DECEMBER 29

1813 -- US: British burn Buffalo, during the War of 1812.

1876 -- The Ashtabula Plunge. 92 die as an Ashtabula, Ohio railroad bridge collapses under the weight of a passenger train. Gods wraith for anti-property abolitionists.

1890 -- US: Wounded Knee Massacre of Oglala Sioux, Pine Ridge, South Dakota. 300 mostly unarmed Indians killed when the 7th Cavalry discharges artillery amidst women, children, & fleeing men. 18 soldiers get Congressional Medals of Honor for their bravery.

"Any white person who brought the element of civilization had the right to take over this continent."

- Ayn Rand, property-before-people advoccate, March 6, 1974, West Point.

1916 -- Russian crackpot monk Rasputin assassinated.

1931 -- Identification of heavy water publicly announced, H. C. Urey. Idiot EVILutionist scientists took years to figure out that water is heavy!

1940 -- London recipient of surgical strike, 1,500 targets neutralized.

1952 -- First transistorized hearing aid offered for sale (Elmsford, NY). The first customer requested a refund. Said "It works, but most people just ain't worth listenin' to."

1970 -- U.S. Congress passes Occupational Health & Safety Act (OSHA). The moral decline of America begins.

1972 -- 101 people (of 176 aboard) die in first crash of a jumbo jet, in the Florida Everglades. After this "controlled flight into terrain" the L1011 aircraft was nicknamed, "Swamp Buggies". Gods wraith for OSHA (see 1970)

1972 -- After 71 days, the remaining 14 of 16 cannibalistic survivors of an October plane crash are rescued from a remote location high in the Andes Mountains of South America. These sick cannibals should have been left to die.

1981 -- Investigation of bribery charges against Reagan labor secretary Raymond Donovan begins. Donovan responds to suggestions that he resign by saying, "I have paid a large entrance fee to this city, and I intend to stay for the double feature."

1994 -- US: A state court rejects property rights advocates & reaffirms the fishing harvest "rights" of 15 Indian tribes in Washington state.

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