1895 – The Berliner Gramophone Company was founded in Philadelphia, PA.

1904 – “Little Johnny Jones” opened in Hartford, CT.

1915 – During World War I, the Battle of Loos concluded.

1918 – U.S. Corporal Alvin C. York almost single-handedly killed 25 German soldiers and captured 132 in the Argonne Forest in France. York had originally tried to avoid being drafted as a conscientious objector. After this event his was promoted to sergeant and was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.

1919 – The first transcontinental air race in the U.S. began.

1945 – U.S. President Truman announced that only Britain and Canada would be given the secret to the atomic bomb.

1950 – U.N. forces crossed into North Korea from South Korea.

1952 – “The Complete Book of Etiquette” was published for the first time.

1956 – Donald James Larsen (New York Yankees) pitched the first perfect game in the history of the World Series.

1957 – The Brooklyn Baseball Club announced that it had accepted a deal to move the Dodgers to Los Angeles.

1966 – The U.S. Government declared that LSD was dangerous and an illegal substance.

1970 – Soviet author Alexander Solzhenitsyn won the Nobel Prize for literature.

1979 – “Sugar Babies” opened at the Mark Hellinger Theatre on Broadway.

1981 – U.S. President Reagan greeted former Presidents Carter, Ford and Nixon to the White House. The group was preparing to leave for Egypt to attend the funeral of Anwar Sadat.

1982 – In Poland, all labor organizations, including Solidarity, were banned.

1991 – A slave burial site was found by construction workers in lower Manhattan. The “Negro Burial Ground” had been closed in 1790. Over a dozen skeletons were found.

1993 – The U.S. government issued a report absolving the FBI of any wrongdoing in its final assault in Waco, TX, on the Branch Davidian compound. The fire that ended the siege killed as many as 85 people.

1996 – Pope John Paul II underwent a successful operation to remove his inflamed appendix.

1998 – Taliban forces attacked Iranian border posts. Iran said that three border posts were destroyed before the Taliban forces were forced to retreat. The Taliban of Afghanistan denied the event occurred.

1998 – Canada and Netherlands were voted into the U.N. Security Council.

2001 – Tom Ridge, former Governor of Pennsylvania, was sworn in as director of the new U.S. department of Homeland Security.

2001 – Two Russian cosmonauts made the first spacewalk to be conducted outside of the international space station without a shuttle present.

2002 – A federal judge approved U.S. President George W. Bush’s request to reopen West Coast ports, to end a caustic 10-day labor lockout. The lockout was costing the U.S. economy an estimated $1 billion to $2 billion a day.

2003 – China announced that it would have a human crew orbit the Earth briefly on October 15.

2003 – Vietnam and the United States reached a tentative agreement that would allow the first commercial flights between the two countries since the end of the Vietnam War.

2003 – It was announced that Vivendi Universal and General Electric Co. had reached an agreement to merge. The name for the combined company was NBC Universal.

2003 – Siegfried Fischbacher and his manager announced that the “Siegfried and Roy” show at the Mirage was canceled permanently. It was also said that if Roy Horn survived, after a tiger attack on October 3, the duo would continue to work together.

2004 – The first-ever direct presidential elections were held in Afghanistan.

Our Next POTUS — Kamala Harris

We are NOT Going Back

Started by Daren Gamble & Toxic-Free Future

Started by Daren Gamble & Toxic-Free Future

Vinyl chloride is a cancer-causing chemical used to make building materials that’s devastating communities across the country. As the largest home improvement retailer in the world, The Home Depot must be a leader in transitioning away from building products made with vinyl chloride.

My name is Daren Gamble and I’m a lifetime resident of East Palestine, OH. On February 3, 2023, a train carrying vinyl chloride derailed and caught fire less than two miles from my home, leading to an environmental disaster and health crisis for our community and the surrounding area that we are still suffering from today.

I live in my grandfather’s house about a mile from the derailment, a house that has been in our family for generations. After the derailment we were evacuated and still worry whether or not it is safe to live in our home, and whether it’s safe to breathe the air. My neighbors and I are concerned about the long-term health effects from being exposed to this cancer-causing chemical. Family members and neighbors of mine have suffered from nose bleeds and other health problems that only started after the toxic disaster. 

Vinyl chloride is the basic building block for making polyvinyl chloride (PVC), a widely-used plastic that harms health and the environment during production, use, and disposal. Vinyl chloride is also a known human carcinogen associated with liver cancer, brain and lung cancers, and cancers of the blood. 

It’s a nightmare that never ends. As we fight for justice for our community, we want to work to make sure that no other family has to go through what we went through. 

Despite the well-documented harms from vinyl chloride, companies continue to produce the chemical and use it to make PVC pipes, packaging materials, cars, children’s toys, and building materials like wall and floor coverings. 

In fact, more than ten billion pounds of this dangerous chemical are produced in the U.S. every year by giant chemical corporations.

The largest use of PVC is in building materials and the largest retailer of PVC building materials is The Home Depot. PVC has become pervasive in our homes and in packaging. People use products made of or packed in PVC everyday, and what happened in East Palestine is evidence about why we need to take action now. 

In fact, before vinyl chloride derailed near our home, it was on its way to a PVC plastics factory in New Jersey, which turns vinyl chloride into PVC plastic for building materials like flooring that is sold at The Home Depot. Make no mistake: retailers like The Home Depot are profiting off the sale of a plastic that is poisoning communities like mine. Enough is enough!

I have worked in the construction industry for more than 35 years, and I know that there are plenty of alternatives out there to this poison plastic. The Home Depot needs to help lead by both banning the sale of PVC from their shelves and by investing in and transitioning to safer materials, like linoleum flooring.

But I need your help. The Home Depot can take action but they need to hear from all of us. We need to raise our voices together to ensure that what happened in East Palestine, OH doesn’t happen again. 

Will you join me in calling on the Home Depot to lead the industry away from using this dangerous chemical and plastic?

We know change is possible because in recent years, The Home Depot has taken action on other toxic chemicals such as PFAS. In fact, the company has recently made progress in reducing PVC in the packaging it sells. But much more action is needed.

Tell The Home Depot: Build a Safer Future, Ban this Poison Plastic!

Source: change.org

 

939 Battle at Andernach: King Otto & Hermann of Zwaben beat Eberhard of France & Giselbert of Lutherans

• 976 Hisham II appointed kalief of Cordoba
• 1134 Storm flood ravages Zeeland county
• 1187 Sultan Saladin captures Jerusalem from Crusaders
• 1263 The battle of Largs fought between Norwegians and Scots.
• 1492 – King Henry VII of England invaded France.1780 – British army major John Andre was hanged as a spy. He was carrying information about the actions of Benedict Arnold.1835 – The first battle of the Texas Revolution took place near the Guadalupe River when American settlers defeated a Mexican cavalry unit.

  1836 – Charles Darwin returned to England after 5 years of acquiring knowledge around the world about fauna, flora, wildlife and geology. He used the information to develop his “theory of evolution” which he unveiled in his 1859 book entitled The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.

  1869 – Mahatma (Mohandas) K Gandhi was born. He was known for his advocacy of non-violent resistance to fight tyranny.

  1870 – Rome was made the capital of Italy.

  1876 – The Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas opened. It was the state’s first venture into public higher education. The school was formally dedicated 2 days later by Texas Gov. Richard Coke.

  1889 – The first international Conference of American States began in Washington, DC.

  1908 – Addie Joss of Cleveland pitched the fourth perfect game in major league baseball history.

  1919 – U.S. President Woodrow Wilson suffered a stroke that left him partially paralyzed.

  1920 – The Cincinnati Reds and the Pittsburgh Pirates played the only triple-header in baseball history. The Reds won 2 of the 3 games.

  1924 – The Geneva Protocol adopted the League of Nations.

  1925 – Scottish inventor John Logie Baird completed the first transmission of moving images.

  1929 – “The National Farm and Home Hour” debuted on NBC radio.

  1933 – “Red Adams” debuted on NBC radio.

  1937 – Warner Bros. released “Love Is on the Air.” Ronald Reagan made his acting debut in the motion picture. He was 26 years old.

  1941 – Operation Typhoon was launched by Nazi Germany. The plan was an all-out offensive against Moscow.

  1944 – The Nazis crushed the Warsaw Uprising.

  1947 – The Federatino Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA) formally established Formula One racing in Grand Prix competition.

  1948 – The first automobile race to use asphalt, cement and dirt roads took place in Watkins Glen in New York. It was the first road race in the U.S. following World War II.

  1949 – “The Aldrich Family” debuted on NBC-TV.

  1950 – “Peanuts,” the comic strip created by Charles M. Schulz, was published for the first time in seven newspapers.

  1953 – “Person to Person” debuted on CBS-TV.

  1955 – “Alfred Hitchcock Presents” debuted on CBS-TV.

  1958 – Guinea, the French colony in West Africa, proclaimed its independence. Sekou Toure was the first president of the Republic of Guinea.

  1959 – “The Twilight Zone” debuted on CBS-TV. The show ran for 5 years for a total of 154 episodes.

  1962 – U.S. ports were closed to nations that allowed their ships to carry arms to Cuba, ships that had docked in a socialist country were prohibited from docking in the United States during that voyage, and the transport of U.S. goods was banned on ships owned by companies that traded with Cuba.

  1967 – Thurgood Marshall was sworn in. He was the first African-American member of the U.S. Supreme Court.

  1988 – Pakistan’s Supreme Court ordered free elections.

  1989 – In Leipzig, East Germany a protest took place demanding the legalization of opposition groups and the adoption of democratic reforms.

  1990 – The Allies ceded their rights to areas they occupied in Germany.

  1993 – Opponents of Russian President Boris Yeltsin fought police and set up burning barricades.

  1998 – Hawaii sued petroleum companies, claiming state drivers were overcharged by about $73 million a year in price-fixing.

  1998 – About 10,000 Turkish soldiers crossed into northern Iraq and attacked Kurdish rebels.

  2001 – The U.S. Postmaster unveiled the “Tribute to America” stamp. The stamp was planned for release the next month.

  2001 – NATO, for the first time, invoked a treaty clause that stated that an attack on one member is an attack on all members. The act was in response to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the United States.