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MARCH 22 — 1909 Teddy Roosevelt heads to Africa; 1765 Stamp Act is passed; 2016 First 3D printed oral contraceptive gets FDA approved; 1933 FDR changes Volstead Act
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MARCH 22
1909 – Rough Rider heads to Africa.
Teddy Roosevelt, who ascended into the presidency after William McKinley was assassinated, decided not to run another term. After all, why should he? His successor William Howard Taft would easily defeat the Super Bowl Washington Redskins of presidential elections, Williams Bryan Jennings.
Taft would carry out TR’s trust-busting polices while Teddy begins yet another chapter of his exciting life, and as soon as Taft was done with his inauguration speech, TR grabbed crew members from the Smithsonian and NatGeo to head off to collect specimens. Together they collected 11,397 species for the Smithsonian and the Museum of Natural History.
Most scientists bring a notepad, measuring instruments and specimen collecting cases, Rough Rider brought Holland double barreled shotgun, a Winchester 405 rifle, and an Army Springfield. Though Teddy Roosevelt had an outstanding reputation for being one of the most serious conservationists in American history, his conservation ideas didn’t apply toward animals, unless we’re talking about animal population control. What this appeared to be was Teddy and his son Kermit Roosevelt competing for the most big game kills.
At one point they encountered a charging rhino. Teddy quotes: “Before he could get quite all the way round in his headlong rush to reach us, I struck him with my left-hand barrel, the bullet entering between the neck and shoulder and piercing his heart.
At the same instant Captain Slatter fired, his bullet entering the neck vertebrae. Ploughing up the ground with horn and feet, the great bull rhino, still head toward us, dropped just thirteen paces from where we stood.” In all, Teddy and his son would kill 512 big game, or basically anything that moved. Ranging from wildebeests, zebras, monkeys and snakes to lion and elephants and everyone in between,
Teddy slaughtered 296 while son Kermit only got a disappointing 216. Even Ted Nugent couldn’t believe he was outdone. But when Roosevelt returned to America, he was shocked when he found out how far Taft had strayed from Roosevelt’s policy. Though he split up twice as many money trusts at Teddy had, he neglected to follow through and tended to give in. The Payne-Aldrich Act did little to lower tariffs as it was designed, and instead of rejecting it, Taft signed it, further separating himself from the Republican Party.
When Taft fired Roosevelt’s friend and secretary of Interior Richard Ballinger proved to be the last straw in TR’s faith in Taft. On a mission to stop him, he created the Bull Moose Party, which was a third party to challenge Democrat Woodrow Wilson and Republican Taft.
The plan worked, Taft would lose the next election to Wilson.
1765-The Stamp Act is passed by the Parliament of Great Britain that imposed a direct tax on the colonies of British America and required that many printed materials in the colonies be produced on stamped paper produced in London, carrying a type of stamp receipt thing.
This was mandatory for legal documents, magazines, playing cards, newspapers, and many other types of paper used throughout the colonies. Like other taxes, this one had to be paid with british money, not the paper money the colonies were using at the time. The British were victorious in the seven years war but needed to pay for it, so this seemed like a good way to do that. The colonies also had to pay for military support from Britain, even though the colonists argued that they didn’t have any foreign enemies and were perfectly fine protecting their own selves from the Native Americans.
Anyway, the Stamp Act, led to the popular slogan No Taxation without Representation. This led to colonial assemblies, protests, petitions against Parliament, a loose coalition of landowners and merchants called the Committees of Correspondence, and elsewhere grew the Sons Of Liberty who got violent, next thing you know all stamp tax distributors were intimidated into resigning their commissions, and the tax was never effectively collected. That’s what I thought, punk! The British pulled back on this one, made it clear that the Crown still had the power to legislate for the colonies in all cases whatsoever, by passing the Declaratory Act. Then came more taxes, and therefore, more American Colonial resistance, and the rest, as they say, is history!
1947-Harry Truman orders loyalty checks of federal employees.
Yeah, this whole communism thing was really freaking everyone out. Especially on the federal level as well as Hollywood.
Give Em Hell Harry announced that he expected all federal workders to demonstrate com;lete and unswerving loyalty to the United States. Anything less, he stated, constitutes a threat to our democratic processes. Loyalty boards were setup I every department and agency of the federal government and every employee was reviewed. If there was any reasonable ground to doubt an employee’s loyalty, he or she would be dismissed. This took care of an image that Truman was trying to fight of being too soft on communism, up until 1949. The Soviets had the bomb. China fell to communists. Joe McCarthy made an announcement that he knew of over 200 known communists in the Department of State.
Next thing the Red Scare was running full speed.
2016 – First 3D printed FDA approved pill becomes available.
Aprecia pharmaceuticals in Pennsylvania 3D printed Spiritam tablets are used to treat epilepsy. According to computer world, a new technology called ZipDose assembles layers upon layers of powdered medication using an aqueous gel which makes a spongy, water solulable environment that dissolves in liquid in just for seconds, way faster than most over-the-counter pills. It was printed for the first time in July 2015.
1908 Happy birthday Louis L’Amour.
Before we became one of the most famous frontier storytellers, Louis had quite the career. He traveled around the world, doing everything from being a cowboy, seaman, longshoreman, prizefighter, miner, and fruit picker. He was an officer in the tanks corp in Europe during WWII, and when he came home from the war he began writing short stories and novels. He wrote the popular John Wayne movie Hondo as well as the epic 1962 movie How the West Was Won. By the time he passed away in 1988, he had written 108 books, most of them westerns. In recognition of his vivid depictions of America’s past, Congress awarded him tohe congressional Gold Medal in 1983.
1933 – FDR switches up the 18th amendment, aka the Volstead act with the Beer and Wine Revenue Act. Thanks Delano. Pop open beer here.
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