Celebrities are given platforms to speak on political and ideological issues, no matter what their qualifications are. Strangely enough, they share the same opinions about the same issues — which I’m sure is completely coincidental. I mean, it’s not like they have to have certain opinions to be members of the Buzzword Club.
— Martin DeCoder
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On This Day
In 1806, the original Lower Trenton Bridge, spanning the Delaware River between Morrisville, Pennsylvania and Trenton, New Jersey, opened.
In 1835, in the first assassination attempt against a president, Richard Lawrence unsuccessfully tried to shoot Andrew Jackson.
In 1847, Yerba Buena, California was renamed San Francisco.
In 1862, the first American ironclad warship, the USS Monitor, was launched.
In 1920, the company that became Mazda was founded. Initially a producer of corks, it manufactured its first automobile just over a decade later.
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