CMRivdogs Posted February 2 Author Posted February 2 https://bsky.app/profile/revwar250.bsky.social/post/3lh5euc3dj62z The Association had already banned importation since December 1, but until now, shipments in violation of the ban were still allowed to land. Such shipments were confiscated and sold at auction, with profits being donated to the people of Boston. 1 Quote
CMRivdogs Posted February 2 Author Posted February 2 Quote On February 2, 1887, Groundhog Day, featuring a rodent meteorologist, is celebrated for the first time at Gobbler’s Knob in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. According to tradition, if a groundhog comes out of its hole on this day and sees its shadow, it gets scared and runs back into its burrow, predicting six more weeks of winter weather; no shadow means an early spring. Groundhog Day has its roots in the ancient Christian tradition of Candlemas, when clergy would bless and distribute candles needed for winter. The candles represented how long and cold the winter would be. Germans expanded on this concept by selecting an animal—the hedgehog—as a means of predicting weather. Once they came to America, German settlers in Pennsylvania continued the tradition, although they switched from hedgehogs to groundhogs, which were plentiful in the Keystone State. Quote On February 2, 1876, the National League of Professional Baseball Clubs, which comes to be more commonly known as the National League (NL), is formed. The American League (AL) was established in 1901 and in 1903, the first World Series was held. The first official game of baseball in the United States took place in June 1846 in Hoboken, New Jersey. In 1869, the Cincinnati Red Stockings became America’s first professional baseball club. In 1871, the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players was established as the sport’s first “major league.” Five years later, in 1876, Chicago businessman William Hulbert formed the National League of Professional Baseball Clubs to replace the National Association, which he believed was mismanaged and corrupt. The National League had eight original members: the Boston Red Stockings (now the Atlanta Braves), Chicago White Stockings (now the Chicago Cubs), Cincinnati Red Stockings, Hartford Dark Blues, Louisville Grays, Mutual of New York, Philadelphia Athletics and the St. Louis Brown Stockings. https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/day/february-2 1 Quote
CMRivdogs Posted February 3 Author Posted February 3 1959: Buffy Holly, Richie Valens and JP "The Big Bopper" Richardson die when their chartered plane crashed during a flight from Mason City, Iowa to Moorhead, Minnesota. Richardson convinced Crickets band member Waylon Jennings to give up his seat, Valens won a coin toss for the third passenger. Don McLean memorialized the three in his 1972 hit American Pie, calling February 3, 1959 "the day the music died" In one of the most famous crimes of post-Revolution America, Barnett Davenport commits a mass murder in rural Connecticut. Caleb Mallory, his wife, daughter-in-law, and two grandchildren were killed in their home by their boarder, Davenport. It would contribute to a change in the way the young nation views crime and criminals. Davenport, born in 1760, enlisted in the Continental army as a teenager and had served at Valley Forge and Fort Ticonderoga. In the waning days of the war with the British, he came to live in the Mallory household. Today, Davenport’s crime might be ascribed to some type of post-war stress syndrome, but at the time it was the source of a different sociological significance. On February 3, apparently unprovoked, Davenport beat Caleb Mallory to death. He then beat Mallory’s seven-year-old grandchild with a rifle and killed his daughter-in-law. Davenport looted the home before setting it on fire, killing two others. https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/day/february-3 1 Quote
oblong Posted February 3 Posted February 3 I watched La Bamba a few years ago again for the first in about 25 years and damn what a great movie. Also about 10 years ago I saw Los Lobos open for another band and became a big fan of theirs. Have seen them 3 times. I wish the movie was streaming but I know with song rights it's complicated. I just purchased Eddie and the Cruisers last week as I've been jonesing to watch that. I think the song Runaround Sue is preventing that from being available. 1 Quote
CMRivdogs Posted February 4 Author Posted February 4 2/4/1789 Quote George Washington, the commander of the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War, is unanimously elected the first president of the United States by all 69 presidential electors who cast their votes. John Adams of Massachusetts, who received 34 votes, was elected vice president. The electors, who represented 10 of the 11 states that had ratified the U.S. Constitution, were chosen by popular vote, legislative appointment, or a combination of both four weeks before the election. Quote On February 4, 1974, Patty Hearst, the 19-year-old granddaughter of newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst, is kidnapped from her apartment in Berkeley, California, by three armed strangers. 2/4/1861 Quote In Montgomery, Alabama, delegates from South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia and Louisiana convene in Montgomery, Alabama to establish the Confederate States of America. Quote On February 4, 1922, the Ford Motor Company acquires the failing luxury automaker Lincoln Motor Company for $8 million. Henry Leland, a founder of the Cadillac auto brand, established the Lincoln Motor Company in 1917; he reportedly named the new venture after his hero, President Abraham Lincoln. Henry Ford’s son, Edsel (1893-1943), was instrumental in convincing his father to buy Lincoln and played a significant role in its development as Ford’s first luxury division. Edsel Ford had succeeded his father as company president in January 1919, after the elder Ford resigned following a disagreement with a group of stockholders. However, father and son soon managed to purchase the stock of these minority investors and regain control of the company. One of Edsel Ford’s major contributions as president of Ford was the styling of cars, which he believed could be good-looking as well as functional. Quote
CMRivdogs Posted February 5 Author Posted February 5 Quote On February 5, 1777, Georgia formally adopts a new state constitution and becomes the first U.S. state to abolish the inheritance practices of primogeniture and entail. Primogeniture ensured that the eldest son in a family inherited the largest portion of his father’s property upon the father’s death. The practice of entail, guaranteeing that a landed estate remain in the hands of only one male heir, was frequently practiced in conjunction with primogeniture. (Virginia abolished entail in 1776, but permitted primogeniture to persist until 1785.) Georgians restructured inheritance laws in Article LI of the state’s constitution by abolishing entail in all forms and proclaiming that any person who died without a will would have his or her estate divided equally among their children; the widow shall have a child’s share, or her dower at her option. Quote With more than a two-thirds majority, Congress overrides President Woodrow Wilson’s veto of the previous week and passes the Immigration Act of 1917. The law required a literacy test for immigrants and barred Asiatic laborers, except for those from countries with special treaties or agreements with the United States, such as the Philippines. https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/immigration-act-passed-over-wilsons-veto Quote On February 5, 1937, President Franklin Roosevelt announces a plan to expand the Supreme Court to as many as 15 judges, allegedly to make it more efficient. Critics immediately charged that Roosevelt was trying to “pack” the court and thus neutralize Supreme Court justices hostile to his New Deal. During the previous two years, the high court had struck down several key pieces of New Deal legislation on the grounds that the laws delegated an unconstitutional amount of authority to the executive branch and the federal government. Flushed with his landslide reelection in 1936, President Roosevelt issued a proposal in February 1937 to provide retirement at full pay for all members of the court over 70. If a justice refused to retire, an “assistant” with full voting rights was to be appointed, thus ensuring Roosevelt a liberal majority. Most Republicans and many Democrats in Congress opposed the so-called “court-packing” plan. https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/roosevelt-announces-court-packing-plan Quote
CMRivdogs Posted February 5 Author Posted February 5 5 FEBRUARY 1775, LONDON: “I cannot but lament with you the impending Calamities Britain and her Colonies are about to suffer, from great Imprudencies on both Sides,” Benjamin Franklin writes to his friend Joseph Galloway in Philadelphia. buff.ly/3PnJUPO Those arising there, are more in your View; these here, which I assure you are very great, in mine. Passion governs, and she never governs wisely. What we can’t remedy we must endeavour to bear. … “I have however generally strong Hopes amounting almost to an Assurance, that tho’ we may suffer much for a while, America will finaly be greatly benefited by her present Difficulties, and rise superior to them all.” 1 Quote
CMRivdogs Posted February 6 Author Posted February 6 February 6 https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history Quote On February 6, 1952, after a long illness, King George VI of Great Britain and Northern Ireland dies in his sleep at the royal estate at Sandringham. Princess Elizabeth, the older of the king’s two daughters and next in line to succeed him, was in Kenya at the time of her father’s death; she was officially crowned Queen Elizabeth II on June 2, 1953, at age 27. Quote During the Revolutionary War, representatives from the United States and France sign the Treaty of Amity and Commerce and the Treaty of Alliance in Paris. The Treaty of Amity and Commerce recognized the United States as an independent nation and encouraged trade between France and the America, while the Treaty of Alliance provided for a military alliance against Great Britain, stipulating that the absolute independence of the United States be recognized as a condition for peace and that France would be permitted to conquer the British West Indies. On February 6, 1778, the treaties of Amity and Commerce and Alliance were signed, and in May 1778 the Continental Congress ratified them. One month later, war between Britain and France formally began when a British squadron fired on two French ships. During the American Revolution, French naval fleets proved critical in the defeat of the British, which culminated in the Battle of Yorktown in October 1781. Quote The first organized immigration of freeborn Black Americans to Africa from the United States departs New York harbor on a journey to Freetown, Sierra Leone, in West Africa. The immigration was largely the work of the American Colonization Society, a U.S. organization founded in 1816 by Robert Finley to return formerly enslaved African people to Africa. However, the expedition was also partially funded by the U.S. Congress, which in 1819 had appropriated $100,000 to be used in returning displaced Africans, illegally brought to the United States after the abolishment of the slave trade in 1808, to Africa. Quote
CMRivdogs Posted February 6 Author Posted February 6 Quote The imperial government will not repeal the Tea Act or the Coercive Acts until the tea has been paid for; but Franklin is adamant that the colonists will never reimburse the East India Company for the tea until after the acts have been repealed. 1 Revolutionary War 250 @revwar250.bsky.social · 7m Fothergill is clear that the deadlock is “not owing to our want of attention or willingness to promote a reconciliation; nor to any opposite or refractory disposition in” Franklin (whose name he does not put into writing). 1 Revolutionary War 250 @revwar250.bsky.social · 7m And to his credit, Fothergill stresses to Dartmouth that it’s pointless to try to elicit from Franklin or other colonial agents concessions that the colonies themselves would find unacceptable, and that the Continental Congress is representative of the sentiments in British America: 1 Revolutionary War 250 @revwar250.bsky.social · 7m “To ask for any thing less [than repeal prior to negotiation], however easily consented to here, would not be satisfactory on the other side; 1 Revolutionary War 250 @revwar250.bsky.social · 7m “and therefore an assembly of delegates authorised to treat upon the means of establishing a good understanding between the parties at variance, without first removing this obstacle, would be wholly ineffectual. 1 Revolutionary War 250 @revwar250.bsky.social · 7m “We found that the delegates to the late congress were chosen in the respective provinces by the people who have a right to vote for representatives, and in general, by no other; so that whatever may be thrown out to the contrary, we apprehend will be found not to be authentick.” 1 Revolutionary War 250 @revwar250.bsky.social · 7m Fothergill’s acknowledgement that the Patriot movement is not the tool of a small elite cabal, including the Patriots’ spokesmen in London, is not something every government advisor is willing to say. John Fothergill’s letter to the Earl of Dartmouth: buff.ly/403aiDE Quote
CMRivdogs Posted February 6 Author Posted February 6 Quote Revolutionary War 250 @revwar250.bsky.social · 46m “For if the parliament has not a legal authority to overturn their constitution, and subject them to such acts as are lately passed, 1 Revolutionary War 250 @revwar250.bsky.social · 46m “every man, who accepts of any commission and takes any steps to carry those acts into execution, is guilty of overt acts of treason and rebellion against his majesty, his royal crown and dignity, as much as if he should take arms against his troops, or attempt his sacred life.” 1 Here's a link to Adam's letter https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/06-02-02-0072-0004 Quote Obsta principiis—Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people. When the people give way, their deceivers, betrayers and destroyers press upon them so fast that there is no resisting afterwards. The nature of the encroachment upon [the] American constitution is such, as to grow every day more and more encroaching. Like a cancer, it eats faster and faster every hour. The revenue creates pensioners, and the pensioners urge for more revenue. The people grow less steady, spirited and virtuous, the seekers more numerous and more corrupt, and every day increases the circles of their dependants and expectants, untill virtue, integrity, public spirit, simplicity, frugality, become the objects of ridicule and scorn, and vanity, luxury, foppery, selfishness, meanness, and downright venality, swallow up the whole society. Quote
Dan Gilmore Posted February 6 Posted February 6 Thanks-sadly that last passage has strong application to our current abandonment of reason or fairness. 1 Quote
CMRivdogs Posted February 7 Author Posted February 7 February 7 Quote In London on February 7, 1775, "An Imaginary Speech" is published in defense of American courage. The text is widely attributed to Benjamin Franklin, but some scholars argue that he may not have been the author. Franklin’s speech was intended to counter an unnamed officer’s comments to Parliament that the British need not fear the colonial rebels, because “Americans are unequal to the People of this Country [Britain] in Devotion to Women, and in Courage, and worse than all, they are religious.” Franklin responded to the three-pronged critique with his usual wit and acuity. Noting that the colonial population had increased while the British population had declined, Franklin concluded that American men must therefore be more “effectually devoted to the Fair Sex” than their British brethren. As for American courage, Franklin relayed a history of the Seven Years’ War in which the colonial militia forever saved blundering British regulars from strategic error and cowardice. With poetic flare, Franklin declared, “Indiscriminate Accusations against the Absent are cowardly Calumnies.” In truth, the colonial militias were notoriously undisciplined and ineffective at the beginning of the Seven Years’ War. New Englanders, unused to taking orders and unfamiliar with the necessary elements of military life, brought illness upon themselves when they refused to build latrines and were sickened by their own sewage. During the American Revolution, Washington repeated many of the same complaints spoken by British officers when he attempted to organize American farmers into an effective army. With regard to religion, Franklin overcame his own distaste for the devout and reminded his readers that it was "Zealous Puritans that had rid Britain of the despised King Charles I." Franklin surmised that his critic was a Stuart [i.e. Catholic] sympathizer, and therefore disliked American Protestants, “who inherit from those Ancestors, not only the same Religion, but the same Love of Liberty and Spirit.” Quote On February 7, 1964, Pan Am Yankee Clipper flight 101 from London Heathrow lands at New York’s Kennedy Airport—and “Beatlemania” arrives. It was the first visit to the United States by the Beatles, a British rock-and-roll quartet that had just scored its first No. 1 U.S. hit six days before with “I Want to Hold Your Hand.” At Kennedy, the “Fab Four”—dressed in mod suits and sporting their trademark pudding bowl haircuts—were greeted by 3,000 screaming fans who caused a near riot when the boys stepped off their plane and onto American soil. Quote On February 7, 1962, President John F. Kennedy's Proclamation 3447 goes into effect, broadening the United States' restrictions on trade with Cuba. The ensuing embargo, which effectively restricts all trade between Cuba and the United States, has had profoundly negative effects on the island nation's economy and shaped the recent history of the Western Hemisphere. Quote While in orbit 170 miles above Earth, Navy Captain Bruce McCandless II becomes the first human being to perform an untethered spacewalk, when he exits the U.S. space shuttle Challenger and maneuvers freely, using a bulky white jet pack of his own design. McCandless orbited Earth in tangent with the shuttle at speeds greater than 17,500 miles per hour—the speed at which satellites normally orbit Earth—and flew up to 320 feet away from the Challenger. After an hour and a half of testing and flying the jet-powered backpack and admiring Earth, McCandless safely reentered the shuttle. Later that day, Army Lieutenant Colonel Robert Stewart tried out the jet pack, which was a device regarded as an important step toward future operations to repair and service orbiting satellites and to assemble and maintain large space stations. It was the fourth orbital mission of the space shuttle Challenger. Quote
CMRivdogs Posted February 8 Author Posted February 8 February 8 Quote On February 8, 1943, Japanese troops evacuate Guadalcanal, leaving the island in Allied possession after a prolonged campaign. The American victory paved the way for other Allied wins in the Solomon Islands. Quote 1887 In a well-meaning but ultimately flawed attempt to assimilate Native Americans, President Grover Cleveland signs an act to end tribal control of reservations and divide their land into individual holdings. Named for its chief author, Senator Henry Laurens Dawes from Massachusetts, the Dawes Severalty Act reversed the long-standing American policy of allowing Indian tribes to maintain their traditional practice of communal use and control of their lands. Instead, the Dawes Act gave the president the power to divide Indian reservations into individual, privately owned plots. The act dictated that men with families would receive 160 acres, single adult men were given 80 acres, and boys received 40 acres. Women received no land. The most important motivation for the Dawes Act was Anglo-American hunger for Indian lands. The act provided that after the government had doled out land allotments to the Indians, the sizeable remainder of the reservation properties would be opened for sale to whites. Consequently, Indians eventually lost 86 million acres of land, or 62 percent of their total pre-1887 holdings. Quote On February 8, 1725, Peter the Great, emperor of Russia, dies and is succeeded by his wife, Catherine I. The reign of Peter, who became sole czar in 1696, was characterized by a series of sweeping military, political, economic, and cultural reforms based on Western European models. Russian victories in major conflicts with Persia and the Ottoman Empire greatly expanded Peter’s empire, and the defeat of Sweden in the Great Northern War won Russia direct access to the Baltic Sea. Here, Peter founded the new Russian capital of St. Petersburg, and Russia became a major European power–politically, culturally, and geographically. In 1721, Peter abandoned the traditional Russian title of czar in favor of the European-influenced title of emperor. Four years later, he died. Quote
CMRivdogs Posted February 8 Author Posted February 8 (edited) Quote 8 FEBRUARY 1775, BOSTON: The 23rd Regiment marches 6 miles toward Watertown & back again. “The Country people seem extremely jealous of these movements (which are more frequent than they were), as they apprehend they are intended to cover some design the General has formed.” Redcoat battalions make regular marches into the countryside, to give the men exercise and also so that General Gage has the ability to “send Regiments or Detachments to particular parts of the Country without occasioning so much as would otherwise take place.” But the people of Massachusetts see through this subterfuge immediately: “The people appear apprehensive that something particular is concealed under these movements; and there are always some persons appointed to Watch the motions and direction of the Troops.” https://bsky.app/profile/revwar250.bsky.social/post/3lhopscf4uk26 Edited February 8 by CMRivdogs Quote
CMRivdogs Posted February 9 Author Posted February 9 February 9 https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history Quote Speaking before the Ohio County Women’s Republican Club in Wheeling, West Virginia, Senator McCarthy waved before his audience a piece of paper. According to the only published newspaper account of the speech, McCarthy said that, “I have here in my hand a list of 205 [State Department employees] that were known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping the policy of the State Department.” In the next few weeks, the number fluctuated wildly, with McCarthy stating at various times that there were 57, or 81, or 10 communists in the Department of State. In fact, McCarthy never produced any solid evidence that there was even one communist in the State Department. Quote As no presidential candidate received a majority of electoral votes in the election of 1824, the U.S. House of Representatives votes to elect John Quincy Adams, who won fewer votes than Andrew Jackson in the popular election, as president of the United States. Adams was the son of John Adams, the second president of the United States. In the 1824 election, 131 electoral votes, just over half of the 261 total, were necessary to elect a candidate president. Although it had no bearing on the outcome of the election, popular votes were counted for the first time in this election. On December 1, 1824, the results were announced. Andrew Jackson of Tennessee won 99 electoral and 153,544 popular votes; John Quincy Adams of Massachusetts received 84 electoral and 108,740 popular votes; Secretary of State William H. Crawford, who had suffered a stroke before the election, received 41 electoral votes; and Representative Henry Clay of Kentucky won 37 electoral votes. Quote On February 9, 1971, pitcher Leroy “Satchel” Paige becomes the first Negro League veteran to be nominated for the Baseball Hall of Fame. In August of that year, Paige, a pitching legend known for his fastball, showmanship and the longevity of his playing career, which spanned five decades, was inducted. Joe DiMaggio once called Paige “the best and fastest pitcher I’ve ever faced.” Quote At approximately 8:12 p.m. Eastern time, Sunday, February 9, 1964, The Ed Sullivan Show returned from a commercial (for Anacin pain reliever), and there was Ed Sullivan standing before a restless crowd. He tried to begin his next introduction, but then stopped and extended his arms in the universal sign for “Settle Down.” “Quiet!” he said with mock gravity, and the noise died down just a little. Then he resumed: “Here’s a very amusing magician we saw in Europe and signed last summer….Let’s have a nice hand for him—Fred Kaps!” Roughly eight minutes before Fred Kaps took the stage, Sullivan gave his now-famous intro, “Ladies and gentlemen…the Beatles!” Quote
oblong Posted February 10 Posted February 10 Feb 9, 1773 William Henry Harrison was born. 9th US president and first to die in office. Also the shortest term, just a month. It was legend that he got pneumonia from not wearing an overcoat and getting sick from the rain during his inauguration. Later investigations determined it was septic shock due to poor sanitation. his death creates a crisis as it wasn’t a sure thing whether the VP became president or just carried out the duties as “acting president”. The cabinet resisted until the chief Justice confirmed he’s a real president if he takes the oath of office and congress passed a resolution confirming Tippecanoe is responsible for Detroit being a part of the US instead of Canada. He negotiated the treaty of springwells at Ft Wayne in Detroit which established peace with the Indians and granted pardons. 1 Quote
CMRivdogs Posted February 10 Author Posted February 10 2/10/1763 The Seven Year War, more popularly known as the French and Indian War ended with the signing of the Treaty of Paris signed by France, Great Britain and Spain. Quote In the early 1750s, France’s expansion into the Ohio River valley repeatedly brought the country into armed conflict with the British colonies. In 1756, the British formally declared war against France. In the Treaty of Paris, France lost all claims to Canada and gave Louisiana to Spain, while Britain received Spanish Florida, Upper Canada, and various French holdings overseas. The treaty ensured the colonial and maritime supremacy of Britain and strengthened the 13 American colonies by removing their European rivals to the north and the south. Fifteen years later, French bitterness over the loss of most of their colonial empire contributed to their intervention in the American Revolution on the side of the Patriots. Quote
CMRivdogs Posted February 11 Author Posted February 11 February 11 https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/day/february-11 Quote Nelson Mandela, leader of the movement to end South African apartheid, is released from prison after 27 years on February 11, 1990. In 1944, Mandela, a lawyer, joined the African National Congress (ANC), the oldest Black political organization in South Africa, where he became a leader of Johannesburg’s youth wing of the ANC. In 1952, he became deputy national president of the ANC, advocating nonviolent resistance to apartheid—South Africa’s institutionalized system of white supremacy and racial segregation. However, after the massacre of peaceful Black demonstrators at Sharpeville in 1960, Nelson helped organize a paramilitary branch of the ANC to engage in guerrilla warfare against the white minority government. Quote On February 11, 1945, a week of intensive bargaining by the leaders of the three major Allied powers ends in Yalta, a Soviet resort town on the Black Sea. It was the second conference of the “Big Three” Allied leaders—U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin—and the war had progressed mightily since their last meeting, which had taken place in Tehran in late 1943. Quote The Payola scandal reaches a new level of public prominence and legal gravity on February 11, 1960, when President Eisenhower called it an issue of public morality and the FCC proposed a new law making involvement in Payola a criminal act. What exactly was Payola? During the hearings conducted by Congressman Oren Harris (D-Arkansas) and his powerful Subcommittee on Legislative Oversight—fresh off its inquiry into quiz-show rigging—the term was sometimes used as a blanket reference to a range of corrupt practices in the radio and recording industries. But within the music business, Payola referred specifically to a practice that was nearly as old as the industry itself: manufacturing a popular hit by paying for radio play. Quote
1776 Posted February 11 Posted February 11 Fort Liberty, located in Fayetteville, NC, was renamed from the original Fort Bragg name couple of years ago. It has been announced that the army base will be reverting back to its original name, Fort Bragg. Originally named after Confederate General Braxton Bragg, the fort will now be named for a WWII soldier. Roland Leon Bragg of Maine fought in the Battle of the Bulge as a Private First Class. Bragg was a paratrooper with the 513th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 17th Airborne Division. He was credited with driving a stolen German ambulance to get a wounded soldier to an Allied hospital in Belgium, saving his life. Mr. Bragg died in his home state of Maine in 1999 of cancer. Now you know…the rest of the story. 1 Quote
CMRivdogs Posted February 11 Author Posted February 11 7 minutes ago, 1776 said: Fort Liberty, located in Fayetteville, NC, was renamed from the original Fort Bragg name couple of years ago. It has been announced that the army base will be reverting back to its original name, Fort Bragg. Originally named after Confederate General Braxton Bragg, the fort will now be named for a WWII soldier. Roland Leon Bragg of Maine fought in the Battle of the Bulge as a Private First Class. Bragg was a paratrooper with the 513th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 17th Airborne Division. He was credited with driving a stolen German ambulance to get a wounded soldier to an Allied hospital in Belgium, saving his life. Mr. Bragg died in his home state of Maine in 1999 of cancer. Now you know…the rest of the story. TBH Fort Liberty was a stupid name Quote
1776 Posted February 11 Posted February 11 Just now, CMRivdogs said: TBH Fort Liberty was a stupid name Fort Liberty had finally grown on me a little bit. The only piece of this news I’m not happy about is that the renaming has no ties to North Carolina. Quote
Tigeraholic1 Posted February 11 Posted February 11 2 hours ago, 1776 said: Fort Liberty, located in Fayetteville, NC, was renamed from the original Fort Bragg name couple of years ago. It has been announced that the army base will be reverting back to its original name, Fort Bragg. Originally named after Confederate General Braxton Bragg, the fort will now be named for a WWII soldier. Roland Leon Bragg of Maine fought in the Battle of the Bulge as a Private First Class. Bragg was a paratrooper with the 513th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 17th Airborne Division. He was credited with driving a stolen German ambulance to get a wounded soldier to an Allied hospital in Belgium, saving his life. Mr. Bragg died in his home state of Maine in 1999 of cancer. Now you know…the rest of the story. Love it. Another W for Pete! Quote
CMRivdogs Posted February 12 Author Posted February 12 (edited) February 12 https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history Future U.S. president Abraham Lincoln is born in Hodgenville, Kentucky on February 12, 1809. Quote On February 12, 2002, former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic goes on trial at The Hague, Netherlands, on charges of genocide and war crimes in Bosnia, Croatia and Kosovo. Milosevic served as his own attorney for much of the prolonged trial, which ended without a verdict when the so-called “Butcher of the Balkans” was found dead at age 64 from an apparent heart attack in his prison cell on March 11, 2006. Quote On February 12, 1909, the 100th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth, a group that included African American leaders such as W.E.B. Du Bois and Ida B. Wells-Barnett announced the formation of a new organization. Called the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, it would have a profound effect on the struggle for civil rights and the course of 20th-century American history. Quote 1793. Congress passes the first fugitive slave law, requiring all states, including those that forbid slavery, to forcibly return enslaved people who have escaped from other states to their original owners. The laws stated that “no person held to service of labor in one state, under the laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in consequence of any law or regulation therein, be discharged from such labor or service or labor, but shall be delivered up on claim of the party to whom such service or labor may be due.” Quote On February 12, 1789, Vermont Patriot Ethan Allen dies of a stroke at age 52 on his Winooski River homestead. Allen is best remembered as the patriotic leader of the Green Mountain Boys, who took the British fort at Ticonderoga with Benedict Arnold in May 1775. He also had a varied career defending his land interests in the New HampshireGrants (now part of Vermont) from any challenge. Allen, like Arnold, faced charges of treason; he attempted to negotiate terms by which Vermont could rejoin the British empire in the early 1780s when New York blocked its acceptance as one of the United States Quote During a concert staged at the Aeolian Hall in New York City on February 12, 1924, a young musician named George Gershwin, then known only as a composer of Broadway songs, seated himself at the piano to accompany the orchestra in the performance of a brand new piece of his own composition. Its title: "Rhapsody In Blue." “The audience packed a house that could have been sold out at twice the size,” wrote New York Times critic Olin Downes on February 13, 1924, of the concert. Billed as an educational event, the “Experiment In Modern Music” concert was organized by Paul Whiteman, the immensely popular leader of the Palais Royal Orchestra, to demonstrate that the relatively new form of music called jazz deserved to be regarded as a serious and sophisticated art form. The program featured didactic segments intended to make this case—segments with titles like “Contrast: Legitimate Scoring vs. Jazzing.” After 24 such stem-winders, the house was growing restless. Then came Gershwin. Edited February 12 by CMRivdogs Quote
1776 Posted February 12 Posted February 12 https://www.wral.com/video/news/local/video/15640481/ This has always interests me. Has anyone ever heard this? Quote
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