Quote of the Day
"De Oppresso Liber" (To liberate the oppressed)
-- US Army Special Forces motto
News of NoteOperation Iraqi FreedomUS/Iraqi raid kills 11 in northern IraqThe Thunder Rolls: Taji Rail Lines Open for First Time Since 2003Coalition Disrupts Al Qaeda in Iraq Operations, 22 DetainedIraqi Deputy Prime Minister insists upon meeting obligations at historic conference in northern IraqISWAT, U.S. Special Forces kill 9, detain 8 in Ninewa provinceSons of Iraq in Sabbah Nissan discover weapons cacheIraqi: Turkish helicopters bomb areas in IraqIraq OKs agreements with foreign oil firmsIran still fuels Iraq violence, U.S. says Iraqi PM: Christians Essential to IraqUS envoy says no date set for Iran-US talks on IraqOperation Enduring FreedomTroop depression on rise in AfghanistanHomeland Security / War on Terror / Hamas-Hezbollah Happenings'Merchant of Death' CapturedMideast peace talksEgypt holds Hamas talks on Israel truceCrews to move 9/11 survivors staircaseOther Military NewsAtheist Says Army Punished Him, Promotion BlockedWorldwide Wackos
Chavez: Rebel Raid a 'War Crime'Files in Rebel Laptop Show Chavez's Ties to RebelsExperts: Venezuela Military Buildup Destabilizing Region'Axis of Unity' Growing Threat for U.S.Ecuador, Venezuela demand condemnationIran vote expected to test president's popularityColombia takes more heat from Latin America leftChina in efforts to bridge U.S., North Korea differencesPolitics / GovernmentDemocratic Primary: Take 2Will a Prolonged Primary Scar the Democratic Party?Bush Endorses McCain, Says He Understands 'Stakes'West Virginia Sen. Robert Byrd Back in HospitalWhite House firstsFactbox: McCain, Obama and ClintonCan superdelegates resolve Dem battle?Obama wins over EuropeDomestic issues facing next presidentOne matchup: Fiery McCain vs. charismatic ObamaBush endorsement may be risky for McCainKenya's Kibaki pushes peace deal and honors dead -
VideoSarkozy and French right set for blast from votersNATO foreign ministers discuss BalkansIllegal Immigration / Border ControlBorder fence divides govt., landownersIn the Courts / Crime and Punishment / Law and OrderHunt Is on for Killer of Auburn University Freshman Murdered Near CampusCouple Accused in Elizabeth Smart Disappearance Face Federal IndictmentStallone, Chris Rock, Farrah Fawcett Subpoenaed in Pellicano TrialN.J. Authorities Foil 'Military Style' School Massacre PlotYoung Tenn. Shooting Victims Under Police Protection'Magical Lizzy' Accused of Running Apartment BordelloReport: Baby Drowns in Tub After Mother Falls AsleepStudent Found Shot Dies; Car Burns Miles Away Media in the Media / Bloggers in the News / Watching the WebMicrosoft releases new Web browser betaScience / Medicine and Health / TechnologyChina admits "high pressure" over weatherMen who do housework may get more sex(A Stunner, I know...)Mother NatureThe BIRDS! Vultures Wreak Havoc on Florida TownNews from My Neck of the Woods'Danny Boy' Banned in New York Pub for Entire Month of MarchOdditiesNo swearing in South Pasadena this weekOther News of NoteMid-Air Terror: Planes Avert Collision by 400 FeetFox NewsFOXBusiness: Oil Prices Hit Record HighSikhs Refuse to Meet With Pope Amid Dagger BanEarliest Photo of Helen Keller and Teacher Together Uncovered ReutersGreening of CeBIT fails to revive shrinking IT fairRIM to bring Will.i.am's Dipdive to BlackBerryJust A Minute With: Peter YarrowDiana's butler refuses to return to inquestEstrogen predicts breast cancer recurrence: studyReport maps U.S. drug, mental health issues by stateHollywood private eye on trial for mass wiretappingWal-Mart February same-store sales up 2.6 pctAmbac needs more than $1.5 bln capital raise - analystsCitigroup made no approach for capital: DubaiUBS shares sink anew on writedown fearsBillionaire dreamlist: helipad and private beachEU set to clear Google - DoubleClick merger: sourcesGold's glitter lures buyersCarlyle unit fails to meet some margin callsOil hits record near $106 on dollarEuro hits new record high vs dollar after TrichetU.S. jobless claims tumble 24,000 last weekFutures add to losses; credit concerns weigh -
VideoGold hits record high near $1,000/oz, silver jumpsBlockbuster posts higher profit, shares riseGap February same-store sales fall 6 pctJ.C. Penney February same-store sales fall 6.7 pctAmerican Eagle outlook sends shares down sharplyAfter $1,000, then what?AP World NewsRetailers get a reprieve in FebruaryCeltics clinch NBA playoff berthSpears' father retains control of estateOil prices spike to record $105.97Edwards penalized by NASCARSchool near Pa. explosion evacuatesNews BlazeSupport Our Troops, Read Their StoriesTrain National Police in Combat Lifesaving SkillsIraqi youth soccer players come together during soccer tournament in BaghdadIraq NewsRead about Operations in IraqFOB Warhorse Memorial PhotosVideosCENTCOM: News ReleasesFeb. 22 Statement from Multi-National Force - Iraq commending cease-fire extensionSuccessful operations target top Taliban leaderCivilians targeted in northern IraqCoalition forces identify terrorist killed in Feb. 17 operationUSJFCOMTargeting school revising courses to prepare students -
podcastMore about Joint Targeting School SOCJFCOM continues to ready warfighters for global operations -
podcastMore about SOCJFCOMPhase one of Multinational Experiment 5 wraps upMore about Multinational Experiment 5Multi-National Force-IraqCoalition Leader Calls for More Iraqi Dental, Medical ProfessionalsMicro-Grants Offer New Hope for Baghdad Shop OwnersCitizen uses tip line to reveal cache in New BaghdadDefenseLinkChina’s Veiled Military Growth Concerns GatesKorean War Veteran Honored Odierno Calls for 'Dwell Time' Training, Aviation Capabilities Must Mature for Iraq Self-sufficiencyCoalition Focuses on Al Qaeda Forces Use Stability Gains To Grow -
VideoLocal Leaders Tour SchoolCoalition Disrupts Al Qaeda OperationsCommander Foresees Growth of Special ForcesDirective Updates, Clarifies Political Activity RulesCommentary: Visit With Family Restores HopeBagram Hosts Women’s History Month CelebrationAfghan Forces Kill Insurgents in Taliban AmbushMySpace to Rock TroopsCongressional Caucus Embraces ProgramMarine Looks Back on Long Journey to CorpsWeatherAfghanistanBost/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 YokohamaPhilippinesBaler Radar Site Catanduanes Radar Site ManilaSouth KoreaCheju Upper/Radar Chonju Chunchon Inch'on Kunsan Masan Mokp'oOsan Pusan Seoul Suwon Taegu Taejon Tonghae Radar Site Ulsan YosuToday in History1205 - Aken, [Philips van Zwaben], crowned Roman-Catholic German King
1323 - Treaty of Paris
1447 - Tommaso Parentucelli succeeds Pope Eugene IV as Nicolas V
1460 - Treaty of Alcacovas-Portugal gives Castile Canary Islands for West Africa
1521 - Magellan discovers Guam
1646 - Joseph Jenkes, Massachusetts, receives 1st colonial machine patent
1664 - King Louis XIV & Emperor of Brandenburg signs covenant
1714 - Peace of Rastatt: French emperor Charles VI of Habsburg
1728 - Spain & England sign (1st) Convention of Pardo
1799 - Napoleon captures Jaffa, Palestine
1810 - Illinois passes 1st state vaccination legislation in US
1816 - Jews are expelled from Free city of Lubeck, Germany
1831 - Edgar Allen Poe removed from West Point military academy
1836 - 3,000 Mexicans beat 182 Texans at the Alamo, after 13 day fight;
HMS Beagle / Darwin reaches King George's Sound, Australia
1857 - Dred Scott Decision: Supreme Court rules slaves cannot be citizens
1861 - Provisionary Confederate Congress establishes Confederate Army
1862 - Battle of Pea Ridge, AR (Elkhorn Tavern)
1865 - Battle of Natural Bridge, FL; President Lincoln's 2nd Inaugural Ball
1882 - Monarch Milan Obrenovic of Serbia crowns himself king
1886 - 1st US alternating current power plant starts, Great Barrington, MA
1896 - 1st auto in Detroit, MI - Charles B. King rides his "Horseless Carriage"
1899 - "Aspirin" patented by Felix Hoffmann
1902 - Census Bureau forms
1915 - Greek King Constantine I fires premier Venizelos
1918 - US naval collier
Cyclops disappears in Bermuda Triangle
1921 - Police in Sunbury, PA, issue an edict requiring Women to wear skirts at least 4 inches below the knee
1925 - Belgium annexes Eupen, Malmédy & Sankt Vith
1926 - China asks for a seat in the Security council
1929 - Turkey & Bulgaria sign friendship treaty
1930 - Brooklyn's Clarence Birdseye develops a method for quick freezing food
1933 - Poland occupies free city Danzig (Gdansk)
1936 - Belgium ends Locarno-pact
1940 - 1st US telecast from an airplane, New York, NY
1943 - Battle at Medenine, North-Africa - Rommels assault attack; Sukarno asks for cooperation with Japanese occupiers
1944 -
USAF begins daylight bombing of Berlin1945 - 117 SD-prisoners executed at Savage Farm; Assassination attempt on Höhere, SS Police führer Rauter; Chinese 38th division occupies Lashio; Erich Honnecker & Erich Hanke flee Nazis
1946 - France recognizes Vietnam statehood within Indo-Chinese federation
1947 - XB-45, 1st US 4-engine jet bomber, makes 1st test flight, Muroc CA
1951 - Belgium extends conscription to 24 months
1953 - Malenkov becomes chairman of the USSR
1957 - Ghana (formerly Gold Coast) declares independence from UK
1959 - Farthest radio signal heard (Pioneer IV, 400,000 miles)
1960 - President Sukarno disbands Indonesia's parliament
1961 - 1st London minicabs introduced
1962 - US promise Thailand assistance against communist aggression
1964 - Constantine succeeds Paul I as king of Greece
1965 - 1st nonstop helicopter crossing of North America, J. R. Willford
1967 - Muhammad Ali is ordered by selective service to be inducted; Stalin's daughter Svetlana Allilujeva asks for political asylum in US
1974 - An Italian loses a record $1,920,000 at roulette in Monte Carlo
1978 - Hustler publisher Larry Flynt shot & crippled by a sniper in Georgia
1981 - Soyuz 39 returns to Earth; Walter Cronkite signs-off as anchorman of "The CBS Evening News"
1982 - Susan Birmingham makes loudest recorded human shout (120 dB)
1985 - Mexican authorities find body of US drug agent Enrique C Salaazar
1986 - USSR's Vega 1 flies by Halley's Comet at 8,889 km
1987 - 6.8 earthquake hits Ecuador, kills 100; Belgian ferry boat Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes and sinks - 192 die
1988 -
3 IRA suspects shot dead in Gibraltar by SAS officers1990 - SR-71 sets a transcontinental record, flying 2,404 miles in 1:08:17
1991 - Following Iraq's capitulation in the Persian Gulf conflict, President Bush told Congress that "aggression is defeated; The war is over"
1998 - 1st time the British flag is flown over Buckingham Palace; Matt Beck, an angry lottery accountant kills 4 at Connecticut state lottery
Birthdays 1405 - Johan II, King of Castille
1483 - Francesco Guicciardini, Italian attorney/president of Romagna
1761 - Earl d'Andréossi, French General/member of parliament
1806 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, poet (Sonnets from the Portuguese)
1812 - Aaron Lufkin Dennison, father of American watchmaking
1820 - Horatio Gouverneur Wright, Union Major General
1831 - Philip Henry Sheridan, Union Major General
1835 - Charles Ewing, Union Brigadier General
1909 - Obafemi Awolowo Nigeria, President of Nigeria (1979-83)
1917 - J. A. Mommersteeg, Dutch Assistant Secretary of Defense (KVP)
1921 - Oliver Wright British Ambassador (To US)
1923 - Ed McMahon, TV host (Johnny Carson Show, Star Search)
1924 - William H. Webster, judge/head FBI/CIA
1926 - Alan Greenspan, economist/Presidential advisor (Federal Reserve Board)
1926 - Elwood H. [Bud] Hillis (Representative-IN)
1927 - Leroy Gordon Cooper, Jr., USAF/astronaut (Mercury 9, Gemini 5)
1929 - Hal Miller, British MP; Ho Dam, North Korean Secretary of State (1970-83); Thomas S. Foley (Representative-WA, 1965-94)/majority whip/Speaker of House
1933 - Heiko Wierenga, Dutch social-democrat mayor of Enschede (1977-94)
1933 - William Davis author/broadcaster (Battle at Bull Run)
1936 - A. "Bram" Stemerdink, Dutch minister of Defense (PvdA)
1936 - Marion S. Barry (Mayor-DC)
1937 - Valentina V. Tereshkova-Nikolayev, 1st woman in space (Vostok 6)
1939 - Christopher Bond (Senator-MO)
1941 - Ann Winterton British MP
1946 - Patrick Pierre Roger Baudry Cameroon, astronaut (STS 18)
Passings1615 - Pieter Both, Dutch Admiral/1st Governor-General (East Indies, 1609-14), drowns
1754 - Henry Pelham, English premier (1745, 46-54), Gin Act, dies at about 57
1836 - Davy Crockett, US pioneer (Alamo), killed in battle at 49
1900 - Gottlieb Daimler, designed 1st motorcycle, dies at 65
1917 - Jules HPFX Vandenpeereboom, premier of Belgium (1899), dies at 73
1932 - John Philip Sousa, US composer (Stars & Stripes Forever), dies at 77
1933 - Anton J. Cermak, US mayor of Chicago, murdered
1941 - John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum, sculptor (Mount Rushmore), dies at 73
1945 - Jan Thijssen Dutch resistance fighter, executed at Savage Farm
1963 - Kornelis ter Laan, 1st Dutch socialist mayor (Zaandam), dies at 91
1964 - King Paul I of Greece (1947-64), dies at 62
1968 - Joseph Martin, Jr., Speaker of the House, dies at 83
1981 - Klaus Grabowski, child molester, shot by parent
1982 - Ayn Rand author-philosopher (The Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged), dies in New York at 77
1984 - Martin Niemöller German submarine captain/anti-Nazi minister, dies at 92
1993 - Nicholas Ridley English Minister of Finance, dies at 64
1994 - Tengis Abuladze Georgia SSR MP (Penalty), dies at 71
1996 - Douglas Patrick Thomas Jay, politician, dies at 88
1997 - Jagan Guyanes, Prime Minister of Guyana (1953, 57-64); Michael Manley, Jamaican Prime Minister (PNP, 1972-80, 89-92)
1998 - Adem Jasari, Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) leader, killed
Reported Missing in Action1967Carpenter, Howard B.,
US Army SF (OH); KIA, body not recovered
Small, Burt C.,
US Army SF (GA); known to be captured
1968Anselmo, William F.,
USAF (CO); C123K shot down (w/Rios), KIA, body not recovered
Colombo, Gary Lewis,
USMC (WA); CH46A shot down, KIA, body not recovered
Lopez, Robert,
US Army SF (WA); CH46A shot down (w/Seward) - remains ID'd June, 2000
Mitchell, Gilbert L.,
USN (CA); A6A shot down (co-pilot, w/Nelson), KIA, body not recovered
Nelson, Richard C.,
USN (PA); A6A shot down (pilot, w/Mitchell) - remains returned July, 1984
Rios, Noel L,
USAF (NJ); C123K shot down (w/Anselmo), KIA, body not recovered
Seward, William H.,
USMC (GA); CH46A shot down (w/Lopez) - remains ID'd June, 2000
1969Coleman, Jimmy L.,
US Army (AL); shot on bridge, fell off - presumed KIA, body not recovered
McDonnell, John T.,
US Army (TX); AH1G shot down
1970Kusaka, Akira,
Civilian-Fuji Television (Japan); not on official lists
1971 Hummel, John F.,
US Army (TX); AH1G shot down (pilot, w/Milliner)
Milliner, William P.,
US Army (KY); AH1G shot down (co-pilot, w/Hummel)
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