Monday, December 27, 2010
Almanac of Absurdities 12/27
The odd-sounding “Flushing Remonstrance” is delivered to Colony Leader Peter Stuyvesant on this date in 1657, asking for exemptions to a general ban on pursuit of the Quaker faith in the colony of New Netherland. This becomes a precedent for the Separation of Church and State in the US Constitution. Birthdays: Louis Pasteur and Elvis’s guitarist Scotty Moore.
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