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On This Day in Music: Were celebrating Eminem’s birthday, Billy Joels release of “Storm Front”, and Barenaked Ladies as they start their “One Week” run at the top. Plus, RoseBud is busting out our vid...

On This Day in Music: John Mayer is another year older, The band Creedence Clearwater announces their breakup while Rick Dees hits No. 1 with a QUACK-tacular song. Plus, Dolly Parton “Will Always Love...

Louis XVI, the last king of France (1774–92) in the line of Bourbon monarchs preceding the French Revolution of 1789. The monarchy was abolished on September 21, 1792; later Louis and his queen consort, Marie-Antoinette, were guillotined on charges of counterrevolution.

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On This Day in Music: Paul Simon and Marie Osmond are celebrating their birthdays while Beyonce is celebrating her rise to the top with her song “Single Ladies”. Plus, Dolly Parton, with inspiration f...

Black Lives Matter - Black Lives Matter - Subsequent protests: George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and Breonna Taylor: The BLM movement expanded in 2014 after the police killings of two unarmed Black men, Eric Garner and Michael Brown. Garner died in Staten Island, New York, after a white police officer held him in a prolonged illegal choke hold, which was captured in a video taken by a bystander. Brown, a teenager, was shot and killed by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri. These deaths—as ...

Nazi Party - Nazi Party - The Nazi Party and Hitler’s rise to power: Upon his release Hitler quickly set about rebuilding his moribund party, vowing to achieve power only through legal political means thereafter. The Nazi Party’s membership grew from 25,000 in 1925 to about 180,000 in 1929. Its organizational system of gauleiters (“district leaders”) spread through Germany at this time, and the party began contesting municipal, state, and federal elections with increasing frequency. How...

Treaty of Versailles - Treaty of Versailles - German reparations and military limitations: The war guilt clause of the treaty deemed Germany the aggressor in the war and consequently made Germany responsible for making reparations to the Allied nations in payment for the losses and damage they had sustained in the war. It was impossible to compute the exact sum to be paid as reparations for the damage caused by the Germans, especially in France and Belgium, at the time the treaty was being draft...

Critical race theory - critical race theory - Basic tenets of critical race theory: According to the legal scholars Richard Delgado (one of the founders of CRT) and Jean Stefancic there are several general propositions regarding race and racism that many critical race theorists would accept, despite the considerable variation of belief among members of the movement. These propositions constitute a set of “basic tenets” of CRT. First, race is socially constructed, not biologically natural....

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