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Like plants, so men also grow, some in the light, others in the shadows. There are many who need the shadows and not the light.
— Carl Jung
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Today is Wednesday, June 28th, the 179th day of 2023. There are 186 days left in the year. It is National Insurance Awareness Day, National Paul Bunyan Day, National Tapioca Day, and International Body Piercing Day.
On This Day
In 1776, Thomas Hickey, a Continental Army private and bodyguard to General George Washington, was hanged for mutiny and sedition.
In 1865, the Army of the Potomac was disbanded.
In 1894, Labor Day became a federal holiday.
In 1896, an explosion in the Newton Coal Company’s Twin Shaft Mine in Pittston, Pennsylvania resulted in a massive cave-in that killed 58 miners.
In 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie were assassinated in Sarajevo. The crime became the casus belli of World War I.
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