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10-06-16, 09:10 AM | #1546 | |
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Tokyo Rose with a few of her friends for a little chat after the war was over.
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10-07-16, 06:51 AM | #1547 |
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1816 First double decked steamboat, Washington, arrives in New Orleans.
1916 The German submarine U-53 arrives off Newport, Rhode Island, and sinks 9 British merchant ships in international waters. 1919 KLM, Royal Ducth Airlines, established (oldest existing airline). 1942 Last camouflaged German raider Komet leaves Flushing (Netherlands). 1942 US & UK government announce establishment of United Nations. 1944 Field Marshal Erwin Rommel ordered to return to Berlin. 1944 Uprising at Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, Jews burn down crematoriums. 1950 US forces invade North Korea by crossing 38th parallel. 1955 Aircraft carrier USS Saratoga launched at Brooklyn. 2001 The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan starts with an air assault and covert operations on the ground.
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10-08-16, 05:07 AM | #1548 |
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1818 Two English boxers are first to use padded gloves.
1918 American soldier Sgt Alvin York single-handedly kills 25, captures 132 Germans. 1941 Building at Concentration Camp Birkenau begins. 1945 US President Harry Truman announced atomic bomb secret shared with Britain and Canada.
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10-08-16, 11:45 AM | #1549 | |
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10-08-16, 07:22 PM | #1550 | |
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Ameriacan Pie: Fire is the devils only friend"
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Monument in the cemetery. This monument, the nearby mass grave and the Fire Museum are the only reminders of the disaster at Peshtigo. People didn't just die in Peshtigo. They spontaneously combusted and were cremated by heat that reached 2000 degrees. They succumbed instantly from breathing in poisoned, superheated air. They died of smoke inhalation, were run over by panicked livestock and drowned in the river where they sought refuge. Others were crushed in collapsing buildings, impaled by flying debris and pulverized by all kinds of things dropping out of the sky on top of them. Still others committed suicide rather than face death by fire. There is one known case where a father killed his three daughters and then himself to avoid that fate. The Peshtigo River was the scene of gruesome irony. People flocked to its frigid waters for protection, but the only way to avoid the heat was to stay underwater. To have a bare head above the water at the height of the fire was deadly. People wet their heads and covered them with wet material to survive. In the process, some died of hypothermia. WEll.... nuthin diabolical goes outta style...in war or peace! Peshtigo Fire extent
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10-09-16, 09:24 AM | #1551 |
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1864 Battle of Tom's Brook; Confederate cavalry that harassed Sheridan's campaign is beaten by General Custer & Merrit's cavalry divisions.
1958 Israeli navy inaugrates its first submarine. 2006 North Korea allegedly tests its first nuclear device.
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10-10-16, 01:47 PM | #1552 |
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1941 German U-boat torpedoes US destroyer Kearney.
1942 1,300 Austrian Jews transported to Theresienstadt concentration camp. 1957 A fire at the Windscale nuclear plant in Cumbria, UK becomes the world's first major nuclear accident. 1957 US President Eisenhower apologizes to the finance minister of Ghana, Komla Agbeli Gbdemah, after he is refused service in a restaurant in Dover, Delaware. 1982 Pope John Paul II canonizes Rev Maximilian Kolbe, who volunteered to die in place of another inmate at Auschwitz concentration camp, a saint.
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10-11-16, 08:35 AM | #1553 |
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1915 Despite international protest, Edith Cavell, and English nurse in Belgium, is executed by the Germans for aiding the escape of Allied prisoners.
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10-12-16, 07:27 AM | #1554 |
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1941 Russian government moves from Moscow to Volga as the Germans close in on Moscow.
1942 US navy defeats Japanese in the Battle of Cape Esperance. 1972 46 sailors injured in race riot on American aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk. 1984 IRA bombs the Grand Hotel, Brighton, where British PM Margaret Thatcher is staying, 5 die. 2000 The USS Cole is badly damaged in Aden, Yemen, by two suicide bombers, killing 17 crew members and wounding at least 39.
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10-12-16, 10:03 AM | #1555 | ||
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10-12-16, 11:48 AM | #1556 |
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Happily hyphenated
1915: Former president Theodore Roosevelt, speaking to the Knights of Columbus in New York, criticized native born Americans who identified themselves by dual nationalities saying: "a hyphenated American is not American at all." WELL Damn! In thinking on this...philosophically: I'm part Irish and Jewish Swabian-German (1910-great grandma, Sarah) on my dad's side and Norman(since 1066at least the Witney side) Scottish & Norwegian on mom's side...oh wait: typical all American interbreeding White-Trash...whew! I got my hyphen back!
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10-13-16, 09:21 AM | #1557 |
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1812 Battle of Queenstown Heights: British forces defeat United States forces attempting to invade Canada.
1884 Greenwich in London established as the universal time meridian of longitude. 1944 US 1st army begins battle of Aachen, first German city captured during WWII. 1987 First military use of trained dolphins (US Navy in Persian Gulf).
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10-13-16, 12:18 PM | #1558 | ||
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They don't call it 'Union' Rugby fer nuthin'
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10-14-16, 07:07 AM | #1559 |
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1066 Battle of Hastings, Duke William of Normandy and the Norman army defeat English forces of Harold II.
1322 Robert the Bruce of Scotland defeats King Edward II of England at Byland, forcing Edward to accept Scotland's independence. 1939 German U-47 sinks British battleship HMS Royal Oak, 833 killed. 1942 German assault on Tractor factory, 1000s killed. 1943 600 Jews escape during an uprising at the Nazi concentration Camp in Sobibor, Poland. 1962 US U-2 espionage planes locate missile launchers in Cuba.
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10-14-16, 09:35 AM | #1560 | ||
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Quite the family affair!
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