Quote of the Day
When freedom, from her mountain height
Unfurled her standard to the air,
She tore the azure robe of night
And set the stars of glory there.
She mingled with its gorgeous dyes
The milky baldric of the skies,
Then from his mansion in the sun
She called her eagle-bearer down
And gave into his mighty hand
The symbol of her chosen land.
-- Joseph Rodman Drake
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National Guard, Reserve UpdateToday in History44 BC - Julius Caesar is assassinated by Roman Senators.
933 - Henry the Fowler routs the Magyars in Germany.
1493 - Columbus returns to Spain after his first voyage to the New World.
1820 - Maine becomes the 23rd state.
1862 - General John Hunt Morgan begins four days of raids near Gallatin, Tenn.
1864 - The Red River Campaign begins with Union forces reaching Alexandria, La.
1892 - New York State unveils its new automatic ballot voting machine.
1903 - British forces complete the conquest of Nigeria.
1904 - Three hundred Russians are killed in the Japanese shelling of Port Arthur, Korea.
1909- Italy proposes a European conference on the Balkans.
1916 - General John Pershing and 15,000 troops chase Pancho Villa into Mexico.
1935 - Joseph Goebbels bans four Berlin newspapers.
1939 - Germany occupies Bohemia and Moravia, Czechoslovakia.
1944 - Cassino, Italy is destroyed by Allied bombing.
1949 - Clothes rationing in Great Britain ends.
1951 - French General de Lattre demands that Paris send more troops to Indochina.
1955 - The U.S. Air Force unveils the first self-guided missile.
1960 - Ten nations meet in Geneva to discuss disarmament.
1965 - Gamal Abdel Nasser is re-elected Egyptian President.
1967 - President Lyndon Johnson names Ellsworth Bunker new ambassador to Saigon.
Birthdays
1767 - Andrew Jackson, seventh President of the United States.
1933 - Ruth Bader Ginsberg, U.S. Supreme Court Justice.
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