Today -100: February 13, 1921: And if that’s not how you celebrate Lincoln’s Birthday, I don’t know how you do celebrate Lincoln’s Birthday

Britain keeps privately asking the US to forgive its wartime debt.

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As was the custom.

A black man accused of assaulting an old white woman in Ocala, Florida is hanged by a lynch mob, after they have the woman identify him.

300 IRAers attack the police barracks in Drimoleague, County Cork. The military arrive and force the town’s entire male population to repair the damage at gunpoint, because there’s nothing like forced labor to give you a warm and fuzzy feeling towards the Union.

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Stanley. His name was Stanley. How hard is that, scientists?

Blondes are out in Paris this season, brunettes are in.

What to Watch: the pre-release of Buried Treasure, with Marion Davies, “The greatest picture drama of reincarnation ever shown” with “a vivid sea battle with pirates”.

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