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Today is Sunday, Jan. 24, the 24th day of 2021. There are 341 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On Jan. 24, 1848, James W. Marshall discovered a gold nugget at Sutter’s Mill in northern California, a discovery that led to the gold rush of `49.
On this date:
In 1908, the Boy Scouts movement began in England under the aegis of Robert Baden-Powell.
In 1924, the Russian city of Petrograd (formerly St. Petersburg) was renamed Leningrad in honor of the late revolutionary leader. (However, it has since been renamed St. Petersburg.)
In 1939, at least 28,000 people were killed by an earthquake that devastated the city of Chillan (chee-YAHN’) in Chile.
Almanacs are full of lists of global and national historic events. But “This Day in History” feature invites you to not just peruse a list, but to take a trip back in time to see how a significant event originally was reported in the Chicago Tribune.
again, thank you all for coming and supporting independent bookstores, so round of applause. [applause] we have a very special guest here for you today, a professor at roger williams university and is spoken in front of commerce. his writings have been published in the nation, usa today, and the boston globe so i think it is important that i confess my apostasy first. i happen to admire buckley tremendously in many, many ways, but i also disagree with many of his ideas, and that may come through, but i wanted to be upfront with you about that. historians debate whether history is made by individuals or by structural forces. if it city says would it be the same country that we know it to be? what other people have come forth and fill their shoes and done what they did or would things be markedly different? for our purposes tonight to the question is, if william f. buckley jr. had not lived with conservatives in the world yesterday, or would it be different? a conservative
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