January 23, 2019 This Day in history
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Started by metmike - Jan. 22, 2019, 11:20 p.m.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_23


2018 – A 7.9 Mwearthquake occurs in the Gulf of Alaska. It is tied as the sixth-largest earthquake ever recorded in the United States, but there are no reports of significant damage or fatalities.


1941Charles Lindbergh testifies before the U.S. Congress and recommends that the United States negotiate a neutrality pact with Adolf Hitler.

Charles Lindbergh, the Nazis and American isolationism

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/magazine-22684773/charles-lindbergh-the-nazis-and-american-isolationism

Charles Lindbergh is best known for being the first person to fly solo nonstop across the Atlantic in 1927. He earned more tragic notoriety a few years later when his son was kidnapped and killed in a case that gripped the US.

What many Americans forget is the central role Lindbergh played in the isolationist movement in the years leading up to the US entry into World War II.Lindbergh, Nazis and US isolationism


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By carlberky - Jan. 23, 2019, 6:28 a.m.
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1964 – The 24th Amendment to the United States Constitution, prohibiting the use of poll taxes in national elections, is ratified.

"The Twenty-fourth Amendment (Amendment XXIV) of the United States Constitution prohibits both Congress and the states from conditioning the right to vote in federal elections on payment of a poll tax or other types of tax. The amendment was proposed by Congress to the states on August 27, 1962, and was ratified by the states on January 23, 1964. 

"Southern states of the former Confederate States of America adopted poll taxes in laws of the late 19th century and new constitutions from 1890 to 1908, after the Democratic Party had generally regained control of state legislatures decades after the end of Reconstruction, as a measure to prevent African Americans and often poor whites from voting ... it was not until 1966 that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6–3 in Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections that poll taxes for any level of elections were unconstitutional."

By metmike - Jan. 23, 2019, 8:37 a.m.
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Thanks Carl,

It's fun to look back at these historic facts and pick one every day, then learn something interesting about it or history.......enriching our knowledge. 

When you also pick something, it doubles the learning for me and readers and provides a positive contribution that I'm most grateful for. We have some wonderful posters(and friends) here!