1227<\/b> -\u2013 Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II is excommunicated by Pope Gregory IX for his failure to participate in the Crusades. (That must have been back when Popes knew how to keep the politicians in line!)<\/p>\n
1650<\/b> — Londoner Henry Robinson opens his Office of Addresses and Encounters<\/i> — the first historically documented dating service. (eHarmony is still green behind the ears!)<\/p>\n
1789<\/b> — The first US Congress adjourns. (Were they a “do nothing” Congress?)<\/p>\n
1938<\/b> — In an effort to appease Adolf Hitler, British, French, German and Italian leaders signed the Munich Agreement, allowing
\nGerman annexation of Czechoslovakia’s Sudetenland. (Will there be a similar agreement signed regarding…Jerusalem, for instance?)<\/p>\n
1966<\/b> — General Motors (yeah, that<\/i> GM) introduces the Chevrolet Camaro<\/a>, originally named Panther.<\/p>\n 1982<\/b> — The Chicago Tylenol murders begin when the first of seven individuals die. (Can you believe we used to buy pills in relatively-unsealed bottles??!!)<\/p>\n 2008<\/b> — The Dow Jones Industrial Average falls 777.68 points, the largest single-day point loss in its history. (And that, my friend, was just last year.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 1227 -\u2013 Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II is excommunicated by Pope Gregory IX for his failure to participate in the Crusades. (That must have been back when Popes knew how to keep the politicians in line!) 1650 — Londoner Henry Robinson opens his Office of Addresses and Encounters — the first historically documented dating service. … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[696],"class_list":["post-1762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-on-this-day","tag-history"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-sq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}