Quote of the Day
"Non sibi sed patriae" (Not self but country)
-- unofficial US Navy motto
News of NoteOperation Iraqi FreedomTalabani: Unity NeededPresident speaks amid violenceIraq Chief Confident of Continued U.S. AidAt least 9 killed in attack near BaghdadOperation Enduring Freedom
Bomb Kills 4 Afghan Intelligence AgentsHomeland Security / War on TerrorPentagon Reveals Identities of Gitmo DetaineesU.S., Pakistan Recommit to War on TerrorDubai Port Proposal
Dubai Firm Submits to U.S. Security ReviewOther Military News
Navy To Ground All Aircraft For Safety ReviewNavy Jet Crashes in Ore.Hamas Rising
Hamas: Israel Must Withdraw for PeaceHamas rejects recognition of Israel despite pressureHamas Praises Russian Mediation EffortsWorldwide WackosSanctions unlikely first step on Iran: RiceIran, EU Inch Toward Possible CompromisePoliticsUneasy Alliance -
Bush continues Asian tour 'Top Gun' SentencedVideo:
Judgment DayTimeline: Congressional ScandalsCIA Official Faces Probe Over Cunningham LinksU.S., Mexican Lawmakers Meet on ImmigrationN.J. High Schoolers Try Bush for 'War Crimes'Bush takes a swing at cricket in PakistanBush visits two hot spots in South AsiaSupreme CourtStates appeal to Supreme court on CO2 car emissionsU.N. NewsU.N. Food Agency Facing Shortages in KenyaOddities
Playboy says won't pull Jessica Alba issueWoman seizes police car for 2-hour ridePeanut Butter Kiss Didn't Cause DeathOther News of Note
Battle brews as S. Dakota abortion law nearsSaudi Shi'ites enjoy new freedoms laced with fearsChinese Police Detain Activist LawyerAlleged Gang Leader Extradited to FranceChina to Increase Military Budget to $35BNazareth Church Attack Heightens TensionsFox NewsFULL OSCARS COVERAGEBlackBerry Maker Settles Patent DisputeHarmful Pesticides Found in Most U.S. Rivers, StreamsNazareth Church Targeted in Firecracker AttackSUV Plows Into Crowd at University of North CarolinaWisc. Boy Pleads Not Guilty to Helping Uncle Rape, KillFULL SPORTS COVERAGEReuters: Top NewsWatch Video Full Oscars CoverageTake your treadmill to work dayHow to ride that aging baby-boomer waveJobs and rates top stocks' agendaUS truck engine makers near end of road?RBC profit rises; ups dividend, splits sharesDeal averts U.S. BlackBerry service shutdownEx-Adelphia COO Rigas gets home confinementLights, cameras, stocks! SEC pitches to HollywoodNokia sees mass mobile TV takeup by '08Jobs and rates top stocks' agendaStocks dip as Intel warns; RIM shares soar late -
VideoDana hits auto shares, Ford touches 3-year lowPalm outlook not as rosy after BlackBerry pact: analystsRIM shares jump 14 pctTax filing finesseEnergy worries encourage utility mergersEurope carmakers target diesel in JapanBiologist discovers new shark speciesBlackBerry deal averts service shutdownMusic phones to slice into iPod growthFloodwater gone but fear remains in Haiti's GonaivesFinns to test mobile phone radiation on human skinAP World News
Sri Lankans to Be Tried for Tsunami DeathHavana Cigar Festival Draws AficionadosSmithsonian Shows Artwork by HokusaiKenya Official Defends Raid on Media GroupMillions Recovered From British RobberyBelarus Vows to Bar Rally During VoteThai PM Reaches Out to Political OpponentsEcuador's Ousted President Freed From JailMilitary.comIraqi Police Force QuestionableViolence Interferes With U.S. GoalsLawmakers Slam B-52 Retirement PlanCENTCOM: News ReleasesIRAQI ARMY, MND-B CAPTURE SUSPECTED BOMB-MAKER RESPONSIBLE FOR DEATH OF U.S. SOLDIERMND-B TRANSFERS BATTLE SPACE TO IRAQI ARMYKEY AL QAEDA MEMBERS AMONG 61 DETAINEDFIVE COALITION SERVICE MEMBERS INJURED IN SUSPECTED IED ATTACKTERRORIST ATTACKS KILL SEVEN IRAQIS, WOUND SIXDepartment of DefenseDoD Releases Some Gitmo Records -
StoryCrisis Caused by Bombing Has Passed -
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StoryON THE GROUNDIraqis Assume Control In Western Baghdad -
StoryTransfer Ceremony Marks AccomplishmentsIraqi Air Force Spreads Wings, Secures Future -
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StoryIN IRAQArizona Guard MPs Reflect on Iraq DeploymentU.S. Army’s Cav Troops Help Train Iraqi SoldiersU.S. Soldier Starts Tikrit Chapter of Hobby ClubIraqi, U.S. Soldiers Conduct Health OutreachSpecial Ops School Moves from Jordan to IraqIN AFGHANISTANNew Zealanders Deliver Roof Beams to Camp Bagram Airfield Celebrates Black History MonthFACE OF DEFENSEFour Brothers to Deploy Together -
StoryBrothers Serve in AfghanistanAMERICA SUPPORTS YOUVail Hosts Wounded Troops -
StoryGroup Helps Soldier, WifeNASCAR Honors Stennis SailorsTOP NEWSIRAQForces Limit Damage Iraqi Course: Convoy SecuritySoldier Dies in Non-combat IncidentTerrorists Kill 17 IraqisCheney: Strategy WorkingFact Sheet: Progress and Work AheadReport: Strategy for Victory in Iraq Iraq Daily UpdateThis Week in Iraq (pdf)Multinational Force IraqEye on Iraq Update (pdf)State Dept. Weekly Iraq Report (pdf)'Boots on the Ground' Audio ArchiveIraq ReconstructionMapsAFGHANISTANCoalition Troop DiesCrews Keep KC-135 AloftBush Salutes Troops PhotosBush Visits Kabul PhotosAfghanistan UpdateMapsWAR ON TERRORISM
Rumsfeld Cites Truman LeadershipU.S. Diplomat Killed in BombingU.S., Italy Partners, Bush SaysFact Sheet: Budget RequestFact Sheet: War on TerrorFact Sheet: Terror Plots DisruptedWaging and Winning the War on TerrorTerrorism TimelineTerrorism Knowledge BaseMILITARY NEWS
U.S., India Make World SaferRumsfeld Praises Future Military Budget Proposal Matches 1995NSPS Benefits All in DoDOfficials Defend Budget RequestNational Guard, Reserve UpdateCASUALTIESSoldier Killed; Casualties Identified -
StoryWeatherIraqAl Azamiyah Al Basrah Al Hillah Al Karkh Al Kazimiyah Al KutAn Nasiriyah Baghdad Baqubah Mosul Najaf Nineveh Tall KayfAfghanistanBost/Laskar Ghurian Herat Kabul QandaharGitmoToday in History1152 - Frederik I Barbarossa elected Roman-German king
1461 - Battle at Towton: Duke Edward of York beats English queen Margaretha Edward IV recognized as king of England
1570 - King Philip II bans foreign Dutch students
1590 - Mauritius of Nassau's ship reaches Breda
1621 - Jacarta, Java renamed Batavia
1665 - English King Charles II declares war on Netherlands
1681 - King Charles II grants William Penn royal charter for Pennsylvania
1699 - Jews are expelled from Lubeck, Germany
1741 - English fleet under Admiral Ogle reaches Cartagena
1774 - 1st sighting of Orion nebula (William Herschel)
1789 - 1st Congress declares Constitution in effect (9 senators, 13 representatives)
1791 - 1st Jewish member of US Congress, Israel Jacobs (Pennsylvania), takes office; President Washington calls the US Senate into its 1st special session; Vermont admitted as 14th state (1st addition to the 13 colonies)
1792 - Oranges introduced to Hawaii
1793 - French troops conquer Geertruidenberg, Netherlands; President Washington's 2nd inauguration, shortest speech (133 words)
1797 - John Adams inaugurated as 2nd President of US
1801 - 1st President inaugurated in Washington, DC (Thomas Jefferson)
1809 - Madison becomes 1st President inaugurated in American-made clothes
1825 - John Quincy Adams inaugrated as 6th President
1826 - 1st US RR chartered, Granite Railway in Quincy, MA
1829 - Andrew Jackson inaugurated as 7th President
(my great-great-etc. uncle!)1829 - Unruly crowd mobs White House during President Jackson inaugural ball
1835 -
HMS Beagle moves into Bay of Concepción
1837 - City of Chicago incorporates; Martin Van Buren inaugrated as 8th President
1841 - Longest inauguration speech (8,443 words), William Henry Harrison
1845 - James K. Polk inaugrated as 11th President
1848 - Sardinia-Piemonte gets new Constitution
1849 -
US had no President, Polk's term ends on a Sunday, Taylor couldn't be sworn-in, Senator David Atchison (pres pro tem) term ended March 3rd 1853 - William Rufus de Vane King (D) sworn in as 13th US Vice President
1861 - Confederate States adopt "Stars & Bars" flag; Lincoln inaugurated as 16th President; 1st time US has 5 former Presidents living; President Lincoln opens Government Printing Office
1863 - Battle of Thompson's Station, Tennessee; Territory of Idaho established
1865 - Confederate congress approves final design of "official flag"; President Lincoln inaugurated for his 2nd term as President
1869 - Ulysses Grant inaugurated as 18th President
1873 - "New York Daily Graphic," 1st illustrated daily newspaper in US, published
1876 - US Congress decides to impeach Minister of War Belknap
1881 - California becomes 1st state to pass plant quarantine legislation; James A. Garfield inaugurated as 20th President; South African President Kruger accepts ceasefire
1885 - Grover Cleveland inaugrated as 1st Democratic President since Civil War
1889 - Benjamin Harrison inaugurated as 23rd President
1893 - Francis Dhanis' army attacksthe Lualaba, occupies Nyangwe; Grover Cleveland (D) inaugrated as 24th US President (2nd term)
1894 - Great fire in Shanghai; over 1,000 buildings destroyed
1897 - William McKinley inaugurated as 25th President of US
1901 - 1st advanced copy of inaugural speech ("Jefferson-National Intelligencer"); President William McKinley inaugurated for 2nd term as President; Term of George H. White, last of post-Reconstruction congressmen, ends
1902 - American Automobile Association (AAA) founded in Chicago
1908 - Collingwood, OH primary school catches fire; 180 die
1909 - President Taft inaugrated as 27th President during 10" snowstorm; US prohibits interstate transportation of game birds
1911 - Victor Berger (Wisconsin) becomes 1st socialist congressman in US
1913 - 1st US law regulating the shooting of migratory birds passed; Department of Commerce & Labor split into separate departments; New York Yankees are 1st to train outside US (Bermuda); Woodrow Wilson inaugurated as 28th President
1917 - Jeannette Rankin (Representative-Republican-MT) becomes 1st female member of Congress
1918 - Terek Autonomous Republic established in RSFSR (until 1921)
1921 - Hot Springs National Park created in Arkansas
1923 - Lenin's last article in "Pravda" (about Red bureaucracy)
1924 - "Happy Birthday To You" published by Claydon Sunny
1925 - President Coolidge's inauguration broadcast live on 21 radio stations; Swain's Island (near American Samoa) annexed by US
1926 - De Geer government in Netherlands takes office
1928 - "Bunion Run" race from Los Angeles CA to NYC begins; It is won by Andy Payne
1929 - Charles Curtis (R-Kansas) becomes 1st Native American Vice President; Herbert Hoover inaugurated as 31st President
1930 - Coolidge Dam in Arizona dedicated
1933 - Chancellor Dollfuss dissolves Austrian parliament; FDR inaugrated as 32nd President, pledges to pull US out of Depression & says "We have nothing to fear but fear itself"; Frances Perkins becomes Secretary of Labor, 1st US woman cabinet member
1936 - 1st flight of airship Hindenburg, Germany
1941 - 18 Geuzen resistance fighters sentenced to death in The Hague; Serbian Prince Paul visits Hitler
1943 - Transport NR 50 departs with French Jews to Maidanek/Sobibor
1944 - 1st US bombing of Berlin; Anti-Germany strikes in North Italy
1945 - Finland declares war on Nazi-Germany
1949 - Andrei Vishinsky succeeds Molotov as Soviet Foreign minister; Security Council of UN recommends membership for Israel
1954 - J.E. Wilkins, appointed 1st Black US sub-cabinet member
1955 - 1st radio facsimile transmission sent across the continent
1959 - US Pioneer IV misses Moon & becomes 2nd (US 1st) artificial planet
1960 - French freighter
La Coubre explodes in Havana Cuba, killing 100
1961 - Paul-Henri Spaak resigns as Secretary-General of NATO
1962 - AEC announces 1st atomic power plant in Antarctica in operation
1964 - Jimmy Hoffa convicted of jury tampering
1966 - Canadian Pacific airliner explodes on landing in Tokyo, 64 die
1968 - Martin Luther King, Jr., announces plans for Poor People's Campaign; Orbiting Geophysical Observatory 5 launched
1970 - French submarine
Eurydice explodes
1971 -
"City Command" kidnaps 4 US military men at Ankara, Turkey 1972 - Libya & USSR signs cooperation treaty
1974 - Harold Wilson replaces resigning Ed Heath as British premier
1977 - 1st CRAY 1 supercomputer shipped, to Los Alamos Laboratories, New Mexico; Earthquake in Romania, kills 1,541
1978 - "Chicago Daily News," founded in 1875, publishes last issue
1979 - 200th episode of "All in the Family"; US Voyager I photo reveals Jupiter's rings
1982 - NASA launches Intelsat V
1984 - Pee Wee Reese & Rick Ferrell elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame
1985 - STS 51-E vehicle rolls back to Vandenberg AFB; mission cancelled; Virtual ban on leaded gas ordered by EPA;
War veterans returnd to the "Bridge over the River Kwai" 1990 - US 65th manned space mission STS 36 (Atlantis 6) returns from space
1991 -
Iraq releases 6 US, 3 British & 1 Italian POW 1994 -
4 Arab terrorist founded guilty of bombing the World Trade Center; Space shuttle STS-62 (Columbia 16), launches into orbit
1995 - Blind teenage boy receives a 'Bionic Eye' at a Washington Hospital
1997 - Brazil Senate allows women to wear slacks; Comet Hale-Bopp directly above the Sun (1.04 AU); President Clinton bans federally funded human cloning research; Zeya Start-1 launched (Russia)
Birthdays1394 - Prince Henry the Navigator, sponsors Portuguese voyages of discovery
1651 - John Baron Somers (Whig), William III's chief minister (1696-1700)
1747 - Casimir Pulaski, Count/American Revolutionary War general
1754 - Benjamin Waterhouse, physician (smallpox vaccine pioneer)
1789 - Pavel P. Gagarin, Russian monarch
1798 - John Joseph Abercrombie, Union Brigadier General
1826 - John Buford, Union Major General (Union volunteers)
1828 - Elisha Franklin "Bull" Paxton, Confederate Brigadier General
1835 - Giovanni Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer (discovered canals of Mars)
1862 - Robert Emden, Swiss geologist/astro-physicist (Emden-polytroop)
1875 - Enrique Larreta [E R Maza], Argentine diplomat (Gloria de Don Ramiro)
1875 - Suze Groeneweg, 1st Dutch female parliament member (SDAP, 1918-37)
1885 - Willem H. Winkel, Dutch physician/founder (Red Cross of Curaçao)
1888 - Knute Rockne, Norwegian/US football player/coach (Notre Dame)
1909 - Harry B. Helmsley, billionaire builder (Empire State Building)
1915 - Petrus de Jong, Dutch premier (KVP, 1967-71)
1932 - Hessel Rienks economist/Dutch 2nd chamber member (PvdA)
1937 - Yuri Aleksandrovich Senkevich, Russian cosmonaut
1953 - Christopher H. Smith (Representative-NJ)
1955 - Benny Alexander, Secretary-General (South African Pan-Africanist Movement)
Passings1172 - Stephan III King of Hungary (1162-72)
1484 - Kazimierz the Saint, Polish ruler/saint, dies at 25
1794 - Henri D. Count de Larochejacquelin, French Royalist Army leader, dies at 21
1877 - Hendrik E. van Rijgersma Dutch Governor (St Maarten), dies at 42
1883 - Alexander H. Stephens, Vice President Confederate States, dies at 71
1943 - Nikolaos "Sokrates" Politis, Greek foreign minister, dies at 71
1962 - Cairine R. Wilson, 1st Canadian female senator (appointed), dies at 77
1992 - Christian K. Nelson, inventor (Eskimo Pie), dies at 98
1994 - John Candy, actor (SCTV, Uncle Buck), dies from a heart attack at 43
Reported Missing in Action1963 Jacobson, Ellwood L.; remains recovered
Makel, Janie A.; remains recovered March, 1963
1966Andrews, Stuard M.,
USAF (CT); O1E shot down (w/Conlon)
Conlon, John F.,
USAF (PA) ; O1E shot down (w/Andrews)
1967Carlock, Ralph L.,
USAF (IL) ; F105D shot down
1969Guffey, Jerry,
US Army ; escaped same day
1970Parker, John J.,
USN (FL); crashed in water immediately after takeoff, Killed, body not recovered
1971The following US Army personnel reported MIA when their JU21A disappeared while on mission, SAR Negative - status later changed to KIA, body not recovered:
Algaard, Harold L. (MN); co-pilot
Hentz, Richard J. (WI) ; crewman
Marker, Michael W. (TX) ; pilot
Osborne, Rodney D. (WA) ; technical observer
Strawn, John T. (OR); crewman
Also reported MIA this day in 1971:
Allwine, David R.,
US Army (AZ); released by PRG March, 1973 - retired as a Master Sergeant - alive and well as of 1998