On this day in ...... 1928 (80 years ago today) , the Fleer Corp. 1st tested a "new gum, composed of natural ingredients," at a small candy store in Philadelphia. Dubble Bubble is a favored pink confection to this day.
... 1938 (70 years ago today), as World War II continued to rage, the 8th Conference of American States ended in Peru. The conference produced the Lima Declaration, in which Pan American countries set forth as principles
[t]hat the peoples of America have achieved spiritual unity through the similarity ofand then declaredtheir republican institutions, their unshakable will for peace, their profound sentiment of humanity and tolerance, and through their absolute adherence to the principles of international law, of the equal sovereignty of states and of individual liberty without religious or racial prejudices;
[t]hat faithful to the above-mentioned principles and to their absolute sovereignty, they reaffirm their decision to maintain them and to defend against all foreign intervention or activity that may threaten them; ....
