October 30. Syke!
Wednesday, October 30, 2024
1938: Orson Welles broadcasts an adaptation of War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells, performed as the Halloween episode of a radio drama series called Mercury Theatre on the Air. The first two thirds of the story is retold through a series of fake news bulletins, informing listeners that Martians have attacked the Earth and will probably kill all of us. This causes a majority of listeners to completely freak out. The hoax is basically what made Orson Welles a household name.
![By CBS Radio and photographer unknown [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons](http://www.teammarcopolo.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Orson-Welles-Show-1941.jpg)
By CBS Radio and photographer unknown [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
History Schmistory: October 29. Evil Opera
Tuesday, October 29, 2024
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1787: Mozart’s opera Don Giovanni is performed for the first time in Prague, a show chock-full of murder and mayhem, masquerade parties, demon choruses, graveyards, ghostly statues, and ultimately a first class ticket to hell. Top it off with an appropriate moral; he who lives wickedly, dies wickedly, and you’ve got yourself a fulfilling Halloween experience, wouldn’t you say?
History Schmistory: October 28. “This one’s for all the ladies out there.”
Monday, October 28, 2024
1886: In New York Harbor, President Grover Cleveland dedicates the beautiful bronze Statue of Liberty. Always ahead of her time, Lady Liberty went green long before the rest of us.
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