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TIL that in 1978, current California congresswoman Jackie Speier, then a congressional aide to Leo Ryan, was shot 5 times in an ambush by supporters of Jim Jones while investigating human rights abuses at his Guyana compound, fleeing into the forest and waiting 22 hours before help arrived.

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Me1OV TIL of the Gag Law, passed in Puerto Rico on 1948. The act made it a crime to own a Puerto Rican flag, to sing a patriotic tune, to speak or write of independence, or to meet with anyone in favor of Puertorican independence. Signed into law on by Jesús T. Piñero, the United States-appointed governor
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