Quote of the Day
"The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world,
who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life
for men to see by."
-- Felix Adler
Sorry - travelling home today, so didn't have time to put up news headlines, but here are the usual spots to check out the headlines yourself:
Fox NewsReuters: Top NewsAP World NewsMilitary.comCENTCOM: News ReleasesUSJFCOMMulti-National Force-IraqDefenseLinkDefendAmericaWeatherAfghanistanBost/Laskar Ghurian Herat Kabul QandaharGermanyAnsbach Aschaffenburg Berlin Berlin-Tempelhof Berlin/Schonefeld BremerhavenDarmstadt Frankfurt Frankfurt/Main Freiburg/Breisgau GarmischGarmisch-Partenkirchen Geilenkirchen Gelnhausen Giessen KitzingenHanau Am Main Heidelberg Mainz Mannheim Nurnberg Stuttgart TrierWiesbaden WurzburgGitmoGuamAgana Agana Heights Agat Andersen AFB Asan BarrigadaIraqAl Azamiyah Al Basrah Al Hillah Al Karkh Al Kazimiyah Al KutAn Nasiriyah Baghdad Baqubah Mosul Najaf Nineveh Tall KayfJapanKadena Air Base Okinawa Tokyo YokohamaToday in History
1683 - William Penn signs a friendship treaty with the Lenni Lenape American Indians
in Pennsylvania.
1860 - Congress establishes the Government Printing Office; the U.S. Secret Service is established.
1865 - Confederate Brigadier General (and Native American) Stand Watie is the last Confederate General to surrender, at Fort Towson.
1925 - A landslide dams the Gros Ventre river, creating the 3-mile long "Slide Lake" in Wyoming.
1938 - The U.S. Civil Aeronautics Authority is established.
1947 - Congress overrides Truman's veto of the Taft-Hartley Act.
1951 - British diplomats Guy Burgess & Donald Maclean defect to the U.S.S.R.
1961 - USAF Major Robert M. White takes the X-15 to 32,830 m.
1967 - The U.S. Senate censures Thomas J. Dodd (CT - Chris Dodd's father) for misuse of campaign funds.
1969 - Warren E. Burger is sworn in as a Supreme Court Chief Justice.
1985 - A bomb destroys an Air India Boeing 747 while in flight near Ireland, killing 329.
Birthdays
1763 - Josephine, Empress of France
1894 - Duke of Windsor, briefly King Edward VIII of England
1913 - William P. Rogers, U.S. Secretary of State
1930 - Donn F. Eisele, Colonel, USAF / astronaut (Apollo 7)
Reported Missing in Action:
1966 Belknap, Harry John,
USN (NC); F4B crash, KIA, body not recovered
Nyman, Lawrence F.,
USN (WA); F4B crash, KIA, body not recovered
1968 Booth, James E.,
USAF (CA); F4D shot down, reported dead, but info not confirmed
Casey, Donald F.,
USAF (TN); F4D shot down, reported dead, but info not confirmed
1969 Condit, William H., Jr.,
USAF (OH); KIA, remains ID'd June, 1998
Reed, Terry Michael,
USAF (TX); KIA, remains ID'd June, 1998
Sage, Leland C.,
USN (IL); A4E shot down, KIA, body not recovered
1970Phillips, Robert P.,
US Army (OH); presumed dead
Pederson, Joe P.,
US Army (PA); presumed dead
Rozo, James M.,
US Army (NY); reportedly escaped POW camp in 1973, presumed dead
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