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Alexander Hamilton (January 11, 1755 or 1757 – July 12, 1804) was the first (and last) United States Secretary of the Treasury to be killed in a duel. He was also one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, a lawyer and street judge, and a slave-owner. An all-around good guy.
As butler to General George Washington during the War of Colonial Aggression against Great Britain, Hamilton called for a new Constitution. He wrote, like, almost all of the Federalist Papers, a primary source for Constitutional repression. He was opposed by other Founding Fathers, namely all of the ones who didn't like uppity, philandering bastards.
Today, Hamilton is on the U.S. $10 bill, a testament to America's appreciation for adulterous dueling bastards who are good with fiscal policy. (Full article...)
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September 9: Day of the Truffles Triffids
- ⑨ - Cirno is born.
- 1000 - During the Battle of Svolder, King Olaf I of Norway falls overboard and disappears into the Baltic Sea. He is not seen again until Olaf II: Electric Boogaloo is released on video later that year.
- 1087 - William the Conqueror dies. About time, too.
- 1312 - Paracelsus invents redundancy.
- 1313 - Paracelsus invents redundancy.
- 1405 - The world's first soda siphon goes on display in Paris. Rioting ensues.
- 1828 - Leo Tolstoy is born. How boring is that?
- 1839 - John Herschel takes the first glass plate photograph. Later photographs are of a glass cup, a glass saucer, and a glass eye.
- 1850 - California is admitted into the USA.
- 1944 - Bulgaria is
occupied liberated by Soviet troops.
- 1967 - The spork is invented.
- 1969 - No rioting in Paris. Rioting ensues.
- 1976 - Mao Zedong passes away; sadly his dream of murdering more of his own people than Stalin is left unrealized.
- 1988 - In the most intense fighting of the GI Joe-Transformers War, the Autobot-Joe Alliance and Union of Decepticon and Cobra Forces see heavy casualties in the Battle of the Backyard.
- 2009 - Being 9/9/09, an upside down Satan appeared, only to shortly die of spinal injuries.
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For the glory of her majesty Help us clear the ivy of crap, and plant the seeds of humour.
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