🏛️ PRESIDENT JOHNSON SHOCKS NATION

March 31, 1968 — In a televised address from the Oval Office, President Lyndon B. Johnson delivers a bombshell that would reshape American politics. Standing before the presidential seal, with golden light streaming through the windows, he announces his stunning decision: he will not seek re-election amid the Vietnam War turmoil. A nation holds its breath as the leader who championed civil rights and the Great Society steps aside.

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Recorded #OnThisDay 39 years ago:

The Primitives - Peel Session 1987

The complete session recorded by The Primitives on 31 March 1987 for the John Peel show on BBC Radio 1 and broadcast on 13 April 1987.

Tracklist:

1. Dream Walk Baby (0:07)
2. Ocean Blue (2:13)
3. Everything's Shining Bright (5:08)
4. She Don't Need You (7:48)

https://vibracobra23.blogspot.com/2016/06/the-primitives-peel-session-1987.html

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31 MAR 1797 | Olaudah Equiano died | Great Britain

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Heute vor 81 Jahren: Befreiung von Ratibor/Racibórz

Die Industriestadt wurde durch die Rote Armee am Morgen des 31. März 1945 eingenommen.

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I note, in passing, on this day, in history … Constantine the Great marries Fausta, a conspiracy in Cairo against Saladin revealed, Antonín Dvořák's Rusalka premieres (with a character based on Baba Yaga).

https://hermetic.com/hermeneuticon/march-31

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#onthisday Alexandra Kollontai, heute 1872 in Sankt Petersburg geboren, erkannte in der Verknüpfung von unterschiedlichen Ausbeutungsverhältnissen die Ursache für die Unterdrückung von Frauen: »Die Unantastbarkeit des Privateigentums, das Fortbestehen des privaten Einfamilienhaushaltes, das zähe Überleben … /1

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Greater Feast of Isaac Newton, died March 31, 1727 (O.S. March 20, 1726) at Kensington, Middlesex, England

https://hermetic.com/hermeneuticon/isaac-newton

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