Today in History

[Peacoat]

@crawlinkingsnake Thank you for posting a pic of Pinetop's headstone. I knew Pinetop a little bit, but wasn't friends with him. I was friends with the younger members of the band as we were closer in age than the older guys.

On a different and darker note: Today in 1944, 15-year-old diarist Anne Frank was arrested with her sister, parents and four others by the Gestapo after hiding for two years inside a building in Amsterdam. (Anne and her sister, Margot, died at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.)

 

[Peacoat]

75 years ago today, the Bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. Still, the recalcitrant Emperor wouldn't surrender.

 

[Turnip]

76 years ago the battle of Caen in the Normandy ended successfully for the allied forces.

The following German counterstrike of the 5.Panzerarmee ended up in the encirclement battle of Falaise.

 

[Woodtroll]

19 years ago today - the United States of America was attacked by foreign radicals because of our way of life.

NEVER FORGET those who lost their lives, and those who carried out this act.

 

[GHT]

Today in 1297, at Stirling Bridge, Scotland's William Wallace, defeated the English.

Today in 1649, commerates the Massacre of Drogheda, Ireland, when Oliver Cromwell's army kills 3,000 royalists.

on this day in 1777, at the Battle of Brandywine, Pennysylvania, the Americans lose to the British. But 37 years later in 1814, on the 6th September, Americans defeat British at Battle of Plattsburgh.

80 years ago today, in 1940, Hitler initiates operation Seelöwe (Sealion,) the aborted invasion England.

 

[AbbaDatDeHat]

On this day in 1775, 245 years ago, the United States Marine Corps was born at Tuns Tavern, Philadelphia, Pa.
Happy birthday Marines!!
If you see one, do NOT give him a sharp stick.

Simper Fidelis
B

Ps: give back the Tanks and Cobras...duhh

 

[Turnip]

Since 1823 the 11.11. is the official start date of the Rhenish carnival.

 

[Turnip]

Today 65 years ago West Germany has been re-armed, swearing in the first wave of soldiers after the war.

 

[Turnip]

Today in 1945 the lecture of indictments precluded the first Nuremberg Trial against the highest ranking war criminals of the III. Reich.

 

[MisterCairo]

The 17th century saw a lot of blood letting:
On this January 30th in
1606 Sir Everard Digby, Thomas Winter, John Grant and Thomas Bates who, along with others, had tried to blow up the Houses of Parliament in November 1605 were hanged, drawn and quartered for their part in the 'Gunpowder Plot'.

1649 The executioner Richard Brandon beheaded King Charles I at Whitehall.

1661 Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland, was exhumed and formally executed, after having been dead for two years! Ironically, it took place on the anniversary of the execution of King Charles I, the monarch who Cromwell himself had deposed 12 years previously.

Two out of three ain't bad!

 

[MisterCairo]

On this date in 1894, Benjamin Kubelsky was born in Waukegan, Illinois. He grew up to become a world-famous violinist and died in 1974 at the age of 39.

79?

 

[Turnip]

Today in 1890 Chief Spottet Elk has been killed, along with a remarkable number of other Lakota, in the massacre of Wounded Knee.

 

[Harp]

On this day in 1775, 245 years ago, the United States Marine Corps was born at Tuns Tavern, Philadelphia, Pa.
Happy birthday Marines!!
If you see one, do NOT give him a sharp stick.

Simper Fidelis
B

Ps: give back the Tanks and Cobras...duhh

I once had the abject privilege of dining with a company of Marines and two chief petty officers
inside a US Navy mess, Naples, Italy. I was stared at for an hour, accompanied by a diplomat,
and wearing pressed starched khakis, spit shined Corcoran jump boots, and my beret.
Some comments thrown my way, and I occasionally waved back. Smiling.

 

[AbbaDatDeHat]

I once had the abject privilege of dining with a company of Marines and two chief petty officers
inside a US Navy mess, Naples, Italy. I was stared at for an hour, accompanied by a diplomat,
and wearing pressed starched khakis, spit shined Corcoran jump boots, and my beret.
Some comments thrown my way, and I occasionally waved back. Smiling.

I got a good chuckle from this, Harp.
Glad they were orderly.
Knowing Marines, they were staring at you trying to pick up tips on how to use the silverware and thinking about how much the wanted your beret and boots.
B

 

[Turnip]

Today in 1812 Russian and Prussian troops agree on a truce in the Convention Of Tauroggen, which is also considered to be the initialization of the liberation war against Napoleon Bonaparte in Europe.

 

[Turnip]

Today in 1472 the throwing of snowballs gets prohibited in Amsterdam.

Today in 1944 the last German offensive (operation North Wind) in the western theatre starts in the area Alsace/Lorraine.

 

[GHT]

Ottawa, located in Ontario at the confluence of the Ottawa, Gatineau, and Rideau rivers and whose area was first described by Samuel de Champlain in 1613, was named the capital of Canada by Queen Victoria this day in 1857.

The United States officially handed over control of the Panama Canal to Panama, on this day in 1999.

On this day in 1991 The Soviet Union legally ceased to exist, Russia and other former Soviet republics having declared themselves independent and having founded the Commonwealth of Independent States on December 21, 1991.

I just wonder if I will live long enough to read about the UK leaving the EU, on this day in history.

 

[Turnip]

Me too...

 

[Turnip]

Today in 1921 Friedrich Dürrenmatt was born.

 

[Turnip]

Today in 1945 Dresden has been destroyed by allied bombers, about 25.000 citizens died.