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1793​

Queen Marie Antoinette is beheaded by guillotine during the French Revolution.

 

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1793​

Queen Marie Antoinette is beheaded by guillotine during the French Revolution.

let em eat cake... cellie...

 

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supposedly, the masses were in poverty cauz da French were assisting da Americans w/ $$$...

 

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I'm sure @Old Mud can further comment on this...

On this date in Maine history: Oct. 24​

pressherald.com/2020/10/24/on-this-date-in-maine-history-oct-24/

By Joseph Owen October 24, 2020

Oct. 24, 2007: The Navy says its Arleigh Burke-class of destroyers, some of which were built at Bath Iron Works in Maine, need about $59.8 million worth of upgrades to their bows because they tend to sustain structural damage when fully loaded and traveling in rough seas.


A Navy spokesman says defense industry reports of “serious structural defects” appear to be exaggerated, however. The ships are fully capable of carrying out their missions, he said, and the repairs should assure the Navy that it will get the full 35 years of life expectancy out of them.

The bows on ships under construction are strengthened, and those recently delivered are upgraded after shakedown cruises. The rest of the fleet will be retrofitted during docking opportunities, the spokesman says.

BIW built the first Arleigh Burke-class destroyer. The shipyard was unaware of the defect until 2003, a shipyard spokesman says. The ships were built to Navy specifications, but the standards didn’t match the force of actual sea conditions, he says.

 

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1836​

The match is patented.

 

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1873​

Farmer Joseph F. Glidden applies for a patent on barbed wire. Glidden eventually received five patents and is generally considered the inventor of barbed wire.

 

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On November 18, 1978, Peoples Temple founder Jim Jones leads hundreds of his followers in a mass murder-suicide at their agricultural commune in a remote part of the South American nation of Guyana. Many of Jones’ followers willingly ingested a poison-laced punch while others were forced to do so at gunpoint. The final death toll at Jonestown that day was 909; a third of those who perished were children.

 

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They forgot the Mayflower landed at Plymouth Rock 400 years ago today, lol.

 

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They forgot the Mayflower landed at Plymouth Rock 400 years ago today, lol.

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