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January 4, 2016
January 4, 2007: Nancy Pelosi Becomes the First Woman Elected Speaker of the House of Representatives
“She will be aided if others turn up the heat on her, raising their expectations for what Democrats can achieve.”
Richard Kreitner
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December 31, 2015
December 31, 1865: The ‘Year of Jubilee’ Ends
“There has probably been no year which the civilized world will have hereafter so much reason to remember.”
Richard Kreitner
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December 30, 2015
December 30, 1936: The United Auto Workers Sit Down on the Job in Flint, Michigan
“Every night at eight the strikers’ band of three guitars, a violin, a mouth organ, and a squeeze box broadcast over a loud-speaker for the strikers and the women and children outside.”
Richard Kreitner
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December 29, 2015
December 29, 1922: William Gaddis Is Born
“What [The Recognitions] lacks, like all claustrophobic works of art, is imagination.”
Richard Kreitner
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December 28, 2015
December 28, 1973: Alexsander Solzhenitsyn’s ‘Gulag Archipelago’ is Published
“The duty is not only to memorialize the fallen, it is also to confront the living.”
Richard Kreitner
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December 27, 2015
December 27, 1932: Radio City Music Hall Opens
“All at once there is a vast firmament overhead, and a great distance stretching out under it.”
Richard Kreitner
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December 26, 2015
December 26, 1991: The Soviet Union Dissolves
“However cruelly it developed, the union of peoples from Minsk to Vladivostok had the potential to improve the lives and realize the dreams of millions.”
Richard Kreitner
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December 25, 2015
December 25, ~4 BCE: Jesus Christ Is Born (Allegedly)
“It was Christmas morning. I was looking for the light of quiet healing, the brightness of good-will, that should usher in the friendly open hand in place of the old, clenched, shaken fist.”
Richard Kreitner
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December 24, 2015
December 24, 1865: The Ku Klux Klan Is Formed
“If they are so demoralized that they go on robbing, and murdering, and ‘Kukluxing’ each other, we cannot interfere effectively, and had better not interfere at all.”
Richard Kreitner
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December 23, 2015
December 23, 1913: The Federal Reserve Is Created
“The whole thing was a wonderful demonstration of what Christmas can do in the sphere of legislation.”
Richard Kreitner