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The true government is much simpler than is supposed, and abstains from much more. Nine tenths of the laws passed every winter at the Federal Capitol, and all the State Capitols, are not only unneeded laws, but positive nuisances, jobs got up for the service of special classes of persons.
— Walt Whitman
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Today is Tuesday, September 12th, the 255th day of 2023. There are 110 days left in the year. It is Defenders Day (in Maryland), National Chocolate Milkshake Day, and National Report Medicare Fraud Day.
On This Day
In 1814, an American detachment halted the British advance to Baltimore in the Battle of North Point.
In 1848, a new constitution marked the establishment of Switzerland as a federal state.
In 1857, the SS Central America, carrying several tons of gold from California, sank about 160 miles off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. Over 400 passengers and crew were lost.
In 1923, Southern Rhodesia, today called Zimbabwe, was annexed by the United Kingdom.
In 1933, Leó Szilárd, waiting for a red light in London, conceived the idea of nuclear chain reaction.
In 1943, Benito Mussolini was rescued from house arrest by German commandos.
In 1953, U.S. Senator, drug addict, and sexaholic John Fitzgerald Kennedy married Jacqueline Lee Bouvier at St. Mary’s Church in Newport, Rhode Island.
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