Today In History:
1998: John Glenn returns to space.
1618: Sir Walter Raleigh Executed
1929: Stock Market crashes
1948: Killer smog claims elderly victims, continuing to hover over Donora, Pennsylvania. Over a five-day period, the smog killed about 20 people and made thousands more seriously ill.
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Wait a minute, I think the 'stock market crashed' today, not in 1929.
Off to school for 'Book Character Day' ~ which is the same as a Halloween Party except that they don't dare call it that.
JS
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