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Thursday, July 26 On this date in 1953, approximately 100 Arizona police officers and National Guard soldiers raided a polygamous community in Short Creek, Arizona. The entire community was taken into custody, and 263 children were taken from their parents. Some children were eventually returned to their parents, but several were not. While Arizona governor [...]


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Thursday, July 5 On this date in 1996, Dolly the sheep, the first mammal to be successfully cloned, was born. She was named Dolly because the cell from which her DNA was extracted came from a mammary gland, and the scientists involved “couldn’t think of a more impressive pair of glands than Dolly Parton’s.” That’s [...]


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Thursday, June 14th On June 14th, 2000, a mail clerk named Andrew Cohen flounced into the Bravo programming director’s office to deliver a package. Interrupting an impromptu strategy session, Cohen opined that “the peforming arts are dead,” and that “people want the organic drama of reality television!” One closed door meeting and an energetic blow [...]