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An 1898 barbecue organized in Denver on the closing day of the National Livestock Association Convention turned riotous when thirty thousand people turned out for free food and drink.
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Actor Albert Dekker earned a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his hundreds of television and movie performances from the 1930s through the 1960s.
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From the 1920s through the 1940s the National Live Stock and Meat Board created contests for high school and college students as a subtle way of marketing meat.
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Martin Goicoechea moved from the Basque Country in Spain to Wyoming in 1966. He brought with him the tradition of improvised Basque-verse singing.
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Oscar winning actress Bette Davis made a comeback after suffering a near career ending jawbone infection in 1953. She went on to star in dozens of films and worked until 1989, when she succumbed to cancer.
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Army Lieutenant William Calley was court martialed in 1971 and found guilty of premeditated murder for commanding his troops to commit a massacre of unarmed civilians in My Lai, Vietnam.
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Six Laramie women were summonsed to serve on a grand jury in 1870. It was a groundbreaking event - the first time in the U.S. that women were permitted to be jurors.
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The ABC series Bewitched charmed television audiences with its humorous take on the lives of witch Samantha Stephens and her mortal husband Darrin.
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Albert K. Bender founded the International Flying Saucer Bureau in 1952. He proposed a worldwide “Contact Day” during which all the members of his club simultaneously telepathically contacted “occupants of interplanetary craft”.
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Toilet paper has a long history of being used for comedic political statements and even propaganda.