This Day in History - July 20


	This Day in History - July 20
righthand
7-21-2008 7:07 AM
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7-21-2008 7:49 AM
righthand
ClipMarks wasn't working properly yesterday. You could 'Pop' so clipping didn't have much point.

Better later than never?
7-22-2008 2:40 AM
carrerinyes
Better late than never, Mr Suck...?
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/0336269c-cb83-453d-b555-80a228f32c2f/BFB9AA94-82DE-494E-B785-4B29D6CDAEF5/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/peacehistoryjuly.htm" href="http://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/peacehistoryjuly.htm" style="font-size: 11px;">www.peacebuttons.info</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/peacehistoryjuly.htm"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.peacebuttons.info/img/B740AA5C-FD65-4A94-8675-6A457E42E426" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/peacehistoryjuly.htm"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.peacebuttons.info/img/6797F82E-32F2-4CB4-8EF3-387931AA9EBC" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/peacehistoryjuly.htm"><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">July 
                    20, 1967</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/peacehistoryjuly.htm"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.peacebuttons.info/img/1BA3B407-F61C-4EAB-B282-E01BC846961B" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/peacehistoryjuly.htm"><STRONG>The
                          first Black Power conference was held in Newark, New
                          Jersey, calling on black people
                        in the U.S. "to unite, to recognize their heritage
                    and to build a sense of community."</STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/peacehistoryjuly.htm"> 1971</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/peacehistoryjuly.htm"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.peacebuttons.info/img/3966F773-EBCB-4B31-8137-0AE55F9D2D3E" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/peacehistoryjuly.htm"><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The first labor contract in the history of the
                        federal government was signed by postal worker unions
                        and the newly re-organized U.S. Postal Service through
                    the collective bargaining process.</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/peacehistoryjuly.htm">1878</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/peacehistoryjuly.htm"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.peacebuttons.info/img/86407D25-917E-433E-90BB-8A25EDCC768B" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/peacehistoryjuly.htm"><P><STRONG><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Publication
                      of "Eight Hours," written by Rev. Jesse H. Jones
                      (music) and I.G. Blanchard (lyrics), the most popular labor
                      song until "Solidarity Forever" was published
                  by the IWW (Industrial Workers of the World) in 1915.</FONT></STRONG></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/peacehistoryjuly.htm"><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">“Eight
                      hours for work,
Eight hours for rest;
Eight hours for what we will.”</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/peacehistoryjuly.htm"><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">The
                    eight-hour was an established concept before the song. 
Shown
                is an 1856 banner from Melbourne, Australia</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/peacehistoryjuly.htm">1954</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/peacehistoryjuly.htm"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.peacebuttons.info/img/B45BFBAF-009C-44D2-ABD6-AF81261635E0" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/peacehistoryjuly.htm">Major
                        world powers, meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, reached
                        agreement on the terms of a ceasefire for Indochina,
                        ending nearly eight years of war</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.peacebuttons.info/E-News/peacehistoryjuly.htm">Communist Viet Minh,
                        under leader Ho Chi Minh, and France,</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/BFB9AA94-82DE-494E-B785-4B29D6CDAEF5/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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