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1908 US Attorney General Charles Joseph Bonaparte issues an order to immediately staff the Office of the Chief Examiner (later renamed the Federal Bureau of Investigation)

J Edgar Hoover got so excited he went out and got a new dress.
 
1789 US Congress establishes the Department of Foreign Affairs, now referred to as the State Department

Now referred to as the Enemy Production Department
 
1932 "White Zombie," the first feature-length zombie film, directed by Victor Halperin and starring Bela Lugosi, is released in the US

Black people had their own separate but equal zombie movie.
 
PitPat said:
1932 "White Zombie," the first feature-length zombie film, directed by Victor Halperin and starring Bela Lugosi, is released in the US

Black people had their own separate but equal zombie movie.
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When I was at GTMO one of the contract workers invited me to meet his family in the Dominican Republic. I had been clued in that this was a trip not to be missed. And that I should bring presents. (The worker helped me pick. ;-) )

The real fun began when we drove to his village. "Fun" being the the village was across the border into Haiti. Papa Doc's Haiti. When we got to the border I handed over two cartons of Winstons and we were waved on. Third World economics was ... educational ... at times.
 
On this day in 1910, a white mob of hundreds massacred Black residents in Slocum, a majority-Black community in Texas.

Local white citizens formed the mob after a series of minor events they perceived to have violated racial hierarchy, including a Black worker being appointed to a position of authority on a nearby road construction project.

Armed members of the mob rode through Slocum and the surrounding area on horseback, firing at any and all Black citizens they encountered. They chased those fleeing into forests and marshes, shooting many in the back as they ran.

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Jul. 29, 1910 | White Mob Massacres Black Residents in Slocum, Texas

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1921 Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party

Eh, what's the worst that can happen.
 
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