Quote of the Day
"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."
-- Winston Churchill, August 20, 1940, speaking of the Royal Air Force
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Today in History
1781 - George Washington begins moving his troops south to meet Cornwallis.
1794 - General Mad Anthony Wayne routs the Indians at Fallen Timbers, OH.
1852 - The steamer "Atlantic" collides with a fishing boat and sinks with 250 aboard.
1865 - President Johnson proclaims an end to the "insurrection" in TX.
1866 - President Andrew Johnson formally declares the Civil War over.
1896 - The dial telephone is patented.
1908 - The Congo Free State becomes the Belgian Congo.
1912 - The Plant Quarantine Act goes into effect
1913 - Adolphe Pegoud of France becomes the first pilot to parachute from an aircraft.
1914 - German forces occupy Brussels, Belgium.
1918 - Britain opens a Western front offensive.
1922 - The first commercial radio station, WJR-AM (Detroit, MI) begins radio transmissions.
1940 - Leon Trotsky is assassinated in Mexico City by Stalin's agents.
1942 - In San Francisco, dim-out regulations are implemented.
1947 - Turner Caldwell sets an aircraft speed record in the D-558-I (1131 kph).
1948 - The U.S. expels Soviet Consul General Jacob Lomakin.
1953 - Russia publicly acknowledges its hydrogen bomb test detonation.
1955 - For the first time, an airplane exceeds 1800 mph / 2897 kph (H.A. Hanes, Palmdale CA); hundreds are killed in anti-French rioting in Morocco and Algeria.
1957 - A USAF ballon breaks an altitude record at 102,000' (310,896 m).
1960 - Senegal breaks from the Mali federation, declaring its independence; the U.S.S.R. recovers the first living organisms to return from space (2 dogs).
1964 - President Johnson signs the Economic Opportunity Act (nearly $1 billion).
1968 - 650,000 Warsaw Pact troops invade Czechoslovakia.
1971 - The FBI begins covert investigation of journalist Daniel Schorr.
1975 - An Ilyushin-62 jetliner crashes south of Damascus, Syria, killing 126; Viking-1 is launched toward a soft landing on Mars.
1977 - NASA launches Voyager-2 towards Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.
1978 - In London, gunmen open fire on an Israeli El Al Airline bus in London.
1980 - The U.N. Security Council condemns Israel's declaration that all of Jersualem is its capital (the vote is 14-0, with the U.S. abstaining).
1985 - On behalf of the U.S., Israel ships 96 TOW missiles to Iran.
1990 -
Iraq moves Western hostages to military installations, using them as human shields.Birthdays
1785 - Oliver Hazard Perry, U.S. Naval hero ("We have met the enemy and they are ours. ")
1833 - Benjamin Harrison, 23rd U.S. President (1889-1893)
1860 - Raymond Poincar‚ PM (1912) / president of France
1890 - H.P. Lovecraft, Gothic novelist (At the Mountains of Madness)
1931 - Don King boxing promoter
1933 - George Mitchell (Sen-ME, Senate Whip 1989-1995)
1938 - Jean-Loup Chrétien, first French space traveller (Soyuz T-6)
1941 - William H. Gray III (Rep-PA, 1978-1991 )
1944 - Rajiv Gandhi PM of India (1984-1989)
1946 - Connie Chung, TV newscaster (NBC, CBS)
Passings
1804 - Charles Floyd, only fatality of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
1940 - Leon Trotsky icepicked by Frank Jackson
Reported Missing in Action1966
Milikin, Richard M., III,
USAF (FL); RF4C shot down
1968Lindbloom, Charles David,
USN (GA); KIA, body not recovered
Risner, Richard F.,
USMC; escaped August, 1968 - retired as a Colonel - alive as of 1999
1972
Mossman, Harry S.,
USN (NY); A6A shot down
PASS AND REVIEW — Members of the Kabul Police Academy cadet honor guard lead the pass and review during the recent Afghan National Police officers' graduation ceremony. The cadets are students at the three-year officers' course. U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Victoria Meyer Story Photos
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