CMRivdogs Posted January 15 Author Posted January 15 (edited) A couple more notable events 1535 King Henry VIII declares himself head of the Church of England. (Henry and DJT have a few things in common, including personality) 1782 Robert Morris, Superintendent of Finance recommends to the U-S Congress the adoption of decimal coinage and a national mint 1929 Martin Luther King Jr was born in Atlanta, GA 2001 Wikipedia was launched. (And a lot of school reports became so much easier) 2009 Chesley Sullenberger lands US Airways Flight 1549 in the Hudson River shortly after takeoff. All passengers and crew survived. Edited January 15 by CMRivdogs Quote
smr-nj Posted January 15 Posted January 15 13 minutes ago, CMRivdogs said: 2009 Chesley Sullenberger lands US Airways Flight 1549 in the Hudson River shortly after takeoff. All passengers and crew survived. Wow. I remember this as if it was yesterday. It was a freezing cold day, too. It still is correctly remembered as “The Miracle on the Hudson”. 1 Quote
CMRivdogs Posted January 16 Author Posted January 16 From History.com Quote The 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, prohibiting the “manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors for beverage purposes,” is ratified by the requisite number of states on January 16, 1919. The movement for the prohibition of alcohol began in the early 19th century, when Americans concerned about the adverse effects of drinking began forming temperance societies. By the late 19th century, these groups had become a powerful political force, campaigning on the state level and calling for total national abstinence. In December 1917, the 18th Amendment, also known as the Prohibition Amendment, was passed by Congress and sent to the states for ratification. And thus a new industry began.... Incidentally, if you study the history of the Ambassador Bridge, Prohibition and the increase of traffic played a significant role in the need for construction of the crossing. One wonders whether any of the backers of American Transit Company (Builder and original owner of the bridge)had any connection with rum runners. Quote
CMRivdogs Posted January 16 Author Posted January 16 Quote 16 JANUARY 1775, LONDON: The Morning Chronicle publishes the Ladies’ Agreement of Edenton, North Carolina, whereby the women of the town pledge “not to conform to ye pernicious Custom of Drinking Tea” until the Coercive Acts are repealed. Teenager Arthur Iredell spots his sister-in-law’s maiden name among the signatories and will write to his older brother James (a future U.S. Supreme Court justice) in North Carolina: “The name of Johnston I see among others; are any of my sisters relations patriotic heroines? “Is there a female congress at Edenton, too? I hope not, for we Englishmen are afraid of the male congress, but if the ladies, who have ever since the Amazonian era been esteemed the most formidable enemies: if they, I say, should attack us, the most fatal consequence is to be dreaded. “So dextrous in the handling of a dart, each wound they give is mortal: whilst we, so unhappily formed by nature, the more we strive to conquer them, the more we are conquered. “The Edenton ladies, conscious, I suppose, of this superiority on their side, by a former experience, are willing, I imagine, to crush us into atoms by their omnipotency: “the only security on our side to prevent the impending ruin, that I can perceive, is the probability that there are but few places in America which possess so much female artillery as Edenton.” https://bsky.app/profile/revwar250.bsky.social/post/3lfufnm4cbv2r 2 Quote
oblong Posted January 16 Posted January 16 Today is the 8 year anniversary of the death of the last man to walk on the moon. Gene Cernan. I always loved his words as he was walking back up the ladder, which are on his gravestone below. His first spaceflight was Gemini IX and he nearly died. He was to do a spacewalk and they were still learning the ins and outs of how it worked. He didn't just go outside like Ed White did. He had tasks to do. What they didn't know was it was critical to have things to hold on to. Any time you put pressure or tried to touch something, you'd get pushed away. He exerted so much energy just trying to move that his visor repeatedly fogged up. His heart rate got up to 180 bpm. He was finally ordered back in. Before the mission the commander Tom Stafford was pulled aside by Deke Slayton for a morbid one on one talk. He told him "If something happens to Gene, you have to cut him loose." During all of the mission planning that kind of thing wasn't discussed. They had a lot of trouble getting back in as the spacesuit was inflated and space was so tight inside. They almost couldn't close the hatch. Or if Cernan blacked out or whatever, there was no way to get him back in and you can't re-enter the atompshere with the hatch cracked open and a body out there flapping around. In all likelihood if something like that did happen they would have tried everything until both astronauts died. For the later lunar missions they did train so that the one guy who didn't land on the moon could fly back by himself in case of a tragedy. That peson had to know the spacecraft more than the other two who could focus on the moon landing aspects. Quote
CMRivdogs Posted January 16 Author Posted January 16 I guess some things haven't changed in 250 years Quote
CMRivdogs Posted January 17 Author Posted January 17 1893 Americans overthrow Hawaiian monarchy.. Quote On the Hawaiian Islands, a group of American sugar planters under Sanford Ballard Dole overthrow Queen Liliuokalani, the Hawaiian monarch, and establish a new provincial government with Dole as president. The coup occurred with the foreknowledge of John L. Stevens, the U.S. minister to Hawaii, and 300 U.S. Marines from the U.S. cruiser Boston were called to Hawaii, allegedly to protect American lives. Quote In January 1893, a revolutionary “Committee of Safety,” organized by Sanford B. Dole, staged a coup against Queen Liliuokalani with the tacit support of the United States. On February 1, Minister John Stevens recognized Dole’s new government on his own authority and proclaimed Hawaii a U.S. protectorate. Dole submitted a treaty of annexation to the U.S. Senate, but most Democrats opposed it, especially after it was revealed that most Hawaiians did not want annexation. President Grover Cleveland sent a new U.S. minister to Hawaii to restore Queen Liliuokalani to the throne under the 1887 constitution, but Dole refused to step aside and instead proclaimed the independent Republic of Hawaii. Cleveland was unwilling to overthrow the government by force, and his successor, President William McKinley, negotiated a treaty with the Republic of Hawaii in 1897. In 1898, the Spanish-American War broke out, and the strategic use of the naval base at Pearl Harbor during the war convinced Congress to approve formal annexation. Two years later, Hawaii was organized into a formal U.S. territory and in 1959 entered the United States as the 50th state. Quote
1776 Posted January 17 Posted January 17 Forty-eight years ago today: Gary Mark Gilmore (born December 4, 1940, McCamey, Texas, U.S.—died January 17, 1977, Draper, Utah) was an American murderer whose execution by the state of Utah in 1977 ended a de facto nationwide moratorium on capital punishment that had lasted nearly 10 years. His case also attracted widespread attention because Gilmore resisted efforts made on his behalf to commute the sentence. 1 Quote
oblong Posted January 17 Posted January 17 I remember the Tommy Lee Jones movie based on that. I was 8 years old. It shook me. He won the emmy for that. Quote
1776 Posted January 17 Posted January 17 1 hour ago, oblong said: I remember the Tommy Lee Jones movie based on that. I was 8 years old. It shook me. He won the emmy for that. I followed this closely at the time. This was a front and center news piece then. The book, Executioners Song, by Norman Mailer is an excellent read on this whole story. One of the best books I have ever read. Quote
smr-nj Posted January 17 Posted January 17 2 hours ago, 1776 said: I followed this closely at the time. This was a front and center news piece then. The book, Executioners Song, by Norman Mailer is an excellent read on this whole story. One of the best books I have ever read. I read that book so long ago, but I recall also feeling that it was one of the best I’d ever read. 1 Quote
chasfh Posted January 19 Posted January 19 On 1/15/2025 at 1:47 AM, romad1 said: they keep making All-in-the-family clones but putting Tim Allen in the lead. If they are All in the Family clones, then why are they so goddamn unfunny? Quote
romad1 Posted January 19 Posted January 19 1 minute ago, chasfh said: If they are All in the Family clones, then why are they so goddamn unfunny? Tim Allen is less funny as Archie Quote
gehringer_2 Posted January 19 Posted January 19 51 minutes ago, romad1 said: Tim Allen is less funny as Archie Tim Allen is less funny as .... almost anyone. 1 Quote
CMRivdogs Posted January 19 Author Posted January 19 1809 Edgar Allen Poe was born in Boston Ma In 1824 a young Poe was part of a junior honor guard that escorted Marquis de Lafayette around Richmond, Va during Lafayette's return to the US celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Victory at Yorktown. 2 Quote
CMRivdogs Posted January 19 Author Posted January 19 1840 Charles Wilkes claims a portion of Antartica fox the US. https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/wilkes-claims-portion-of-antarctica-for-u-s?cmpid=email-hist-tdih-2025-0119|-01192025&om_rid= Quote Antarctica was discovered by European and American explorers in the early part of the 19th century, and in February 1821 the first landing on the Antarctic continent was made by American John Davis at Hughes Bay on the Antarctic Peninsula. During the next century, many nations, including the United States, made territorial claims to portions of the barely inhabitable continent. However, during the 1930s, conflicting claims led to international rivalry, and the United States, which led the world in the establishment of scientific bases, enacted an official policy of making no territorial claims while recognizing no other nation’s claims. In 1959, the Antarctic Treaty made Antarctica an international zone, set guidelines for scientific cooperation, and prohibited military operations, nuclear explosions, and the disposal of radioactive waste on the continent. Quote
1776 Posted January 19 Posted January 19 1807 Robert E. Lee born in Stratford, Virginia. I’m often about book recommendations. ‘Lee: The Last Years’ -is a very good book on Lee. The author is Charles Bracelen Flood, copyright 1981. He lived five years after Appomattox. The book is catalogues his post war life. 1 Quote
CMRivdogs Posted January 22 Author Posted January 22 1998 Theodore Kaczynski pleads guilty to all federal charges against him, acknowledging responsibility for a 17 year campaign of package bombings attributed to the "Unabomber" Quote
CMRivdogs Posted January 22 Author Posted January 22 Quote 21 JANUARY 1775, BRAINTREE, MASSACHUSETTS BAY: “The town of Boston is a spectacle worthy of the attention of a deity, suffering amazing distress, yet determined to endure as much as human nature can, rather than betray America and posterity,” writes John Adams. Adams is writing to an unknown friend in London. His letter, without his knowledge or consent, will be published (anonymously) in London in The Remembrancer in a few months. https://buff.ly/3ZFq9YQ “General Gage’s army is sickly, and extremely addicted to desertion. What would they be if things were brought to extremities? Do you think such an army would march through our woods and thickets, and country villages, to cut the throats of honest people contending for liberty?” https://bsky.app/profile/revwar250.bsky.social/post/3lgbpq6a3sg2n 1 Quote
CMRivdogs Posted January 23 Author Posted January 23 Quote 23 JANUARY 1775, LONDON: London merchants present their petition to the House of Commons for repealing the Coercive Acts and pursuing reconciliation with the American colonists. The debate that follows on when to read the petition to the House soon departs from its topic & becomes an excuse for both sides to make speeches about the government’s conduct in America. Thomas Hutchinson, witness to the debate, complains in his diary about its lack of focus. Eventually a vote is taken, with the government defeating the Opposition 197–82. https://bsky.app/profile/revwar250.bsky.social/post/3lgfzlitb2k2u Quote
CMRivdogs Posted January 23 Author Posted January 23 Quote 23 JANUARY 1775, BOSTON: The first of several pieces appears in the Boston Gazette from a Patriot calling himself Novanglus, replies to those by the Loyalist essayist “Massachusettensis.” The anonymous pen behind Novanglus is John Adams. https://buff.ly/4gr3S8b “It is not very material to enquire, as others have done, who is the author of the” Massachusettensis essays, Adams writes. In fact, he is certain it’s his former best friend, Jonathan Sewall. Historians since have believed Massachusettensis to be Daniel Leonard. Massachusettensis has previously cited the English Civil War as a lesson for why the people have no hope of success when they make war upon their rulers: In the English Civil War, Oliver Cromwell & Parliament made war on King Charles I, and defeated & beheaded him and established an English Republic. And yet eleven years later, the monarchy was restored and Charles I’s son was restored to the throne. But Adams says Massachusettensis has missed the point entirely: “But the people of England, and the cause of liberty, truth, virtue and humanity, gained infinite advantages by that resistance. “In all human probability, liberty civil and religious, not only in England but in all Europe, would have been lost. Charles would undoubtedly have established the Romish religion and a despotism as wild as any in the world. “And as England has been a principal bulwark from that period to this, of civil liberty and the protestant religion in all Europe, “if Charles’s schemes had succeeded, there is great reason to apprehend that the light of science would have been extinguished, and mankind, drawn back to a state of darkness and misery, like that which prevailed from the fourth to the fourteenth century. “It is true and to be lamented that Cromwell did not establish a government as free, as he might and ought; but his government was infinitely more glorious and happy to the people than Charles’s.” Quote
oblong Posted January 23 Posted January 23 This is a bad week in history for NASA as the Apollo 1, Challenger, and Columbia incidents occurred during this window. Today is NASA's Day of Remembrance for fallen Astronauts. It includes tributes to those who died prematurely, not just in a spacecraft. Several died in plane accidents. 2 of them (See and Bassett) were the crew of Gemini 9 and they crashed into the building in St. Louis where their spacecraft was being built. Their backup crew was right behind them and they safely landed after making a turn to try again b/c of weather. when they landed they didn't know what happened. People ran up to them asking "Which ones are you?" because they didn't know yet who the victims were. At that time Astronauts flew T-38 jets all over the country instead of commercial to save time and money in addition to staying sharp with flying time. 1 Quote
CMRivdogs Posted January 24 Author Posted January 24 From History.com Quote Larry Nassar, a former doctor at Michigan State and for USA Gymnastics, is sentenced to 40 to 175 years in prison for sexual assault on January 24, 2018. Nassar was found guilty of using his position in sports medicine to abuse hundreds of women and girls in one of the most high-profile cases to arise from the #MeToo movement. The scandal resulted not only in his imprisonment, likely for the rest of his life, but also criticism of the institutions that failed to detect and respond to his behavior. In the wake of the revelations, the president of Michigan State and the entire board of USAG resigned, while Nassar’s accusers, which number over 260, received the Arthur Ashe Courage Award. Quote On January 24, 1908, the Boy Scouts movement begins in England with the publication of the first installment of Robert Baden-Powell’s Scouting for Boys. The name Baden-Powell was already well known to many English boys, and thousands of them eagerly bought up the handbook. By the end of April, the serialization of Scouting for Boys was completed, and scores of impromptu Boy Scout troops had sprung up across Britain. In the U-S the first troops sprung up in 1910 (Feb 😎 Quote On January 24, 1781, Patriot commanders Lieutenant Colonel Light Horse Henry Lee and Brigadier General Francis Swamp Fox Marion of the South Carolina militia combine forces and conduct a raid on Georgetown, South Carolina, which is defended by 200 British soldiers. (Any one remember the Walt Disney "Swamp Fox" series on Sunday nights. Extra points if you can sing its theme song) Quote Canned beer makes its debut on January 24, 1935. In partnership with the American Can Company, the Gottfried Krueger Brewing Company delivered 2,000 cans of Krueger’s Finest Beer and Krueger’s Cream Ale to faithful Krueger drinkers in Richmond, Virginia. Ninety-one percent of the drinkers approved of the canned beer, driving Krueger to give the green light to further production. https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history Quote
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