WeekInTime Issue 84: The Suppression of Vice

A U.S. federal judge rules that the novel Ulysses is not obscene

History Bites

This week in time…

🪲 John Lennon is assassinated in 1980

🏛️ Cicero gives the fourth and final of the Catilinarian Orations in 63 B.C.

🖼️ Auctioneer James Christie holds his first sale in London in 1766

🇺🇲 The Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., is completed in 1884

💉 The eradication of smallpox is certified in 1979, after killing an e…