Kyle Shack

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May 14th • Spring Meeting #2

Today in History This Day in History  1607  Jamestown, Virginia is settled as an English colony. 1787  In Philadelphia, delegates convene a Constitutional Convention to write a new Constitution for the United States; George Washington presides. 1804  The Lewis and Clark Expedition departs from Camp Dubois and begins its historic journey by traveling up the …

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March 5th • Spring Meeting #1

Today in History This Day in History  1836  Samuel Colt patents the first production-model revolver, the .34-caliber.  1933  Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Party receives 43.9% at the Reichstag elections. This later allows the Nazis to pass the Enabling Act and establish a dictatorship.  1934 Daniel Kahneman, Israeli- American economist and psychologist, Nobel Prize laureate  1940  Six high-ranking members of …

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December 5th • Fall Meeting #2

Today in History This Day in History  1492  Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to set foot on the island  of  Hispaniola  (now Haiti and the Dominican Republic).  1766  In London, James Christie holds his first sale.  1890  Fritz Lang, Austrian-American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1976)  1901  Walt Disney, American animator, director, producer, and screenwriter, co-founded The Walt Disney Company (d. 1966) …

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