Togo ~ "Economic Liberation Day". 'Deterioration of the financial sector, energy shortages, depressed commodity prices'..... so says the interweb!! SOME liberation, huh?


41A.D. ~ Roman emperor, Gaius Caesar, better known as Caligula (meaning Little Boot—he used to wear military boots as a child), was murdered.


1848 ~ Gold was first discovered in California, in Sutter's mill. When President Polk announced the news in December, the gold rush began.


1908 ~ Robert Baden-Powell organized the first Boy Scout troop in England.


1972 ~ Japanese soldier Shoichi Yokoi was discovered in Guam, having spent 28 years hiding in the jungle thinking World War II was still going on.


1986 ~ Voyager Two space probe passes within 51,000 miles of Uranus.


2003 ~ The Department of Homeland Security, under Tom Ridge, became a cabinet department.

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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