Nathan Stack

@spamlizard.bsky.social

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Day 103 of Godzilla romping through history March 6th 1836–Texas Revolution: Battle of the Alamo: After a thirteen-day siege by an army of 3,000 Mexican troops, 187 Texas volunteers, including frontiersman Davy Crockett and colonel Jim Bowie, defending the Alamo are killed and the fort is captured

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Day 101 of Godzilla romping through history March 2 1882 – Queen Victoria narrowly escapes an assassination attempt by Roderick Maclean in Windsor. Maclean's motive was purportedly a curt reply to some poetry that he had mailed to the Queen.

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Day 100 of Godzilla romping through history March 1st 1932 – Aviator Charles Lindbergh's 20-month-old son Charles Jr is kidnapped from his home in East Amwell, New Jersey. His body would not be found until May 12.

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Day 98 of Godzilla romping through history February 27 1933 – Reichstag fire: Germany's parliament building in Berlin, the Reichstag, is set on fire; Marinus van der Lubbe, a young Dutch Communist claims responsibility. This made the fire pivotal in the establishment of Nazi Germany.

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Day 96 of Godzilla romping through history February 25 1956 – In his speech On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences, Nikita Khrushchev, leader of the Soviet Union, denounces Stalin.[

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Day 95 of Godzilla romping through history February 24 1946 – Colonel Juan Perón, founder of the political movement that became known as Peronism, is elected to his first term as President of Argentina.

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Day 94 of Godzilla romping through history February 23 1974 – Samuel Byck attempts to hijack an aircraft at Baltimore/Washington International Airport with the intention of crashing it into the White House to assassinate Richard Nixon, but commits suicide after being wounded by police.

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Day 92 of Godzilla romping through history February 20 1939 –Madison Square Garden Nazi rally: The largest ever pro-Nazi rally in United States history is convened in Madison Square Garden, New York City, with 20,000 members and sympathizers of the German American Bund present. Godzilla not pleased

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Day 91 of Godzilla romping through history February 19 1942 – World War II: United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs executive order 9066, allowing the United States military to relocate Japanese Americans to internment camps. Not our finest hour. Never again.

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Day 89 of Godzilla romping through history February 17 1969 – American aquanaut Berry L. Cannon dies of carbon dioxide poisoning while attempting to repair a leak in the SEALAB III underwater habitat. The SEALAB project was subsequently abandoned.

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Day 88 of Godzilla romping through history February 16 2005 – The Kyoto Protocol comes into force, following its ratification by Russia. An international agreement that committed countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

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Day 87 of Godzilla romping through history February 15 1898 – The battleship USS Maine explodes and sinks in Havana harbor in Cuba, killing about 274 of the ship's roughly 354 crew.[13] The disaster pushes the United States to declare war on Spain.

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Day 83 of Godzilla romping through history February 11 660 BC – Traditional date for the foundation of Japan by Emperor Jimmu. In Japanese mythology, he was a descendant of the sun goddess Amaterasu, as well as a descendant of the storm god Susanoo.

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Day 81 of Godzilla romping through history, February 9 1964 – The Beatles make their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, performing before a record-setting audience of 73 million viewers across the United States.

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Day 78 of Godzilla romping through history February 6th 1820 – The first 86 African American immigrants sponsored by the American Colonization Society depart New York aboard the "Liberian Mayflower" to start a free settlement in present-day Liberia.

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Day 77 of Godzilla romping through history, February 5th 2016 – New Zealand Minister for Economic Development Steven Joyce is hit by a flung rubber dildo in a Waitangi Day protest. Dubbed "dildo-gate". Godzilla says normalize chucking dildos at dicks.

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