What to remember about November 3rd…
- 1777 George Washington learns of cabal led by General Conway intent on discrediting him with Congress
- 1783 Continental Army is disbanded after Washington has his Farewell Orders to the Army published on November 2nd
- 1793 Founder of Texas Steven F. Austin is born (d. 1836)
- 1941 Japanese Fleet receives Top Secret Order No. 1 directing them to attack Pearl Harbor in 34 days
- 1957 Soviet Union launches Sputnik 2 spacecraft; stray dog named Laika from the streets of Moscow is 1st animal in space
- 1964 Washington, D.C. residents vote able to vote in a presidential election for the 1st time
- 1979 5 Communist Workers Party and union protesters killed by Ku Klux Klan and American Nazis during march in Greensboro, North Carolina; no police present at the rally
- 1986 Reports surface in Lebanon of American secretly selling arms to Iran to secure release of 7 hostages; Iran-Contra Affair
- 2010 San Francisco passes law banning McDonald’s from giving free toys with “unhealthy” meals
Posted in History, Lost and Found
Tagged American Revolution, Communism, George Washington, history, Iran-Contra Affair, Ku Klux Klan, Nazis, Pearl Harbor, Soviet Union, Space Exploration, Texas, unions, WWII
What to remember about June 21st…
- 1788 U.S. Constitution ratified by New Hampshire meaning that enough states had done so for it to go into effect (see article VII); New Hampshire admitted to the Union as 9th State
- 1810 Future 12th President of the United States Zachary Taylor marries Margaret Smith in Kentucky
- 1913 Georgia “Tiny” Broadwick becomes 1st woman to parachute from an airplane; later became 1st ever free-fall parachutist
- 1939 Lou Gehrig retires from New York Yankees because of illness
- 1940 Future 37th President of the United States Richard Nixon marries Pat Ryan in Riverside, California
- 1942 Allied forces surrender at Tobruk, Libya
- 1942 Japanese submarine I-25 shells Ft. Stevens in Oregon
- 1965 Ku Klux Klan lynch mob kills 3 civil rights workers registering black voters in Meridian, Mississippi; Michael Schwerner, James Chaney, and Andrew Goodman
- 1982 John Hinckley, Jr. found not guilty by reason of insanity in trial for the attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan
- 1989 SCOTUS rules that burning the American flag is protected by the First amendment to the U.S. Constitution
- 2004 SpaceShipOne makes 1st privately funded human spaceflight and wins the Ansari X Prize; Pilot Mike Melvill becomes 1st non-government astronaut in history
- 2005 Edgar Ray Killen convicted of the 1965 murders of Schwermer, Goodman, and Chaney
Posted in History, Lost and Found
Tagged 1st Amendment, baseball, Civil Rights, Constitution, crime, history, Ku Klux Klan, Lou Gehrig, New Hampshire, parachute, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Space Exploration, Supreme Court, WWII, Zachary Taylor
What to remember about April 20th…
- 1775 Following battles at Lexington and Concord, British troops begin siege of Boston, Massachusetts
- 1861 Colonel Robert E. Lee resigns from the U.S. army after his home state of Virginia secedes; refuses offer of command of the Union army
- 1871 Congress authorizes President Ulysses S. Grant to declare martial law and use military force to suppress the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) and other terrorist groups with passage of the Third Force Act
- 1889 Murderous, national-socialist dictator Adolf Hitler is born in Austria (d. 1945)
- 1898 President William McKinley asks Congress for declaration of war against Spain; U.S. to aid rebels in Cuba and Puerto Rico
- 1916 Chicago Cubs defeat Cincinnati Reds 7-6 in 1st game played at Weeghman Park; renamed Wrigley Field in 1918
- 1980 Castro announces that Cubans who wish to emigrate to America are free to find passage; Mariel Boatlift will carry 125,000 refugees
- 1999 Teenage gunmen Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris kill 13 people in a shooting spree at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado
- 2008 26-year-old Danica Patrick becomes 1st woman to win an Indy race with victory at Japan 300
- 2010 British Petroleum’s Deepwater Horizon oil platform explodes in Gulf of Mexico causing oil spill that lasts 6-months
Posted in History, Lost and Found
Tagged American Revolution, baseball, Chicago Cubs, Civil War, Cuba, Fidel Castro, history, Ku Klux Klan, Spanish-American War, Ulysses S. Grant
What to remember about June 21st…
- 1788 U.S. Constitution ratified by New Hampshire meaning that enough states had done so for it to go into effect (see article VII); New Hampshire admitted to the Union as 9th State
- 1810 Future 12th President of the United States Zachary Taylor marries Margaret Smith in Kentucky
- 1913 Georgia “Tiny” Broadwick becomes 1st woman to parachute from an airplane; later became 1st ever free-fall parachutist
- 1939 Lou Gehrig retires from New York Yankees because of illness
- 1940 Future 37th President of the United States Richard Nixon marries Pat Ryan in Riverside, California
- 1942 Allied forces surrender at Tobruk, Libya
- 1942 Japanese submarine I-25 shells Ft. Stevens in Oregon
- 1965 Ku Klux Klan lynch mob kills 3 civil rights workers registering black voters in Meridian, Mississippi; Michael Schwerner, James Chaney, and Andrew Goodman
- 1982 John Hinckley, Jr. found not guilty by reason of insanity in trial for the attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan
- 1989 SCOTUS rules that burning the American flag is protected by the First amendment to the U.S. Constitution
- 2004 SpaceShipOne makes 1st privately funded human spaceflight and wins the Ansari X Prize; Pilot Mike Melvill becomes 1st non-government astronaut in history
- 2005 Edgar Ray Killen convicted of the 1965 murders of Schwermer, Goodman, and Chaney
Posted in History, Lost and Found
Tagged 1st Amendment, baseball, Civil Rights, Constitution, crime, history, Ku Klux Klan, Lou Gehrig, New Hampshire, parachute, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Space Exploration, Supreme Court, WWII, Zachary Taylor
What to remember about May 22nd…
- 1802 America’s First Lady Martha Washington dies at her Mount Vernon home (b. 1731)
- 1807 Former Vice President Aaron Burr is indicted for treason in plot to form his own country should war with Spain break out; he is acquitted
- 1819 American packet ship SS Savannah begins 1st Atlantic crossing by a steam-powered vessel
- 1856 Southern Congressman brutally beats Northern Senator in the Senate chambers over scathing abolitionist speech that vilified his cousin
- 1859 Scottish author , physician, and creator of Sherlock Holmes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is born (d. 1930)
- 1939 Germany and Italy agree to “Pact of Steel”; Axis is born
- 1942 Boston Red Sox left fielder Ted Williams leaves baseball to enlist as a Marine Corps pilot and flight instructor
- 1972 President Richard Nixon arrives in Moscow for arms control and research summit with Soviet leadership
- 1980 Namco’s influential video game Pac-Man is first released
- 1992 Television host Johnny Carson ends his 30-year run as host of The Tonight Show;
- 2002 Klu Klux Klan member Bobby Frank Cherry is convicted in 1963 bombing of Birmingham church and death of 4 girls age 11 to 14
Posted in History, Lost and Found
Tagged Aaron Burr, baseball, history, Ku Klux Klan, Navy, Racism, Richard Nixon, segregation, slavery, Soviet Union, WWII
What to remember about April 20th…
- 1775 Following battles at Lexington and Concord, British troops begin siege of Boston, Massachusetts
- 1861 Colonel Robert E. Lee resigns from the U.S. army after his home state of Virginia secedes; refuses offer of command of the Union army
- 1871 Congress authorizes President Ulysses S. Grant to declare martial law and use military force to suppress the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) and other terrorist groups with passage of the Third Force Act
- 1889 Murderous, national-socialist dictator Adolf Hitler is born in Austria (d. 1945)
- 1898 President William McKinley asks Congress for declaration of war against Spain; U.S. to aid rebels in Cuba and Puerto Rico
- 1916 Chicago Cubs defeat Cincinnati Reds 7-6 in 1st game played at Weeghman Park; renamed Wrigley Field in 1918
- 1980 Castro announces that Cubans who wish to emigrate to America are free to find passage; Mariel Boatlift will carry 125,000 refugees
- 1999 Teenage gunmen Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris kill 13 people in a shooting spree at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado
- 2008 26-year-old Danica Patrick becomes 1st woman to win an Indy race with victory at Japan 300
- 2010 British Petroleum’s Deepwater Horizon oil platform explodes in Gulf of Mexico causing oil spill that lasts 6-months
Posted in History, Lost and Found
Tagged American Revolution, baseball, Chicago Cubs, Civil War, Cuba, Fidel Castro, history, Ku Klux Klan, Oil, Puerto Rico, Robert E. Lee, Terrorism, Ulysses S. Grant, William McKinley
What to remember about December 24th…
- 1814 War of 1812 ends when representatives of Britain and America sign treaty in Belgium; hostilities continue for months due to slow travelling news
- 1851 Fire spreads quickly through Library of Congress; two-thirds of Thomas Jefferson’s personal literary collection is lost
- 1865 Confederate war veterans found Ku Klux Klan in Pulaski, Tennessee; Republican militias form soon after to combat KKK violence against blacks
- 1923 President Coolidge presses a button and lights 1st national Christmas tree
- 1943 General Dwight D. Eisenhower is appointed Supreme Allied Commander
- 1979 Soviet Union invades Afghanistan with almost 10,000 troops to “protect” Soviet-Afghan Friendship Treaty of 1978
- 1997 International terrorist Ilich Ramirez Sanchez (aka The Jackal) is sentenced by French court to life in prison
Posted in History, Lost and Found
Tagged Afghanistan, Calvin Coolidge, Civil War, Dwight D. Eisenhower, history, Ku Klux Klan, Library of Congress, Republican Party, Soviet Union, Terrorism, Thomas Jefferson, War of 1812, WWII
What to remember about December 24th…
- 1814 War of 1812 ends when representatives of Britain and America sign treaty in Belgium; hostilities continue for months due to slow travelling news
- 1851 Fire spreads quickly through Library of Congress; two-thirds of Thomas Jefferson’s personal literary collection is lost
- 1865 Confederate war veterans found Ku Klux Klan in Pulaski, Tennessee; Republican militias form soon after to combat KKK violence against blacks
- 1923 President Coolidge presses a button and lights 1st national Christmas tree
- 1943 General Dwight D. Eisenhower is appointed Supreme Allied Commander
- 1979 Soviet Union invades Afghanistan with almost 10,000 troops to “protect” Soviet-Afghan Friendship Treaty of 1978
- 1997 International terrorist Ilich Ramirez Sanchez (aka The Jackal) is sentenced by French court to life in prison
Posted in History, Lost and Found
Tagged Afghanistan, Calvin Coolidge, Civil War, Dwight D. Eisenhower, history, Ku Klux Klan, Library of Congress, Republican Party, Soviet Union, Terrorism, Thomas Jefferson, War of 1812, WWII
What to remember about November 3rd…
- 1777 George Washington learns of cabal led by General Conway intent on discrediting him with Congress
- 1783 Continental Army is disbanded after Washington has his Farewell Orders to the Army published on November 2nd
- 1793 Founder of Texas Steven F. Austin is born (d. 1836)
- 1941 Japanese Fleet receives Top Secret Order No. 1 directing them to attack Pearl Harbor in 34 days
- 1957 Soviet Union launches Sputnik 2 spacecraft; stray dog named Laika from the streets of Moscow is 1st animal in space
- 1964 Washington, D.C. residents vote able to vote in a presidential election for the 1st time
- 1979 5 Communist Workers Party and union protesters killed by Ku Klux Klan and American Nazis during march in Greensboro, North Carolina; no police present at the rally
- 1986 Reports surface in Lebanon of American secretly selling arms to Iran to secure release of 7 hostages; Iran-Contra Affair
- 2010 San Francisco passes law banning McDonald’s from giving free toys with “unhealthy” meals
Posted in History, Lost and Found
Tagged American Revolution, Communism, George Washington, history, Iran-Contra Affair, Ku Klux Klan, Nazis, Pearl Harbor, Soviet Union, Space Exploration, Texas, unions, WWII
What to remember about May 22nd…
- 1802 America’s First Lady Martha Washington dies at her Mount Vernon home (b. 1731)
- 1807 Former Vice President Aaron Burr is indicted for treason in plot to form his own country should war with Spain break out; he is acquitted
- 1819 American packet ship SS Savannah begins 1st Atlantic crossing by a steam-powered vessel
- 1856 Southern Congressman brutally beats Northern Senator in the Senate chambers over scathing abolitionist speech that vilified his cousin
- 1859 Scottish author , physician, and creator of Sherlock Holmes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is born (d. 1930)
- 1939 Germany and Italy agree to “Pact of Steel”; Axis is born
- 1942 Boston Red Sox left fielder Ted Williams leaves baseball to enlist as a Marine Corps pilot and flight instructor
- 1972 President Richard Nixon arrives in Moscow for arms control and research summit with Soviet leadership
- 1980 Namco’s influential video game Pac-Man is first released
- 1992 Television host Johnny Carson ends his 30-year run as host of The Tonight Show;
- 2002 Klu Klux Klan member Bobby Frank Cherry is convicted in 1963 bombing of Birmingham church and death of 4 girls age 11 to 14
Posted in History, Lost and Found
Tagged Aaron Burr, baseball, history, Ku Klux Klan, Navy, Racism, Richard Nixon, segregation, slavery, Soviet Union, WWII
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