It doesn’t mater if you’re talking about a valuable coin, a leather sofa, a bottle of whiskey or a living person.

]]> http://klaw.com/whats-the-real-story-behind-the-expression-the-real-mccoy/feed/ 0 VancityAllie, Flickr http://klaw.com/this-day-in-history-for-july-18-mein-kampf-published-and-more/ http://klaw.com/this-day-in-history-for-july-18-mein-kampf-published-and-more/#comments Tue, 17 Jul 2012 20:00:06 +0000 Shauna Wright http://tsminteractive.com/?p=122594 Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history:

64 – A great fire begins that ultimately destroys most of Rome (More info)

1925 – Adolf Hitler publishes the first volume of his personal manifesto, ‘Mein Kampf’ (More info)

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1762 – Catherine II becomes tsar of Russia upon the murder of Peter III (More info)

1898 – Spain surrenders to the United States at Santiago, Cuba, ending the Spanish-American War (More info)

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1790 – The District of Columbia is established as the capital of the United States (More info)

1969 – The first manned space mission to land on the Moon, Apollo 11, launches (More info)

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1799 – The Rosetta Stone is found (More info)

1870 – Georgia becomes the last of the former Confederate states to be readmitted to the Union (More info)

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1789 – The storming and destruction of Bastille marks the beginning of the French Revolution (More info)

1798 – The Sedition Act becomes law, making it a federal crime to write, publish or utter false or malicious statements about the U.S. government (More info)

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1863 – In New York City, opponents of the draft begin three days of rioting which will be later regarded as the worst in U.S. history (More info)

1923 – The Hollywood sign is officially dedicated in the hills above Los Angeles; it originally reads Hollywoodland but the four last letters are dropped after a 1949 renovation (More info)

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1863 – The final day of the Battle of Gettysburg culminates with Pickett’s Charge (More info)

1884 – Dow Jones and Company publishes its first stock average (More info)

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1881 – Charles J. Guiteau shoots President James Garfield, who dies two months later (More info)

1890 – Congress passes the Sherman Anti-Trust Act (More info)

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1863 – The Battle of Gettysburg begins (More info)

1867 – Canada becomes a self-governing dominion of Great Britain under the British North America Act (More info)

]]> http://klaw.com/this-day-in-history-for-july-1-sony-walkman-introduced-and-more/feed/ 0 Esa Sorjonen, Wikimedia Commons http://klaw.com/this-day-in-history-for-june-30-gone-with-the-wind-published-and-more/ http://klaw.com/this-day-in-history-for-june-30-gone-with-the-wind-published-and-more/#comments Fri, 29 Jun 2012 20:00:29 +0000 Shauna Wright http://tsminteractive.com/?p=116471 Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history:

1859 – French acrobat Charles Blondin crosses Niagara Falls on a tightrope (More info)

1921 – President Warren G. Harding appoints former President William Howard Taft as Chief Justice of the United States; Taft is the only person to have ever held both offices (More info)

]]> http://klaw.com/this-day-in-history-for-june-30-gone-with-the-wind-published-and-more/feed/ 0 Hulton Archive, Getty Images http://klaw.com/this-day-in-history-for-june-28-stonewall-uprising-and-more/ http://klaw.com/this-day-in-history-for-june-28-stonewall-uprising-and-more/#comments Wed, 27 Jun 2012 20:00:46 +0000 Shauna Wright http://tsminteractive.com/?p=115659 Here’s a look at some interesting events that took place on this day in history:

1894 – Labor Day becomes an official US holiday (More info)

1914 – Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife are assassinated, setting off World War I (More info)

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1844 – Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of the Latter Day Saint movement, is murdered by a mob (More info)

1950 – President Harry S. Truman orders the Air Force and Navy into the Korean War (More info)

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1870 – Christmas is declared a federal holiday in the United States (More info)

1948 – In response to the Soviet blockade of land routes into West Berlin, the United States begins a massive airlift of food, water, and medicine that comes to be known as the Berlin Airlift (More info)

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1868 – Christopher Latham Sholes receives a patent for the typewriter (More info)

1960 – Enovid becomes the first officially-approved oral contraceptive pill in the world (More info)

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1788 – The US Constitution is ratified and goes into effect (More info)

1948 – Columbia Records introduces the long-playing record album in a public demonstration at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City (More info)

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1775 – The United States Army is founded (More info)

1777 – The Stars and Stripes is adopted by Congress as the Flag of the United States (More info)

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1900 – The Boxer Rebellion begins in China (More info)

1966 – The Supreme Court rules in Miranda v. Arizona that the police must inform suspects of their rights before questioning them (More info)

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