362 - Emperor Julianus of Constantinople ends education laws

A strangely biased BIG day! and the strange nature of sainthood
 

1914: The first continental phone service between New York and San Francisco begins. I can talk to family in the 'Big Apple':up: AND... The Cape Cod Canal opens; 162 miles of the world's largest manmade waterway w/o locks-been on the cruise thru there!:up:https://www.hylinecruises.com/wp-con...-map_canal.jpg1030: THE BIG DAY imho! Olaf Haraldsson falls in battle at Stiklstad, clearing the way for England's greatest king, Canute. Made a saint for beheading so many pagans, Olaf becomes the patron saint of Norway-leading to..."St Olaf College (Lutheran) founded by Norwegian immigrant Bernt Julius Muus (practically a saint thereabouts:03:) in Northfield, Minnesota, in 1874. In 1973, AktungBBY graduates from St Olaf College and writes this post 984 years later:up:! Clearly the man (Olaf, not me) left his stamp on history; at least in the Faeros!?http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...st_olav%29.jpg 1588: The English, under the banner of St George, defeat the Spanish Armada with ships named for and flags of every saint imaginable at Gravelines: hence this post is written in English-not Spanish:up:: Protestants 1; Catholics 0 :up:http://www.rmg.co.uk/sites/default/f...i/mainpic3.jpgIn honor of the day; a Bloody Mary with a Hamm's chaser BBY:yeah:

July 30
 

1945 - The USS Indianapolis was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine. The ship had just delivered key components of the Hiroshima atomic bomb to the Pacific island of Tinian. Only 316 out of 1,196 men aboard survived the attack.

579 - Benedict I ends his reign as Catholic Pope

Joyce Kilmer-poet warrior
 

432 - St Sixtus III begins his reign as Catholic Pope

August 1
 

1834 - Slavery was outlawed in the British empire with an emancipation bill.

1907 - The U.S. Army established an aeronautical division that later became the U.S. Air Force.

527 - Justinian I becomes the sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire

He was a well heeled fellow?:O:

1922 Alexander Graham Bell dies

257 - St Stephen I ends his reign as Catholic Pope

the Color Purple and and Imperial Hauteur
 

Oh yeah! he was well heeled alright!:D as in a post above 'it's good to have a woman on the ticket': I give you one of history's greater Ass-kickers: Theodora; "Theodora, empress of the Roman (Byzantine) Empire and the wife of Emperor Justinian I. She was one of the more influential and powerful empresses of Rome. Some sources mention her as empress regnant with Justinian I as her co-regent." During a rebellion known as the Nika Riot she held her ground when Justinian would have booked it..."Unable to control the mob, Justinian and his officials prepared to flee. At a meeting of the government council, Theodora spoke out against leaving the palace and underlined the significance of someone who died as a ruler instead of living as an exile or in hiding, saying, "royal purple is the noblest shroud" :dead: Her determined speech convinced them all, including Justinian himself, who had been preparing to run. Justinian never forgot the debt to his wife!....She barked-he heeled:woot:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...lis%C3%A9e.jpg<better half of the power couple imho:up:

With apologies to Samuel Morse: I imagine he found out first hand: "what hath God wrought" :hmmm: I still prefer the old rotary phones to these 'smart phones'!

1980: AktungBBY marries his better half (^oddly with a degree in communication:hmmm:)...and has been well-heeled ever since. :timeout::wah:

I, II, III-what's in a number?!!
 

it's all relative!
 

the path; the dream; and the machine!