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November 7, 1800

Posted on November 7, 2020 by Joel Byers

On November 7, 1800, it became illegal for women in Paris to wear trousers without a Police permit. It was still illegal for them to go naked in public. In 2013, the ‘trouser ban’ was annulled after 213 years, but it was still… Continue reading →

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January 9. 1902

Posted on January 9, 2020 by Joel Byers

On January 9, 1902, New York state assemblyman Francis G. Landon introduced a bill that would outlaw flirting in public. On January 8, 1902 he previously introduced and had passed a bill that outlawed “looking at women in that certain way”. The flirting bill didn’t pass, but one does wonder what happened in Francis Landon’s … Continue reading →

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December 20, 1820

Posted on December 20, 2019 by Joel Byers

On December 20, 1820, the state of Missouri enacted a law that taxed all bachelors between the ages of 21 to 50 for being unmarried. The tax was $1 a year, which would be about $20 today. It wasn’t enough to force unmarried men to move or get married, but it was like the married … Continue reading →

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January 13, 1404

Posted on January 13, 2019 by Joel Byers

On January 13, 1404, the English Parliament passed the Act of Multipliers, forbidding Multiplication. This wasn’t a bunch of rich nobs prejudiced against mathematics, but instead, at the time, multiplication also meant the production of precious metals through alchemy. The old, turning lead into gold passion, or using a catalyst to cause gold to alchemically … Continue reading →

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January 9, 1902

Posted on January 9, 2015 by Joel Byers

On This Date in TWISTED-HISTORY.com! in 1902 the legislators of New York State introduced a bill to outlaw flirting in public. It did not pass.

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