TODAY’S SCANDAL

TODAY’S SCANDAL2017-05-19T19:54:39+00:00

April 28th

April 28th, 2014|

On this date in 1789 the Mutiny on the Bounty occured. The ship was on a mission to the South Pacific to pick up breadfruit plants and take them to the West Indies to be [...]

April 27th

April 27th, 2014|

On this date in 1773 the British Parliament passed one of the most ill-conceived laws of all time, The Tea Act. In an effort to save the almost bankrupt East India Company, Parliament granted it [...]

April 26th

April 26th, 2014|

On this date in 1937 the German Luftwaffe conducted its first terror bombing of a civilian target, the Spanish town of Guernica. The raid was in support of Franco's Fascist forces in their eventually successful [...]

April 25th

April 26th, 2014|

On this date French highwayman Nicolas Pelletier became the first person to be executed by guillotine. The guillotine was named after Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, a French physician who petitioned for a humane execution method that was to [...]

April 24th

April 25th, 2014|

On this date in 1984, 48 year old Jerry Lee Lewis married his sixth wife, 21 year old Kerrie McCarver. At 20 years it would prove to be his longest marriage. His first, when he [...]

April 23rd

April 23rd, 2014|

Today is the Vinalia Urbana, the Roman festival of wine. Every year Romans would gather to celebrate the wine harvest, sample the latest wine from the last harvest and pray for good weather. Venus was [...]

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