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☀️ Happy Monday ☀️

🦋 Meet and Greet 🦋

Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.

Denis Diderot

Call your representatives and tell them to vote against the Bill

We cannot bankrupt America for the rich

We will be okay

Love Foxy
1864 Yosemite Grant Act signed by President Abraham Lincoln bestowing 200,000 acres to the state of California, establishes America's first state-controlled park 1870 Ada Kepley becomes 1st American female law college graduate (Old University of Chicago, later Northwestern) 1905 27 year-old clerk Albert Einsteinpublishes his theory of special relativity, the relationship between space and time in equation E=mc2 1906 US Congress passes the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act; these laws owe much to the expose journalism of the period (Upton Sinclair's 'The Jungle' in particular) 1925 Charles Jenkins is granted the U.S. patent for Transmitting Pictures over Wireless (early television) 1936 40 hour work week law approved for US federal employees 1938 Superman first appears in DC Comics' Action Comics Series issue #1 1953 1st Chevrolet Corvette manufactured 1967 Robert Henry Lawrence, Jr. named 1st black astronaut 1974 Soviet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov defects to the West 1982 Federal Equal Rights Amendment fails 3 states short of ratification 1985 39 remaining hostages from hijacked TWA Flight 847 are freed in Beirut 1989 US Congressman Donald Lukens found guilty of having sex with a 16-year-old girl 1994 US Ice Skating Federation bars Tonya Harding for life 2019 President Donald Trump becomes first sitting US president to set foot in North Korea in the Korean Demilitarized Zone meeting Kim Jong-un
June 30, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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☀️Happy Monday☀️

🦋Meet and Greet 🦋

"Life is a song - sing it. Life is a game - play it. Life is a challenge - meet it.
Life is a dream - realize it.
Life is a sacrifice - offer it.
Life is love - enjoy."
~Sai Baba

Remember
We WILL be okay

Love
Foxy🦊
1835 P. T. Barnum & his circus begin 1st tour of US 1863 Harriet Tubman leads Union guerrillas into Maryland, freeing slaves 1924 President Calvin Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act (also known as Snyder Act), declaring all Native Americans to be American citizens 1933 FDR authorizes the first swimming pool built inside the White House 1942 Red Sox star Ted Williams enlists as a US Navy aviator 1953 Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in Westminster Abbey, London, England 1967 Capitol Records releases The Beatles' album "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" in the US and goes to number one for 15 weeks 1979 Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradleysigns first homosexual rights bill 1989 10,000 Chinese soldiers are blocked by 100,000 citizens in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, protecting students demonstrating for democracy 1997 Timothy McVeigh found guilty of 1995 Oklahoma City bombing that killed 168 2023 US Army renames Fort Bragg in North Carolina as Fort Liberty as part of effort to remove Confederate names from military bases; namesake Braxton Bragg served in the US Army (1837-56) and the Confederate Army 2024 Gymnast Simone Biles (27) wins her record 9th US Championship in Fort Worth, Texas
June 2, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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☀️Happy Tuesday ☀️

🦋 Meet and Greet 🦋

Thanks for all the birthday wishes yesterday

You all made my day very special
Roses, a chocolate truffle bomb cake and spending time with family made it so special
I was serenaded by my 5 year old granddaughter via live video
Love you all
Foxy
1721 HMS Seahorse infected with smallpox arrives in Boston harbor, causing the first outbreak in two decades. - half of the population catch it, causing 850 deaths 1823 British inventor Robert John Tyers patents an in-line roller skate he calls the "Volito", with a single row of 5 wooden wheels, a wooden sole, and a curved iron bar at the front as a rudimentary brake 1914 Babe Ruth's 1st professional game (as a pitcher) is a 6-hit 6-0 win 1915 NY Yankees don pinstripes & hat-in-the-ring logo for 1st time 1945 Battle of Berlin: Upon being informed that a planned counter-attack never happened, Adolf Hitler flies into a rage, denounces the German Army and concedes World War II is lost 1959 Yankee Whitey Ford strikes out 15, beating Senators, 1-0 in 14 innings 1964 World's Fair at Flushing Meadow, Corona Park, NY opens 1969 Robin Knox-Johnston ends 312 days of non-stop sailing to become the 1st person to perform a single-handed non-stop circumnavigation of the globe 1976 Barbara Walters becomes the first female US nightly network news anchor 1981 More than $3.3 million is stolen from the First National Bank of Arizona in Tucson in the then largest US bank robbery in history 2016 Paris Agreement on climate change signed in New York binding 195 nations to an increase in the global average temperature to less than 2°C above pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the increase to 1.5°C
April 22, 2025 at 10:24 AM