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I know one of you hulligans are going to break my insane combo soon
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maybe I can be my personal best before though.
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or maybe I'm just going insane.
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back end really does go well with the car, but hey if you get rear ended your all good because of the extra backend.
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less than 10 to my personal record.
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1912 info now..................
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Lamb of God- 11th hour is wat Im listening too.
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January 1 - Establishment of Republic of China.
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January 4 - The Scout Association is incorporated throughout the British Commonwealth by Royal Charter.
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January 5 - Prague Party Conference.
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January 6 - New Mexico is admitted as the 47th U.S. state.
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January 8 - African National Congress is founded.
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January 17 - British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott and a team of four begin the second expedition to reach the South Pole.
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January 23 - The International Opium Convention is signed at The Hague.
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February 14 - Arizona is admitted as the 48th U.S. state.
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March 1 - Albert Berry makes the first parachute jump from a moving airplane.
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March 5 - Italian forces are the first to use airships for a military purpose by using them for reconnaissance west of Tripoli behind Turkish lines.
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Roald Amundsen announces his success in reaching the South Pole.
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French aviator Henri Seimet makes the first non-stop flight from Paris to London in three hours.
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March 12 - The Girl Scouts of the USA are founded.
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March 16 - Lawrence Oates, dying member of Scott's South Pole expedition, leaves the tent saying, "I am just going outside and may be some time."
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March 27 - Mayor Yukio Ozaki of Tokyo gives 3,000 cherry blossom trees to be planted in Washington, D.C. to symbolize the friendship between the two countries.
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* March 30 - France establishes a protectorate over Morocco.
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# April 10 - The British ocean liner RMS Titanic leaves Southampton, England on her first maiden voyage for New York City.
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April 11 - The British ocean liner RMS Titanic reachesQueenstown, Ireland(also known as Cobh today) by around 6:30 and picks up passengers so it can steam off towards New York City.
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April 14 - The British ocean liner RMS Titanic strikes an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean at 11:40 pm.
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April 15 - By 2:20a.m, the RMS Titanic sinks, taking with it 1500 lives.
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April 16 - Harriet Quimby becomes first woman to fly across the English Channel.
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April 16 - The Royal Ontario Museum is established in Toronto, Ontario.
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Tiger Stadium in Detroit opens.
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Fenway Park, home of the Boston Red Sox, opens.
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May 5 - The 1912 Summer Olympics open in Stockholm, Sweden.
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May 6 - Suffrage parade in New York City,
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May 13 - In the United Kingdom, the Royal Flying Corps (forerunner of the Royal Air Force) is established.
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May 30 - Joe Dawson wins the second Indianapolis 500-Mile Race after Ralph DePalma's Mercedes breaks down within sight of the finish.
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June 4 - Fire in Constantinople - 1120 buildings destroyed
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# June 5 - U.S. Marines land on Cuba
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# June 6-June 8 - Eruption of Novarupta in Alaska
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June 8 - Carl Laemmle incorporated Universal Pictures.
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June 18 - The Republican National Convention nominates incumbent President William Howard Taft in Chicago, defeating a challenge by former President Theodore Roosevelt, whose delegates bolt the convention.
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June 25 - The Democratic National Convention nominates New Jersey Gov. Thomas Woodrow Wilson in Baltimore.
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July 19 - A meteorite with an estimated mass of 190 kg exploded over the town of Holbrook in Navajo County, Arizona causing thousands of pieces of debris to rain down on the town.
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# July 30 - Emperor Meiji of Japan, dies. He is succeeded by his son Yoshihito who becomes Emperor Taishō. In Japanese History, the event marks the end of the Meiji era and the beginning of the Taishō era.
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# August 1 - Inauguration of the Jungfraubahn
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August 5 - Dissident Republicans form the Progressive or Bull Moose Party, and nominate former President Theodore Roosevelt as their presidential candidate.
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August 11 - Sodomy becomes legal in France.
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August 12 - Sultan Abd Al-Hafid of Morocco abdicates.
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August 25 - Kuomintang, the Chinese nationalist party is founded.
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* August 28 - Rosamond Carr is born in South Orange, New Jersey
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September 25 - Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism founded in New York, New York.
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October 8 - First Balkan War begins: Montenegro declares war against Turkey.
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# October 14 - While campaigning in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, former president Theodore Roosevelt is shot by saloonkeeper John Schrank. With a fresh flesh wound and the bullet still in him, Roosevelt delivers his scheduled speech.
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October 16
* Bulgarian pilots Radul Minkov and Prodan Toprakchiev perform the first bombing with an airplane in history at the railway station of Karaagac near Edirne against Turkey.
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The Boston Red Sox, assisted by a famous error, defeat the New York Giants in extra innings to win the 1912 World Series, in what is considered one of the greatest games of baseball ever played.
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November 5 - U.S. presidential election, 1912: Democratic challenger Woodrow Wilson wins a landslide victory over Republican incumbent William Howard Taft. Taft's base was undercut by Progressive Party candidate (and former Republican) Theodore Roosevelt, who finished second, ahead of Taft.
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November 7 - The Deute Ottoman Empire.
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November 28 - Albania declares independence from the Ottoman Empire.
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December - Piltdown Man presented in Britain.
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December 3 - First Balkan War ends temporarily - Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro, and Serbia (the Balkan League) sign an armistice with Turkey, ending the two-month long war.
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1988 info now...................................
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January 1 - The Soviet Union begins its program of economic restructuring (perestroika) with legislation initiated by Premier Mikhail Gorbachev (though Gorbachev had begun minor restructuring in 1985).
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January 1 - The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America is established, creating the largest Lutheran denomination in the United States.
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January 8 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average falls 140.58 points, or 6.85%, to close at 1,911.31 in a mini-crash.
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January 13 - Taiwan President Chiang Ching-kuo dies in Taipei; Vice-President Lee Teng-hui becomes president.
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January 15 - In Jerusalem, Israeli police and Palestinian protestors clash at the Dome of the Rock; several police and at least 70 Palestinians are injured.
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January 25 - U.S. Vice President George H.W. Bush and CBS News anchor Dan Rather clash over Bush's role in the Iran-Contra scandal, during a contentious television interview.
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January 29 - The Midwest Classic Conference, a U.S. college athletic conference, is formed.
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February 3 - The Democratic-controlled United States House of Representatives rejects President Ronald Reagan's request for $36.25 million to support the Nicaraguan Contras.
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February 12 - Anthony M. Kennedy is appointed to the Supreme Court of the United States.
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February 13 – February 28 - The 1988 Winter Olympics are held in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
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February 17 - U.S. Lieutenant Colonel William R. Higgins, serving with a United Nations group monitoring a truce in southern Lebanon, is kidnapped (he is later killed by his captors).
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# February 24 - Hustler Magazine v. Falwell: The Supreme Court of the United States sides with Hustler magazine by overturning a lower court decision to award Jerry Falwell $200,000 for defamation.
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February 29 - A Nazi document implicates Kurt Waldheim in WWII deportations.
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March 6 - Students at Gallaudet University go on strike for the selection of a non-deaf university president.
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March 7 - Operation Flavius: The Special Air Services fatally shoot three unarmed Irish Republican Army members in Gibraltar.
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March 8 - Two U.S. Army helicopters collide in Fort Campbell, Kentucky, killing 17 servicemen.
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March 8 - U.S. presidential candidate George Herbert Walker Bush defeats Robert Dole in numerous Republican primaries and caucuses on "Super Tuesday". The bipartisan primary/caucus calendar, designed by Democrats to help solidify their own nominee early, backfires when none of the 6 competing candidates are able to break out of the pack in the day's Democratic contests. Jesse Jackson, however, wins several Southern state primaries.
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March 16 - The Halabja poison gas attack is carried out by Iraqi government forces.
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March 16 - Iran-Contra Affair: Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and Vice Admiral John Poindexter are indicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States.
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A Colombian Boeing 727 jetliner, Avianca Flight 410, crashes into the side of the mountains near the Venezuelan border killing 143.
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Eritrean War of Independence: The Nadew Command, an Ethiopian army corps in Eritrea, is attacked on three sides by military units of the Eritrean People's Liberation Front (EPLF) in the opening action of the Battle of Afabet.
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March 19 - British Army Corporals Woods and Howes are killed by the IRA in the so-called "Corporals killings".
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March 20 - Eritrean War of Independence: Having defeated the Nadew Command, the EPLF enters the town of Afabet, victoriously concluding the Battle of Afabet.
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March 24 - An Israeli court sentences Mordechai Vanunu to 18 years in prison for disclosing Israel's nuclear program to The Sunday Times.
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March 25 - The Candle Demonstration in Bratislava, Slovakia is the first mass demonstration of the 1980s against the communist regime in Czechoslovakia.
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March 26 - U.S. presidential candidate Jesse Jackson defeats Michael Dukakis in the Michigan Democratic caucuses, becoming the temporary front-runner for the party's nomination. Richard Gephardt withdraws his candidacy after his campaign speeches against imported automobiles fail to earn him much support in Detroit.
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March 29 - African National Congress representative Dulcie September is assassinated in Paris.
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this is possibly 300 combo if someone didn't sneak a post in.
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April 4 - Governor Evan Mecham of Arizona is convicted in his impeachment trial and removed from office.
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April 5 - Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis wins the Wisconsin Democratic presidential primary.
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April 10 - The Ojhri Camp Disaster occurs in Islamabad and Rawalpindi.
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April 10 - The Great Seto Bridge opens to traffic in Japan.
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April 11 - The Last Emperor (directed by Bernardo Bertolucci) wins nine Oscars.
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April 12 - Former pop singer Sonny Bono is elected mayor of Palm Springs, California.
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April 14 - In the Geneva Accords, the Soviet Union commits itself to withdrawal of its forces from Afghanistan.
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