What to remember about July 24th…
- 1832 Benjamin Bonneville leads the first wagon train across the South Pass of the Rocky Mountains
- 1847 Mormon pioneers led by Brigham Young arrive in Salt Lake Valley; celebrated as Pioneer Day in Utah
- 1862 8th President Martin Van Buren dies in New York (b. 1782)
- 1866 Tennessee becomes the first state to be re-admitted to the Union after the Civil War
- 1897 American aviator Amelia Earhart is born (d. 1897)
- 1901 American author William “O Henry” Porter is released from prison; begins writing career
- 1911 Expedition led by American archeologist Hiram Bingham discovers ruins of Machu Pichu in Peru
- 1943 Allied air forces begin Operation Gomorrah; at least 40,000 killed in strikes city of Hamburg, Germany, 1 million civilians flee
- 1969 Apollo 11 astronauts splash-down safely in Pacific; returns to Earth the 1st men to Walk on the Moon
- 1974 SCOTUS rules unanimously in United States v. Nixon that White House claims of executive privilege over Watergate tapes were void
- 1998 WWII film Saving Private Ryan opens in theaters
- 2002 Democrat James Traficant is expelled from U.S. House of Representatives after convictions for taking bribes, tax fraud, racketeering
Posted in History, Lost and Found, Politics
Tagged Amelia Earhart, Aviation, Civil War, Congress, corruption, history, Martin Van Buren, NASA, pioneers, Richard Nixon, Space Exploration, Supreme Court, Tennessee, WWII
What to remember about June 8th…
- 632 Muhammad, founder of Islam dies in Medina (traditional) (b. 570)
- 1809 Patriot Thomas Paine dies (b. 1737); author of “Common Sense”
- 1861 Vote on referendum of secession passes in Tennessee; they are the last state to leave the Union
- 1867 American architect Frank Lloyd Wright is born (d. 1959)
- 1896 President Cleveland orders federal departments to investigate how many immigrants work for the government; wants “aliens” purged
- 1949 FBI report names Hollywood celebs as communists
- 1959 Submarine USS Barbero launches Regulus cruise missile towards Mayport, Florida; America’s 1st and only official “missile mail”
- 1967 Israeli forces attack USS Liberty during Six-Day War
- 1968 Immigration officer at Heathrow Airport examines Canadian passport of “Ramon George Sneyd”; discovers that man is actually James Earl Ray who is wanted for murder of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
- 1984 1st Ghostbusters movie released
- 1991 Victory Parade in Washington, D.C. for Persian Gulf War
Posted in History, Lost and Found
Tagged Civil War, Communism, Dr. Martin Luther King, FBI, Grover Cleveland, Gulf War, history, immigration, Iraq, Islam, Israel, Movies, Six-Day War, Tennessee, Thomas Paine
What to remember about June 1st…
- 1779 Court martial convenes in Philadelphia for Benedict Arnold on 13 counts of misbehavior including misusing finds and equipment
- 1792 Kentucky is admitted to the Union as 15th state
- 1796 Tennessee is admitted to the Union as 16th state
- 1812 President James Madison asks Congress for declaration of war against the United Kingdom
- 1864 Union and Confederate forces clash over crossroads; Battle of Cold Harbor has begun
- 1868 Former 15th President James Buchanan dies (b. 1791)
- 1900 Future President Herbert Hoover and his wife are trapped in China as Boxer Rebellion breaks out
- 1926 Norma Jeane Mortenson Baker is born in Los Angeles (d. 1962); “Marilyn Monroe” goes on to success as singer and actress
- 1941 After 20,000 German paratroopers drop on island to spearhead invasion, Allied troops evacuate and Crete falls to the Axis
- 1942 News of the gassing of Jews at Nazi death camps in Poland is revealed in the press for the 1st time
- 1968 American author and activist Helen Keller dies (b. 1880); deaf and blind she learned to communicate and set example of achievement
- 1990 President George H.W. Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev sign agreement in Washington, D.C. to end production of chemical weapons and begin the destruction of stockpiles
- 2001 Islamic Palestinian terrorist of Hamas kills 21 teens and injures 132 in homicide bombing attack on nightclub in Tel Aviv, Israel
- 2009 General Motors files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy becoming the largest U.S. industrial company to enter bankruptcy protection
- 2011 NASA Space Shuttle Endeavor completes its final mission and lands before decommissioning
Posted in History, Lost and Found
Tagged American Revolution, automotive industry, bailouts, Benedict Arnold, Civil War, Cold War, George H. W. Bush, Herbert Hoover, history, Holocaust, Islam, Israel, James Buchanan, James Madison, Kentucky, Movies, NASA, Space Exploration, Tennessee, Terrorism, War of 1812, WWII
What to remember about August 23rd…
- 1784 Four counties in North Carolina declare independence as the State of Franklin; becomes Tennessee
- 1814 First Lady Dolley Madison saves a portrait of George Washington from being looted by British troops
- 1861 Confederate spy Rose O’Neal Greenhow is arrested by Allan Pinkerton; head of the new Secret Service Agency
- 1927 Italian-born anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are executed for murder in Massachusetts
- 1979 Soviet ballet star Aleksandr Godunov defects to the U.S. after New York performance of the Bolshoi Ballet
- 1989 Cincinnati Reds manager Pete Rose receives a lifetime ban for betting on baseball
- 1996 Osama bin Laden posts message entitled “A declaration of war against the Americans occupying the land of the two holy places.”
Posted in History, Lost and Found
Tagged baseball, Civil War, Communism, Dolly Madison, espionage, George Washington, history, Islam, North Carolina, Osama bin Laden, Secret Service, Tennessee, Terrorism, War of 1812
What to remember about July 24th…
- 1832 Benjamin Bonneville leads the first wagon train across the South Pass of the Rocky Mountains
- 1847 Mormon pioneers led by Brigham Young arrive in Salt Lake Valley; celebrated as Pioneer Day in Utah
- 1862 8th President Martin Van Buren dies in New York (b. 1782)
- 1866 Tennessee becomes the first state to be re-admitted to the Union after the Civil War
- 1897 American aviator Amelia Earhart is born (d. 1897)
- 1901 American author William “O Henry” Porter is released from prison; begins writing career
- 1911 Expedition led by American archeologist Hiram Bingham discovers ruins of Machu Pichu in Peru
- 1943 Allied air forces begin Operation Gomorrah; at least 40,000 killed in strikes city of Hamburg, Germany, 1 million civilians flee
- 1969 Apollo 11 astronauts splash-down safely in Pacific; returns to Earth the 1st men to Walk on the Moon
- 1974 SCOTUS rules unanimously in United States v. Nixon that White House claims of executive privilege over Watergate tapes were void
- 1998 WWII film Saving Private Ryan opens in theaters
- 2002 Democrat James Traficant is expelled from U.S. House of Representatives after convictions for taking bribes, tax fraud, racketeering
Posted in History, Lost and Found, Politics
Tagged Amelia Earhart, Aviation, Civil War, Congress, corruption, history, Martin Van Buren, NASA, pioneers, Richard Nixon, Space Exploration, Supreme Court, Tennessee, WWII
What to remember about June 8th…
- 632 Muhammad, founder of Islam dies in Medina (traditional) (b. 570)
- 1809 Patriot Thomas Paine dies (b. 1737); author of “Common Sense”
- 1861 Vote on referendum of secession passes in Tennessee; they are the last state to leave the Union
- 1867 American architect Frank Lloyd Wright is born (d. 1959)
- 1896 President Cleveland orders federal departments to investigate how many immigrants work for the government; wants “aliens” purged
- 1949 FBI report names Hollywood celebs as communists
- 1959 Submarine USS Barbero launches Regulus cruise missile towards Mayport, Florida; America’s 1st and only official “missile mail”
- 1967 Israeli forces attack USS Liberty during Six-Day War
- 1968 Immigration officer at Heathrow Airport examines Canadian passport of “Ramon George Sneyd”; discovers that man is actually James Earl Ray who is wanted for murder of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
- 1984 1st Ghostbusters movie released
- 1991 Victory Parade in Washington, D.C. for Persian Gulf War
Posted in History, Lost and Found
Tagged Civil War, Communism, Dr. Martin Luther King, FBI, Grover Cleveland, Gulf War, history, immigration, Iraq, Islam, Israel, Movies, Six-Day War, Tennessee, Thomas Paine
What to remember about June 1st…
- 1779 Court martial convenes in Philadelphia for Benedict Arnold on 13 counts of misbehavior including misusing finds and equipment
- 1792 Kentucky is admitted to the Union as 15th state
- 1796 Tennessee is admitted to the Union as 16th state
- 1812 President James Madison asks Congress for declaration of war against the United Kingdom
- 1864 Union and Confederate forces clash over crossroads; Battle of Cold Harbor has begun
- 1868 Former 15th President James Buchanan dies (b. 1791)
- 1900 Future President Herbert Hoover and his wife are trapped in China as Boxer Rebellion breaks out
- 1926 Norma Jeane Mortenson Baker is born in Los Angeles (d. 1962); “Marilyn Monroe” goes on to success as singer and actress
- 1941 After 20,000 German paratroopers drop on island to spearhead invasion, Allied troops evacuate and Crete falls to the Axis
- 1942 News of the gassing of Jews at Nazi death camps in Poland is revealed in the press for the 1st time
- 1968 American author and activist Helen Keller dies (b. 1880); deaf and blind she learned to communicate and set example of achievement
- 1990 President George H.W. Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev sign agreement in Washington, D.C. to end production of chemical weapons and begin the destruction of stockpiles
- 2001 Islamic Palestinian terrorist of Hamas kills 21 teens and injures 132 in homicide bombing attack on nightclub in Tel Aviv, Israel
- 2009 General Motors files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy becoming the largest U.S. industrial company to enter bankruptcy protection
- 2011 NASA Space Shuttle Endeavor completes its final mission and lands before decommissioning
Posted in History, Lost and Found
Tagged American Revolution, automotive industry, bailouts, Benedict Arnold, Civil War, Cold War, George H. W. Bush, Herbert Hoover, history, Holocaust, Islam, Israel, James Buchanan, James Madison, Kentucky, Movies, NASA, Space Exploration, Tennessee, Terrorism, War of 1812, WWII
What to remember about July 24th…
- 1832 Benjamin Bonneville leads the first wagon train across the South Pass of the Rocky Mountains
- 1847 Mormon pioneers led by Brigham Young arrive in Salt Lake Valley; celebrated as Pioneer Day in Utah
- 1862 8th President Martin Van Buren dies in New York (b. 1782)
- 1866 Tennessee becomes the first state to be re-admitted to the Union after the Civil War
- 1897 American aviator Amelia Earhart is born (d. 1897)
- 1901 American author William “O Henry” Porter is released from prison; begins writing career
- 1911 Expedition led by American archeologist Hiram Bingham discovers ruins of Machu Pichu in Peru
- 1943 Allied air forces begin Operation Gomorrah; at least 40,000 killed in strikes city of Hamburg, Germany, 1 million civilians flee
- 1969 Apollo 11 astronauts splash-down safely in Pacific; returns to Earth the 1st men to Walk on the Moon
- 1974 SCOTUS rules unanimously in United States v. Nixon that White House claims of executive privilege over Watergate tapes were void
- 1998 WWII film Saving Private Ryan opens in theaters
- 2002 Democrat James Traficant is expelled from U.S. House of Representatives after convictions for taking bribes, tax fraud, racketeering
Posted in History, Lost and Found, Politics
Tagged Amelia Earhart, Aviation, Civil War, Congress, corruption, history, Martin Van Buren, NASA, pioneers, Richard Nixon, Space Exploration, Supreme Court, Tennessee, WWII
What to remember about August 23rd…
- 1784 Four counties in North Carolina declare independence as the State of Franklin; becomes Tennessee
- 1814 First Lady Dolley Madison saves a portrait of George Washington from being looted by British troops
- 1861 Confederate spy Rose O’Neal Greenhow is arrested by Allan Pinkerton; head of the new Secret Service Agency
- 1927 Italian-born anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are executed for murder in Massachusetts
- 1979 Soviet ballet star Aleksandr Godunov defects to the U.S. after New York performance of the Bolshoi Ballet
- 1989 Cincinnati Reds manager Pete Rose receives a lifetime ban for betting on baseball
- 1996 Osama bin Laden posts message entitled “A declaration of war against the Americans occupying the land of the two holy places.”
Posted in History, Lost and Found
Tagged baseball, Civil War, Communism, Dolly Madison, espionage, George Washington, history, Islam, North Carolina, Osama bin Laden, Secret Service, Tennessee, Terrorism, War of 1812
What to remember about July 24th…
- 1832 Benjamin Bonneville leads the first wagon train across the South Pass of the Rocky Mountains
- 1847 Mormon pioneers led by Brigham Young arrive in Salt Lake Valley; celebrated as Pioneer Day in Utah
- 1862 8th President Martin Van Buren dies in New York (b. 1782)
- 1866 Tennessee becomes the first state to be re-admitted to the Union after the Civil War
- 1897 American aviator Amelia Earhart is born (d. 1897)
- 1901 American author William “O Henry” Porter is released from prison; begins writing career
- 1911 Expedition led by American archeologist Hiram Bingham discovers ruins of Machu Pichu in Peru
- 1943 Allied air forces begin Operation Gomorrah; at least 40,000 killed in strikes city of Hamburg, Germany, 1 million civilians flee
- 1969 Apollo 11 astronauts splash-down safely in Pacific; returns to Earth the 1st men to Walk on the Moon
- 1974 SCOTUS rules unanimously in United States v. Nixon that White House claims of executive privilege over Watergate tapes were void
- 1998 WWII film Saving Private Ryan opens in theaters
- 2002 Democrat James Traficant is expelled from U.S. House of Representatives after convictions for taking bribes, tax fraud, racketeering
Posted in History, Lost and Found, Politics
Tagged Amelia Earhart, Aviation, Civil War, Congress, corruption, history, Martin Van Buren, NASA, Old West, reconstruction, Richard Nixon, Space Exploration, Supreme Court, Tennessee, Watergate, WWII
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