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💫Foxy💫@getyourfoxyback.bsky.social · 9h ago

Its National Underwear Day 🦊 Meet and Greet 🦊 Boxers. Briefs. Panties. Tighty-whities today wear your favorite under garments I think every mother has told their kids; “Make sure to always wear clean underwear. You never know when you will be in an accident!" 😆🤣 We will be okay Love Foxy

1861 US Army abolishes flogging 1891 World's first traveler's cheques issued by American Express 1905 First meeting of the Russian and Japanese peace commissioners takes place in US President Theodore Roosevelt's home at Oyster Bay, New York 1924 "Little Orphan Annie" comic strip by Harold Gray is 1st published in the New York Daily News 1926 Harry Houdini stays in a coffin underwater for 1½ hours before escaping 1930 The Norwegian Bratvaag expedition finds the remains, diaries and negative images of S. A. Andrée's ill-fated balloon polar expedition of 1897 on White Island in the Svalbard archipelago 1944 German forces begin the mass killing of between 40,000 and 50,000 Polish civilians in the Wola district of Warsaw during the uprising 1957 "American Bandstand" premieres on network TV (ABC) 1966 Protesters throw rocks and bottles at Martin Luther King Jr. before a fair housing protest march at Marquette Park in Chicago 1974 US President Richard Nixon admits he withheld information about Watergate break-in 1981 US President Ronald Reagan fires 11,500 striking air traffic controllers 1992 Four officers of the Los Angeles Police Department previously acquitted on charges of beating Rodney King are indicted on federal civil rights charges 2000 Moni Maker wins the $500,000 Nat Ray at the Meadowlands in a world record time of 1:52.1 to become harness racing's first $5 million stakes earner 2019 Brazilian drug dealer Clauvino da Silva tries and fails to escape a Rio de Janeiro jail by dressing up as his teenage daughter in a silicone mask and wig 2022 Volkswagen launches a prototype of its first flying car, an automated, electric passenger vehicle nicknamed "Flying Tigers
💫Foxy💫@getyourfoxyback.bsky.social · yesterday

Its National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day 🦊 Meet and Greet 🦊 Back in 1937 Ruth Graves Wakefield ran out of baker’s chocolate for her cookie recipe so she added chocolate chips instead That is how this cookie came to be! Btw Seb makes the best CC 🍪 cookies😉 We will be okay ❤️ Love ❤️ 🦊 Foxy 🦊

1892 Sunday school teacher Lizzie Borden's father and stepmother are murdered with an axe in Fall River, Massachusetts; Borden is later arrested, tried and acquitted 1914 US President Woodrow Wilson issues his "Proclamation of Neutrality" to keep the United States out of the war in Europe 1934 Giants outfielder Mel Ott becomes first player in MLB history to score 6 runs in a game as New York beats Phillies, 21-4 1942 First train with Jews departs Mechelen, Belgium for Auschwitz 1944 Anne Frank is arrested in Amsterdam by German Security Police 1955 Eisenhower authorizes $46 million for the construction of CIA headquarters 1964 Bodies of civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James E. Chaney discovered in an earthen Mississippi dam 1984 Prince's "Purple Rain" album goes #1 & stays #1 for 24 weeks 1988 Congress votes $20,000 to each Japanese-American interned in WW II 2009 Kim Jong-il meets former president Bill Clinton. He pardons and releases captured American journalists Euna Lee and Laura Ling who were found guilty of entering the country illegally. 2015 Muppets Miss Piggy and Kermit the Frog announce the end of their relationship on Twitter 2020 UN says COVID-19 pandemic has created biggest educational disruption in history affecting nearly 1.6 million students in 190 countries, 94% worldwide 2021 Global known COVID-19 caseload passes 200 million, with the death toll at 4.2 million according to Johns Hopkins 2022 Infowars conspiracy theorist Alex Jones ordered to pay $4.1 million in compensatory damages to parents of child killed in Sandy Hook massacre after Jones claimed it was a hoax
💫Foxy💫@getyourfoxyback.bsky.social · 2d ago

It’s National Watermelon 🍉 Day 🦊 Meet and Greet 🦊 Watermelon is a delicious summertime treat! Quick fact; The first recorded watermelon harvest occurred about 5,000 years ago in Egypt Watermelons were often placed in the burial tombs of kings to nourish them in the afterlife. We will be okay ❤️🦊

1882 US Congress passes 1st law restricting immigration 1900 Firestone Tire and Rubber Company founded in Akron, Ohio, by Harvey Firestone 1908 French brothers Amédée and Jean Bouyssonie discover the fossil remains of a nearly complete 60,000-year-old Neanderthal man, known as the "Old Man of La Chapelle," at La Chapelle-aux-Saints, France 1914 Germany invades Belgium and declares war on France, beginning World War l 1923 Baseball games cancelled following the death of US President Warren G. Harding 1943 General George S. Patton slaps a US GI in hospital, accusing him of cowardice 1944 Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp gases 4,000 gypsies 1955 Hurricane Connie begins pounding US for 11 days, making landfall in North Carolina and traveling to the Great Lakes 1977 Radio Shack introduces the TRS-80 personal computer, and within weeks, thousands are ordered 2004 The pedestal of the Statue of Liberty reopens after being closed since the September 11, 2001 attacks 2017 Massachusetts woman Michelle Carter sentenced to 21/2 years for urging her boyfriend to commit suicide 2022 Cells of recently dead pigs brought back to life by researchers at Yale University, with huge implications for organ transplants and stroke sufferers, as well as ethical questions over definition of death
💫Foxy💫@getyourfoxyback.bsky.social · 3d ago

Its National Friendship Day 🦊 Meet and Greet 🦊 Today we celebrate our friendships and encourage you to connect with the friends in your life Sometimes life gets in the way and we forget to call or make plans, but a true friend will always be there when you need them We will be okay ❤️ Foxy

1610 English explorer Henry Hudson enters the bay later named after him, the Hudson Bay 1864 Saratoga Racecourse, America's oldest thoroughbred racetrack, opens its inaugural meet with four days of racing 1865 Lewis Carroll publishes the children's novel "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" 1939 Albert Einstein writes to US President FDR informing him of recent research on fission chain reactions making possible the construction of "extremely powerful bombs" 1943 Gene Roddenberry pilots B-17 'Yankee Doodle' which crashes on takeoff, killing two 1945 After 3½ days suffering exhaustion, lack of water and shark attacks in the Philippine Sea, the surviving crew of USS Indianapolis are spotted by Wilbur "Chuck" Gwinn, a PV-1 Ventura pilot on a routine sector search. 316 had survived. 1973 "American Graffiti," directed by George Lucas and starring Richard Dreyfuss and Ron Howard, premieres at the Locarno International Film Festival in Switzerland 1989 NASA confirmed Voyager 2's discovery of 3 more moons of Neptune designated temporarily 1989 N2, 1989 N3 & 1989 N24 2018 Apple becomes the first American publicly listed company to reach $1 trillion in value 2021 70% of American have had at least one COVID-19 vaccination shot, a target President Joe Biden had hoped to meet by 4 July
💫Foxy💫@getyourfoxyback.bsky.social · 4d ago

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💫Foxy💫@getyourfoxyback.bsky.social · 4d ago

It’s National Sandcastle Day 🦊 Meet and Greet 🦊 Building a sandcastle is the perfect opportunity to be creative and have some fun For me it brings back wonderful childhood memories, and new experiences with my grandkids having fun at the beach We will be okay Love Foxy

1867 Blacks vote for 1st time in a US state election in the South (Tennessee) 1901 Burials within San Francisco City limits prohibited 1911 Harriet Quimby passes her pilot's test and becomes the 1st US woman to earn an Aero Club of America aviator's certificate 1936 XI Summer Olympic Games are opened by Adolph Hitler in Berlin 1950 American Bowling Congress ends all-white-males rule 1964 Beatles' single "A Hard Day's Night" goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks 1966 Charles Whitman wounds 31 and kills 16 at University of Texas 1971 "The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour" debuts on CBS-TV, with comic actor and singer Jimmy Durante as guest 1972 First article exposing the Watergate scandal by Bernstein and Woodward is published in "The Washington Post" 1981 "Endless Love" single released by Diana Ross and Lionel Richie (Billboard Song of the Year 1981, Billboard Greatest Song Duet of All-Time) 1981 Music video cable channel MTV debuts in the US at 12:01 AM with The Buggles' song "Video Killed the Radio Star" 1985 15.4 cm rainfall at Cheyenne, Wyoming (state record) 2001 Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore has a Ten Commandments monument installed in the judiciary building, leading to a lawsuit to have it removed and his own removal from office 2020 Egypt tells Elon Musk its pyramids were not built by aliens after Musk tweets in support of a conspiracy theory that they were 2023 Former US President Donald Trump is indicted by special counsel Jack Smith on charges of conspiring to defraud the country and prevent the peaceful transfer of power
💫Foxy💫@getyourfoxyback.bsky.social · 5d ago

Its National Mutt Day 🦊 Meet and Greet 🦊 This fur-eindly day we celebrate mixed breed dogs 🐶 Desperately longing for a new home, millions of loving and healthy mixed breed dogs in shelters wait for someone to come and adopt them Adopt don’t shop We will be okay Love Foxy

1912 The US government censors movies and photos of prizefights; it remains in place until 1940 1917 World War I: Battle of Passchendaele (Third Battle of Ypres) begins and lasts until November 6, 1917, causing approximately 500,000 casualties 1941 U-boats sink and damage 21 allied ships this month (80,521 tons) 1954 Milwaukee first baseman Joe Adcock becomes only the third player in the 20th century to hit four home runs in a nine-inning game, joining Lou Gehrig and Gil Hodges, in a 15-7 Braves' win over the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field; MLB record 18 total bases 1964 American glider pilot Al Parker glides 644 miles without a motor 1971 Apollo 15 astronauts take a 6½-hour electric car ride on the Moon 1984 US men's gymnastics team scores an emotional upset win over the world champion Chinese team in the combined event to take the gold medal at the Los Angeles Olympics 1991 US Senate votes to allow women to fly combat aircraft 2012 Michael Phelps becomes the greatest medal winner in Olympic history as part of the winning American 4 x 200 m freestyle relay team in London, earning his 19th career Olympic medal and 15th overall gold 2019 American officials announce that Osama Bin Laden's son, Hamza bin Laden, a potential successor, has been killed in US airstrikes in Pakistan 2020 Mexico overtakes the UK to have the world's third highest death toll from COVID-19 with 46,688 fatalities 2022 Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, who helps plan the 9/11 attacks, is killed in a CIA drone strike in Kabul, Afghanistan; US President Joe Biden calls it the group's biggest blow since Osama bin Laden is killed
💫Foxy💫@getyourfoxyback.bsky.social · 6d ago

Its National Cheesecake Day 🦊 Meet and Greet 🦊 There was SO much to choose from today, and Cheesecake won! I like mine with strawberries on top! Just give me a slice of regular NY Cheesecake and I’m a happy gal What is your favorite flavor? We WILL be Okay Love Foxy ❤️🦊❤️

1863 President Abraham Lincoln issues "eye-for-an-eye" order to shoot a rebel prisoner for every Black prisoner shot 1878 German antisemitism begins during the Reichstag election 1916 German saboteurs blow up a munitions plant on Black Tom Island, New Jersey 1928 George Eastman shows the first amateur color motion pictures to guests at his New York house, including Thomas Edison 1935 First Penguin Books published, starting the paperback revolution 1942 Franklin D. Roosevelt signs a bill creating the United States Naval Reserve (Women's Reserve), better known as WAVES 1945 After delivering the atomic bomb across the Pacific, cruiser USS Indianapolis is torpedoed and sunk by Japanese submarine I-58, killing 880 of the crew, many of whom are attacked by sharks, inspiring the movie "Jaws" 1965 US President Lyndon Johnson signs Medicare bill, which goes into effect in 1966 1970 30,000 people arrive to attend the Powder Ridge Rock Festival in Middlefield, Connecticut, despite its cancellation due to local residents' opposition 1984 Hollie Roffey, aged 10 days, is the youngest person to ever receive a heart transplant and survives 28 days 2002 US President George W. Bush signs the "Sarbanes-Oxley Act" into law, legislation designed to prevent future accounting scandals such as Enron's bankruptcy 2003 The last "old style" Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the assembly line in Mexico 2014 The EU and US extend sanctions on Russia to include banks, energy, and defense firms; Moscow denies the allegation that Russia is arming rebels in Eastern Ukraine 2017 Russian President Vladimir Putin announces American diplomats in Russia cut by 755 in response to American sanctions
💫Foxy💫@getyourfoxyback.bsky.social · last wk.

Its National Chicken Wing Day 🐓 🦊 Meet and Greet 🦊 The average person consumes 290 lbs of chicken wings each year Well someone out there is consuming my share!! 🤣😆 AKA Hot Wings, Buffalo Wings or just wings this little treat is a staple at many sports parties and events We will be okay ❤️ Foxy

1905 US Secretary of War William Howard Taft makes a secret agreement with Japanese Prime Minister Katsura, agreeing to give Japan free rein in Korea in return for non-interference with the US in the Philippines 1914 First transcontinental phone link made between New York City and San Francisco 1921 Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party 1927 First iron lung installed at Bellevue Hospital in New York 1928 Test footage is first created for Walt Disney's "Steamboat Willie," featuring Mickey Mouse 1933 Police shootout with Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow's gang in lowa leaves one member, Clyde's brother Buck Barrow, dead and one captured; Bonnie and Clyde escape 1942 Eastern Bld in the Bronx, NYC, is renamed Bruckner Boulevard in honor of former Bronx Borough President and US Congressman Henry Bruckner 1956 Jacques Cousteau's Calypso anchors in a record 7,500 meters of water 1957 Jack Paar's "The Tonight Show" premieres on NBC 1958 US President Eisenhower signs into law the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958, establishing NASA 1967 The Doors' single "Light My Fire" hits #1 in the US 1974 Second impeachment vote against President Nixon by the House Judiciary Committee 1987 Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream and Jerry Garcia agree on a new flavor: Cherry Garcia, featuring cherry ice cream with cherries and fudge flakes 1995 Monica Seles defeats Martina Navratilova in her return to tennis after she was stabbed in an on-court attack in 1993 2024 Fast-food chain McDonald's reports a fall in sales worldwide for the first time since 2020 as higher
💫Foxy💫@getyourfoxyback.bsky.social · last wk.

Its National 💦Waterpark Day 🦊 Meet and Greet 🦊 What is more fun on a HOT 🥵 July day, than the thrills and cooling water of a water park? Personally I’m a lazy river kind of gal, but before my physical limitations I absolutely loved all of the fun rides! We will be okay Love Foxy

1900 Louis Lassing creates the hamburger in Connecticut 1914 Foxtrot is first danced at the New Amsterdam Roof Garden in New York City by Harry Fox 1917 Silent Parade organized by James Weldon Johnson, 10,000 African Americans march on Fifth Avenue in NYC to protest against lynching 1932 "White Zombie," the first feature-length zombie film, directed by Victor Halperin and starring Bela Lugosi, is released in the US 1932 US President Herbert Hoover uses federal troops to evict the Bonus Army (WWI veterans and their families) from their encampment; four die 1942 Nazis liquidate 10,000 Jews in Minsk, Belarus Ghetto 1945 "Elevator girl" Betty Lou Oliver survives falling 75 stories after fog causes a US bomber plane to crash into the Empire State Building, breaking the cables supporting the elevator she was operating. This remains a world record for the longest survived elevator fall 1945 US Senate ratifies United Nations charter 89-2 1962 19 die in a train crash in Steelton, Pennsylvania 1990 Blackout hits Chicago 2017 General John Kelly appointed new Chief of Staff by US President Donald Trump 2017 US Senate vote for "skinny" repeal of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) fails 51-49 as John McCain casts the deciding vote against 2018 Longest "blood moon" eclipse of the 21st century, lasting 1 hour and 43 minutes 2023 Scientists genetically engineer female animals to reproduce without a male for the first time using fruit fries
💫Foxy💫@getyourfoxyback.bsky.social · last wk.

It’s National Love is Kind Day 🦊 Meet and Greet 🦊 National Love is Kind Day encourages you to become aware of how you are treating people, how people are treating you, and how you can become emboldened, supported, and empowered to lead the joyful and productive life you deserve We WILL be Okay ❤️🦊

1837 US Mint opens in Charlotte, North Carolina 1844 Fire destroys US mint at Charlotte, North Carolina 1890 Dutch painter Vincent van Goghshoots himself in Auvers-sur-Oise and dies of his injuries 2 days later 1909 Orville Wright successfully tests the Wright Military Flyer, the world's first military airplane, with a record flight of 1 hour, 12 minutes, and 40 seconds, flying approximately 64 km (40 mi 1921 Frederick Banting and Charles Best isolate insulin at the University of Toronto 1940 Billboard publishes its first singles record chart; "PIl Never Smile Again" by Tommy Dorsey, with vocals by Frank Sinatra, is ranked #1 1942 Transport #11 departs Drancy, France, with 1000 French Jews sent to Auschwitz concentration camp; 13 survive until the war's end 1947 New York Yankees catcher Yogi Berra starts a record 148-game errorless streak 1962 Martin Luther King Jr. is jailed in Albany, Georgia 1965 President Lyndon B. Johnson signs a bill requiring cigarette manufacturers to print health warnings about the effects of smoking on all cigarette packages 1976 Former Beatle John Lennon is granted a green card for permanent residence in the US 1987 First expedited salvage of Titanic wreck begins by RMS Titanic, Inc 1990 Zsa Zsa Gabor begins a 3-day jail sentence for slapping a police officer in Beverly Hills 2007 Two news helicopters from Phoenix, Arizona television stations KNXV and KTV collide over Steele Indian School Park in central Phoenix while covering a police chase; there are no survivors. It is the worst civil aviation incident in Phoenix history. 2019 US President Trump calls Baltimore a "disgusting, rat and rodent-infested mess" and holds Congress Rep Elijah Cummings responsible 2021 Florida records its highest one-day total of COVID-19 cases since the start of the pandemic at 21,683
💫Foxy💫@getyourfoxyback.bsky.social · last wk.

It’s National Parents Day 🦊 Meet and Greet 🦊 Today we celebrate parents everywhere I understand this can be easy for some difficult for others Let’s celebrate all parents and the people that stepped up to be there for us when it meant the most and helped raise us We WILL be okay Love Foxy

1775 US Continental Congress creates United States Post Office (U.S.P.O.) in Philadelphia under Benjamin Franklin 1878 In California, poet and American West outlaw calling himself "Black Bart" makes his last clean getaway when he steals a safe box from a Wells Fargo stagecoach. The empty box is found later with a taunting poem inside. 1908 United States Attorney General Charles Joseph Bonaparte issues an order to immediately staff the Office of the Chief Examiner (later renamed the Federal Bureau of Investigation) 1945 Physicist Raemer Schreiber and Lieutenant Colonel Peer de Silva depart Kirtland Army Air Field to transport the plutonium core for the Fat Man bomb (bombing of Nagasaki) to the island of Tinian, where the bomb is assembled 1947 US President Truman signs the National Security Act of 1947, establishing the Department of Defense, the CIA, the National Security Council, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff 1964 Teamsters President and US union leader Jimmy Hoffa convicted of fraud and conspiracy 1972 Priscilla and Elvis Presley file for legal separation 1981 New York Mayor Ed Koch is given the Heimlich maneuver in a Chinese restaurant 1990 US President George H. W. Bushsigns Americans With Disabilities Act 1991 Actor Paul Reubens (Pee-wee Herman) is arrested for exposing himself at an adult movie theater in Sarasota, Florida 2017 Great Britain announces it will ban gasoline and diesel cars by 2040 2017 US President Donald Trump announces a policy to ban transgender people from the military, overturning Obama-era changes 2022 Two new studies published in "Science" confirm COVID-19 most likely began in the Huanan Seafood Market in Wuhan, China
💫Foxy💫@getyourfoxyback.bsky.social · 2w ago

It’s National Hot Fudge Sundae Day 🦊 Meet and Greet 🦊 In keeping with National Ice Cream Month, today we celebrate the sundae Although the original creator is under debate, no one can argue that hot fudge and ice cream is AMAZING We will be okay Love Foxy

1832 First railroad accident in US, Granite Railway, Quincy, Massachusetts, kills one 1850 Gold is discovered in the Rogue River in Oregon 1917 Sir Thomas White introduces the first income tax in Canada as a "temporary" measure, with the lowest bracket at 4% and the highest at 25% 1938 Jewish artisans are not allowed in Germany 1941 US President Franklin D. Roosevelt bans sale of benzine and gasoline to Japan 1944 Operation Cobra: US forces begin major offensive in Normandy with air bombardment 1952 Puerto Rico becomes a self-governing US commonwealth (Constitution Day) 1964 The Beatles' album "A Hard Day's Night" goes to #1 and stays at #1 for 14 weeks 1969 Edward Kennedy pleads guilty to leaving the scene of an accident a week after the Chappaquiddick car accident that killed Mary Jo Kopechne 1970 Burt Bacharach and Hal David's song "(They Long to Be) Close to You," as sung by the Carpenters, reaches #1 1985 Spokeswoman for Rock Hudson confirms he has AIDS 1997 Scientists announce the first human stem cells to be cultured in a laboratory using tissue taken from aborted human embryos 1999 86th Tour de France: Lance Armstrong wins the first of seven consecutive Tour de France titles but is later disqualified for doping 2019 US Justice Department announces the resumption of the use of the death penalty, scheduling five executions 2020 Hurricane Hanna, first of the 2020 season, makes landfall on the Texas Gulf Coast as a category 1 storm 2024 "Piano Man" singer Billy Joel performs the 150th and final show of his 10-year, once-a-month residency Madison Square Garden in New York City
💫Foxy💫@getyourfoxyback.bsky.social · 2w ago

It a National Tequila Day 🦊 Meet and Greet 🦊 Happy FriYAY What better day than today to celebrate Tequila! Grab your friends, some limes 🍋‍🟩 and salt and let’s do this!! Mix up a Margarita, Paloma, or a Mamasita to celebrate the day! We will be okay Love Foxy

1880 First commercial hydroelectric power plant in the world begins generating electricity in Grand Rapids, Michigan 1917 Trial of Dutch exotic dancer Mata Haribegins in Paris for allegedly spying for Germany and thus causing the deaths of 50,000 soldiers 1941 Nazis kill entire Jewish population of Grodz, Lithuania 1945 WWII: A suicide attack by a Japanese Kaiten manned torpedo sinks the US Navy destroyer USS Underhill west of Guam; nearly half of the 236 crew members are killed 1952 US President Harry Truman settles 53-day steel strike 1959 US Vice President Richard Nixon argues with Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev in Moscow, known as the "Kitchen Debate" 1967 The Beatles sign a petition in The Times newspaper to legalize marijuana 1969 At 12:51 EDT, Apollo 11 returns to Earth after taking the first astronauts to the Moon and returning them safely 1982 Single "Eye of the Tiger" by Survivor from "Rocky III" soundtrack starts a 6-week run at #1 on US charts (Grammy for Best Rock Performance) 1998 Russell Eugene Weston Jr. bursts into the United States Capitol and opens fire killing two police officers. He is later ruled to be incompetent to stand trial. 2002 James Traficant is expelled from the United States House of Representatives on a vote of 420 to 1 2019 Facebook agrees to pay a $5 billion fine, the largest ever for violating consumer privacy, to the US Federal Trade Commission 2019 Special counsel Robert Mueller reports to the US Senate that President Trump was not exonerated of obstruction of justice and that Russia interfered in US election to benefit Trump 2024 Meta announces it has removed 63,000 Instagram accounts tied to sextortion schemes associated with Nigerian Yahoo Boys criminal group
💫Foxy💫@getyourfoxyback.bsky.social · 2w ago

Its National Gorgeous Grandma Day 🦊 Meet and Greet 🦊 GG Day embraces and encourages all women to flaunt their granny attitudes with purpose and style. Today’s grandma are vibrant, active and tech savvy They do not seem like the grandma of years ago! We will be okay Love Foxy

1777 King Louis XVI of France and his Foreign Minister clandestinely agree to supply the United States with munitions during the American Revolution 1829 William Austin Burt patents America's first typewriter, the typographer 1877 First telephone and telegraph line in Hawaii is completed 1904 Ice cream cone is created during the St. Louis World's Fair, reputedly first by Charles E. Menches 1931 France announces it can't afford to send a team to the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics due to the Great Depression. They eventually do manage to send a team. 1965 The Beatles' single "Help" is released in the UK 1967 First successful liver transplant, on 19 month old Julie Rodriguez by Dr Starl at the University of Colorado 1973 US President Richard Nixon refuses to release Watergate tapes of conversations in the White House relevant to the Watergate investigation 1991 James Farentino of "Dynasty" arrested in Canada for cocaine possession 201444 people are killed after TransAsia Airways Flight 222 crashed into buildings in Taiwan 2019 US Senate passes bill championed by comedian Jon Stewart to ensure 9/11 first responders fund never runs out of money 2020 US President Trump says he could send 75,000 federal agents to deal with violence in American cities like Portland, drawing backlash 2024 China announces plans to raise its retirement age from 60 for men and 55/50 for women, one of the lowest in the world
💫Foxy💫@getyourfoxyback.bsky.social · 2w ago

Bigs thanks to Senator Gary Peters 🦊Meet and Greet 🦊 During the appropriations hearings yesterday Senator Gary Peters said the thing most Americans have been thinking about Pete Hegseth He pointed his finger right at him and said “You sir are the failure” We will be okay Love Foxy

1893 Katharine Lee Bates writes "America the Beautiful" in Colorado 1933 Wiley Post completes the first solo flight around the world, taking 7 days and 19 hours 1934 Outside Chicago's Biograph Theatre, "Public Enemy No. 1" John Dillinger is mortally wounded by FBl agents 1937 US Senate rejects FDR's proposal to enlarge Supreme Court 1942 300,000 Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto are sent to Treblinka Extermination Camp 1955 Richard Nixon becomes the first US Vice President to preside over a cabinet meeting 1969 Aretha Franklin is arrested for disorderly conduct following a traffic accident in Highland Park, Michigan; charges are later dropped 1986 US House of Representatives impeaches Judge Harry E. Claiborne for tax evasion 1991 Jeffrey Dahmer confesses to killing 17 men in 1978 2014 European Union claims that Israel "has the right to defend itself," but says civilian casualties in Gaza are unacceptable 2020 California passes New York total for COVID-19 cases (415,763 vs 415,094), though NY death toll much higher 2023 Taylor Swift concert in Seattle shakes the ground so hard it registers as equivalent to a magnitude 2.3 earthquake and does the same the following night
💫Foxy💫@getyourfoxyback.bsky.social · 2w ago

Its National Junk Food Day 🦊 Meet and Greet 🦊 This day permits us to chow down on the foods we usually don't include in our daily diet. Junk foods, by definition, typically contain high fats, sugars, salt, and calories and very little nutritional value. We will be okay Love Foxy

1853 Central Park in New York created when New York State Legislature puts aside more than 750 acres of land on Manhattan Island 1873 Jesse James and James Younger gang's 1st train robbery at Adair, lowa 1921 To prove his contention that air power is superior to sea power, US Colonel William Mitchell demonstrates how bombs from planes can sink a captured German battleship 1930 US Veterans Administration forms 1944 Field Marshal Günther von Kluge warns Hitler of impending collapse of front in Normandy 1952 7.8 earthquake shakes Kern County California, 14 killed 1960 Francis Chichester arrives in New York aboard Gypsy Moth II, setting a record of 40 days for a solo Atlantic crossing 1974 US House Judiciary approves two Articles of Impeachment against President Richard Nixon 1983 Thunderstorm cuts short Diana Ross's free concert in Central Park, New York City 2017 Singer Justin Bieber is barred from performing in China by Beijing Municipal Bureau of Culture, citing his "bad behavior" 2022 US President Joe Biden tests positive for COVID 2024 US President Joe Biden abandons his campaign for re-election and endorses Vice President Kamala Harris
💫Foxy💫@getyourfoxyback.bsky.social · 2w ago

Its National Moon 🌖 Day 🦊 Meet and Greet 🦊 On July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 carried the first humans to the moon. NASA reported the moon landing as being “...the single greatest technological achievement of all time.” We will be okay Love Foxy

1877 Great Railroad Strike: Labor issues turn violent as state militia confronts much larger crowd of rail workers and supporters - rocks met with bullets in Baltimore, Maryland; 10 killed and federal troops called in to restore order 1878 First telephone introduced in Hawaii 1917 WW I draft lottery held; #258 is 1st drawn 1921 Congresswoman Alice Mary Robertson becomes the first woman to preside over the floor of US House of Representatives 1924 Tehran, Persia comes under martial law after the American vice consul, Robert Imbrie, is killed by a religious mob enraged by rumors he had poisoned a fountain and killed several people 1930106°F (41°C), Washington, D.C. (district record) 1933 Germany: Two-hundred Jewish merchants are arrested in Nuremberg and paraded through the streets 1942 Transport #8 departs Angers, France with 827 French Jews sent to Auschwitz Concentration camp; 19 survive until the war's end 1944 Adolf Hitler survives an assassination attempt led by German Army officer Claus von Stauffenberg, suffering only minor injuries after explosives hidden in a briefcase detonate 1969 NASA'S Apollo 11 lunar module, carrying Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, lands on the surface of the Moon. Seven hours later, Armstrong becomes the first person to step on the moon at 10:56 pm EDT, and Aldrin joins him shortly after. Michael Collins remains in orbit in the command module 2005 Canada becomes the fourth country in the world to legalize same-sex marriage, after the bill C-38 receives its Royal Assent 2024 Donald Trump accepts Republican nomination for president at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee with a 90 minute speech, longest acceptance speech in history
💫Foxy💫@getyourfoxyback.bsky.social · 2w ago

It’s National Ice Cream Day 🦊 Meet and Greet 🦊 July celebrates ice cream all month long but it also has it’s own “day” Thomas Jefferson's recipe for Old Fashioned Vanilla Ice Cream is believed to be the oldest recipe for ice cream in the U.S We WILL be Okay Love Foxy

1881 Sioux Indian Chief Sitting Bullsurrenders to US federal troops at Fort Buford in the Territory of Montana 1933 Rick Ferrell (Red Sox) and Wes Ferrell (Cleveland Indians), two brothers on opposite teams, hit home runs in the same game, a first in MLB history 1940 Adolf Hitler orders Great Britain to surrender - they decline 1941 Tom and Jerry first appear under their own names in the cartoon "The Midnight Snack" by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera 1942 Transport #7 departs Drancy, France with 999 French Jews sent to Auschwitz Concentration camp; 17 survive until the war's end 1950 NY Yankees sign their 1st Black players, Elston Howard and Frank Baines 1961 1st in-flight movie shown on TWA 1969 Apollo 11 goes into lunar orbit 1977 Floods in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, kill 76 1984 Geraldine Ferraro (US Representative, New York), becomes the 1st US female major-party vice-presidential nominee, officially joining Walter Mondale's Democratic Party ticket 2001 Michael Brunet discovers the skull of Sahelanthropus tchadensis in the Djurab Desert, Chad, one of the oldest known species in the human family tree and 6-7 million years old 2017 US Senator John McCain diagnosed with brain cancer 2024 Missouri woman Sandra Hemme released from prison after her 43 year conviction for murder was overturned - longest known wrongful conviction of a woman in US history
💫Foxy💫@getyourfoxyback.bsky.social · 3w ago

It’s National Woodie wagon Day 🦊Meet and Greet🦊 During the 1910s and 1920s buyers would hire local craftsmen to build the wooden passenger compartments During the 1930s and 1940s, the Woodie Wagon was a definitive status symbol among the elite. We Will Be Okay

1921 Babe Ruth achieves 139 home runs with a MLB record 575 feet hit to become the all-time home run leader in Major League Baseball, taking the title from Roger Connor 1924 US vice consul Robert Imrie is killed after being attacked by a mob who possibly thought he had poisoned a well in Tehran, Persia, prompting an international incident 1925 Adolf Hitler publishes Mein Kampf, original title was the catchy "Four and a Half Years (of Struggle) Against Lies, Stupidity and Cowardice" 1936 Charles "Lucky" Luciano is sentenced to 30 to 50 years in state prison 1938 Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan arrives in Ireland after a 28-hour flight, supposedly leaving New York flying for California 1947 US President Harry Truman signs Presidential Succession Act 1964 Race riot in Harlem, New York City; riots spread to Bedford-Stuyvesant in Brooklyn 1976 Nadia Comăneci (14) becomes the first gymnast in Olympic Games history to score a perfect 10 score (doing so 7 times) at Montreal Games 1994 Comet Shoemaker-Levy's largest collision with Jupiter leaves a black spot 12,000 km across 2008 Billy Joel performs last of two concerts dubbed "The Last Play at Shea"; the final concert event before demolition of the 1964 baseball stadium in Flushing Meadows, Queens, NYC; featured guests include Roger Daltrey, Tony Bennett, Garth Brooks, and Paul McCartney 2015 PayPal is spun off from eBay as a separate publicly traded company on the NASDAQ 2018 Elon Musk apologises for calling British caver diver in Thai rescue "pedo guy" after widespread criticism and fall in Tesla stock price 2019 Children's songs "Baby Shark" and "Raining Tacos" used by City of West Palm Beach, Florida to drive away homeless people from the waterfront 2023 Wildfire season in British Columbia becomes the most destructive on record, burning 14,100 square kilometers of land, with 390 fires still alight (surpassing 2018 record)
Hillary Rodham Clinton@hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 3w ago

Trump's embarrassing rant last night about an election he lost six years ago made two things very clear: 1. He's not focused on making life better for Americans. Not even close. 2. We should act now to counteract any efforts to undermine our elections. www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...

Hands Off Our Vote in 2026! · Indivisible

**We know that Trump and his Big Lie cronies are plotting to do everything they can to undermine our elections in 2026.** Whether it’s trying to end mail-in voting, targeting registration programs, bl...

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💫Foxy💫@getyourfoxyback.bsky.social · 3w ago

It’s National Yellow Pig Day 🦊 Meet and Greet 🦊 The only reason today is called National Yellow Pig Day is because the two students who wanted to create a day for the number 17 needed a mascot. Hence yellow pig We will be okay ❤️ Foxy

Marc Elias@marcelias.bsky.social · 3w ago

In 2020, Trump lied before the election, lied after the election and -- when he lost in court -- incited a violent insurrection at the Capitol. Right now, he is lying and losing in court ahead of 2026. He is going to escalate and we need to be ready.