***ON THIS DAY IN...***
**326 CE** - Pope Sylvester I conse..
Published: November 18th 2023, 9:42:49 pm
***ON THIS DAY IN...***
**326 CE** - Pope Sylvester I consecrated the old St. Peter's Basilica. in Rome.
**1493 CE** - Christopher Columbus figures out that the island now known as Puerto Rico exists.
**1872** - Susan B. Anthony is arrested for illegally voting on account of having been born with a vagina.
**1922** - Marcel Proust dies.
**1928** - Mickey Mouse was "born."
**1963** - the first telephone with push-button goes into service.
**1978** - the Jonestown Massacre happened in Jonestown, Guyana.
**1993** - South Africa approves a new constitution that expands voting rights and ends white majority rule.
**2003** - Massachusetts becomes the first state in the US to recognize same-sex marriage.
**2013** - The MAVEN probe to Mars is launched by NASA.
It is also the day I was born.
SO, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME.
If you'd like to contribute to my birthday dinner, I'd be forever grateful.
