16 June


0455 - Rome was sacked by the Vandal army.


1487 - The War of the Roses ended with the Battle of Stoke.


1883 - The New York Giants baseball team admitted all ladies for free to the ballpark. It was the first Ladies Day.


1903 - Ford Motor Company was incorporated.


1922 - Henry Berliner accomplished the first helicopter flight at College Park, MD.


1963 - 26-year-old Valentina Tereshkova went into orbit aboard the Vostok 6 spacecraft for three days. She was the first female space traveler.


1980 - The movie "The Blues Brothers" opened in Chicago, IL.


1993 - The U.S. Postal Service released a set of seven stamps that featured Bill Haley, Buddy Holly, Clyde McPhatter, Otis Redding, Ritchie Valens, Dinah Washington and Elvis Presley.

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1864 - Alois Alzheimer was born. He was a psychiatrist/pathologist, and in 1907 he wrote an article describing the disease that is named for him.




Eh?

Interesting thread :)

June 17th
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1775 The Battle of Bunker Hill took place near Boston during the Revolutionary War.


1789 The Third Estate in France declared itself a national assembly and undertook to frame a constitution.


1856 The Republican Party opened its first convention, in Philadelphia.


1880 John Ward of the Providence Grays pitched a perfect game in a 5-0 victory over the Buffalo Bisons, less than a week after the first perfect game in major league history was recorded. (The next would not occur for 24 years.)


1885 The Statue of Liberty arrived in New York City aboard the French ship Isere.


1940 France asked Germany for terms of surrender in World War II.


1944 The republic of Iceland was established.


1961 Soviet ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev defected to the West while his troupe was in Paris.


1963 The Supreme Court struck down rules requiring the recitation of the Lord's Prayer or the reading of Biblical verses in public schools.


1972 President Richard Nixon's downfall began with the arrest of five burglars inside Democratic national headquarters in Washington's Watergate complex.


1994 After leading police on a chase through Southern California, O.J. Simpson was arrested and charged with murder in the slayings of his ex-wife, Nicole, and Ronald Goldman.


2005 Former Tyco CEO Dennis Kozlowski and a second executive, Mark H. Swartz, were convicted of looting their company of more than $600 million. (Each was later sentenced to 8-1/3 to 25 years in prison.)


2006 Officials in Chechnya reported police had killed rebel leader Abdul-Khalim Sadulayev by acting on a tip from within his network.

17 June



0362 - Emperor Julian issued an edict banning Christians from teaching in Syria.


1789 - The Third Estate in France declared itself a national assembly, and began to frame a constitution.


1872 - George M. Hoover began selling whiskey in Dodge City, Kansas. The town had been dry up until this point.


1940 - France asked Germany for terms of surrender in World War II.


1972 - Five men were arrested for burglarizing the Democratic Party Headquarters in the Watergate complex in Washington, DC. The men all worked for the reelection of President Nixon. The event was the beginning of the Watergate affair.


1991 - The Parliament of South Africa repealed the Population Registration Act. The act had required that all South Africans for classified by race at birth.


1994 - O.J. Simpson drove his Ford Bronco across Los Angeles with police in pursuit and millions of people watching live on television. After the slow speed chase ended Simpson was arrested and charged with the murders of Nicole Simpson and Ronald Goldman.

June 18
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1812
The War of 1812 began.

1815
Napoleon was defeated at the Battle of Waterloo by British, German, and Dutch forces.

1873
Suffragist Susan B. Anthony was fined 100 for attempting to vote in the 1872 presidential election.

19 June


1586 - English colonists sailed away from Roanoke Island, NC, after failing to establish England's first permanent settlement in America.


1846 - The New York Knickerbocker Club played the New York Club in the first baseball game at the Elysian Field, Hoboken, NJ. It was the first organized baseball game.


1917 - During World War I, King George V ordered the British royal family to dispense with German titles and surnames. On July 17, 1917, the family took the name "Windsor".


1958 - In Washington, DC, nine entertainers refused to answer a congressional committee's questions on communism.


1964 - The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was approved after surviving an 83-day filibuster in the U.S. Senate.


1989 - The movie "Batman" premiered.

1917 - During World War I, King George V ordered the British royal family to dispense with German titles and surnames. On July 17, 1917, the family took the name "Windsor".




And this has fooled no one over the years. The House of Windsor is about as English as a tribe of Eskimos. I live for the day when the Spencers take the throne after several failed attempts. Long live King Wills, who really should use his mom's name, not his sorry dad's.

And this has fooled no one over the years. The House of Windsor is about as English as a tribe of Eskimos. I live for the day when the Spencers take the throne after several failed attempts. Long live King Wills, who really should use his mom's name, not his sorry dad's.
he can do that if he wants too, there's biblical precedence, and he'd be the head of the church.

it's good to be the King!http://www.kenzerco.com/forums/images/ranks/SmileyCrown1.gif

June 23

1868 Christopher Latham Sholes received a patent for an invention he called the "Type-Writer."


1892 The Democratic convention in Chicago nominated former President Grover Cleveland on the first ballot.


1931 Aviators Wiley Post and Harold Gatty took off from New York on the first round-the-world flight in a single-engine plane

24 June


1314 - Scottish forces led by Robert the Bruce won over Edward II of England at the Battle of Bannockburn in Scotland.


1509 - Henry VIII was crowned King of England.


1844 - Charles Goodyear was granted U.S. patent #3,633 for vulcanized rubber.


1922 - The American Professional Football Association took the name of The National Football League.


1962 - The New York Yankees beat the Detroit Tigers, 9-7, after 22 innings.


1998 - Walt Disney World Resort admitted its 600-millionth guest.

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1998 - Walt Disney World Resort admitted its 600-millionth guest.

I wonder what prize it was the person received.

I wonder what prize it was the person received.

Probably nothing! We were down there with some friends a few months ago and they're supposed to be doing this "Year of a Million Dreams" thing, with roving prize patrols and whatnot. My friend was approached twice by the prize people and got nothing.

Probably nothing! We were down there with some friends a few months ago and they're supposed to be doing this "Year of a Million Dreams" thing, with roving prize patrols and whatnot. My friend was approached twice by the prize people and got nothing.

Well, what should we expect form a company--Disney--that requires a mom and dad to take out a second mortgage merely in order to buy their kids a slice of pizza and cup of pop at one of their horrendously overpriced theme parks?

Disney is the world's biggest money grubbing entity of all time.

June 25


Battle of the Little Big Horn

Commonly known as Custer's Last Stand, American military engagement fought on June 25, 1876, in what is now Montana, between a regiment of the Seventh U.S. Cavalry led by Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer and a force of Sioux and Northern Cheyenne Indians. The discovery of gold in the nearby Black Hills in 1874 had led to an influx of white prospectors into Indian territory and to attacks on the prospectors by the Sioux, under Chiefs Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, and Gall (1840?–94).

In 1876 the army planned a campaign against the hostile Indians, then centered in southeastern Montana Territory. Custer's regiment of 655 men formed the advance guard of a force under Gen. Alfred Howe Terry (1827–90). On June 25 Custer's scouts located the Sioux on the Little Bighorn River. Unaware of the Indian strength, between 2500 and 4000 men, Custer disregarded arrangements to join Terry at the junction of the Bighorn and Little Bighorn rivers and prepared to attack at once. In the hope of surrounding the Indians, he formed his troops into a frontal-assault force of about 260 men under his personal command and two flanking columns. The center column encountered the numerically superior Indians. Cut off from the flanking columns and completely surrounded, Custer and his men fought desperately but all were killed. Later Terry's troops relieved the remainder of the regiment. The battlefield, now known as the Little Bighorn National Monument, was established as a national monument in 1886 and was known, until 1991, as the Custer Battlefield National Monument.

Ego eh.

26 June


1794 - The French defeated an Austrian army at the Battle of Fleurus.


1819 - The bicycle was patented by W.K. Clarkson, Jr.


1925 - Charlie Chaplin's comedy, "The Gold Rush," premiered in Hollywood.


1948 - The Berlin Airlift began as the U.S., Britain and France started ferrying supplies to the isolated western sector of Berlin.


1963 - U.S. President John Kennedy announced "Ich bin ein Berliner" (I am a Berliner) at the Berlin Wall.


1981 - In Mountain Home, Idaho, Virginia Campbell took her coupons and rebates and bought $26,460 worth of groceries. She only paid 67 cents after all the discounts.

- In Mountain Home, Idaho, Virginia Campbell took her coupons and rebates and bought $26,460 worth of groceries. She only paid 67 cents after all the discounts. [/CENTER]

This may seem like a bargain, but what she REALLY bought was 800 lbs of Crisco, 2 lbs of moldy potatoes, and a case of Diet Mountain Dew.

damn, i could go for a jelly donut right now:(

Or some chicken fried steak smothered in mushroom gravy, with succostash like Grandma used to make.

Or some chicken fried steak smothered in mushroom gravy, with succostash like Grandma used to make.
i don't think i've ever had succotash, but rutabaga is real good in a pasty (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasty).;)

1794 - The French defeated an Austrian army at the Battle of Fleurus.

How many times have the French defeated anyone?

How many times have the French defeated anyone?
Fredrich the Fair toppled the Templars.

How many times have the French defeated anyone?

Under Bonaparte--too many times to count.:D

What is a jelly donut ?

What is a jelly donut ?

You don't want to know, paul......it's a terrible sugary concoction of sugary sweet goo guaranteed to make your teeth rot and your stomach explode with the first bite, not to mention, add 25 lbs to yr butt with every donut you consume.
















Hillary likes them tho.

You don't want to know, paul......it's a terrible sugary concoction of sugary sweet goo guaranteed to make your teeth rot and your stomach explode with the first bite, not to mention, add 25 lbs to yr butt with every donut you consume.
Hillary likes them tho.

So does Mike :(

So does Mike :(

LOL, so now we know--Frogger's not the only tubster around here.

Ren, whats the craic with the weather and flooding with you ?

We're doing pretty good, paul---the contractors are putting in a new floor even as I type. I go by the old house at least once a day and it's amazing the way she's slowly but surely coming back to life.

Got the mess cleaned up, the new drywall is up, the yard is raked, the huge pile of trash out front is gone, and they'll finish the furnace, air and ductwork tomorrow.
I promised the guys big bonuses if they finish quickly!

It does me good to know there's life in the house and it's not just a wreck anymore. And earlier this afternoon I bought a very nice, used but nice, sofa, 2 rockers ( for us old folks) and a nice rattan shelf to store my doodads.

We'll be back there in about 5 weeks, God willing.:)

Good news :)

What is a jelly donut ?

it's a lot like a berliner (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berliner_%28pastry%29)

We're doing pretty good, paul---the contractors are putting in a new floor even as I type. I go by the old house at least once a day and it's amazing the way she's slowly but surely coming back to life.

Got the mess cleaned up, the new drywall is up, the yard is raked, the huge pile of trash out front is gone, and they'll finish the furnace, air and ductwork tomorrow.
I promised the guys big bonuses if they finish quickly!

It does me good to know there's life in the house and it's not just a wreck anymore. And earlier this afternoon I bought a very nice, used but nice, sofa, 2 rockers ( for us old folks) and a nice rattan shelf to store my doodads.

We'll be back there in about 5 weeks, God willing.:)
i'm assuming you managed to salvage some of your doodads?

What is lifwe without dust catching, useless gimcracks and doodads?
Not worth living.

June 27


June 27, 1864

Battle of Kennesaw Mountain
On this day in 1864, Union General William T. Sherman launches a major attack on Confederate General Joseph Johnston's army at the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain in Georgia.

Beginning in early May, Sherman began a slow advance down the 100-mile corridor from Chattanooga, Tennessee, to Atlanta, refraining from making any large-scale assaults. The campaign was marked by many smaller battles and constant skirmishes but no decisive encounters. Johnston was losing ground, but he was also buying time for the Confederates. With Sherman frustrated in Georgia, and Ulysses S. Grant unable to knock out Robert E. Lee's army in Virginia, the Union war effort was stalled, casualty rates were high, and the re-election of Abraham Lincoln appeared unlikely.

In the days leading up to the assault at Kennesaw Mountain, Sherman tried to flank Johnston. Since one of Johnston's generals, John Bell Hood, attacked at Kolb's Farm and lost 1,500 precious Confederate soldiers, Sherman believed that Johnston's line was stretched thin and that an assault would break the Rebels. So he changed his tactics and planned a move against the center of the Confederate lines around Kennesaw Mountain. He feigned attacks on both of Johnston's flanks, then hurled 8,000 men at the Confederate center. It was a disaster. Entrenched Southerners bombarded the Yankees, who were attacking uphill. Three thousand Union troops fell, compared to just 500 Confederates.

The battle was only a marginal Confederate victory. Sherman remained in place for four more days, but one of the decoy attacks on the Confederate flanks did, in fact, place the Union troops in a position to cut into Johnston's rear. On July 2, Johnston had to vacate his Kennesaw Mountain lines and retreat toward Atlanta. Sherman followed, and the slow campaign lurched on into the Georgia summer.

Margaret Mitchell's Gone wih the Wind, one of the best-selling novels of all time and the basis for a blockbuster 1939 movie, is published on this day in 1936.

Frankly, my dears, I do give a damn. One of the all time great books and Scarlett is a heroine for the ages.

"As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again."

looks like The Forgotten War (http://home.earthlink.net/~woll/Bills-Page.htm) got forgotten again :(

Margaret Mitchell's Gone wih the Wind, one of the best-selling novels of all time and the basis for a blockbuster 1939 movie, is published on this day in 1936.

Frankly, my dears, I do give a damn. One of the all time great books and Scarlett is a heroine for the ages.

"As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again."
:D My name is Scarlett, after Scarlett O'Hara. I love my name.

:D My name is Scarlett, after Scarlett O'Hara. I love my name.


I wondered about that and always kept forgetting to ask you or it didn't seem appropriate. :)

JULY 1


1863 The Civil War Battle of Gettysburg began.


1867 Canada became a self-governing dominion of Great Britain.


1898 Theodore Roosevelt and his "Rough Riders" waged a victorious assault on San Juan Hill in Cuba during the Spanish-American War.

2 July


1776 - Richard Henry Lee’s resolution that the American Colonies "are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States" was adopted by the Continental Congress.


1850 - B.J. Lane patented the gas mask.


1947 - An object crashed near Roswell, NM. The U.S. Army Air Force insisted it was a weather balloon, but eyewitness accounts led to speculation that it might have been an alien spacecraft.


1964 - U.S. President Johnson signed the "Civil Rights Act of 1964" into law. The act made it illegal in the United States to discriminate against others because of their race.


1980 - U.S. President Jimmy Carter reinstated draft registration for males 18 years of age.

3rd July:

USS Vincennes shoots down an Iranian airliner mistaking it for an F-14 fighter.
All 300 on board perished.

1987:

Gestapo commander Claus Barbie, 'the butcher of Lyon' is found guilty of 341 charges at a court in Lyon France and sentenced to life in prison.
Among his crimes was the rounding up and deportation of 44 children to Auschwitz.

1971:

Jim Morrison, lead singer of The Doors is found dead in Paris.
A doctors report stated he died from heart failure due to heavy drinking.

also Tom Cruise's Birthday:birthday:

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LOL, Tom Cruise may not have both oars in the water and may be a bit, uh, odd, but he was good in The Last Samurai, one of my favorite movies.

"I've killed a lot of men, but you--...I'd kill you for free."

July 3


July 3, 1863

Battle of Gettysburg ends
On the third day of the Battle of Gettysburg, Confederate General Robert E. Lee's last attempt at breaking the Union line ends in disastrous failure, bringing the most decisive battle of the American Civil War to an end.

In June 1863, following his masterful victory at the Battle of Chancellorsville, General Lee launched his second invasion of the Union in less than a year. He led his 75,000-man Army of Northern Virginia across the Potomac River, through Maryland, and into Pennsylvania, seeking to win a major battle on Northern soil that would further dispirit the Union war effort and induce Britain or France to intervene on the Confederacy's behalf. The 90,000-strong Army of the Potomac pursued the Confederates into Maryland, but its commander, General Joseph Hooker, was still stinging from his defeat at Chancellorsville and seemed reluctant to chase Lee further. Meanwhile, the Confederates divided their forces and investigated various targets, such as Harrisburg, the Pennsylvania capital.

On June 28, President Abraham Lincoln replaced Hooker with General George Meade, and Lee learned of the presence of the Army of the Potomac in Maryland. Lee ordered his army to concentrate in the vicinity of the crossroads town of Gettysburg and prepare to meet the Federal army. At the same time, Meade sent ahead part of his force into Pennsylvania but intended to make a stand at Pipe Creek in Maryland.

On July 1, a Confederate division under General Henry Heth marched into Gettysburg hoping to seize supplies but finding instead three brigades of Union cavalry. Thus began the Battle of Gettysburg, and Lee and Meade ordered their massive armies to converge on the impromptu battle site. The Union cavalrymen defiantly held the field against overwhelming numbers until the arrival of Federal reinforcements. Later, the Confederates were reinforced, and by mid-afternoon some 19,000 Federals faced 24,000 Confederates. Lee arrived to the battlefield soon afterward and ordered a general advance that forced the Union line back to Cemetery Hill, just south of the town.

During the night, the rest of Meade's force arrived, and by the morning Union General Winfield Hancock had formed a strong Union line. On July 2, against the Union left, General James Longstreet led the main Confederate attack, but it was not carried out until about 4 p.m., and the Federals had time to consolidate their positions. Thus began some of the heaviest fighting of the battle, and Union forces retained control of their strategic positions at heavy cost. After three hours, the battle ended, and the total number of dead at Gettysburg stood at 35,000.

On July 3, Lee, having failed on the right and the left, planned an assault on Meade's center. A 15,000-man strong column under General George Pickett was organized, and Lee ordered a massive bombardment of the Union positions. The 10,000 Federals answered the Confederate artillery onslaught, and for more than an hour the guns raged in the heaviest cannonade of the Civil War. At 3 p.m., Pickett led his force into no-man's-land and found that Lee's bombardment had failed. As Pickett's force attempted to cross the mile distance to Cemetery Ridge, Union artillery blew great holes in their lines. Meanwhile, Yankee infantry flanked the main body of "Pickett's charge" and began cutting down the Confederates. Only a few hundred Virginians reached the Union line, and within minutes they all were dead, dying, or captured. In less than an hour, more than 7,000 Confederate troops had been killed or wounded.

Both armies, exhausted, held their positions until the night of July 4, when Lee withdrew. The Army of the Potomac was too weak to pursue the Confederates, and Lee led his army out of the North, never to invade it again. The Battle of Gettysburg was the turning point in the Civil War, costing the Union 23,000 killed, wounded, or missing in action. The Confederates suffered some 25,000 casualties. On November 19, 1863, President Lincoln delivered his famous Gettysburg Address during the dedication of a new national cemetery at the site of the Battle of Gettysburg. The Civil War effectively ended with the surrender of General Lee's Army of Northern Virginia in April 1865.

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Here you go Paul.
The only movie of his I can actually tolerate is Top Gun.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Cruise

Here you go Paul.
The only movie of his I can actually tolerate is Top Gun.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Cruise
i think i must have seen that movie 10 times...in a movie theater.

not that the movie was that great, but it was all that was playing on base.:@@:

July 4,

1054 - A supernova is observed by the Chinese, the Arabs and possibly Amerindians near the star ζ Tauri. For several months it remains bright enough to be seen during the day. Its remnants form the Crab Nebula.

1634 - The city of Trois-Rivières is founded in New France, later to become the Canadian province of Quebec.

1636 - City of Providence, Rhode Island forms.

1754 - Lt-Col. George Washington surrenders Fort Necessity to French Capt. Louis Coulon de Villiers.

1776 - American Independence Day: The United States Declaration of Independence by the Second Continental Congress declaring itself free of British rule.

1778 - Forces under George Rogers Clark capture Kaskaskia during the Illinois campaign.

1802 - At West Point, New York the United States Military Academy opens.

1803 - The Louisiana Purchase is announced to the American people.

1817 - At Rome, New York, United States, construction on the Erie Canal begins.

1827 - Slavery is abolished in New York State.

1837 - Grand Junction Railway, world's first long-distance railway, opens between Birmingham and Liverpool.

1838 - The Iowa Territory is organized.

1840 - The Cunard Line's 700 ton wooden paddle steamer RMS Britannia departs from Liverpool bound for Halifax, Nova Scotia on the first transatlantic crossing with a scheduled end.

1863 - American Civil War: Siege of Vicksburg - Vicksburg, Mississippi surrenders to Ulysses S. Grant after 47 days of siege. 150 miles up the Mississippi River, a Confederate Army is repulsed at the Battle of Helena, Arkansas.

1886 - The people of France offers the Statue of Liberty to the people of the United States

1894 - The short-lived Republic of Hawaii is proclaimed by Sanford B. Dole.

1950 - First broadcast by Radio Free Europe.

and a most notable pair of deaths is 1826. former Presidents John Adams & Thomas Jefferson passed within hours of each other. reportedly Adam's last words were "the world still has Jefferson", and Jefferson's were "is it the 4th?".

7 July


1754 - Kings College opened in New York City. It was renamed Columbia College 30 years later.


1846 - U.S. annexation of California was proclaimed at Monterey after the surrender of a Mexican garrison.


1898 - The United States annexed Hawaii.


1949 - "Dragnet" was first heard on NBC radio.


2000 - Amazon.com announced that they had sold almost 400,000 copies of "Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire," making it the biggest selling book in e-tailing history.



2005 - In London, at least 66 people were killed and at least 700 were injured when several bombs were set off in subway cars and double-decker buses.

Dragnet....

Long live Joe Friday!

8 July


1099 - Christian soldiers on the First Crusade march around Jerusalem.


1608 - The first French settlement at Quebec was established by Samuel de Champlain.


1776 - Col. John Nixon gave the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence to a crowd at Independence Square in Philadelphia.


1881 - Edward Berner, druggist in Two Rivers, WI, poured chocolate syrup on ice cream in a dish. To this time chocolate syrup had only been used for making ice-cream sodas.


1889 - John L. Sullivan defeated Jake Kilrain, in the last championship bare-knuckle fight. The fight lasted 75 rounds.


1969 - The U.S. Patent Office issued a patent for the game "Twister."

:eek: i'm older than Twister. i'm gonna go cry....or make coffee, i'm not sure.

July 8th


1709 Battle of Poltava

1918 Ernest Hemingway wounded by shrapnel, basis of his book, A Farewell To Arms

1521 Ferdinand of Habsburg marries Anne of Hungary thereby uniting the two kingdoms

1822 Percy Bysshe Shelly drowns of Leghorn, Italy

1839 John D. Rockerfeller born

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I'm a direct line descendant of Johann Pieter Rockefeller of Hunterdon County, New Jersey, through his daughter Else, b 1727, d c 1763.

I don't know if there's a connection between these Rockefellers and the famous rich slob Rockefellers. I've not done a lot of work on this line. If there IS a connection, I never got any money from them, the cheapskates.

9 July


0455 - Avitus, the Roman military commander in Gaul, became Emperor of the West.


1540 - England's King Henry VIII had his 6-month-old marriage to his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves, annulled.


1808 - The leather-splitting machine was patented by Samuel Parker.


1868 - The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified.


1872 - The doughnut cutter was patented by John F. Blondel.


1877 - Alexander Graham Bell, Gardiner Greene Hubbard, Thomas Sanders and Thomas Watson formed the Bell Telephone Company.


1878 - The corncob pipe was patented by Henry Tibbe.


1968 - The first All-Star baseball game to be played indoors took place at the Astrodome in Houston, TX.

10 July


1679 - The British crown claimed New Hampshire as a royal colony.


1778 - In support of the American Revolution, Louis XVI declared war on England.


1866 - Edison P. Clark patented his indelible pencil.


1900 - ‘His Master’s Voice’, was registered with the U.S. Patent Office. The logo of the Victor Recording Company, and later, RCA Victor, shows the dog, Nipper, looking into the horn of a gramophone machine.


1913 - The highest temperature ever recorded in the U.S. was 134 degrees in Death Valley, CA.


1928 - George Eastman first demonstrated color motion pictures.


1940 - The 114-day Battle of Britain began during World War II.


1949 - The first practical rectangular television was presented. The picture tube measured 12 by 16 and sold for $12.


1989 - Mel Blanc, the "man of a thousand voices," died at age 81. He was known for such cartoon characters as Daffy Duck, Bugs Bunny and Porky Pig.

11 July


1533 - Henry VIII, who divorced his wife and became head of the church of England, was excommunicated from the Catholic Church by Pope Clement VII.


1804 - The United States' first secretary of the treasury, Alexander Hamilton, was killed by Vice President Aaron Burr in a duel.


1914 - Babe Ruth debuted in the major leagues with the Boston Red Sox.


1918 - Enrico Caruso recorded "Over There" written by George M. Cohan.


1960 - In Honolulu, HI, the first tournament held outside the continental U.S., sanctioned by the U.S. Golf Association, began.


1985 - Nolan Ryan of the Houston Astros became the first major league pitcher to earn 4,000 strikeouts in a career.


1995 - Full diplomatic relations were established between the United States and Vietnam.

1533 - Henry VIII, who divorced his wife and became head of the church of England, was excommunicated from the Catholic Church by Pope Clement VII.




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Too little, too late. By the time of the excommunication, the Anglican Church was fully established and the Monarch with his title:

Defender of the Faith which had been given to him by the previous pope, I believe, in gratitude of Henry's book praising the Pope and his authority.
This backfired on Henry later....... in saying that the Pope had that much authority, it made it difficult for Henry to later obtain his divorce from Katherine of Aragon.

PS. Anglicans aren't really considered Protestant. Their church is too heavily modeled on the Roman church, yet they're not Catholic either, by any means. They're a thing unto themselves.

Didnt bode well for the history of Ireland either :(

July 14, 1881

Billy the Kid is shot to death

Sheriff Pat Garrett shoots Henry McCarty, popularly known as Billy the Kid, to death at the Maxwell Ranch in New Mexico. Garrett, who had been tracking the Kid for three months after the gunslinger had escaped from prison only days before his scheduled execution, got a tip that Billy was holed up with friends. While Billy was gone, Garrett waited in the dark in his bedroom. When Billy entered, Garrett shot him to death.

Back on April 1, 1878, Billy the Kid ambushed Sheriff William Brady and one deputy in Lincoln, New Mexico, after ranch owner John Tunstall had been murdered. Billy had worked at Tunstall's ranch and was outraged by his employer's slaying-vowing to hunt down every man responsible. Sheriff Brady and his men, who had been affiliated with rival ranchers, were involved with the gang that killed Tunstall on February 18. Billy's retaliatory attack left Brady and Deputy George Hindman dead. Although only 18 years old at the time, Billy had now committed as many as 17 murders.

Following his indictment for the murder of Sheriff Brady, Billy the Kid was the most wanted man in the West. Evading posses sent to capture him, he eventually struck a deal with the new governor of New Mexico: In return for his testimony against the perpetrators of the ongoing ranch wars in the state, Billy would be set free. Although he kept his word about the testimony, he began to distrust the promise that he would be released and so he escaped.

Once a fugitive, Billy killed a few more men, including the gunslinger Joe Grant, who had challenged him to a showdown. Legend has it that Billy managed to get a hold of Grant's gun prior to the fight and made sure that an empty chamber was up first in the man's revolver. When it came time to fire, only Billy's gun went off and Grant was left dead.

Legendary Sheriff Pat Garrett finally brought Billy the Kid in to stand trial. The judge sentenced Billy the Kid to hang until "you are dead, dead, dead." Billy reportedly responded, "And you can go to hell, hell, hell." Two weeks before his scheduled execution, Billy escaped, killing two guards in the process.

Garrett mounted yet another posse to bring in the Kid. After tracing him to the Maxwell Ranch, Garrett shot him to death. No legal charges were brought against him since the killing was ruled a justifiable homicide.

14 July


1430 - Joan of Arc, taken prisoner by the Burgundians in May, was handed over to Pierre Cauchon, the bishop of Beauvais.


1789 - French Revolution began with Parisians stormed the Bastille prison and released the seven prisoners inside.


1868 - Alvin J. Fellows patented the tape measure.


1914 - Robert H. Goddard patented liquid rocket-fuel.


1933 - All German political parties except the Nazi Party were outlawed.


1951 - The first sports event to be shown in color, on CBS-TV, was the Molly Pitcher Handicap at Oceanport, NJ.


1998 - Los Angeles sued 15 tobacco companies for $2.5 billion over the dangers of secondhand smoke.

1223 King Philip Augustus of France dies.

King Philip achieved the throne of France at age fifteen in 1180 and spent almost his entire reign fighting against the Plantagenet kinds of England in an attempt to reconquer French terrirory lost to them.

He first fought Henry II and although he regained no territory he did force the king to do homage for his French lands.

He then fought against Richard Coeur de Lion. (Interesting aside....Philip's son the future Louis VIII was also known as Coeur de Lion.) Richard and Philip had gone to the Holy Land to fight in the Third Crusade together but Philip became ill and returned to France where he set about fighting the English. Richard tried to return to oppose him but was captured on the way and spent a year in an Austrian prison. This gave Philip time to consolidate his territorial gains.

Philip and Richard were almost constantly at war with each other from 1194 to 1198 with Richard usually being victorious in battle.

Richard died while the war was going on and was succeeded by John. King John was a military incompetent and within fourteen years had lost almost all the English possessions in France.

The other famous victory won by King Philip was against the German Emperor Otto IV at the Battle of Bovines.

Philip also paved the streets of Paris and built the large palace that is today known as the Louvre.

1789 the fall of the Bastille

The 14th century castle known as the Bastille had eight round towers connected by wall 100 feet high and was protected by 114 guards under the command of Bernard de Launay.

It was attacked by a mob of 800 revolutionary Parisians who attacked with muskets and cannon captured in the Invalides earlier in the day. It soon became apparent that the Bastille could hold out indefinetely as more than 100 of the attackers were killed.

Although in no danger of being defeated de Launay did not want any more bloodshed and offered to open the gates if the soldiers would be spared. The attackers promised to spare them but as soon as they were given entry into the Bastille they massacred de Launay and all the soldiers.

There were only 7 prisoners in the Bastille on the day it fell.

1881 Billy the Kid is killed

william H. Bonney was born in New York City and moved to New Mexico as a child. He was a cold blooded murderer who killed his first man before he turned thirteen. By the age of nineteen he was already the leader of a gang of cattle rustlers.

Billy the Kid killed the first sheriff who ever opposed him and when he was captured by Sheriff Pat Garret he escaped by killing two deputies. Garret tracked him down once again but this time instead of taking any chances he shot The Kid and killed him.

Billy the Kid was only twenty one years, dour months and five days old at the time of his death but in his short life he had managed to kill twenty seven men.

1223 King Philip Augustus of France dies.

King Philip achieved the throne of France at age fifteen in 1180 and spent almost his entire reign fighting against the Plantagenet kinds of England in an attempt to reconquer French terrirory lost to them.

He first fought Henry II and although he regained no territory he did force the king to do homage for his French lands.

He then fought against Richard Coeur de Lion. (Interesting aside....Philip's son the future Louis VIII was also known as Coeur de Lion.) Richard and Philip had gone to the Holy Land to fight in the Third Crusade together but Philip became ill and returned to France where he set about fighting the English. Richard tried to return to oppose him but was captured on the way and spent a year in an Austrian prison. This gave Philip time to consolidate his territorial gains.

Philip and Richard were almost constantly at war with each other from 1194 to 1198 with Richard usually being victorious in battle.

Richard died while the war was going on and was succeeded by John. King John was a military incompetent and within fourteen years had lost almost all the English possessions in France.

The other famous victory won by King Philip was against the German Emperor Otto IV at the Battle of Bovines.

Philip also paved the streets of Paris and built the large palace that is today known as the Louvre.

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I hate Philip. He was gay and hated Richard, who was also gay, because Richard wouldn't give him the time of day. Richard was tall and handsome, fashionable and dashing, while Philip was an ugly little dwarf. Philip also conspired with Leopold of Austria to keep Richard imprisoned--forever. If it weren't for Richard's loyal friend, Blondel, we never would have heard from him again. His ransom money was raised within weeks, a huge amount, by his loyal and devoted English subjects, who loved their King. Richard was the kind of guy who inspired tremendous loyalty among his friends, whereas Philip had to HIRE his toadies. Richard was admired even by his enemies, including Sulemein the Magnificent, who Richard had fought against during the Crusade. In short, Richard was everything that Philip was not. Richard was the ultimate chivalrous Crusader. He is my favorite King.

"Live on, and by my bounty behold the light of day"~~

Richard Lionheart to the man who caused his fatal wound.

This is all about the time of Robin of Sherwood, never could find any proof of his existence :(

Richard was a little shit but tha's for another discussion.

Rendova sure has a thing for gay kings, first Alexander and now Richard. I'm beginning to wonder about her.:lolhit:





1099 The Crusaders conquer Jerusalem

On this day 15,000 Christian Crusaders swarmed into conquered Jerusalem and began an orgy of killing.

Four years earlier Pople Urban II had declared a crusade to reconquer the Holy Land from the Muslems who had taken it over 400 years ago. There had not been a problem with Muslems controlling the holy cities until the Seljuk Turks took control of the area and started interfering with Christian pilgrims.

Up to 50,000 knights, soldiers and others heeded the Pope's call at the Council of Claremont and started making their way to the Holy Land. About half finally arrived.

When the Crusaders finally breached the walls of Jerusalem the Muslem defenders retreated to the Temple of Solomon where up to 10,000 of them including women and children were hacked to death. After the massacre the Crusaders rounded up the Jews, herded them into the main synagogue and burned it to the ground with them inside.

Godefroi de Bouillon was declared king but refused the title, calling himself instead, Defender and Baron of the Holy Sepulchre, saying, "I will not wear a crown of gold where my Savior wore one of thorns."

Jerusalem fell to the Kurdish leader Saladin only 88n years later but the Christian Kingdom lasted for almost two centuries.



1685 James, Duke of Monmout beheaded

When King Charles II of England died he named his brother his successor. His bastard son whom he had created Duke of Monmouth felt he should rightfully be king. He landed with 82 followers at Lyme Regis in 1685. He soon recruited an army of about 7,000 men. He was defeated and captured at Sedgemoor and nine days later was beheaded.



1904 The melancholy author Anton Chekhov dies of tuberculosis in Bademweiler, Germany.

Chekhov, the author of The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, The Three Sisters, and The Cherry Orchard, was in Germany seeking a cure for his tuberculosis when he died. His last words were, "It's a long time since I drank champagne."

Richard was a little shit but tha's for another discussion.

Rendova sure has a thing for gay kings, first Alexander and now Richard. I'm beginning to wonder about her.:lolhit:










Well, ya sure don't see Philip being called "Lionheart".

At the time, he was called either "Philip the Toad" or, sometimes, "Philip the Bald".

No wonder Froggy loves him.

PS. Good to see you on this thread, Frog. I like the medieval stuff you post, bless your reptilian heart.

16 July


1790 - The District of Columbia, or Washington, DC, was established as the permanent seat of the United States Government.


1918 - Czar Nicholas II and his family were executed by Bolsheviks at Ekaterinburg, Russia.


1935 - Oklahoma City became the first city in the U.S. to make use of parking meters.


1945 - The United States detonated the first atomic bomb in a test at Alamogordo, NM.


1964 - Little League Baseball Incorporated was granted a Federal Charter unanimously by the United States Senate and House of Representatives.


1969 - Apollo 11 blasted off from Cape Kennedy, FL, and began the first manned mission to land on the moon.


1981 - After 23 years with the name Datsun, executives of Nissan changed the name of their cars to Nissan.

1212 Victory at Las Navas de Tolosa removes the threat of Muslem domination of Spain.

In 711the Arab chief tarik led 12,000 Muslem warriors across the eight mile channel from North Afdrica to Southern Spain. He landed at the point that still bears his name, Jebel-al-Tarik (Gibraltra). The Muslems, known as Moors proceeded to conquer parts of Spain for the next five hundred years .

King Alfonso VIII was only three years old when he inherited the throne of Castile and Leon in 1158 and lived to have a long reign. In 1158 he decided the time had come to remove the Moors from Spain. He asked Pope Innocent III to lend his spiritual and political aid to the endeavor. Innocent proclaimed a crusade and called on the kingdoms of Portugal, aragon and Navarre to join the Castilians under Alfonso's leadership.

On July 16th Alfonso's army met the Moors at the Battle of Las Navas de Tolosa. The victory of the Spanish and Portuguese forces was total. Although it took two hundred more years to drive the Moors completely from Spain this battle marked the beginning of the end of their domination. From this point on the Moors were in retreat.

1918 Tsar Nikolas II, his wife and their four children are murdered by the communist at Ekaterinburg.

1945 The first atomic bomb is exploded at Alamogodo, New Mexico.

And today's HIGHLIGHT in history--

On this date, July 16, 1981, on a blisteringly hot summer day, my firstborn child was born, a beautiful daughter who we named Angela Corinne, in honor of my Dad's aunt who used to hang out with Baby Face Nelson.

Ang was, and still is, a beautiful, sunny-natured girl, always smiling, always merry, a joy to be around, and smart as a whip. She won a Presidential Scholarship to the University, graduated Summa cum Laude, studied in Europe for a year, and at present works as a teacher. She has a long term boyfriend who's like a son to us, a mixed breed dog, collects stuffed animals and shot glasses from around the world, loves to travel, and is a die hard Packers fan.

To say I'm proud of her is an understatement, but mostly I love her not for what she's done, but for who she is.

Happy Birthday to our beautiful daughter. What a wonderful day that was, 27 years ago today.

And today's HIGHLIGHT in history--

On this date, July 16, 1981, on a blisteringly hot summer day, my firstborn child was born, a beautiful daughter who we named Angela Corinne, in honor of my Dad's aunt who used to hang out with Baby Face Nelson.

Ang was, and still is, a beautiful, sunny-natured girl, always smiling, always merry, a joy to be around, and smart as a whip. She won a Presidential Scholarship to the University, graduated Summa cum Laude, studied in Europe for a year, and at present works as a teacher. She has a long term boyfriend who's like a son to us, a mixed breed dog, collects stuffed animals and shot glasses from around the world, loves to travel, and is a die hard Packers fan.

To say I'm proud of her is an understatement, but mostly I love her not for what she's done, but for who she is.

Happy Birthday to our beautiful daughter. What a wonderful day that was, 27 years ago today.
such a lovely child, no criminal record. did you ever figure how the apple fell so far from the tree?

Well, she WAS pulled over for speeding once, but sweet-talked her way out of it.
Heh, that's my daughter.

Also there were some mysterious shenanigans in Sweden, but we won't talk about that, except suffice to say, she was just a bit tipsy like 99.99999 % of the rest of their population is--continously.

Well, she WAS pulled over for speeding once, but sweet-talked her way out of it.
Heh, that's my daughter.

Also there were some mysterious shenanigans in Sweden, but we won't talk about that, except suffice to say, she was just a bit tipsy like 99.99999 % of the rest of their population is--continously.
there's still speed limits?:confused:

17 July


1212 - The Moslems were crushed in the Spanish crusade.


1815 - Napoleon Bonaparte surrendered to the British at Rochefort, France.


1867 - Harvard School of Dental Medicine was established in Boston, MA. It was the first dental school in the U.S.


1917 - The British royal family adopted the Windsor name.


1941 - The longest hitting streak in baseball history ended when the Cleveland Indians pitchers held New York Yankee Joe DiMaggio hitless for the first time in 57 games.


1945 - U.S. President Truman, Soviet leader Josef Stalin and British Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill began meeting at Potsdam in the final Allied summit of World War II. During the meeting Stalin made the comment that "Hitler had escaped."



1955 - Disneyland opened in Anaheim, CA.


1997 - After 117 years, the Woolworth Corp. closed its last 400 stores.


1998 - Biologists reported that they had deciphered the genome (genetic map) of the syphilis bacterium.

1388 One of the world's worst wives......

Twenty year old King Charles VI of France married Elizabeth of Wittelsbach of Bavaria. The Queen, known as Isabeau to her French subjects had been in France only a few days before the wedding and spoke no French. Her lack of communication didn't seem to bother the young couple. The French chronicler froissart said, "And if they spent the night together in great delight, one can well believe it."

Charles would gradually go insane and Isabeau would turn to a series of lovers.

Isabeau would prove to be an even worse mother than she was a wife. Under pressure from England's King Henry V she declared her son a bastard and not the true heir to the French throne thus making the infant son of Henry the heir to the throne of France.

1429 Charles is crowned at Reims.

Despite being declared a bastard by his mother Charles became King of France upon his father's death in 1422.. He was not able to be crowned until 1429 however bercause of insurrections at home and an invaasiion by the English.

The coronation at the Cathedral of reims lasted from nine in the morning until two in the afternoon. Joan of Arc, the Maid of Orleans who had made his coronation possible was at his side throughout the ceremony. An eyewitness said, "During the said mystery the Pucelle (Joan of Arc) was ever near the King, holding his standard in her hand. And it was a most fair thing to see."

Despite the inauspicious beginning of his reign charles prooved to be one of France's better kings. His mistress, agnes Sorel gave him wise advise, Jacques Coeur saw that the treasury had money and Joan of Arc began the defeat of the English. Despite the aid given him by both Joan of Arc and Jacques Coeur he abandoned both of them, allowing Joan to be tried and burned at the stake and Coeur to be driven away from the court in disgrace.

Slowly but surely Charles took control of France. He overcame resistance from his Armagnac and Burgundian vassals, defeated the English and beat back a revolt largely orchestrated by his son, Louis.

1453 The Hundred Years War ends.

Charles defeats the English at the Batle of castillon ending the Hundred Years War which actually lasted 116 years, and bringing Bordeaux back under French control for the first time in 30 years.

As he grew older Charles grew more and more paranoid. In 1461 he was at Mehun-sur-Yevre when he started to suffer from stomach pains. He thought his son was trying to poison him and refused to eat. He died either of poison or starvation on July 22nd.

Interesting about the poor crazy king. I remember reading somewhere about a servant girl who'd been hired to look after him during his periodic spells of insanity. she drew pictures on little pieces of parchment ( she was a talented artist) and diverted the King by playing with them.

Thus the invention of playing cards.

I believe Isabeau died locked away in a fortress, in disgrace, but maybe I'm thinking of someone else.

I'm going to be on the road and away from home for the next few days so here are the day's events for the next two days.


July 18th

64 A.D. Nero burns Rome?

According to Suetonius Nero had his soldiers set Rome aflame so that he could rebuild it the way he wanted it.

Nero started out as one of Rome's better emperors. When he became Emperor at age 16 he tried to model himelf after his great-great-grandfather, the Emperor Augustus. He reduced taxes, banned circus performances in which people were maimed or killed eliminated capital punishment and even instituted freedom of the press.

As his reign continued Nero became more and more megamaniacal. Though he was a second rate poet at best he forced people to listen to his poetry. Suetonius wrote, "No one was permitted to leave the theater during his performances. We read of women in the audience giving birth...and of men who were so bored the pretended thehy had died in order to be carried away for burial."

Nero had one wife executed and kicked another to death while she was pregnant with his child. He hated his mother Agrippina, a horrid woman in her own right, so much he tried to drown her by placing her on a boat on the bay of Naples. The boat was rigged to fall apart thereby hopefully causing her to drown. Agrippina managed to swim to shore so Nero gave orders for her execution which was carried out in her own home. As she was being stabbed to death she cried out to her executioners, "Strike my womb first."

Among all Nero's criminal acts the burning of Rome was the most horrid. Rome at that time had 90,000 inhabitants and the fire with burned for six days and seven nights killed hundreds of them while destroying most of the buildings in the city.

Nero most likely did not fiddle while Rome burned but he did watch the fire froj the Tower of Maecenas, enchanted by what he called, "the beauty of the flames".

At the age of 27 Nero committed suicide rather than allowing himself to be assassinated.

1936 The Spanish Civil War begins

At 5:15 a.m. general Francisco Franco made a radio broadcast from Las Palmas, on Grand Canary Island ordering the mainland garrisons of the Spanish army to rise against the republican government of Spain.

Franco was supported by the army, the civil guard, landowners, monarchists, the Roman Catholic Church the bourgeoisie and the Falange Party.

The Republicans were supported by the Communists, the Socialists, the Anarchists, and the Unions.

The Republicans armed their supporters. Italy and Germany sent planes to ferry Spanish soldiers from North Africa to Spain.The war had begun.

At 10:00 p.m. Dolores Ibarurri, the Communist leader known as La Pasionaria told her listeners, "It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!" She then cried out the old phrase from Verdun, "No pasaran!" (They shall not pass.) This became the rallying cry of the Republican forces.

The law lasted almost three years and was a dress rehearsal for WWII.

Madrid fell in March of 1939. As the Falangist troops marched into the city they called out, "Han pasado!" (We have passed.) Franco was now, El Caudillo.



July 19th Absolutely nothing of importance happened on this day so I will report on the first feminist convention in America

1848 Two hundred and fifty women and forty pussy whipped men met at Seneca Falls in the Finger Lakes region of New York. Led by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton they came up with a list of women's grievances and demands including the silly notion that women be allowed to vote. Thankfully women did not receive the vote until August 26th, 1920. The country has gone to hell in a handbasket since that date.

18 July

0064 - The Great Fire of Rome began.


1536 - The authority of the pope was declared void in England.


1872 - The Ballot Act was passed in Great Britain, providing for secret election ballots.


1936 - The first Oscar Meyer Wienermobile rolled out of General Body Company’s factory in Chicago, IL.


1942 - The German Me-262, the first jet-propelled aircraft to fly in combat, made its first flight.


1970 - Ron Hunt of the San Francisco Giants was hit by a pitch for the 119th time in his career.


2001 - A train derailed, involving 60 cars, in a Baltimore train tunnel. The fire that resulted lasted for six days and virtually closed down downtown Baltimore for several days.

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At 12:42 on July 20th1944 a bomb exploded in the city of Rastenburg in what is now Poland. Had the bomb killed its intended target the history of the world might have been drastically changed.

Colonl Claus von Stauffenberg was a German military hero. The 36year old officer was born into the Prussian nobility and had made a career out of the army. As an early supporter of Hitler he had taken part in many major battles and had lost been severely wounded while serving in the Afrika Corp in Tunisia, losing his left eye, his right hand and the last two fingers of his left hand.

As the war continued von Stauffenberg began to lose his faith in Hitler and finally came to despise him. He wanted to kill Hitler and bring the war to an early end.

On the fatefull morning he asked Colonel Brandt, the person sitting next to him during a meeting with Hitler and his top military leaders at the Wolfsschanze (wolf's lair) to watch his briefcase while he went to relieve himself in the bathroom. Unknown to Brandt, the briefcase contained a bomb.

Through a chance of fate, Brandt moved the briefcase behind a heavy table leg and when it exploded it killed four people, including Colonel Brandt but Hitler was merely wounded, having his legs burned, his hair singed and his eardrums punctured. His injuries were not even severe enough to keep him from a meeting with Benito Mussolini later that day.

von Stauffenberg did not realize the plot had failed and flew to Berlin to help set up a new, post-Hitler government. He and the other members of Walkure as the plot was named were rounded up and executed. von Stauffenberg was killed by a firing squad while crying out, "Long live our sacred Germany." Other members of Walkure committed suiced, at least one by walking into no man's land where he was shot by enemy soldiers. Erwin Rommel, the hero of the Afrika Corp was forced to take poison to save his family. all told almost 5,000 people were executed while another 15,000 were sent to concentration camps.

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At 12:42 on July 20th1944 a bomb exploded in the city of Rastenburg in what is now Poland. Had the bomb killed its intended target the history of the world might have been drastically changed.

Colonl Claus von Stauffenberg was a German military hero. The 36year old officer was born into the Prussian nobility and had made a career out of the army. As an early supporter of Hitler he had taken part in many major battles and had lost been severely wounded while serving in the Afrika Corp in Tunisia, losing his left eye, his right hand and the last two fingers of his left hand.

As the war continued von Stauffenberg began to lose his faith in Hitler and finally came to despise him. He wanted to kill Hitler and bring the war to an early end.

On the fatefull morning he asked Colonel Brandt, the person sitting next to him during a meeting with Hitler and his top military leaders at the Wolfsschanze (wolf's lair) to watch his briefcase while he went to relieve himself in the bathroom. Unknown to Brandt, the briefcase contained a bomb.

Through a chance of fate, Brandt moved the briefcase behind a heavy table leg and when it exploded it killed four people, including Colonel Brandt but Hitler was merely wounded, having his legs burned, his hair singed and his eardrums punctured. His injuries were not even severe enough to keep him from a meeting with Benito Mussolini later that day.

von Stauffenberg did not realize the plot had failed and flew to Berlin to help set up a new, post-Hitler government. He and the other members of Walkure as the plot was named were rounded up and executed. von Stauffenberg was killed by a firing squad while crying out, "Long live our sacred Germany." Other members of Walkure committed suiced, at least one by walking into no man's land where he was shot by enemy soldiers. Erwin Rommel, the hero of the Afrika Corp was forced to take poison to save his family. all told almost 5,000 people were executed while another 15,000 were sent to concentration camps.

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At 12:42 on July 20th1944 a bomb exploded in the city of Rastenburg in what is now Poland. Had the bomb killed its intended target the history of the world might have been drastically changed.

Colonl Claus von Stauffenberg was a German military hero. The 36year old officer was born into the Prussian nobility and had made a career out of the army. As an early supporter of Hitler he had taken part in many major battles and had lost been severely wounded while serving in the Afrika Corp in Tunisia, losing his left eye, his right hand and the last two fingers of his left hand.

As the war continued von Stauffenberg began to lose his faith in Hitler and finally came to despise him. He wanted to kill Hitler and bring the war to an early end.

On the fatefull morning he asked Colonel Brandt, the person sitting next to him during a meeting with Hitler and his top military leaders at the Wolfsschanze (wolf's lair) to watch his briefcase while he went to relieve himself in the bathroom. Unknown to Brandt, the briefcase contained a bomb.

Through a chance of fate, Brandt moved the briefcase behind a heavy table leg and when it exploded it killed four people, including Colonel Brandt but Hitler was merely wounded, having his legs burned, his hair singed and his eardrums punctured. His injuries were not even severe enough to keep him from a meeting with Benito Mussolini later that day.

von Stauffenberg did not realize the plot had failed and flew to Berlin to help set up a new, post-Hitler government. He and the other members of Walkure as the plot was named were rounded up and executed. von Stauffenberg was killed by a firing squad while crying out, "Long live our sacred Germany." Other members of Walkure committed suiced, at least one by walking into no man's land where he was shot by enemy soldiers. Erwin Rommel, the hero of the Afrika Corp was forced to take poison to save his family. all told almost 5,000 people were executed while another 15,000 were sent to concentration camps.
and soon to be a major motion picture...starring Tom Cruise:thumbs:

"Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere,
Nor can one England brook a double reign,
Of Harry Percy and the Prince of Wales."
William Shakespear

The above quote refers to Henry Percy known as Harry to his friends and given the nickname Hotspur by the Scots and Prince Henry of Lancaster, son of the usurper, Henry IV.

Hotspur was a member of the powerful Percy family, a family that came to England with William the Conqueror. By the 1500's the Percys were rulers of Northumberland, the land bordering on the Scottish/British border.

The Percys originally backed King Henry IV but when he refused to honor promises of rewards for their service protecting the northern border they rebelled. One they rebelled they decided to go all the way and take the throne of England.

Instead of gaining a throne many of the Percys lost their heads. Hotspur was killed at Shrewsbury and his head was placed on the gate of the city of York. His brother Thomas' head was placed on London Bridge. Their father, Henry was killed at Branham Moor and his son died at the Battle of St. Albans. His grandson was killed six years later at Towton.

Shakespeare said of Harry Percy,
"Ill-weaved ambition, how much art thou shrunk!
When that this body did contain a spirit,
A kingdom for it was too small a bound,
But now two paces of the vilest earth
Is room enough."





"Soldats, songez que, du haut de ces pyramides, quarante siecles vous contemplent."

With these words, (Soldiers, from the top of these pyramids 40 centuries are looking down upon you), Napolean inspired his troops as they went into battle against the Egyptians.

The battle was a total route and the Egyptian force of 24,000 was almost totally destroyed while the French lost only 200.

It was during Napolean's invasion of Egypt that the Rosetta Stone was discovered by a French officer. It was also during this invasion that the Sphinx got its flat face. Before this time the Sphinx had a prominent nose but the nose was flattened when French soldiers used it for target practice.

"Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere,
Nor can one England brook a double reign,
Of Harry Percy and the Prince of Wales."
William Shakespear

The above quote refers to Henry Percy known as Harry to his friends and given the nickname Hotspur by the Scots and Prince Henry of Lancaster, son of the usurper, Henry IV.

Hotspur was a member of the powerful Percy family, a family that came to England with William the Conqueror. By the 1500's the Percys were rulers of Northumberland, the land bordering on the Scottish/British border.

The Percys originally backed King Henry IV but when he refused to honor promises of rewards for their service protecting the northern border they rebelled. One they rebelled they decided to go all the way and take the throne of England.

Instead of gaining a throne many of the Percys lost their heads. Hotspur was killed at Shrewsbury and his head was placed on the gate of the city of York. His brother Thomas' head was placed on London Bridge. Their father, Henry was killed at Branham Moor and his son died at the Battle of St. Albans. His grandson was killed six years later at Towton.

Shakespeare said of Harry Percy,
"Ill-weaved ambition, how much art thou shrunk!
When that this body did contain a spirit,
A kingdom for it was too small a bound,
But now two paces of the vilest earth
Is room enough."





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Hotspur was a traitor to King Richard II, letting Henry Bolingbroke ( who became King Henry IV) believe he'd back him up in his drive for the throne ( after Bolingbroke had been exiled by Richard.)

He encouraged young Henry, Bolingbroke's son, in that belief as well, and toadied up to him as well, teaching him battlefield skills and such, then turned on both father and son. He was not an admirable character.

22 July


1376 - The legend of the Pied Piper of Hamelin leading rats out of town is said to have occurred on this date.


1798 - The USS Constitution was underway and out to sea for the first time since being launched on October 21, 1797.


1926 - Babe Ruth caught a baseball at Mitchell Field in New York. The ball had been dropped from an airplane flying at 250 feet.


1934 - John Dillinger was mortally wounded by FBI agents at the Biograph Theatre in Chicago, IL.


1955 - U.S. Vice-President Richard M. Nixon chaired a cabinet meeting in Washington, DC. It was the first time that a Vice-President had carried out the task.


1968 - es347fan, aged 17 years, 15 days, enlists in the U.S. Army.


1975 - Confederate General Robert E. Lee had his U.S. citizenship restored by the U.S. Congress.


1991 - Desiree Washington, a Miss Black America contestant, charged she'd been raped by boxer Mike Tyson in an Indianapolis hotel room. Tyson was later convicted of rape and served 3 years in prison.


1991 - Police arrested Jeffrey Dahmer after finding the remains of 11 victims in his apartment in Milwaukee. Dahmer confessed to 17 murders and was sentenced to life in prison.


2000 - Astronomers at the University of Arizona announced that they had found a 17th moon orbiting Jupiter.

1. - John Dillinger was mortally wounded by FBI agents at the Biograph Theatre in Chicago, IL.





2. - es347fan, aged 17 years, 15 days, enlists in the U.S. Army.


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1. ....set up by the notorious "Woman in Red", Anna Sage, Romanian Madam of a cheap brothel and general undesirable, who was hoping to avoid deportation AND collect the reward money for America's most wanted outlaw. (She never recieved a cent and was later deported--HAHA). She actually was wearing an orange skirt that night but it looked red under the theater lights. Johnny emerged from the theater ( the movie had been "Manhattan Melodrama" about a crook who eventually goes to the electric chair-- a bit of irony Dillinger was surely aware of). Melvin Purvis, lawman, had told the other cops that when Dillinger passed in the crowd, he'd light a match as a signal. He later said his hands were shaking so badly he could hardly strike the light.

Johnny looked directly at him with no sign of recognition. When , moments later, he was told to halt, he took off and rounded a corner, where he was shot twice as he ran away--in the back--one bullet exiting through his eye. Morbid crowds later dipped handkerchiefs in his blood after his body was taken to the morgue, where literally thousands lined up in sweltering heat to catch a view of the Robin Hood type legend. Dillinger's dad, upon viewing the body, said, "Yes, that's him. I always knew he'd end up this way". Dillinger was 33 years old at the time of his death, and was carrying over $14, 000 in his pocket. This money later "disappeared". Headlines around the world procalimed the news in gigantic headlines. In my own local paper, the headline reads "WOMAN SET DILLINGER TRAP--OUTLAW DIES IN HAIL OF BULLETS". The entire front page of this and many other papers was devoted entirely to this story.

Dillinger is buried in Indianapolis' Crown Hill Cemetery, his grave still being one of the most visited in America.

2. Where did you end up serving, es?

http://img170.imageshack.us/img170/4765/dilligcc3.jpg

Rest in peace, Johnny.

PS. The diamond stickpin was worth $5, ooo. Johnny always was a sharp and fashionable dresser.

1208 a bad day for religious freedom

The Albigensian Crusade had been declared by Pope Innocent III less than six month before and now a large army was making its way through southern France to extirpate the heresy known as Catharism. The Cathars not only denied the divinity of Christ but their non-authoritarian asceticism stood in stark contrast to the pomp, corruption, hypocricy and worldliness of the Roman Catholic Church.

On this day Simon de Montfort and his spiritual advisor, the papal legate, armald-Amaury stood outside the city of Be'ziers just west of Marseille. de Montfort gave the Bishop of Be'ziers a list of 222 Cathars who were to be handed over to his forces for execution. The city leaders, not Cathars themselves refused to hand over the victims saying, "We had rather be drowned in the salt sea than surrender our fellow citizens."

de Montfort ordered an attack on the city and the army began a brutal sack. No mercy was to be shown to Cathars but no one could tell who was a Cathar and who was a Catholic. When presented with this problem, the papal legate said, "Kill them all. God will know his own."

Almost the entire population of Be'ziers was put to the sword, 15,000 men women and children. 7,000 people were slaughtered while taking refuge in the Church of Sainte-Madeleine.




1832 The Little Eagle Dies

Napolean francois Charles Joseph, Duke of Reichstadt and the only son of Napolean and Empress Marie Louise died at Schionbrunn Palace just outside Vienna.

Franzl, as his mother called him had been born in the Tuileries in Paris in March of 1811. He was originally titled King of Rome and made heir to Napolean's throne. He was proclaimed Emperor of France by the French Senate after his father's first abdication. He was soon demoted and taken to Vienna.

He was first made Prince of Parma but Metternich vetoes this title ad he was ade Duke of Reichstadt by his grandfather, Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria.

From 1813 on Franzl was held in a luxorious captivity in Vienna where he was communicated with only in German. Despite this he was a strict Bonapartist who admired his father.

Franzl contracted tuberculosis before the age of sixteen and died at the age of twenty one. Many years after his death Victor Hugo christened him, l'Aiglon (little eagle) the name by which he is often known today.
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2. Where did you end up serving, es?

Ft. Jackson, SC, Ft. Rucker, AL, Aberdeen Proving Grounds, MD, South Vietnam, Ft. Hood, TX, South Korea, Ft. Hood, TX, Wiesbaden, West Germany, Ft. Gordon, GA.

Add it all up and it equals 20 years, 9 days of service. The extra 9 days is because one has to retire at the end of the month.

23 July


1715 - The first lighthouse in America was authorized for construction at Little Brewster Island, Massachusetts.


1829 - William Burt patented the typographer, which was the first typewriter.


1904 - The ice cream cone was invented by Charles E. Menches during the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, MO.


1914 - Austria-Hungary issued an ultimatum to Serbia following the killing of Archduke Francis Ferdinand by a Serb assassin. The dispute led to World War I.


1945 - The first passenger train observation car was placed in service by the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad.


1962 - The "Telstar" communications satellite sent the first live TV broadcast to Europe.


1998 - U.S. scientists at the University of Hawaii turned out more than 50 "carbon-copy" mice, with a cloning technique.

Ft. Jackson, SC, Ft. Rucker, AL, Aberdeen Proving Grounds, MD, South Vietnam, Ft. Hood, TX, South Korea, Ft. Hood, TX, Wiesbaden, West Germany, Ft. Gordon, GA.

Add it all up and it equals 20 years, 9 days of service. The extra 9 days is because one has to retire at the end of the month.

20 years is a good long time...I had an uncle who was stationed in Germany about 10 years after the War. He said the general populace was unfriendly. I wonder why THAT was???

1885 One of the United State's best generals and worst presidents dies

The great Civil War general and 18th President of the United States, Ulysses S. Grant died of throat cancer at his cottage in the Adirondacks at the age of 63.

When he graduated 21st in a class of 39 from West Point no one expected him to amount to much militarily. He fought in the Mexica War and then retired from the military to work in hi fathers leather goods store. He was recalled by the North during the Civil War. Because of a mixture of tenacity, innovative thinking and strategic ability he eventually became the commanding general of all the North's armies and defeated the South.

He became the youngest man elected President to that point in 1868 when he took the oath of office at the age of 46. He was elected to a second term in 1872. Grant's second term of office was marred by corruption. He made matters worse by accepting gifts from constituents. His Secretary of War was impeached for accepting bribes and this all but ruined Grant's reputation although he was personally honest.

After leaving office he joined his son in a brokerage house that went bankrupt owing almost $17,000,000 due to the fraudulent activities of one of the partners.

It was about this time that he contracted throat cancer probably due to the 50 cigars he smoked each day.

Grant's funeral procession showed the respect in which he was held. Among his pallbears were two Union generals, William Sherman and Philip Sheridan and two Confederate generals, Joe Johnson and Simon Buckner.


1951 Philippe Pe'tain.....hero and traitor dies in prison

Henry Philippe Benoni Omer Joseph Pe'tain, Marshal of France died at the age of 95 in the prison on the Ile d'Yeu.

Petain had been made a Marshal of France because of his heroism as the 'Savior of Verdun' in 1916 and his restoration of the mutiny ridden French army to discipline and battlefield efficiency.

In 1940 Petain negotiated the surrender of France to Germany and seved as the chief of the vassal state of Vichy France. At the end of the war he was tried for treason and sentenced to death. His death sentence was later commuted to life in prison by Charles de Gaulle.
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Hey, Rendova, did you ever read my post for July 19th? It is on the same page as the post for July 18th.

Huh?

What I want to know, Frogger, is why you think King Richard Coer de Leon is a little ****.

He was king of England but he spent only about eleven minutes there. The rest of the time hge was out of the country fighting or buggering little boys.

20 years is a good long time...I had an uncle who was stationed in Germany about 10 years after the War. He said the general populace was unfriendly. I wonder why THAT was???


Try to imagine the amount of rebuilding that went on in Germany during those years. Times were tough. They had to be very goal oriented. A lot of activities by the "occupation" forces weren't welcomed. During my 7 years stationed in Wiesbaden, West Germany (1980-1987) I was told tales from both sides - some from G.I.'s who were part of that occupation force, some from Germans and other Europeans I came to know - of life during that time. Lots changed when the Status of Forces agreement was modified making the Allied military guests of a host nation rather than an occupation force.

In a lot of ways, the Germans still come across as a very dour people. Rigid and purposeful, formal. Even some of their partying seemed forced, a "... und now ve haff fun ..." almost as a command rather than an invitation.

I wonder how it has changed even further in this time since the wall came down and the country reunited.

In a lot of ways, the Germans still come across as a very dour people. Rigid and purposeful, formal. Even some of their partying seemed forced, a "... und now ve haff fun ..." almost as a command rather than an invitation.


Which reminds me of one of my favorite Simpson's quotes:

Springfield will have its first annual "Do What You Feel" Festival this Saturday, whenever you feel like showing up! It'll be a welcome change from our annual, "Do As We Say" Festival started by German settlers in 1946.

see post below

I wonder how it has changed even further in this time since the wall came down and the country reunited.

Worse... far, far worse!

When the Russians pulled out of East Germany, they made it their business to fleece them of every nickel and dime that they could take with them. Those guys literally Robbed East Germany Blind! They made sure that they timed their pullout perfectly too. Right about the same time they pulled out, germany had firmly committed itself to joining the european union. Part of this commitment was to abandon their own individual currency, and adopt the currency of all the nations that participated which was the new Euro. One Euro ended up being worth Two German Marks and caused the cost of living to rise in many parts of the country. When the russians left, west germany now had to take over the economy of the east. This forced them to pour millions (if not billions) of euros into the east to stop them from starving and get their economy flowing. This put a major strain on the west german economy and the overall standard of living dropped dramatically. Soon after this took place, the wars in the Middle East began. The US decided to pull the bulk of its forces out of Germany and move them to Iraq and Afganistan.

Even though many Germans were glad to finally see the US leave, the American's pullout took a lot of jobs with it. This in turn put a lot of west Germans out of work. Then a rush of middle easterners began pouring into europe trying to flee the wars and began seeking refurge in Germany as well as other nations in europe. Newly appointed German Chancellor Angela Merkel decided to take in many of them, as a sign of good will to the world. This started a lot of strife between the already struggling Germans and the middle eastern refugees for jobs and Gov't assistance. The crime level began to rise as well as the overall living standards of the nation as a whole began to diminish. Germany is still a fun place to go, but it's no where near what it was in the 80's

A friend of mines said that he had a chance to travel into what was once east germany soon after the wall came down. He told me that what he saw was absolutely appauling. Travelling over there was just like traveling back into Midevel Europe. Guy says that there were still buildings left standing from WWII that still hed bullet holes in them. The russians left them standing there as a reminder to future generations of why they were being occupied.

Germany has always been a resillient nation. Im sure that someday they'll economically get back on their feet again. I just hope that they NEVER again allow someone like Hitler to brainwash them into going to war anymore!

If anyone thinks that Germany is a struggleing economy, then they're half right.
Germany is short of 90,000 skilled engineers, which it simply cant find.

If any nation on Earth can overcome hardship, its Germany.
80% of all Germans were not born when WW2 was raging, young Germans I find similar to anyone else in Europe, tho as has been said, they're sense of humor sucks.

1704 England gains control of The Rock (no, not Dwayne Johnson)

In 1212 the Arab chief, Tarik crossed the eight mile channel seperating Europe from Africa. He landed at the site that still bears his name, Jebel-al-Tarik (Gibraltar).

In ancient times Gibraltar was considered one of the Pillars of Hercules, the other being Mount Hacho on the African coast.

The Moors controlled Gibraltar until 1501 when it was annexed by the Spanish. It remained in Spanish hands for a bit more than two hundred years.

At the beginning of the 18th century Spain found itself without an heir to the throne. Rather than allowing the Spanish to decide who their new king would be other European nations got involved. Louis XIV of France installed his grandson as King Philip V. This decision did not sit well with The Holy Roman Empire, Holland or England, who declared war in what has come to be know as The War of the Spanish Succession.

The war achieved almost nothing.l Philip remained on the throne. One thing it did achieve, however, was a change in the ownership of Gibraltar. On this day in 1704, a british force led by Sir George Rooks seized Gibraltar.

Spain unsuccessfully beseiged Gibraltar from 1779 o 1783 and again demanded a return of The Rock in the 1960s. The British organized a referendum and the citizens of Gibraltar voted 12,138 to 44 to remain part of Great Britain.

He was king of England but he spent only about eleven minutes there. The rest of the time hge was out of the country fighting or buggering little boys.

Not eleven minutes, but six months out of his 10 year reign. He had to fight to control his holdings in France and also spent a lenghthy time off on the Crusade and was imprisoned for months afterwards, thanks to his bestest friend, Philip the Toad.

The love of his life was Blondel, a lute player near his own age. There are no stories of him hanging out with young boys.

If anyone thinks that Germany is a struggleing economy, then they're half right.
Germany is short of 90,000 skilled engineers, which it simply cant find.

If any nation on Earth can overcome hardship, its Germany.
80% of all Germans were not born when WW2 was raging, young Germans I find similar to anyone else in Europe, tho as has been said, they're sense of humor sucks.

I admire their efficiency. We'd always have fun, too, at the various German picnics we'd attend around the state. Good food and polka for all. No one beats them at dessert cooking. No wonder most Germans are, uh, hefty. I'd be fat in a month eating their delcious cakes and pies every day.