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Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Subway_500>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1816:
HMS Whiting ran aground on the Doom Bar on the coast of
Cornwall, England.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doom_Bar>
1935:
Nazi Germany enacted the Nuremberg Laws, which deprived Jews of
their citizenship.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_Laws>
1944:
World War II: The Greek People's Liberation Army won the
Battle of Meligalas and began the execution of many prisoners of war and
civilians.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Meligalas>
1963:
The Ku Klux Klan bombed the 16th Street Baptist Church, an
African-American church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four girls and
injuring at least 14 other people (memorial march pictured).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16th_Street_Baptist_Church_bombing>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
orphrey:
1. (obsolete) Any elaborate embroidery, especially when made of gold
thread; an object (such as clothing or fabric) adorned with such
embroidery.
2. (Christianity) An embroidered ornamental band or border on an
ecclesiastical vestment, altar frontal, etc.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/orphrey>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
It is not a great misfortune to be of service to ingrates, but it
is an intolerable one to be obliged to a dishonest man.
--François de La Rochefoucauld
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_de_La_Rochefoucauld>
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