Today in History, January 16th

<p>A few of the great historical events that happened today in history, January 16th!</p>

<p>1547
Ivan IV (popularly known as Ivan the Terrible) was crowned czar of Russia.</p>

<p>
1786
The Council of Virginia guarantees religious freedom.</p>

<p>
1847
John C. Fremont, the famed Pathfinder of Western exploration, is appointed governor of California. </p>

<p>
1865
General William T. Sherman begins a march through the Carolinas.</p>

<p>
1900
The U.S. Senate recognizes the Anglo-German Treaty of 1899 by which the UK renounced its rights to the Samoan Islands.</p>

<p>
1909
One of Ernest Shackletons polar exploration teams reaches the Magnetic South Pole.</p>

<p>
1914
Maxim Gorky is authorized to return to Russia after an eight year exile for political dissidence. </p>

<p>
1920
The League of Nations holds its first meeting in Paris.</p>

<p>
1920
Allies lift the blockade...

Presidents and Sex Scandals

<p>Presidents and Their Sex ScandalsA Long Running Tradition
I mean, really? Does anyone believe this stuff?
That being said, it wouldnt be the first President of the United States to partake in a sexual relationship leading to a national scandal.
Anyone living todayand old enough to be surfing the web to read thisremembers the following:</p>

<p>I did not have sexual relations with that woman. Bill Clinton</p>

<p>Bill Clinton
This affair, with Monica Lewinsky, led to President Bill Clinton being impeached by the House of Representatives. (He was later acquitted by the Senate.) His career came to a stand still; however, it did launch the career of his wife, Hillary Clinton. In fact, in a video by Youtube sensation Philip Defranco, while covering the previous nights coverage of the 2013 Golden Globes, he referred to him as Hillary Clintons husband. Any other former president would have been recognized by name, but his scandal lowered his status to that b...

Today in History, January 15th

<p>A few of the great historical events that happened today in history, January 15th!</p>

<p>1559
Englands Queen Elizabeth I was crowned in Westminster Abbey. </p>

<p>
1624
Riots flare in Mexico when it is announced that all churches are to be closed.</p>

<p>
1811
In a secret session, Congress plans to annex Spanish East Florida.</p>

<p>
1844
The University of Notre Dame received its charter from the state of Indiana.</p>

<p>
1865
Union troops capture Fort Fisher, North Carolina.</p>

<p>
1913
The first telephone line between Berlin and New York is inaugurated.</p>

<p>
1919
Peasants in Central Russia rise against the Bolsheviks.</p>

<p>
1920
The Dry Law goes into effect in the United States. Selling liquor and beer becomes illegal. </p>

<p>
1920
The United States approves a $150 million loan to Poland, Austria and Armenia to aid in their war with the Russian communi...

Today in History, January 14th

<p>A few of the great historical events that happened today in history, January 14th!</p>

<p>1526
Francis of France, held captive by Charles V for a year, signs the Treaty of Madrid, giving up most of his claims in France and Italy.</p>

<p>
1639
Connecticuts first constitution, the Fundamental Orders, was adopted.</p>

<p>
1784
The United States ratified a peace treaty with England ending the Revolutionary War.</p>

<p>
1797
Napoleon Bonaparte defeats Austrians at Rivoli in northern Italy.</p>

<p>
1858
Emperor Napoleon and Empress Eugenie escape unhurt after an Italian assassin throws a bomb at their carriage as they travel to the Paris Opera. </p>

<p>
1864
Confederate President Jefferson Davis writes to General Joseph E. Johnson, observing that troops may need to be sent to Alabama or Mississippi.</p>

<p>
1898
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, who wrote Alices Adventures in Wonderland under the pen ...

The History of Victory Gardens

<h4>The History of Victory Gardens (Guest Post)</h4>
<p>Thanks to the efforts of community gardeners, locavores, and the First Lady, the victory garden has made a comeback in recent years. And it’s not just the province of hippies and hipsters — many neighborhoods in the inner cities of the United States have fully embraced the community garden model as a way to reduce crime and delinquency, bring up property values, and offset grocery costs. What many people don’t quite realize is that this current upsurge in garden enthusiasm has a precedent: the mass victory garden movement that began in World War I and really took off with World War II.</p>
<p>In 1917, a group of American politicians, intellectuals, conservationists, and social welfare activists formed the National War Garden Commission as a reaction to World War I’s detrimental effect on the food supply. Thanks to the collapse of intra-European trade relations, nations that had previously imported foo...

Today in History, January 13th

<p>A few of the great historical events that happened today in history, January 13th!</p>

<p>1794
President George Washington approved a measure adding two stars and two stripes to the American flag, following the admission of Vermont and Kentucky to the union.</p>

<p>
1808
Salmon P. Chase, U.S. senator, secretary of the treasury and chief justice of the Supreme Court, was born in Cornish, N.H. </p>

<p>
1846
President James Polk dispatches General Zachary Taylor and 4,000 troops to the Texas Border as war with Mexico looms.</p>

<p>
1862
President Lincoln names Edwin M. Stanton Secretary of War.</p>

<p>
1893
Britains Independent Labor Party, a precursor to the Labor Party, first met.</p>

<p>
1898
Novelist Emile Zolas Jaccuse a defense of Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a French Jew falsely convicted of treason was published in a Paris newspaper.</p>

<p>
1900
To combat Czech nationalism, Emperor Fr...

Army Pfc. Glenn S. Schoenmann, A Hero Laid to Rest

<h4>Army Pfc. Glenn S. Schoenmann, A Hero Laid to Rest – A Moment of Silence</h4>
<p>With the posting of this article, the funeral services for Glenn Schoenmann have commenced. Before you go any further, take a moment and be grateful for the men and women that have and will continue to protect our great nation.</p>
<p>Army Pfc. Glenn S. Schoenmann, prisoner of war held captive during the Korean War, will receive a proper burial today. Glenn Schoenmann will be buried with full military honors at the Brown’s Chapel Cemetery, in Palmer, Tennessee, in the same cemetery with his mother and father. Across the entire state of Tennessee, Governor Bill Haslam has ordered that flags be lowered to half-staff in honor of Private First Class Glenn Schoenmann.</p>
<p>Governor Haslam spoke sincere words about the grateful return of Schoenmann’s remains.</p>
<blockquote><p>The Schoenmann family has waited 62 years to give Glenn a proper buria...

Today in History, January 12th

<p>A few of the great historical events that happened today in history, January 12th!</p>

<p>
1519
Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I died.</p>

<p>
1773
The first public museum in America was established, in Charleston, S.C.</p>

<p>
1872
Russian Grand Duke Alexis goes on a gala buffalo hunting expedition with Gen. Phil Sheridan and Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer. </p>

<p>
1879
The British-Zulu War begins. British troops — under Lieutenant General Frederic Augustus — invade Zululand from the southern African republic of Natal.</p>

<p>
1908
A wireless message is sent long-distance for the first time from the Eiffel Tower in Paris.</p>

<p>
1913
Kiel and Wilhelmshaven become submarine bases in Germany.</p>

<p>
1915
The U.S. Congress establishes Rocky Mountain National Park. </p>

<p>
1926
U.S. coal talks break down, leaving both sides bitter as the strike drags on into its fifth mont...

The History of Beef

<h4>The History of Beef (Guest Post)</h4>
<p>In prehistoric times, we lived as hunter-gatherers. The primitive man hunted and consumed wild animals, including the bovine in its many forms. Some of the oldest cave paintings, such as the one in Lascaux, France, depict aurochs, the ancestor of domestic cattle, being hunted.</p>
<p>As early as 8,000 BC man began domesticating animals including the bovine. The cattle came in two forms, one type Bos taurus came from Europe, and the other Bos indices came from South East Asia and Africa.</p>
<p>The Spanish brought cattle to the Americas through Mexico. Starting with Columbus himself on his second voyage in 1493, cattle began to make their way from Europe to the New World. The trend continued with the Spaniard Vera Cruz and Portuguese traders.</p>
<p>Later, in 1611, the English brought large numbers of cattle to North America, specifically to the Jamestown colony. The French and English col...

Today in History, January 11th

<p>A few of the great historical events that happened today in history, January 11th!</p>

<p>1757
American founding father Alexander Hamilton was born in the West Indies.</p>

<p>
1805
The Michigan Territory was created.</p>

<p>
1861
Alabama secedes from the Union.</p>

<p>
1862
Lincoln accepts Simon Camerons resignation as Secretary of War. </p>

<p>
1887
At Fort Smith, Arkansas, hangman George Maledon dispatches four victims in a multiple hanging.</p>

<p>
1904
British troops massacre 1,000 dervishes in Somaliland.</p>

<p>
1916
Russian General Yudenich launches a WWI winter offensive and advances west.</p>

<p>
1923
The French enter the town of Essen in the Ruhr valley, to extract Germanys resources as war payment.</p>

<p>
1934
The German police raid the homes of dissident clergy in Berlin.</p>

<p>
1940
Benjamin O. Davis, Sr., becomes the U.S. Armys first...

Today in History, January 10th

<p>A few of the great historical events that happened today in history, January 10th!</p>

<p>
1645
The Archbishop of Canterbury, William Laud, is beheaded on Tower Hill, accused of acting as an enemy of the British Parliament. </p>

<p>
1724
King Philip V shocks all of Europe when he abdicates his throne in favor of his eldest son, Louis.</p>

<p>
1811
An uprising of over 400 slaves is put down in New Orleans. Sixty-six blacks are killed and their heads are strung up along the roads of the city.</p>

<p>
1847
General Stephen Kearny and Commodore Robert Stockton retake Los Angeles in the last California battle of the Mexican War.</p>

<p>
1861
Florida secedes from the Union.</p>

<p>
1863
Londons Metropolitan, the worlds first underground passenger railway, opened to the public.</p>

<p>
1870
John D. Rockefeller and his brother William establish the Standard Oil Company of Ohio. </p>

<p&...

Today in History, January 9th!

<p>A few of the great historical events that happened today in history, January 9th!</p>

<p>
1719
Philip V of Spain declares war on France.</p>

<p>
1788
Connecticut became the fifth state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.</p>

<p>
1792
The Ottomans sign a treaty with the Russians ending a five year war.</p>

<p>
1793
Jean Pierre Blanchard makes the first balloon flight in North America.</p>

<p>
1861
Southern shellfire stops the Union supply ship Star of the West from entering Charleston Harbor on her way to Fort Sumter.</p>

<p>
1861
Mississippi secedes from the Union.</p>

<p>
1908
Count Zeppelin announces plans for his airship to carry 100 passengers. </p>

<p>
1909
A Polar exploration team lead by Ernest Shackleton reaches 88 degrees, 23 minutes south longitude, 162 degrees east latitude. They are 97 nautical miles short of the South Pole, but the weather is too severe to continue...

Native American Dances and Meanings

<p>One of the most beautiful things about Native American culture is the rich forms of art this group has brought to America. Among forms of art such as painting, sculpting and storytelling, the truly unique quality of Native American dance makes it the most awe-inspiring and thought-provoking of them all. To the untrained eye, these Native American dances may look like nothing more than interesting movements designed to match the rhythm of a song. On the contrary, dances in this culture each have a deeper purpose and significance that exemplifies how powerful this medium can be in expressing an idea.</p>
<p><strong>1. Stomp Dance</strong></p>
<p>Practiced by the Chickasaw tribe, the traditional stomp dance begins with an announcement by one of the ground leaders, indicating that he will be leading the song. He then heads toward the ceremonial fire with a shell shaker, or rattle, in hand, leading the rest of the people behind him. Women and men...

Today in history, Dec 14th!

Some of the great historical events that happened today in history, on December 14th!

Today in history facts are from various sites including, but not limited too: the History Channel, The New York Times, WHG Historynet.com, HistoryOrb.com, and On This Day blogs from my blogroll.

http://hankeringforhistory.com/2012/12/14/today-in-history-dec-14th/

1799	George Washington dies on his Mount Vernon estate.
1819	Alabama joined the Union as the 22nd state.
1861	Prince Albert, husband of Britain’s Queen Victoria, died in London.
1863	Confederate General James Longstreet attacks Union troops at Bean’s Station, Tenn.
1863	President Abraham Lincoln grants amnesty to the widow of Confederate General B.H. Helm after she swears allegiance to the Union. Mrs. Helm is the half-sister of Mary Todd Lincoln.
1900	Max Planck presents the quantum theory at the Physics Society in Berlin.
1906	The first U1 submarine is brought into service in Germany. Italy’s MAS torpedo boats.
1908	The first truly representative Turkish Parliament opens.
1909	The Labor Conference in Pittsburgh ends with a “declaration of war” on U.S. Steel.
1911	Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen became the first man to reach the South Pole.
1920	The League of Nations creates a credit system to aid Europe.
1939	The League of Nations drops the Soviet Union from its membership. Joseph Avenol sold out the League of Nations.
1941	German Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel orders the construction of defensive positions along the European coastline. Desperate Hours on Omaha Beach
1946	The United Nations adopt a disarmament resolution prohibiting the A-Bomb.
1949	Bulgarian ex-Premier Traicho Kostov is sentenced to die for treason in Sofia.
1960	A U.S. Boeing B-52 bomber sets a 10,000-mile non-stop record without refueling.
1979	The album “London Calling” by the Clash was released.
1980	NATO warns the Soviets to stay out of the internal affairs of Poland, saying that intervention would effectively destroy the détente between the East and West.
1981	Israel annexed the Golan Heights, seized from Syria in 1967.
1985	Wilma Mankiller became the first woman to lead a major American Indian tribe as she took office as principal chief of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma.
1993	A Colorado judge struck down as unconstitutional the state’s voter-approved ban on gay rights laws.
2000	The Federal Trade Commission unanimously approved the $111 billion merger of America Online and Time Warner.
2006	South Korea’s Ban Ki-moon was sworn in as the eighth secretary-general of the United Nations.
2008	An Iraqi journalist threw his shoes at President George W. Bush during a news conference in Baghdad; Bush was not hit.

Today in history, Dec 12th!

Some of the great historical events that happened today in history, on December 12th!

Today in history facts are from various sites including, but not limited too: the History Channel, The New York Times, WHG Historynet.com, HistoryOrb.com, and On This Day blogs from my blogroll.

http://hankeringforhistory.com/2012/12/12/today-in-history-dec-12th/

1745	John Jay, statesman and the first chief justice of the Supreme Court, was born in New York City.
1753	George Washington, the adjutant of Virginia, delivers an ultimatum to the French forces at Fort Le Boeuf, south of Lake Erie, reiterating Britain’s claim to the entire Ohio River valley.
1770	The British soldiers responsible for the “Boston Massacre” are acquitted on murder charges.
1787	Pennsylvania became the second state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
1862	The Union loses its first ship to a torpedo, USS Cairo, in the Yazoo River.
1863	Orders are given in Richmond, Virginia, that no more supplies from the Union should be received by Federal prisoners.
1870	Joseph H. Rainey of South Carolina took his seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, becoming the first black congressman.
1897	“The Katzenjammer Kids,” the pioneering comic strip by Rudolph Dirks, debuted in the New York Journal.
1901	Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi receives the first transatlantic radio transmission in St. John’s Newfoundland.
1914	The New York Stock Exchange re-opened for the first time since July 30. The market had shut down when World War I broke out.
1915	Singer Frank Sinatra was born in Hoboken, N.J.
1917	Father Edward Flanagan founded Boys Town outside Omaha, Neb.
1925	The first motel, the Motel Inn, opened, in San Luis Obispo, Calif.
1927	Communists forces seize Canton, China.
1930	The Spanish Civil War begins as rebels take a border town.
1930	The last Allied troops withdraw from the Saar region in Germany.
1931	Under pressure from the Communists in Canton, Chiang Kai-shek resigns as president of the Nanking Government but remains the head of the Nationalist government that holds nominal rule over most of China.
1943	The German Army launches Operation Winter Tempest, the relief of the Sixth Army trapped in Stalingrad.
1947	The United Mine Workers union withdrew from the American Federation of Labor.
1956	The United Nations calls for immediate Soviet withdrawal from Hungary.
1964	Three Buddhist leaders begin a hunger strike to protest the government in Saigon.
1967	The United States ends the airlift of 6,500 men in Vietnam.
1975	Sara Jane Moore pleaded guilty to trying to kill President Gerald R. Ford.
1995	Willie Brown beats incumbent mayor Frank Jordon to become the first African-American mayor of San Francisco.
1998	The House Judiciary Committee approved a fourth article of impeachment against President Bill Clinton and submitted the case to the full House.
2003	Keiko, the killer whale made famous by the “Free Willy” movies, died in a Norwegian fjord.
2009	Houston became the largest U.S. city to elect an openly gay mayor, with voters handing a solid victory to City Controller Annise Parker.

History from the Web

I should be studying for a Biology final, but that is boring! Therefore, it is time for another segment of History from the Web! 

I received an email today from HNN.us (History News Network), with a subject line which said the following:

Best History Book of 2012?

This is definitely not spam, and I was glad to open this one. (Not to say that most of their email is spam…) You might remember that earlier in the year, I wrote an article about HNN’s Least Credible History Books. With so little time, this list was appreciated as I didn’t desire to waste my time reading “least credible” books. I was glad to see that they were putting out a list with the best history books of 2012. This way I know what I need to be reading. There are only so many books that one can read in a lifetime…

All this being said, today is the last day to suggest a “Best History Book of 2012″

Here is the text so you can click through and nominate your favorite book!

Email editor@hnn.us, tweet to @myHNN, or comment on Facebook or LinkedIn.

Once you do that, jump over to The History Vault and play a game of Guess Who! No, thank goodness it isn’t the children’s. There are five historical women portrayed in pictures. Can you guess who they are? I could not complete the list, and I believe that no one else has… so go check it out!

Do you know who this is?

Last but not least for today is a Pearl Harbor article. On the day of such a significant events in history, I generally don’t write about them. There are so many others–some better that I–writing about the topic, I like to read what they write. Out of all the Pearl Harbor pieces that I read, I can highly recommend Belle Grove Plantation’s We Will Never Forget.

http://hankeringforhistory.com/2012/12/11/history-from-the-web-2/

Today in history, Dec 11th!

Some of the great historical events that happened today in history, on December 11th!

Today in history facts are from various sites including, but not limited too: the History Channel, The New York Times, WHG Historynet.com, HistoryOrb.com, and On This Day blogs from my blogroll.

http://hankeringforhistory.com/2012/12/11/today-in-history-dec-11th/

1816	Indiana became the 19th state.
1861	A raging fire sweeps the business district of Charleston, South Carolina, adding to an already depressed economic state.
1862	Union General Ambrose Burnside occupies Fredericksburg and prepares to attack the Confederates under Robert E. Lee.
1863	Union gunboats Restless, Bloomer and Caroline enter St. Andrew’s Bay, Fla., and begin bombardment of both Confederate quarters and saltworks.
1882	A production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s Iolanthe at Boston’s Bijou Theatre becomes the first performance in a theatre lit by incandescent electric lights.
1927	Nearly 400 world leaders sign a letter to President Calvin Coolidge asking the United States to join the World Court.
1930	As the economic crisis grows, the Bank of the United States closes its doors.
1933	Reports say Paraguay has captured 11,000 Bolivians in the war over Chaco.
1936	Britain’s King Edward VIII abdicated the throne in order to marry American divorcee Wallis Warfield Simpson.
1941	The United States declares war on Italy and Germany.
1943	U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull demands that Hungary, Rumania and Bulgaria withdraw from the war.
1945	A Boeing B-29 Superfortress shatters all records by crossing the United States in five hours and 27 minutes.
1946	UNICEF (the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund) was established.
1951	Joe DiMaggio announces his retirement from baseball.
1955	Israel raids Syrian positions on the Sea of Galilee.
1964	Frank Sinatra, Jr., is returned home to his parents after being kidnapped for the ransom amount of $240,000.
1967	The Concorde, a joint British-French venture and the world’s first supersonic airliner, is unveiled in Toulouse, France.
1972	Challenger, the lunar lander for Apollo 17, touches down on the moon’s surface, the last time that men visit the moon.
1978	Massive demonstrations take place in Tehran against the shah.
1981	The U.N. Security Council chose Javier Perez de Cuellar of Peru to be its fifth secretary-general.
1994	Russian troops rolled into breakaway republic of Chechnya in a failed bid to restore Moscow’s control over the region.
1997	More than 150 countries agreed at a global warming conference in Kyoto, Japan, to take steps to control greenhouse gas emissions.
1998	The House Judiciary Committee approved three articles of impeachment against President Bill Clinton.
2000	Shortstop Alex Rodriguez agreed to a $252 million 10-year deal with the Texas Rangers, the most lucrative sports contract in history at the time.
2002	A congressional report found that intelligence agencies before Sept. 11, 2001, were poorly organized, poorly equipped and slow to pursue clues that might have prevented that day’s terrorist attacks.
2008	Bernard Madoff was arrested, accused of running a multibillion-dollar Ponzi scheme. (He later pleaded guilty and is serving 150 years in prison.)
2009	Tiger Woods announced on his website that he was taking an indefinite leave from golf to try to save his marriage to Elin Nordegren. (The couple divorced in August 2010.)

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is unique–in my opinion–for two reasons: 1) The Guinness Book of World Records regards the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as the “document most translated.” 2) This may be one of the few times when nations from all over the world voted and agreed on one particular subject.

With the ending of World War II, there was a worldwide outcry to prevent further crimes against humanity. The United Nations was formed, and it replaced the League of Nations. One of their first goals to carry out was to create an “International Bill of Human Rights.” John Peters Humphrey, a Canadian legal and human rights advocate, was the primary drafter of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Once the draft was complete, over fifty of the United Nations members participated in the final draft. Hernán Santa Cruz of Chile, member of the drafting sub-Committee, wrote:

I perceived clearly that I was participating in a truly significant historic event in which a consensus had been reached as to the supreme value of the human person, a value that did not originate in the decision of a worldly power, but rather in the fact of existing—which gave rise to the inalienable right to live free from want and oppression and to fully develop one’s personality.  In the Great Hall…there was an atmosphere of genuine solidarity and brotherhood among men and women from all latitudes, the like of which I have not seen again in any international setting.

Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

When the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was proposed to the General Assembly on December 10, 1948, it was successfully adopted, with eight nations abstaining from the vote but none dissenting. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was spearheaded by Eleanor Roosevelt, widow of former president Franklin D. Roosevelt. This should come to no surprise, as this document is founded on Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms. In Roosevelt’s 1941 State of the Union address, he expressed the need for the following four freedoms:

1. Freedom of speech and expression
2. Freedom of worship
3. Freedom from want
4. Freedom from fear

Below is the actual text from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

PREAMBLE

Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world,

Whereas disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind, and the advent of a world in which human beings shall enjoy freedom of speech and belief and freedom from fear and want has been proclaimed as the highest aspiration of the common people,

Whereas it is essential, if man is not to be compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression, that human rights should be protected by the rule of law,

Whereas it is essential to promote the development of friendly relations between nations,

Whereas the peoples of the United Nations have in the Charter reaffirmed their faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person and in the equal rights of men and women and have determined to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom,

Whereas Member States have pledged themselves to achieve, in co-operation with the United Nations, the promotion of universal respect for and observance of human rights and fundamental freedoms,

Whereas a common understanding of these rights and freedoms is of the greatest importance for the full realization of this pledge,

Now, Therefore THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY proclaims THIS UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations, to the end that every individual and every organ of society, keeping this Declaration constantly in mind, shall strive by teaching and education to promote respect for these rights and freedoms and by progressive measures, national and international, to secure their universal and effective recognition and observance, both among the peoples of Member States themselves and among the peoples of territories under their jurisdiction.

Article 1.

• All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.

Article 2.

• Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any other limitation of sovereignty.

Article 3.

• Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.

Article 4.

• No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.

Article 5.

• No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.

Article 6.

• Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law.

Article 7.

• All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law. All are entitled to equal protection against any discrimination in violation of this Declaration and against any incitement to such discrimination.

Article 8.

• Everyone has the right to an effective remedy by the competent national tribunals for acts violating the fundamental rights granted him by the constitution or by law.

Article 9.

• No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.

Article 10.

• Everyone is entitled in full equality to a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal, in the determination of his rights and obligations and of any criminal charge against him.

Article 11.

• (1) Everyone charged with a penal offence has the right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in a public trial at which he has had all the guarantees necessary for his defence.
• (2) No one shall be held guilty of any penal offence on account of any act or omission which did not constitute a penal offence, under national or international law, at the time when it was committed. Nor shall a heavier penalty be imposed than the one that was applicable at the time the penal offence was committed.

Article 12.

• No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.

Article 13.

• (1) Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state.
• (2) Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.

Article 14.

• (1) Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution.
• (2) This right may not be invoked in the case of prosecutions genuinely arising from non-political crimes or from acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.

Article 15.

• (1) Everyone has the right to a nationality.
• (2) No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his nationality nor denied the right to change his nationality.

Article 16.

• (1) Men and women of full age, without any limitation due to race, nationality or religion, have the right to marry and to found a family. They are entitled to equal rights as to marriage, during marriage and at its dissolution.
• (2) Marriage shall be entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses.
• (3) The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.

Article 17.

• (1) Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others.
• (2) No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property.

Article 18.

• Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.

Article 19.

• Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.

Article 20.

• (1) Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association.
• (2) No one may be compelled to belong to an association.

Article 21.

• (1) Everyone has the right to take part in the government of his country, directly or through freely chosen representatives.
• (2) Everyone has the right of equal access to public service in his country.
• (3) The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government; this will shall be expressed in periodic and genuine elections which shall be by universal and equal suffrage and shall be held by secret vote or by equivalent free voting procedures.

Article 22.

• Everyone, as a member of society, has the right to social security and is entitled to realization, through national effort and international co-operation and in accordance with the organization and resources of each State, of the economic, social and cultural rights indispensable for his dignity and the free development of his personality.

Article 23.

• (1) Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.
• (2) Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work.
• (3) Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection.
• (4) Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his interests.

Article 24.

• Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.

Article 25.

• (1) Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.
• (2) Motherhood and childhood are entitled to special care and assistance. All children, whether born in or out of wedlock, shall enjoy the same social protection.

Article 26.

• (1) Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages. Elementary education shall be compulsory. Technical and professional education shall be made generally available and higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit.
• (2) Education shall be directed to the full development of the human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. It shall promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among all nations, racial or religious groups, and shall further the activities of the United Nations for the maintenance of peace.
• (3) Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children.

Article 27.

• (1) Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits.
• (2) Everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author.

Article 28.

• Everyone is entitled to a social and international order in which the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration can be fully realized.

Article 29.

• (1) Everyone has duties to the community in which alone the free and full development of his personality is possible.
• (2) In the exercise of his rights and freedoms, everyone shall be subject only to such limitations as are determined by law solely for the purpose of securing due recognition and respect for the rights and freedoms of others and of meeting the just requirements of morality, public order and the general welfare in a democratic society.
• (3) These rights and freedoms may in no case be exercised contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.

Article 30.

• Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as implying for any State, group or person any right to engage in any activity or to perform any act aimed at the destruction of any of the rights and freedoms set forth herein.

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Today in history, Dec 10th!

Some of the great historical events that happened today in history, on December 10th!

Today in history facts are from various sites including, but not limited too: the History Channel, The New York Times, WHG Historynet.com, HistoryOrb.com, and On This Day blogs from my blogroll.

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1817	Mississippi was admitted to the union as the 20th state.
1861	Kentucky is admitted to the Confederate States of America.
1862	The U.S. House of Representatives passes a bill creating the state of West Virginia.
1869	Governor John Campbell signs the bill that grants women in Wyoming Territory the right to vote as well as hold public office.
1898	The United States and Spain sign the Treaty of Paris, ceding Spanish possessions, including the Philippines, to the United States.
1917	The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded to the International Red Cross.
1918	U.S. troops are called to guard Berlin as a coup is feared.
1919	Captain Ross Smith becomes the first person to fly 11,500 miles from England to Australia.
1936	Edward VIII abdicates to marry Wallis Warfield Simpson, an American-born divorcee.
1941	Japanese troops invade the Philippine island of Luzon.
1941	The siege of Tobruk in North Africa is raised.
1943	Franklin D. Roosevelt signs a bill that postpones a draft of pre-Pearl Harbor fathers.
1943	Allied forces bomb Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria.
1948	The U.N. General Assembly adopted its Universal Declaration on Human Rights.
1949	150,000 French troops mass at the border in Vietnam to prevent a Chinese invasion.
1950	Dr. Ralph J. Bunche becomes the first African-American to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
1965	The Grateful Dead played their first concert, at the Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco.
1967	Singer Otis Redding died at age 26 in the crash of his private plane in Wisconsin.
1977	On UN Human Rights Day, the Soviet Union places 20 prominent dissidents under house arrest, cutting off telephones and threatening to break up a planned silent demonstration in Moscow’s Pushkin Square. Soviet newspapers decry human rights violations elsewhere in the world.
1980	Rep. John W. Jenrette, D-S.C., resigned to avoid being expelled from the House following his conviction on charges related to the FBI’s Abscam investigation.
1984	South African Bishop Desmond Tutu received the Nobel Peace Prize.
1994	Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin received the Nobel Peace Prize.
1998	Six astronauts opened the doors to the new international space station.
1998	The Palestinian leadership scrapped constitutional clauses rejecting Israel’s right to exist.
2001	“The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring,” the first in a three-film adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic fantasy trilogy, premiered in London.
2002	Former President Jimmy Carter accepted the Nobel Peace Prize for his diplomacy in the Middle East in the 1970s.
2007	Former Vice President Al Gore accepted the Nobel Peace Prize with a call for humanity to rise up against a looming climate crisis.
2007	NFL star Michael Vick was sentenced to 23 months in prison for bankrolling a dogfighting operation and killing dogs that underperformed.
2007	Cristina Fernandez was sworn in as Argentina’s first elected female president.
2009	President Barack Obama accepted the Nobel Peace Prize with a humble acknowledgment of his scant accomplishments and a robust defense of the U.S. at war.
2009	James Cameron’s 3-D film epic “Avatar” had its world premiere in London.

Today in history, Dec 8th!

Some of the great historical events that happened today in history, on December 8th!

Today in history facts are from various sites including, but not limited too: the History Channel, The New York Times, WHG Historynet.com, HistoryOrb.com, and On This Day blogs from my blogroll.

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1863	Union General William Averell’s cavalry destroys railroads in the southwestern part of West Virginia.
1863	President Abraham Lincoln announced his plan for the Reconstruction of the South.
1886	The American Federation of Labor was founded in Columbus, Ohio.
1914	The German cruisers Scharnhorst, Gneisenau, Nurnberg, and Liepzig are sunk by a British force in the Battle of the Falkland Islands.
1920	President Woodrow Wilson declines to send a representative to the League of Nations in Geneva.
1932	Japan tells the League of Nations that it has no control over her designs in China.
1941	Japanese General Tomoyuki Yamashita begins his attack against the British army at Singapore.
1943	U.S. carrier-based planes sink two cruisers and down 72 planes in the Marshall Islands.
1944	The United States conducts the longest, most effective air raid on the Pacific island of Iwo Jima.
1948	The United Nations approves the recognition of South Korea.
1967	In the biggest battle yet in the Mekong Delta, 365 Viet Cong are killed.
1968	South Vietnam’s Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky arrives in Paris for peace talks.
1980	John Lennon is shot to death outside his Manhattan apartment building.
1982	The Washington, D.C., police shoot and kill a man threatening to blow up the Washington Monument.
1987	Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied territories began an intefadeh, or uprising.
1987	President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev signed a treaty calling for destruction of intermediate-range nuclear missiles.
1991	Russia, Belarus and Ukraine declared the Soviet national government dead, forming a new Commonwealth of Independent States.
1991	Kimberly Bergalis, who had contracted AIDS from her dentist, died in Florida at age 23.
1992	Americans saw live TV coverage of U.S. troops landing on the beaches of Somalia as Operation Restore Hope began.
1993	President Bill Clinton signed into law the North American Free Trade Agreement.
1995	The Grateful Dead announced they were breaking up after 30 years of making music. The news came four months after the death of lead guitarist Jerry Garcia.
2008	Khalid Sheikh Mohammed told the Guantanamo war crimes tribunal he would confess to masterminding the Sept. 11 attacks; four other men also abandoned their defenses.