Free Radicals and the Dangers Within

(reposted from Working For Change)

June 29
Things that happened on this day that you never had to memorize in school:

1620: Tobacco growing banned in England, giving the Virginia Company a monopoly.

1880: France annexes Otaheite.

1881: Russia: Anarchist agitator Johann Most sentenced for libelling the Tsar.

1895: Seven thousand Doukhobors stage mass weapons-burning, Trans-Caucasia, Russian Empire.

1916: Boeing aircraft flies for first time.

1917: W.E.B. DuBois leads silent march by blacks against lynching, New York City.

1925: Sixty thousand Belgian metal workers begin general strike.

1940: Alien Registration (Smith) Act enacted.

1956: The Federal Highway Act authorized the Interstate Highway System, the construction of 42,500 miles of freeways from coast to coast.

1963: Mass "walk-on" (trespass) at chemical and biological warfare facility, Porton Down, Britain.

1966: March to Paris against French nuclear tests leaves London.

1967: Israel removes barricades, re-unifying Jerusalem.

1972: U.S. Supreme Court rules, 5-4, all current state death penalty laws unconstitutional. A later ruling allows states to rewrite laws to reinstitute capital punishment in 1976.

1981: Hu Yaobang succeeds Hua Guofeng as leader of China.

1992: First of ten days of demonstrations demanding the resignation of Pres. Slobodan Milosevic, Belgrade, Yugoslavia. (Milosevic was taken down, and has been involved in War Crimes tribunals for the past five years - the prosecution is having a hard time proving that he's responsible for the genocide)

1993: Space Shuttle carries first carbonated beverages into space. Specifically: a root beer float.