by Bob Walsh
In the year 79, Mt. Vesuvius erupted, burying several cities under a heavy layer of volcanic ash.
In 1572, Charles IX of France began the systematic extermination of 50,000 Hugenots (Protestants of the Calvanist persuasion) in an effort to rid France of non-Catholics. He was in large part successful.
In 1891 Thomas Edison patented a motion picture camera.
In 1894 the U. S. Congress passed the first graduated income tax. It was declared Unconstitutional in 1895.
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In 1956 in Mineral Wells, Texas 18 Mineral Wells High School students crammed themselves in a telephone booth in an effort to break the record for the number of grown people to occupy a telephone booth. The students became stuck and one said she couldn't breath. The fire department had to destroy the phone booth to remove the students. Bell Telephone was paid $800 for the damage by the parents of the students. The record was not broken. At that time the record was 22 set by Santa Rosa, California students.
That is certainly worth commemorating. I also seem to remember that cramming people into VW beetles and buses was very much an in thing to do at one time.
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