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Benjamin Tillman (1847–1918) was the In South American

Democratic Governor of South Carolina from association football,
1890 to 1894 and a United States Senator the Copa
from 1895 until his death in 1918. A white Libertadores
supremacist who opposed civil rights for concludes with River
Plate (captain
blacks, Tillman led a paramilitary group of
Leonardo Ponzio
Red Shirts during South Carolina's violent pictured) defeating Leonardo Ponzio
1876 election. One of his legacies was Boca Juniors in the
South Carolina's 1895 constitution, which finals.
disenfranchised most of the black majority and ensured white rule The sample-return spacecraft OSIRIS-
for more than half a century. On the floor of the U.S. Senate, he REx arrives at the asteroid 101955
frequently ridiculed blacks, and boasted of having helped to kill Bennu.
them during the 1876 campaign. He was known as "Pitchfork Ben" Former U.S. President George H. W.
after he threatened to use a pitchfork to prod that "bag of beef",
Bush dies at the age of 94.
President Grover Cleveland. He was the primary sponsor of the Magnus Carlsen defeats Fabiano
Caruana to retain the World Chess
Tillman Act (1907), the first federal campaign finance reform law,
Championship.
which banned corporate contributions in federal political campaigns.
NASA's InSight successfully lands on
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On this day
... that Robert and
Kathleen Ridder helped
the Gophers get the first ice December 11
rink for women (pictured)
in college hockey? 1789 – The
University of
... that Panzer Aces, a
North Carolina
book series about World Ridder Arena
at Chapel Hill,
War II widely read in the
one of the
US, was described as portraying "an almost heroic
oldest public
version of the German soldier, guiltless of any war
universities in Lunar Roving Vehicle, driven
crimes"?
the United by Eugene Cernan
... that the live concerts of the rock band Sumika States and the
feature performances by non-musicians such as only one to award degrees in the 18th
painters, sculptors, architects, potters, and poets? century, received its charter.
... that Ahmadou Ahidjo was the first president of 1899 – Second Boer War: In the Battle
Cameroon following its independence? of Magersfontein, Boers defeated the
... that Edgecliff, an Illinois estate completed in forces of the British Empire trying to

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1930, had the highest residential property tax in
Cook County in 2014 and 2015?
... that Yang Kuo-shu, who earned the first PhD in
psychology in Taiwan, founded indigenous Chinese
psychology and studied such phenomena as
yuanfen, guanxi, and face?
... that Adrien Agreste's superhero identity, Cat
Noir, is a tribute to the comic book character
Catwoman?
... that in 1794, a silver statue of the Virgin Mary
from the chapel at Notre-Dame de la Garde was
melted down at the mint of Marseille located on
Rue du Tapis-Vert?
relieve the Siege of Kimberley.
1972 – Apollo 17 (Lunar Roving Vehicle
pictured), the last Apollo mission, landed
on the Moon.
1981 – Salvadoran Civil War: About 900
civilians were killed by the Salvadoran
armed forces in an anti-guerrilla
campaign.
2008 – American stockbroker Bernard
Madoff was arrested and charged with
securities fraud in a $64.8 billion Ponzi
scheme, the largest in history.
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The Ringling Brothers Circus was founded in the American city of

Baraboo, Wisconsin, in 1884 by five of the seven Ringling brothers. In
1907 the brothers acquired the Barnum & Bailey Circus, merging it with
their original circus in 1919 to form the Ringling Bros. and Barnum &
Bailey Circus, promoted as The Greatest Show on Earth and operated
until 2017.

This is a poster for the circus produced around 1899 by the Courier
Lithographic Company of Buffalo, New York.

Poster: Courier Lithographic Company; Restoration: Trialsanderrors and Adam

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