Today is, as many of you will probably know, is World AIDS Day!


The 1824 presidential election between John Q. Adams, Andrew Jackson, William Crawford, and Henry Clay was turned over to the House of Representatives due to the lack of an electoral-vote majority


Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes appeared for the first time in print in the story "A Study in Scarlet" today in 1887


Today in 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her front-section bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama.


Representatives from more than 150 countries gathered at a global warming summit in Kyoto, Japan, in 1997, and over the course of ten days forged an agreement to control the emission of greenhouse gases.

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The selfish, they're all standing in line
Faithing and hoping to buy themselves time
Me, I figure as each breath goes by
I only own my mind