1721 – Peter the Great (Peter I), ruler of Russia, changed his title to emperor.

1776 – During the American Revolutionary War, William Demont, became the first traitor of the American Revolution when he deserted.

1783 – U.S. Gen. George Washington gave his “Farewell Address to the Army” near Princeton, NJ.

1883 – Thomas Edison executed a patent application for an electrical indicator using the Edison effect lamp (U.S. Pat. 307,031).

1889 – North Dakota and South Dakota were admitted into the union as the 39th and 40th states.

1895 – In Chicago, IL, the first gasoline powered car contest took place in America.

1903 – Business and civic leader, Maggie L Walker, opens the St Luke Penny Savings Bank in Richmond, VA, blackfacts.com

1917 – British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour expressed support for a “national home” for the Jews of Palestine.

1920 – The first commercial radio station in the U.S., KDKA of Pittsburgh, PA, began regular broadcasting.

1921 – Margaret Sanger’s National Birth Control League combined with Mary Ware Denetts Voluntary Parenthood League to form the American Birth Control League.

1930 – Haile Selassie was crowned emperor of Ethiopia.

1930 – The DuPont Company announced the first synthetic rubber. It was named DuPrene.

1937 – The play “I’d Rather be Right” opened in New York City.

1947 – Howard Hughes flew his “Spruce Goose,” a huge wooden airplane, for eight minutes in California. It was the plane’s first and only flight. The “Spruce Goose,” nicknamed because of the white-gray color of the spruce used to build it, never went into production.

1948 – Harry S. Truman defeated Thomas E. Dewey for the U.S. presidency. The Chicago Tribune published an early edition that had the headline “DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN.” The Truman victory surprised many polls and newspapers. (Illinois>

1959 – Charles Van Doren, a game show contestant on the NBC-TV program “Twenty-One” admitted that he had been given questions and answers in advance.

1960 – In London, the novel “Lady Chatterly’s Lover,” was found not guilty of obscenity.

1962 – U.S. President Kennedy announced that the U.S.S.R. was dismantling the missile sites in Cuba.

1963 – South Vietnamese President Ngo Dihn Diem was assassinated in a military coup.

1966 – The Cuban Adjustment Act allows 123,000 Cubans to apply for permanent residence in the U.S.

1979 – Joanna Chesimard, a black militant escaped from a New Jersey prison, where she’d been serving a life sentence for the 1973 murder of a New Jersey state trooper.

1983 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan signed a bill establishing a federal holiday on the third Monday of January in honor of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 

1984 – Velma Barfield became the first woman to be executed in the U.S. since 1962. She had been convicted of the poisoning death of her boyfriend.

1985 – The South African government imposed severe restrictions on television, radio and newspaper coverage of unrest by both local and foreign journalists.

1986 – The 12-by-16-inch celluloid of a poison apple from Walt Disney’s “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”” was purchased for $30,800.
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1986 – American hostage David Jacobson was released after being held in Lebanon for 17 months by Shiite Muslims kidnappers.

1989 – Carmen Fasanella retired after 68 years and 243 days of taxicab service in Princeton, NJ.

1993 – Christie Todd Whitman was elected the first woman governor of New Jersey. 

1995 – The play “Sacrilege” opened.

1995 – The U.S. expelled Daiwa Bank Ltd. for allegedly covering up $1.1 billion in trading losses.

2001 – The computer-animated movie “Monsters, Inc.” opened. The film recorded the best debut ever for an animated film and the 6th best of all time.

2003 – In the U.S., the Episcopal Church diocese consecrated the church’s first openly gay bishop.

Bing AI states:  In December 2022, Trump wrote on Truth Social that “A Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution”.¹

 However, Trump later attempted to walk back his statement, writing via Truth Social that “What I said was that when there is ‘MASSIVE & WIDESPREAD FRAUD & DECEPTION,’ as has been irrefutably proven in the 2020 Presidential Election, steps must be immediately taken to RIGHT THE WRONG” ¹.

It is important to note that the Constitution is the supreme law of the United States and cannot be suspended or terminated by any individual or group of individuals ¹. The Constitution has been tested throughout history, and it has always been upheld as the foundation of the country’s legal system ¹.

Source: images from the internet, Bing AI, quote, Bloomberg article from 12/23

A Bloomberg states, among other things…not in order 12/26/23 – by Noah Feldman

Start with some things Trump wishes he could have done in his first term, but could not: banning foreign Muslims from entering the US; punishing sanctuary cities; building a border wall without congressional authorization; and changing the census questionnaire to intimidate Hispanics. ** Where Trump had more success was in undermining constitutional norms that aren’t written down. These traditions have long kept the ship of state steady — like the hard-won tradition of keeping the work of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Justice independent of partisan politics. Trump made great strides in convincing the public that federal law enforcement is and should be partisan. **

As important, perhaps more so, is maintaining the military’s commitment to following all lawful orders, and no unlawful ones. When push comes to shove, as it did on Jan. 6, Trump will want the military to back him. As it happens, the then-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Mark Milley, resisted the pressure. But we need more assurance that any future chairman would do the same, and with more public transparency.

The solution is to teach and re-teach the military at all levels that the principle of civilian control is about obeying the Constitution, not the president. An order issued without legal authority is no order at all. And the ultimate judge of the constitutionality of orders is the Supreme Court. From the most senior levels to the most junior, the military needs to plan for how to react if Trump — or any future president — orders force used in domestic, civilian contexts.

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William F. Burr has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

• Efficient centrifugal impact crusher with dust removal capability and method of using same Patent number: 5248101 Abstract: A centrifugal impact crusher has an enclosed table to ensure that substantially all the material deposited on the table is impacted against the anvils that surround the table. The table includes spaced-apart upper and lower plates that have radially oriented impellers sandwiched between them to direct material being thrown off of the table by centrifugal force to exit the table at the proper angle to achieve maximum fracture upon striking the anvils. The impellers have projecting tabs which fit into receptacles in the upper and lower plates and the plates are squeezed together to hold the tabs in the receptacles and lock the plates and impellers together in a rigid table assembly. The upper plate has a central opening through which material is deposited onto the table. A funnel directs material fed into the crusher through an infeed plenum and into the central opening in the upper plate to ensure that all of the material reaches the table.Type: Grant Filed: May 11, 1992 Date of Patent: September 28, 1993Assignee: Canica Crushers, Inc.Inventors: Neil M. Rose, Stephen B. Ackers, Brett M. Rose, William F. Burr