On this day in …
* 1775, Patrick Henry made his famous call for American independence from Britain, telling the Virginia Provincial Convention, "I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!"
* 1933, the German Reichstag adopted the Enabling Act, which effectively granted Adolf Hitler, ym"sh, dictatorial legislative powers.
Ahh, the ironies of history.
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