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#BlueCrew #VoteBlue Blue dot in South Carolina! Fuck Trump and the GOP!

When you appoint reality TV people to the most important positions of the government running massive federal agencies, donโ€™t be surprised when they treat the job like a reality TV show starring themselves while we pay them and the expenses.

Itโ€™s Find Your Inner Nerd Day๐Ÿค“ ๐ŸฆŠ Meet and Greet ๐ŸฆŠ Nerds come in all shapes and sizes. There are academic nerds, book-worm nerds, movie nerds, science nerds, and nerds no one has ever heard of I was a theater nerd in High School โ€ฆand proud of it We will be okay Love Foxy

1889 First ship-to-shore wireless message ("Sherman is sighted") is received in the US from Lightship No. 70 to a coastal receiving station at Cliff House in San Francisco
1921 Austria and the US formally end the war; the US does the same with Germany on the 25th and Hungary on the 29th
1923 Capt. Lowell Smith and Lt. John P. Richter perform the first mid-air refueling on a De Havilland DH-4B, setting an endurance flight record of 37 hours
1944 Drancy internment camp in Drancy is liberated
1966 The Beatles' last New York City concert takes place in Queens, at Shea Stadium before a crowd of 45,000 with 11,000 unsold seats
1987 15-year-old boy hijacks KLM B737 and demands $1 billion
1995 Actor Larry Hagman receives a liver transplant
2007 The #hashtag is invented and first used in a tweet by US product designer Chris Messina
2021 USDA grants full approval to Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine for people 16 and over

Itโ€™s National Bacon Lovers Day ๐ŸฆŠ Meet and Greet ๐ŸฆŠ Today we pay tribute to the crispy, chewy, and mouthwatering food we call bacon! If you're a fan of smoky, savory, and a bit salty flavor, this food holiday is for you! We will be okay Love Foxy

1852 Steamer "Atlantic" crossing Lake Erie from Buffalo, New York to Detroit, Michigan collides with freighter Ogdensburg" and sinks; half of the estimated 600 passengers aboard drown
1866 President Andrew Johnson issues Proclamation 157, declaring the
"insurrection" in Texas over and officially ending the US Civil War
1896 The dial telephone is patented
1908 America's Great White Fleet arrives in Sydney, Australia, greeted with a tremendous welcome; 221 American sailors desert to stay in Australia
1940 First Polish fighter squadrons fight alongside Allies in the Battle of Britain
1960 Soviet satellite Korabl-Sputnik 2 (Sputnik 5) returns to Earth with its passengers: two dogs, Belka and Strelka, two mice, two rats, flies, several plants, and fungi, the first Earth-born creatures to go into orbit and return alive
1964 US President Lyndon B. Johnsonsigns the Economic Opportunity Act, an anti-poverty measure totaling nearly $1 billion
1977 NASA launches Voyager 2 towards Jupiter and Saturn, later reaching Uranus and Neptune
1998 US embassy bombings: US military launches cruise missile attacks against alleged al-Qaida camps in Afghanistan and a suspected chemical plant in Sudan in retaliation for the August 7 bombings of American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania
2020 Former adviser to Donald Trump, Steve Bannon, is arrested and charged with fraud over a fundraising campaign to build a wall on the Mexican border