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OddlyTrue News Stand — May 1

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From the archives

Classic headline

Man Struck by Lightning Faces Battery Charge

Source: Classic headline (CJR 'Squad Helps Dog Bite Victim' collections)View clipping source

Headline 15 of 27 in the Hall of Fame rotation.

Weird history on May 1

1884 First ever
Moses Fleetwood Walker (pictured), the last African American in Major League Baseball until Jackie Robinson, played his first game for the Toledo Blue Stockings.
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Source: Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0
1891 First ever
On Labor Day in Catania, Sicily, workers establish the first successful Fascio Siciliano, launching a movement of peasants and laborers protesting poverty, landlordism, taxation, and economic hardship across Sicily.
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Source: Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0
2010 Oddly true
Faisal Shahzad attempted to detonate a car bomb in Times Square, New York City, but it failed to explode.
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Source: Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0

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