This date in history

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Originally Posted by the bard

And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks

NOT SO CHEAP! Cod-wise anyhow! How an Elizabethan literate gent(with consumate knowledge of period sartorial splendor on/off-stage) can make such a statement boggles the mind! HANK VIII-Alice Cooper (or 'Whiles any sings' for that matter)>Nuthin' good goes outta style BBY!

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1861 - Pony Express ends.

1863 - International conference begins in Geneva aimed at improving medical conditions on battlefields - beginning of the Red Cross.

1863 - Football Association forms in England, standardizing soccer, splitting with rugby.

1918 - Germany's supreme commander General Eric Ludendorff resigns, protesting the terms to which the German Government has agreed in negotiating an armistice.

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312 - Constantine the Great is said to have received his famous Vision of the Cross.

1914 - British battleship Audacious sunk by mine.

1979 - Voluntary Euthanasia Society publishes how-to-do-it suicide guide.

1982 - China announces its population at 1 billion people plus.

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1954: Benjamin Oliver Davis Jr. Becomes the first black Air Force Brigadier General: October 27, 1954 (temporary); May 16, 1960 (permanent) rising eventually to the rank of full General. From Tuskegee to the top! It ran in the family: his father Benjamin Oliver Davis, Sr. (1877 or 1880 – November 26, 1970) was the first African-American general officer in the United States Army October 25, 1940

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1492 - Christopher Columbus discovers Cuba and claims it for Spain.

1886 - Statue of Liberty dedicated by US President Grover Cleveland, celebrated by first confetti (ticker tape) parade in New York City.

1904 - St Louis police try a new investigation method - fingerprints.

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1942 - Seventh day of battle at El Alamein: Montgomery assault.

1942 - Nazis murder 16,000 Jews in Pinsk, Soviet Union.

1943 - Three allied officers escape out camp Stalag Luft 3.

1944 - 1st Polish Armoured Division liberates Breda, Netherlands.

1944 - Cabadese 2nd Infantry division frees Goes South-Beveland.

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1618: Sir Walter Raleigh writer, poet, soldier, politician, courtier, spy, and explorer; convicted of treason against James I in 1604, is finally executed by beheading; Allowed to lead a failed 1617 raiding expedition to the New World, the Spanish ambassador, successfully demanded that King James I reinstate Raleigh's death sentence for violating the peace between England and Spain. Old and not well, the man was an advocate of assisted suicide ahead of his time: "Let us dispatch", he said to his executioner. "At this hour ague comes upon me. I would not have my enemies think I quaked from fear." After he was allowed to see the axe that would behead him, he mused: "This is a sharp Medicine, but it is a Physician for all diseases and miseries." Having been one of the people to popularise tobacco smoking in England, he left a small tobacco pouch, found in his cell shortly after his execution. Engraved upon the pouch was a Latin inscription: Comes meus fuit in illo miserrimo tempore ("It was my companion at that most miserable time...his cell>...His 'Mancave>
@ Armistead: let's nominate Neal for this award shall we! http://raleigh.happeningmag.com/raleigh-public-relations-society-announces-call-entries-sir-walter-raleigh-awards/ the awards are designed to showcase exemplary work by public relations and communications professionals from across the state. The competition recognizes and honors all practitioners who have achieved excellence in the field — from freelance practitioners to full-service agencies. They'd never give it to John Lennon or Lord McCartney: I'm so tired, "I'm feeling so upset
Although I'm so tired, I'll have another cigarette
And curse Sir Walter Raleigh
He was such a stupid git"

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1939 - USSR & Germany agree on partitioning Poland, Hitler deports Jews.

1939 - German U boat fails on attack of English battleship Nelson with Winston Churchill, Dudley Pound & Charles Forbes aboard.

1941 - USS Reuben James torpedoed by Germans, even though US is not in war.

1942 - 8th day of battle at El Alamein: new Australian assault.

1944 - Anne Frank is deported from Auschwitz to Belsen.

1944 - Last transport for Auschwitz arrives in Birkenau.

1945 - US government announces end of shoe rationing.

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1965: London's#1 Supermodel Jean Shrimpton knocks 'em dead At Melbourne's Famed racetack Spring Racing Carnival in a mini-dress! It caused a major sensation. Photojournalists went to town capturing 'the Shrimp's' bare legs....Down Under??!! The day's winning nag did not make the front page that day...and lasses in Australia never looked back: ON the sweltering 94-F. spring afternoon, she was wearing none of the mandatory accessories for the racetrack members’ enclosure – her hat, gloves and stockings were missing. Even more shocking, her dress finished five inches above her knees.
Following her appearance, the front page of The Sun newspaper raged: “There she was, the world’s highest-paid fashion model, snubbing the iron-clad conventions of fashionable Flemington mavens with a dress five inches above the knee – NO hat, NO gloves and NO stockings!”
Derby Day racegoers were horrified. The press clamoured for photos and, within days, the story of the model in the mini had ignited global controversy. IMHO: at £2000 a shoot, an enormous sum for the time, equivalent to at least a year's wages for the average Australian man and gauged by a comparison with The Beatles, who had been paid £1500 for their tour of Australia in June 1964, she did her job..."when ya got it, flaunt it" In Australia, it became an inspiration as young women took up the new fashion, accompanied by predictable media consternation. In hindsight-50 years later, what was the fuss!

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1917 - World War I: Battle of Beersheba in southern Palestine- "last successful cavalry charge in history."

1939 - 27 U boats sunk this month (135,000 ton).

1940 - 63 U boats sunk this month (325,000 ton).

1940 - Battle of Britain, fought between the RAF and Luftwaffe over the English Channel and southern England, ends.

1940 - Deadline for Warsaw Jews to move into Warsaw Ghetto.

1941 - 13 U boats sunk this month (62,000 ton).

1949 - Dutch Nazi Henri 'Hakkie' Holdert, director of Amsterdam paper De Telegraaf and member of the SS, sentenced to 12 years imprisonment.

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1914 - German-British naval battle at Coronel, Chile.

1915 - Parris Island is officially designated a Marine Corps Recruit Depot.

1939 - First jet plane, Heinkel He 178, demonstrated to German Air Ministry.

1941 - Japanese marine staff officiers Suzuki/Maejima arrive in Pearl Harbor.

1971 - Eisenhower dollar put into circulation.

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1783 - General George Washington, later 1st US President, bids farewell to his army after the American Revolutionary War.

1914 - Great Britain declares the entire North Sea a military area: neutral ships will transit it at their own risk.

1943 - Jewish ghetto of Riga Latvia is destroyed.

1944 - Auschwitz begins gassing inmates.

1960 - Mary Leakey and her team discover the first fossils of Homo habilis, an early human ancestor, at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. Homo habilis is thought to be one of the earliest species to make stone tools and lived between 1.4 and 2.3 million years ago.

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1918 - Thousands of revolutionary German sailors with the fleet at Kiel mutiny, seize the city, and set up councils of workers and sailors.

1941 - Hirohiti's accord on Yamamoto's attack plan on Pearl Harbor fails.

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1862 - Dr Richard Gatling patents Gatling machine gun (Indianapolis).

1921 - The Sturmabteilung or SA (the "Brown Shirts") is formally formed by Adolf Hitler.

1922 - Howard Carter discovers tomb of Tutankhamen in Egypt.

2008 - Barack Obama becomes the first African-American to be elected President of the United States.

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1917 - Gen Pershing & US troops see action on Western Front for 1st time.

1937 - Hitler informs his military leaders in a secret meeting of his intentions of going to war.

1943 - Vatican bombed.