This company was founded in 1911, first known as the
Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company.
Please share a piece of history, may or may not be related to guns or self-defense.
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4.54 billion years ago the Earth as we know it today began to form. 
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Today in 2023, Hamas has not evolved from the Neanderthal age!
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I’m a fan of detective stories and have this guy to thank for, born today in 1753:
(Historical Figures Born in 1753 — On This Day) August Gottlieb Meißner, German Enlightenment author who helped develop the detective story genre in German literature, born in Bautzen, Electorate of Saxony, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1807)
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Now known as IBM
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Did it occur to anyone that most of what counts for history are mainly acts of war? And yet,
We learn from history that we do not learn from history. - Friedrich Hegel
Hungary - On November 4, 1956, Soviet tanks rolled into Budapest to crush, once and for all, the national uprising.
-history . com
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…and Joseph Robinette Biden was conceived…
" It’s the end of the world as we know it!
It’s the end of the world as we know it!
It’s the end of the world as we know it!
and I feel fine!" R.E.M (band)
I’d like to go back in time and hand Joe’s father a Condom! —don102!
(or slap his Mother!)
WWG1WGA
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11/5/1605
Gunpowder Plot: Catholic conspirator Guy Fawkes attempts to blow up King James I and the British Parliament. Plot discovered, Guy Fawkes caught, tortured and later executed along with seven others. Celebrated ever since as Guy Fawkes Day, where his effigy is traditionally burned on a bonfire, accompanied by fireworks.
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Born on this day
11/06/1814
Adolphe Sax 
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Is it true? I heard he was a Sax-maniac ?
Say it ain’t so Adolphe?
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June 12, 1987
On this date in 1989, almost two and a half years since the Reagan speech, the Berlin Wall fell.
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November 10
1775 US Marine Corps is created
The elite military force capable of operating on land, sea and air was founded in Philadelphia during the American Revolutionary War. A resolution of the Second Continental Congress formed two battalions of Continental Marines that became the forerunners of today’s marine corps.
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George Jennings invented the toilet.
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I thought it was Crapper.
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November 10, 1983
Marvelous Marvin Hagler vs. Roberto Duran 
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It’s November 11th. 
Daylight saving time 
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Mary Mallon died 1938
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