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…
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