Today in History: Monday, June 22, 2015

[1stRambo]

1970: President Richard Nixon signed a measure lowering the voting age to 18.

Yo, it sure sounds like the Republicans are trying to stop people from voting? Well, maybe some below!

"GTP"

 

[Moonglow]

Yet when in power, the GOP has never stopped illegals.....

 

[Moonglow]

and you have yet to prove that any Illegal has voted for Oblama....

 

[Old Rocks]

Yes, Mr. 1stRambo, President Nixon did, indeed, lower the voting age to 18. And established clean air and water standards for this nation. And many other really good things. Had the man been able to control his paranoia, he would be remembered as one of the great Presidents. He was certainly one of the most intelligent. And were he alive today, he would be telling the GOP that they are setting their party up for the same oblivion as the Whigs.

 

[longknife]

April 22nd

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• 1970 The first Earth Day
  

• American Revolution

• 1778 John Paul Jones leads American raid on Whitehaven, England
  

• Automotive

• 1933 Rolls-Royce co-founder dies
  

• Civil War

• 1863 Union raid cuts Mississippi telegraph wires
  

• Cold War

• 1954 McCarthy Army hearings begin
  

• Crime

• 1886 Seduction is made illegal
  

• 1934 An FBI agent is killed in a gangster raid
  

• Disaster

• 1992 Sewers explode in Guadalajara
  

• General Interest

• 1915 Germans introduce poison gas
  

1997 Fujimori orders assault on Japanese ambassador’s home

• Hollywood
• 1937 Jack Nicholson born
  
  
• Literary
• 1873 Ellen Glasgow, Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, is born
  
  
• Music
• 1978 The Blues Brothers make their world premiere on Saturday Night Live
  
  
• Old West
• 1889 The Oklahoma land rush begins
  
  
• Presidential
• 1994 Former President Richard Nixon dies
  
  
• Sports
• 2004 Pat Tillman killed by friendly fire in Afghanistan
  
  
• Vietnam War
• 1968 South Vietnamese have increased combat capabilities
  
  
• 1972 Antiwar demonstrations held
  
  
• World War I
• 1915 Second Battle of Ypres begins
  
  
• World War II
• 1944 Americans launch Operation Persecution in the Pacific
  
  
• 1945 Hitler admits defeat