1890 A marble quarry opened near Rawlins. Attribution: Wyoming State Historical Society.
1894 The first ever motorized racing event is held in France between the cities of Paris and Rouen.
1897 The Hole In The Wall Fight between ruslters and ranchers happened near the Hole In The Wall.
1916 In San Francisco, a bomb at a Preparedness Day parade on Market Street kills ten people and wounds forty.
This item is particularly notable on this date in this current year, 2012 (when first posted), as we've just seen somewhat similar casualties in an act of violence in Denver Colorado. In the 1916 event, the attack was no doubt politically motivated, but clearly by a person who had a complete disregard for human life. In the Colorado act the disregard for human life is likewise evident, but it lacks even the cover of a political motivation which, at least, would provide the thin camouflage of deluded justification for such an act.
Now, in the US, there will be, and indeed already are, endless efforts to try to deduce the cause of the senseless act. Was the perpetrator insane? Was he motivated by some warped political or social goal? Was it the implements, and not the man, that was the cause.
None of this will serve in the end to reveal anything. And next to none of it, if any of it, will address a simple fact which, in the modern world, is a fact that cannot be stated.
That fact is is that Evil is in the world, and some people are motivated by Evil.
That Evil is in the world should be self evident. Hitler, Himmler, Stalin and a host of similar tyrants were not insane. They were servants of evil. Likewise, thousands of people in this era are simply evil. Evil people have always been around. What hasn't always been around, however, is a denial that evil exists. And we're paying for it, and will continue to do so, until we realize that evil is an antiquated concept, but a reality.
Now, in the US, there will be, and indeed already are, endless efforts to try to deduce the cause of the senseless act. Was the perpetrator insane? Was he motivated by some warped political or social goal? Was it the implements, and not the man, that was the cause.
None of this will serve in the end to reveal anything. And next to none of it, if any of it, will address a simple fact which, in the modern world, is a fact that cannot be stated.
That fact is is that Evil is in the world, and some people are motivated by Evil.
That Evil is in the world should be self evident. Hitler, Himmler, Stalin and a host of similar tyrants were not insane. They were servants of evil. Likewise, thousands of people in this era are simply evil. Evil people have always been around. What hasn't always been around, however, is a denial that evil exists. And we're paying for it, and will continue to do so, until we realize that evil is an antiquated concept, but a reality.
1967 Cpt. William B. Graves shot down while piloting a OV-1C in Vietnam.
1922 Mount Moran ascended for the first time. the climb was made by LeGrand Hardy, Bennet McNulty and Ben C. Rich of the Chicago Mountaineering Club via the Skillet Glacier route.
1937 The Senate rejected President Franklin D. Roosevelt's proposal to add more justices to the Supreme Court.
1942 US initiates gasoline rationing
1942 US initiates gasoline rationing
1950 The Department of the Army asked reserve officers to volunteer for active duty due to the Korean War.
1966 Six people were injured when a category two tornado struck Gillette. Attribution: On This Day.
1967 Capt. William B. Graves of Douglas is killed when his OV 1-C Mohawk aircraft crashes in Vietnam. Attribution: Wyoming State Historical Society.
1966 Six people were injured when a category two tornado struck Gillette. Attribution: On This Day.
1967 Capt. William B. Graves of Douglas is killed when his OV 1-C Mohawk aircraft crashes in Vietnam. Attribution: Wyoming State Historical Society.
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