100px|Rutherford B. Hayes
Rutherford B. Hayes (1822–1893) was the 19th President of the United
States (1877–1881). Taking office as president on March 4, 1877, he
oversaw the end of Reconstruction and the United States' entry into the
Second Industrial Revolution. Hayes was a reformer who began the
efforts that would lead to civil service reform and attempted,
unsuccessfully, to reconcile the divisions that had led to the American
Civil War fifteen years earlier. When the Civil War began, Hayes left a
successful political career to join the Union Army. Wounded five times,
most seriously at the Battle of South Mountain, he earned a reputation
for bravery in combat and was promoted to the rank of major general.
After the war, he served in the U.S. Congress from 1865 to 1867 as a
Republican. Hayes left Congress to run for Governor of Ohio and was
elected to three terms, serving from 1867 to 1871 and 1876 to 1877. In
1876, Hayes was elected president in one of the most contentious
elections in American history. Losing the popular vote to Democrat
Samuel J. Tilden, Hayes narrowly won the presidency after the
Compromise of 1877, in which a Congressional commission awarded him
twenty disputed electoral votes. (more...)
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1386:
Grand Duke of Lithuania Jogaila was crowned Władysław II Jagiełło, King
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1769:
French astronomer Charles Messier first noted the Orion Nebula , a
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1877:
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1987:
U.S. President Ronald Reagan made a nationally televised address in
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The idea of "crime" in existing criminology is artificial, for what is
called crime is really an infringement of "existing laws", whereas
"laws" are very often a manifestation of barbarism and violence. Such
are the prohibiting laws of different kinds which abound in modern
life. The number of these laws is constantly growing in all countries
and, owing to this, what is called crime is very often not a crime at
all, for it contains no element of violence or harm. On the other hand,
unquestionable crimes escape the field of vision of criminology, either
because they have not recognized the form of crime or because they
surpass a certain scale. In existing criminology there are concepts: a
criminal man, a criminal profession, a criminal society, a criminal
sect, and a criminal tribe, but there is no concept of a criminal
state, or a criminal government, or criminal legislation. Consequently
what is often regarded as "political" activity is in fact a criminal
activity.
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