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– Ronald Reagan   June 27 1778 – The Liberty Bell is returned to Philadelphia from Northampton Town (now Allentown) where it is hidden until after the British depart following the Revolutionary War. 1833 – Prudence Crandall, a white woman, is arrested for conducting an academy for black females at Canterbury, Connecticut. 1893 – The New York stock market crashes. By the end of the year 600 banks and 74 railroads have gone out of business. This is why the period of time following the stock market crash of 1929 is called the “Great” Depression. 1922 – The first Newbery Medal for ...

The Woke Nazis are wrong. The truth is that the now-blacklisted Pepé Le Pew taught young boys to NOT be sex-pests.

Remembering legendary New Jersey comedian Lou Costello Costello was born as Louis Francis Cristillo in Paterson in 1906 and grew up there. In his 20s, he hitchhiked out to California to become an actor but did not find immediate success. He bounced around for several years. According to the Los Angeles Times, he worked jobs ranging from a newsboy, soda fountain clerk and salesman to a movie stunt man, before finally hitting the road to perform as a comedian in burlesque shows. He was doing that when he met Bud Abbott and they began performing together regularly in 1936, starting a long, lucra...

By Ray Hill As 1945 came to a close, the Second World War had been won by the Allied nations. Adolf Hitler had shot himself in his underground bunker as the Red Army overran his capital of Berlin. Benito Mussolini, the Italian dictator, had been executed by his own people and strung up by his heels at a filling station, along with the bodies of his mistress and several compatriots where their corpses were abused by angry citizens. The Japanese Empire had crumbled with President Harry Truman’s decision to drop the atomic bomb on Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Japan’s Emperor, Hirohito, who was co...

Among the historic comedic greats are Abbott and Costello, a renowned comedy duo that certainly inspired many of today's stars.