Wednesday 26 February 2014

THIS DAY IN WEIRD



On This Day in Weird, February 26...

1954: Representative Ruth Thompson (R-Mich.) introduces legislation to ban "obscene, lewd, lascivious or filthy" rock & roll phonograph records from the U.S. mail.

1987: A trawler nets a giant squid 6 feet 4 inches long off the east coast of New Zealand's South Island, at a depth of 350 meters.

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