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"...without a Respectable Navy, Alas America!"
-- Captain John Paul Jones,
in an October 17, 1776 letter to Robert Morris
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1636 - Plymouth Colony sees its first code of law.
1648 - Peter Stuyvesant establishes Americas first volunteer firefighters.
1777 - Battle of Germantown.
1824 - Mexico becomes a republic.
1830 - Belgium secedes from the Netherlands.
1862 - The Battle of Corinth ends.
1883 - The Orient Expressmakes its first run, linking Turkey to Europe.
1910 - Portugal becomes a republic; King Manuel II flees to England.
1931 - The comic strip "Dick Tracy" (Chester Gould) debuts.
1940 - Adolph Hitler and Benito Mussolini confer at Brenner Pass in the Alps.
1955 - Reverend Sun Young Moon leaves prison in Seoul.
1957 - "Leave It to Beaver," debuts on CBS-TV; the U.S.S.R. Sputnik I, the first artificial Earth satellite.
1958 - Transatlantic commercial jet passenger service begins (BOAC).
1959 - The U.S.S.R.'s Luna-3 sends back the first photos of the Moon's far side.
1960 - The Courier-1B, first active repeater satellite in orbit, is launched.
1962 - USAF Maorj Robert A. Rushworth takes the X-15 to 32,300 m.
1963 - Gambia achieves full internal self-government.
1965 - Pope Paul VI becomes the first Pope to visit the Western Hemisphere (UN); the U.S.S.R. launches Luna-7; it crash-lands on Moon.
1966 - Lesotho (Basutoland) gains independence from Britain.
1969 - The U.N. starts issuing postage stamps at its Geneva headquarters.
1970 - Herbert Schmidtz makes the highest parachute jump from a tower by leaping from a 1,984 ft TV tower in Tulsa, OK.
1976 - Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz resigns over telling a racial joke.
1977 - In San Francisco, Pier 39 opens.
1978 - Funeral are services held for Pope John Paul I.
1983 - Richard Noble reaches a record 1019 kph in a jet-powered car.
1984 - The U.S. government closes down due to budget problems.
1985 - Shite Muslims claim to have killed hostage William Buckley.
1987 - In the first "Scrub Sunday" of the NFL, replacement players take the field.
Birthdays
1289 - King Louis X (the Stubborn) of France (1314-16)
1626 - Richard Cromwell, lord protector of England (1658-59)
1822 - Rutherford B. Hayes,19th U.S. President (1877-81)
1850 - John W. McGraw (Gov-WA) (1893-97)
1892 - Engelbert Dollfuss, Austrian Fascist chancellor, killed by Nazis
1922 - Malcolm Baldrige, U.S. Secretary of Commerce (1981-87)
1923 - Charlton Heston, actor (10 Commandments, Ben Hur, Planet of the Apes)
1943 - Buddy Roemer (Gov-LA)
1946 - Susan Sarandon, actress (Bull Durham)
1949 - Armand Assante, actor (Private Benjamin, Unfaithfully Yours)
Passings
1904 - Frederic Auguste Bertholdi, French sculptor ("Statue of Liberty")
1970 - Janis Joplin, rock singer, at 27
Reported Missing in Action1966
Burns, John D.,
USN (FL); A4C shot down, released by DRV March, 1973 - alive and well as of 1998
1967
Lillund, William A.,
USAF (CA); F105F shot down (w/McDaniel)
McDaniel, Morris L., Jr.,
USAF (GA); F105F shot down (w/Lillund)
Schoeffel, Peter V.,
USN (VA); A4C shot down, released by DRV March, 1973 - retired as a Captain - alive as of 1998
Zook, David H., Jr.,
USAF (OH); U10B crashed while on leaflet mission; reportedly collided with larger plane
U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Brandon Shofner, assigned to 2nd Combat Engineers, prepares C4 charges to destroy unidentified explosive ordnance found during his sweep for weapon caches in Kharma, Iraq, Sept. 21, 2005. The 2nd Marine Division conducts counterinsurgency operations with Iraqi security forces to isolate and neutralize anti-Iraqi forces in the area. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Matthew Hutchison
U.S. Marines with 2nd Battalion, 2nd Marines Regiment, enter a building to meet with sheiks in Kharma, Iraq, Sept. 20, 2005. The 2nd Marine Division conducts counterinsurgency operations with Iraqi security forces to isolate and neutralize anti-Iraqi forces in the area. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Matthew Hutchison
U.S. Marine Corps Capt. Tyler Swisher, commanding officer of Echo Company, 2nd Battalion, 2nd Marines Regiment, speaks with a local sheik in Kharma, Iraq, Sept. 20, 2005. The 2nd Marine Division conducts counterinsurgency operations with Iraqi security forces to isolate and neutralize anti-Iraqi forces in the area. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Matthew Hutchison
U.S. Marine Corps Lt. Mark Banks, assigned to the Battalion Aid Station, Headquarters Company, 2nd Battalion, 2nd Marines Regiment, examines a sick child in Kharma, Iraq, Sept. 20, 2005. The 2nd Marine Division conducts counterinsurgency operations with Iraqi security forces to isolate and neutralize anti-Iraqi forces in the area. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Matthew Hutchison
U.S. Marines with 2nd Combat Engineers prepare their gear to search for weapon caches in Kharma, Iraq, Sept. 21, 2005. The 2nd Marine Division conducts counterinsurgency operations with Iraqi security forces to isolate and neutralize anti-Iraqi forces in the area.U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Matthew Hutchison
U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Tatreaus Gray and Lance Cpl. Anthony Glover inspect a roof during a presence patrol in Kharma, Iraq, Sept. 21, 2005. Gray and Glover are assigned to the 3rd Squad, 4th Platoon, Company Golf, 2nd Battalion, 2nd Marines. The 2nd Marine Division conducts counterinsurgency operations with Iraqi security forces to isolate and neutralize anti-Iraqi forces in the area. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Matthew Hutchison
CAMP LEJEUNE VISIT — Vice President Richard B. Cheney eats lunch with Marines from the 3rd Battalion, 25th Marine Regiment, at Camp Lejeune, N.C., Oct. 3. The battalion, an Ohio-based Reserve unit, recently returned from Iraq. Defense Dept. photo by U.S. Army Sgt. Wood
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