Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

[EndtheMadnessNow]

August 7, 1930: Last confirmed public lynching of black people in the Northern United States occurred in Marion, Indiana, when a mob raided a prison, capturing Thomas Shipp & Abram Smith who were then publicly hanged from a tree. The incident inspired the poem "Strange Fruit".

Anatomy of a Murder - Cynthia Carr's Our Town seeks to uncover hidden truths about a 1930 lynching in small-town Indiana. But Carr fails to break the code of silence that many of the town's inhabitants, including her grandparents, took to the grave.

Billie Holiday - "Strange Fruit" Live 1959




August 7, 1945: United Press's subdued damage report published on this day 80 years ago.




In between atomic bombings, President Truman had some bills to pay. Source: "The Accidental President" (2017) by  A.J. Baime.




August 7, 1958: the Litter Act came into force in London. Offenders could be fined up to £100 for dropping litter. I've heard this law has been generally ignored and poorly enforced ever since and the penalty is still around £100.




August 7, 2000: Mary Anne MacLeod Trump, of the Clan MacLeod, wife of real estate developer Fred Trump and mother of business tycoon and 2000 presidential candidate Donald Trump, dies in New York. She was 88. Her last public appearance was in February, having lunch with her son and his girlfriend at Mar-a-Lago in Florida.




August 7, 2000: DeviantArt, a new social networking website created by entrepreneurs Angelo Sotira, Scott Jarkoff, and Matthew Stephens, launches to instant success.




August 7, 2005: Russian DSRV AS-28 PRIZ finally surfaces with less than 6 hours of Oxygen left after being stuck for 3 days at 600 feet in a hydrophone array off the Kamchatka Peninsula. Both the Royal Navy & US Navy sent ROVs to cut the DSRV free & rescue the 7 Russians.


Sergey Lavrov, MFA of the Russian Federation concerning DSRV AS28 Crew Rescue:

"The Russian side expresses profound gratitude to Britain, the US and Japan who immediately responded to Russia's appeal to help save the seamen. Special thanks to those who took a direct part in the rescue operation."


Don't count the Germans out just yet...




Another one bites the dust. The Daily Plainsman started publishing in 1886.


Parent company of South Dakota newspapers abruptly shutters


Make Gerrymandering Great Again! LOL.




"Alligator Alcatraz" has a brother pen to be named The Speedway Slammer.