trump indicted, Social Security: This Date in History

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OTD in history, Annie Oakley, Alfred Hitchcock and nycfan were born (different years of course).
 
Every time I think about how tragic the European conquest of the Americas was, I get sad. No matter what the Europeans did, if every single person who left Europe for America had been a saint who was dedicated to preserving and protecting the cultural integrity of Native Americans, I don't think history would have changed much. There were just too many endemic Eurasian diseases to which Native Americans had absolutely no immunity to have materially changed what happened. The Eurasian landmass was just too big, too populated, had too many diseases, and was so genetically diverse for the Native Americans to have stood a chance. This in no way excuses the atrocities the European invaders committed. It's just an acknowledgement that the European's malice had minimal effect. The adverse impacts of European diseases spread far faster, far wider, and were far deadlier than anything European malice could ever hope to accomplish.

It was a war where one side was shooting arrows and throwing spears and the other side was dropping nuclear bombs.
 
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Europe/the Middle East/Far East just had their devastation a 150 years earlier in the 14th Century with the Bubonic Plague. It killed as many as 200 million people wiping out a third to 50% of the Eurasian population.
 
“The day (August 13, 1961) was hot and humid, and once cars got up to speed at Asheville-Weaverville Speedway in the North Carolina mountains, the newly paved racing surface almost immediately began to crumble. It was a recipe for disaster … or a full-scale riot, take your pick.

Fans, already miserable due to the sweltering heat, seethed when the race was called just past the halfway point of the scheduled 500-lap event. Junior Johnson was declared the winner, but that seemed of little consequence. Incredibly, a few took it upon themselves to block the only way out of the track and, in effect, held competitors hostage.

Bud Moore was there that day, and he remembered the highly charged atmosphere in an early episode of The Scene Vault Podcast. This is his story.”

 
Missed it by a day...

The story of the ‘Lost Colony’ is taught to every Tar Heel school child though the true context is left aside for the most part. The English invaders were met by the inhabitants of the coast soon after they landed and treated with wariness. Two Croatoan-Algonquian men, Manteo and Wanchese, seem to have taken the lead as liaisons with the English. As a boy Manteo was painted heroically in my North Carolina history classes while Wanchese was either slid to the side or went unmentioned. Perhaps that’s because Wanchese had the clearest vision of the change to be wrought by the invasion of the Europeans. Manteo learned English & subsequently worked w/the colonizers while Wanchese rightfully suspected English goals & became a foe-both had made voyage #1 in 1584 with Arthur Barlowe & Thomas Hariot across the Atlantic and to the British Isles. In England they attended Royal Court & met Sir Walter Raleigh.

#OTD (August 13) in 1585 Algonquian men Manteo & Wanchese left England aboard ‘The Tyger,’ bound for home & Roanoke (NC).

https://www.ncdcr.gov/.../wanchese-and-manteo-conclude...
 
#OnThisDay - August 14, 1935. “President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Bill into law on August 14, 1935, only 14 months after sending a special message to Congress on June 8, 1934, that promised a plan for social insurance as a safeguard "against the hazards and vicissitudes of life." The 32-page Act was the culmination of work begun by the Committee on Economic Security (CES), created by the President on June 29, 1934, and became, as he said at the signing ceremony, "a cornerstone in a structure which is being built but is by no means complete. " (For developments in the old-age benefits portion of the Act since 1935, see Martha A. McSteen, "Fifty Years of Social Security.")”

Link here to text: https://www.ssa.gov/history/50ed.html


This statement has been appended to the webpage: "This is an archival or historical document and may not reflect current policies or procedures."

At least they haven't erased the page...
 
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