Michael Jordan Retires, 1993: This Date in History
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With a final screech, AOL's dial-up service goes silent
One of the earliest consumer internet options, AOL's dial-up service was once the most common way for people to access the early web.
With a final screech, AOL's dial-up service goes silent
One of the earliest consumer internet options, AOL's dial-up service was once the most common way for people to access the early web.
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#OnThisDay in 1949 Asheville and UNC’s Charlie “Choo Choo” Justice appeared on the cover of ‘Life’ magazine. Justice was a 25 year old senior tailback for the Tar Heels at the time and the previous year’s Heismann Trophy runner-up. After graduating high school in 1942 Justice had joined the Navy. There he played four seasons of football as throughout World War II the Armed Forces maintained college level teams from the drafted and volunteered in their ranks. Justice played for Bainbridge Naval Base in Maryland.
The NCAA made a special allowance for athletes in the aftermath of the war and men like Justice were permitted to move directly to the varsity as freshmen. Charlie Justice thus played four years of football at Carolina.
Justice was also a married student and he made a deal with Carolina to gift his scholarship to his wife Sarah while he attended on the G.I. Bill. They lived in The Carolina Inn - the Married Student Housing set-up at the time. The Justices carried their fondness for the Inn all their life and Charlie Justice was known as a friendly and convivial patron of the bar there before and after football games.
Justice’s feats on the gridiron are legend and he presided over the highest point that sport has ever reached in Chapel Hill. He was an offensive juggernaut who did it all. His professional career with Washington was shortened by injury. It is instructive to recall that he was already a veteran of 8 years of high stakes football and was 26 years old by the time he graduated with his degree in Phys Ed at Carolina in 1949.
He was runner-up in Heismann voting again his senior year, but as the ‘Life’ magazine cover attests he was a national figure. Actually a native of the Emma neighborhood, UNC Asheville has an athletic facility named for him. The Justice Center was once home to basketball but now hosts volleyball and swimming teams.
“Choo Choo” even had a song:
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‘Right-to-work’ is historic bunkum. ‘On this day in #WNC history: “On October 2, 1929, deputies fired into a crowd of striking workers in Marion, North Carolina. Six were killed and even more wounded at the Marion Manufacturing Company in one of the deadliest acts of strike-busting in the history of The South.
That year marked an apogee of strikes and labor organization in southern textile mills. Eight years prior, over 100 miners were killed at the Battle of Blair Mountain in West Virginia in a period of coal clashes and unionization attempts. Later in the 1920s, many textile workers reacting to unhealthy, grueling, and dirty work conditions under the “stretch-out” system, along with a reduction of their pay in company scrip began organizing and demanding better conditions.
Spearheaded by the National Textile Workers Union (an organization supported by the Communist Party), concurrent strikes began early in 1929 at the Bemberg-Glanzstoff Rayon Corporation in Elizabethton, Tennessee and at Loray Mills in Gastonia, North Carolina. Female employees were key to the organization of both strikes, and the latter is most famously remembered for the murder of organizer and songster Ella May Wiggins. National Guard members, local police, and union-busting mobs were called to both of these events.
In Western North Carolinas the Marion strikes (which occurred at the neighboring Clinchfield Mill as well) began July 11. Workers struck without official union support, resisting involvement by communist organizers. After frequent violence and threats, with two National Guard units present, workers returned to these mills September 11, with no raise in pay and a mandated 55-hour workweek. Marion Manufacturing Mill refused to rehire 114 of the strikers, leading to further anger. Workers struck again on October 2, and deputies were dispatched by the local sheriff.
Though some details are murky, deputies shot into a crowd of strikers, killing four on site, wounding at least fifteen, with two others dying later. Nearby hospitals refused medical care to strikers, and churches of the mill village refused to administer their funerals. Eight deputies were charged, but acquitted in December. They contended the strikers were armed, but no guns were found, and the ‘New York Times’ reported those killed were shot in the back.” Author, Anne Smith. https://www.wnchistory.org/october-2-1929-the-marion.../
That year marked an apogee of strikes and labor organization in southern textile mills. Eight years prior, over 100 miners were killed at the Battle of Blair Mountain in West Virginia in a period of coal clashes and unionization attempts. Later in the 1920s, many textile workers reacting to unhealthy, grueling, and dirty work conditions under the “stretch-out” system, along with a reduction of their pay in company scrip began organizing and demanding better conditions.
Spearheaded by the National Textile Workers Union (an organization supported by the Communist Party), concurrent strikes began early in 1929 at the Bemberg-Glanzstoff Rayon Corporation in Elizabethton, Tennessee and at Loray Mills in Gastonia, North Carolina. Female employees were key to the organization of both strikes, and the latter is most famously remembered for the murder of organizer and songster Ella May Wiggins. National Guard members, local police, and union-busting mobs were called to both of these events.
In Western North Carolinas the Marion strikes (which occurred at the neighboring Clinchfield Mill as well) began July 11. Workers struck without official union support, resisting involvement by communist organizers. After frequent violence and threats, with two National Guard units present, workers returned to these mills September 11, with no raise in pay and a mandated 55-hour workweek. Marion Manufacturing Mill refused to rehire 114 of the strikers, leading to further anger. Workers struck again on October 2, and deputies were dispatched by the local sheriff.
Though some details are murky, deputies shot into a crowd of strikers, killing four on site, wounding at least fifteen, with two others dying later. Nearby hospitals refused medical care to strikers, and churches of the mill village refused to administer their funerals. Eight deputies were charged, but acquitted in December. They contended the strikers were armed, but no guns were found, and the ‘New York Times’ reported those killed were shot in the back.” Author, Anne Smith. https://www.wnchistory.org/october-2-1929-the-marion.../
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From October 6, 2021: "In the Aftermath some things go grossly under-reported. 'A man who had been part of a far-right group that wants to foment a civil war admitted in federal court Thursday he traveled to Minneapolis from the San Antonio area to sow chaos after the police murder of George Floyd.'”
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https://www.mprnews.org/story/2021/...7urkCB4hfqxMpWXXiw_aem_f8DDYzxB3xRV2c5nzZZXPQ
Texas man, 24, admits shooting at Minneapolis police station during riot
A Texas man who had been part of a far-right group that wants to foment a civil war admitted in federal court Thursday he traveled to Minneapolis to sow chaos after the police murder of George Floyd. Ivan Harrison Hunter, 24, of Boerne, Tex. pleaded guilty to a single count of rioting.
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https://www.mprnews.org/story/2021/...7urkCB4hfqxMpWXXiw_aem_f8DDYzxB3xRV2c5nzZZXPQ