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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/People_v._Hall
People v. Hall

The People of the State of California v. George W. Hall or People v. Hall, 4 Cal. 399, was an appealed murder case in the 1850s, in which the California Supreme Court established that Chinese Americans and Chinese immigrants had no rights to testify against white citizens. The opinion was delivered in 1854 by Chief Justice Hugh Murray with the concurrence of Justice Solomon Heydenfeldt and the dissent of Justice Alexander Wells.[1]

The ruling effectively freed Hall, a white man, who had been convicted and sentenced to death for the murder of Ling Sing, a Chinese miner in Nevada County. Three Chinese witnesses had testified to the killing.[1][2]

In 1853, a California court convicted George Hall, a white man, of the murder of Ling Sing, a Chinese miner, based on the testimony of Chinese witnesses.[2] George Hall appealed the verdict, arguing that the testimony of the Chinese witnesses should not be accepted and that Section 394 of the Act Concerning Civil Cases, which barred the use of testimony by blacks, mulattoes, and Indians against whites, should also be extended to banning the testimony of Chinese. The California Supreme Court, in an opinion delivered by Chief Justice Hugh Murray with the concurrence of Justice Solomon Heydenfeldt, sided with Hall.[1][2]

"The same rule which would admit them to testify, would admit them to all the equal rights of citizenship, and we might soon see them at the polls, in the jury box, upon the bench, and in our legislative halls."

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For jemcanada2!

https://www.bing.com/search?q=jagged+li ... ORM=OTDHYL
'Jagged Little Pill' reaches No. 1 on Billboard

Three months after releasing her third album, Alanis Morissette becomes the first Canadian woman to sit atop the Billboard 200 album chart. Billboard will later name 'Jagged Little Pill' the No. 1 album of the 90s.
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From http://www.irishcultureandcustoms.com/0 ... tober.html

October 2
1600 - O'Neill engages Mountjoy's forces in the Battle of Moyry Pass
1833 - Birth of Father William Corby who became Chaplain of the Irish Brigade in Detroit, Michigan
1852 - William O'Brien, writer and nationalist, is born in Mallow, Co. Cork
1875 - Arthur Conway, mathematician and president of University College Dublin, is born in Wexford
1879 - Kate Coll arrives in New York from Ireland on board the SS Nevada. She later marries Juan Vivion de Valera, and gives birth to Éamon on October 14, 1882 in New York
1900 - Hubert Butler, writer and local historian, is born near Bennettsbridge, Co. Kilkenny
1942 - The British cruiser Curaçao sinks off Donegal after colliding with the Queen Mary; 338 lives are lost
1975 - Death of sculptor, Seamus Murphy
2001 - Máire Ní Chathasaigh, harpist and composer wins the TG4 Traditional Music Award 2001
2002 - In Málaga, Spain, a street is to be named after deceased Irish painter, George Campbell. Mr Campbell, from Arklow, Co Wicklow, died in 1979. He spent five months of every year of his last 27 years in Málaga
2002 - A 1.3 acre site at Railway Square in Waterford city is sold at auction for €4.9 million – over twice its guide price and a record for the region.
2009 - Irish voters strongly endorse the European Union's Lisbon Treaty - 16 months after their first vote rejecting it plunged EU reforms into deadlock. According to final results, 67.1% of Irish voters approved it, while 32.9% voted "No". Turnout in the three-million electorate was 58%.
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Google wrote:Today's Doodle

Celebrating Elizabeth Kenny

Today’s Doodle celebrates Elizabeth Kenny, a renowned Australian nurse who founded an alternative polio treatment. The Kenny Method rehabilitated thousands of polio victims all over the world, and is considered one of the most effective forms of treatment prior to vaccines.
70 years ago - November 30, 1952 - Death of Sister Elizabeth Kenny
Wikipedia wrote:Sister Elizabeth Kenny (20 September 1880 – 30 November 1952) was a self-trained Australian bush nurse, who developed an approach to treating polio that was controversial at the time. Her method, promoted internationally while working in Australia, Europe and the United States, differed from the conventional one of placing affected limbs in plaster casts. Instead she applied hot compresses, followed by passive movement of the areas to reduce what she called "spasm"..... [1] Her principles of muscle rehabilitation became the foundation of physical therapy or physiotherapy in such cases.[2]

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We may need her knowledge again soon. :(
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Today is International Day of the Girl Child.

https://nationaldaycalendar.com/interna ... ctober-11/
INTERNATIONAL DAY OF THE GIRL CHILD HISTORY

In 1995 at the World Conference on Women, nearly 30,000 people from approximately 200 countries arrived in Beijing, China. It was the fourth such world conference. During it, the attendees developed the most comprehensive platform for advancing women’s rights around the world.

In 2011, the United Nations declared October 11th as International Day of the Girl Child due to the advocacy seen around the world. The UN encourages increased activism.
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60 years ago - 16-29 October 1962 - Cuban missile crisis
Cuban missile crisis, 60 years on: what the Russians left behind
Villagers became enmeshed in a battle for nuclear dominance – with the showdown leading Cuba to become one of the most militarised states in the world

Ed Augustin in Santa Cruz de los Pinos
Sun 16 Oct 2022 11.00 BST

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/ ... n-russians
and from ten years ago a picture gallery
Cuban missile crisis: 50 years on – in pictures
On 14 October 1962, a US air force plane captured photographic proof of Soviet missile bases under construction in Cuba, setting in train the crisis which brought the US and the Soviet Union close to nuclear war

Sun 14 Oct 2012 11.42 BST

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"Mickey Mouse and I grew up together." - Ruthie Tompson, Disney animation checker and scene planner and one of the first women to become a member of the International Photographers Union in 1952.
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50 years ago - 1972 - a news glimpse into the N.Ireland Troubles

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20 years ago - October 12 2002 - The Bali bombings
The 2002 Bali bombings occurred on 12 October 2002 in the tourist district of Kuta on the Indonesian island of Bali. The attack killed 202 people (including 88 Australians, 38 Indonesians, 23 Britons, and people of more than 20 other nationalities).[3] A further 209 people were injured.[4]

Various members of Jemaah Islamiyah, a violent Islamist group, were convicted in relation to the bombings, including three individuals who were sentenced to death. The attack involved the detonation of three bombs: a backpack-mounted device carried by a suicide bomber; a large car bomb, both of which were detonated in or near popular nightclubs in Kuta; and a third much smaller device detonated outside the United States consulate in Denpasar, causing only minor damage. An audio-cassette purportedly carrying a recorded voice message from Osama bin Laden stated that the Bali bombings were in direct retaliation for support of the United States' War on Terror and Australia's role in the liberation of East Timor.[5]

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60 years ago - August 17, 1962 - Telstar (the music, not the satellite)
The Tornados ~ Telstar (1962)

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This fantastic instrumental by "The Tornados" was released in 1962 and made number 1 in the UK charts, and also number 1 in the U.S in the same week. As instrumentals go they don't get much better than this one...
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60 year ago - July 10, 1962 - Telstar telecommunication satellite
Telstar

Telstar is the name of various communications satellites. The first two Telstar satellites were experimental and nearly identical. Telstar 1 launched on top of a Thor-Delta rocket on July 10, 1962. It successfully relayed through space the first television pictures, telephone calls, and telegraph images, and provided the first live transatlantic television feed. Telstar 2 launched May 7, 1963. Telstar 1 and 2—though no longer functional—still orbit the Earth.[1]

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Haven't listened to this in years! A thought just now as I listened to it and probably way off base but I am getting a "Moon River" vibe.YMMV and probably does.
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80 years ago - November 26, 1942 - the film Casablanca had its world premiere in New York City

Casablanca is a 1942 American romantic drama film directed by Michael Curtiz, and starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, and Paul Henreid. Filmed and set during World War II, it focuses on an American expatriate (Bogart) who must choose between his love for a woman (Bergman) or helping her husband (Henreid), a Czech resistance leader, escape from the Vichy-controlled city of Casablanca to continue his fight against the Germans. The screenplay is based on Everybody Comes to Rick's, an unproduced stage play by Murray Burnett and Joan Alison. The supporting cast features Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt, Sydney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, and Dooley Wilson.

Warner Bros. story editor Irene Diamond convinced producer Hal B. Wallis to purchase the film rights to the play in January 1942. Brothers Julius and Philip G. Epstein were initially assigned to write the script. However, despite studio resistance, they left to work on Frank Capra's Why We Fight series early in 1942. Howard Koch was assigned to the screenplay until the Epsteins returned a month later. Principal photography began on May 25, 1942, ending on August 3; the film was shot entirely at Warner Bros. Studios in Burbank, California with the exception of one sequence at Van Nuys Airport in Van Nuys, Los Angeles.

Although Casablanca was an A-list film with established stars and first-rate writers, no one involved with its production expected it to stand out among the hundreds of pictures produced by Hollywood yearly.[7] Casablanca was rushed into release to take advantage of the publicity from the Allied invasion of North Africa a few weeks earlier.[8] It had its world premiere on November 26, 1942, in New York City and was released nationally in the United States on January 23, 1943. The film was a solid if unspectacular success in its initial run.

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Wanted to go to Casablanca ever since I saw the movie on TV as a kid. I made it a few years ago.
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AndyinPA wrote: Sun Nov 27, 2022 9:40 pm Wanted to go to Casablanca ever since I saw the movie on TV as a kid. I made it a few years ago.
Oh please do share!
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AndyinPA wrote: Sun Nov 27, 2022 9:40 pm Wanted to go to Casablanca ever since I saw the movie on TV as a kid. I made it a few years ago.
Has someone opened a "Rick's Cafe Americain?". That would be a sure-fire tourist draw, I would think. At least among American and possibly European tourists.
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noblepa wrote: Mon Nov 28, 2022 8:52 am
AndyinPA wrote: Sun Nov 27, 2022 9:40 pm Wanted to go to Casablanca ever since I saw the movie on TV as a kid. I made it a few years ago.
Has someone opened a "Rick's Cafe Americain?". That would be a sure-fire tourist draw, I would think. At least among American and possibly European tourists.
I didn't go there, but, yes, someone had!
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Patagoniagirl wrote: Sun Nov 27, 2022 11:39 pm
AndyinPA wrote: Sun Nov 27, 2022 9:40 pm Wanted to go to Casablanca ever since I saw the movie on TV as a kid. I made it a few years ago.
Oh please do share!
It's lovely. Very white (to be expected) buildings. There is a huge mosque that sits on the ocean (second largest in Africa and seventh largest in the world, IIFC). We were only there a day on a transatlantic cruise stop, but it's really a beautiful city. Security is tight. What I remember most is that the city seems to just glisten. It's on the Atlantic coast, and we were there on a very sunny day. There are so many styles of stunning architecture, traditional Moroccan and various colonial. I'm sure it has an underside, as do all big cities, but I saw enough that I want to go back and see more of Morocco. It's definitely on my list.
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Wu-Tang is for the Children @WUTangKids wrote: Beverly Hills Cop premiered 38 years ago today…the improvised scene with Eddie and Bronson Pinchot will never not be funny
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35 years ago - Sptember 2, 1987 - the guy to become the former guy in interview with Larry King



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100 years ago - December 1922 - Founding of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)
The Soviet Union,[n] officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics[o] (USSR),[p] was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen national republics;[q] in practice, both its government and its economy were highly centralized until its final years. It was a one-party state governed by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, with the city of Moscow serving as its capital as well as that of its largest and most populous republic: the Russian SFSR. Other major cities included Leningrad (Russian SFSR), Kiev (Ukrainian SSR), Minsk (Byelorussian SSR), Tashkent (Uzbek SSR), Alma-Ata (Kazakh SSR), and Novosibirsk (Russian SFSR). It was the largest country in the world, covering over 22,402,200 square kilometres (8,649,500 sq mi) and spanning eleven time zones.

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Time for Foggy to get out his red hat again ;)
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