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Tuesday, November 15, 2005The Draft, F.P.A., Dickens, and ElvisOn this day in 1940, 75,000 men were called to Armed Forces duty under the first peacetime conscription in American history. There had been a long history of resistance to mandatory military service in the USA. During World War I, an estimated 3 million young men refused to register, and 12% of... Sign in to see full entry. |
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A compendium of little-known, and possibly little-cared-about, days to celebrate each month, and other miscellaneous oddments. People
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