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MasterG2kTR -> Notes from This Day in History (1/1/2012 8:40:28 AM)

Jan 1 1959
Fidel Castro takes control of Cuba from Fulgencio Batista.
"Don't worry, Castro's regime can't last."
This one's got nothing on Nostradamus


Jan 1 1966
The Federal Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act of 1965 goes into effect.
Cigarette companies are forced to label their product like so:
"Caution: Cigarette Smoking May be Hazardous to Your Health"
Amazingly, 45 years later they are still legal to buy



Jan 1 1976
[image]http://www.rotten.com/today/images/jan/rh-hollyweed-th.jpg[/image]
Potheads alter the "HOLLYWOOD" sign to read "HOLLYWEED". Way to go!
What can I say, this just rocks!



GreedyTop -> RE: Notes from This Day in History (1/1/2012 8:57:35 AM)

I feel really old now, dude.

Thanks.

LOL



erieangel -> RE: Notes from This Day in History (1/1/2012 11:12:17 AM)

Me too.  I was alive for all but the Castro take-over.  And that happened just a few years before my birth.



tazzygirl -> RE: Notes from This Day in History (1/1/2012 1:07:05 PM)

1965 Jan 1, In SF gay celebrants held a Mardi-Gras themed costume ball at California Hall on Polk Street as a benefit for the Council on Religion and the Homosexual, co-founded in 1964 by Rev. Robert Cromey and Rev. Ted McIlvenna. Police set up flood lights at the entrance and harassed some 500 couples that entered. Mayor Shelley soon called for a full accounting of the episode from Police Chief Thomas Cahill.



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