Tuesday, December 23, 2025

Tuesday, December 23, 1975. Going metric.

In baseball:

December 23, 1975: The Reserve Clause Is Killed

President Gerald R. Ford signed into law the Metric Conversion Act. The country should have carried through with it, but abandoned it in 1982 when Ronald Reagan was President, the point at which, in the long history of the evolution of things, the country began its slide into idiocy, although it was hardly evident at the time.

CIA Station Chief in Athens Richard Welch, his identify recently exposed, was gunned down by terrorists in Athens.

Last edition:

Monday, December 22, 1975. Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

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