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1200: In China, sunglasses are invented :cool: :|\\ :sunny: 1887: Clay Allison, gunfighter, dies in a wagon accident in Pecos, Texas. Reburied in 1975, his tombstone reads ""Gentleman and Gunfighter" who "never killed a man that did not need killing.":hmmm: Now that's the Code of the West! 1898; Teddy Roosevelt and the Rough Riders take San Juan Hill in Cuba in the Spanish American War. Teddy is awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor posthumously in 2001-recieved by his great-grandson Tweed Roosevelt.http://www.burnpit.us/sites/default/...elt_103_02.jpg 1916: 07:30 AM the Battle of the Somme begins...
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1863 - The Battle of Gettysburg begins
1915 - Leutnant Kurt Wintgens scores the first aerial victory with a synchronised machine gun on his Fokker Eindecker. 1916 - First day of the Battle of the Somme, 19,000 British soldiers are killed and 40,000 wounded. |
70 - Roman General Titus and his forces set up battering rams to assault the walls of Jerusalem
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Agfa-Gevaert is "born"!
For the west-german New-Agfa that caused the buying up of smaller manufacturers competing with overseas company doing the same in Germany. And striving for a final solution for their legal issues with their "mother", the east-german Old-Agfa. Which themselves were interested in such settlement too. But this would not be enough. So the idea came up again to form an alliance with their major european competitor: the belgian Gevaert. Both companies were of about equal size, both in a strong process of growth. The same time they differed in the markets they meanwhile got their stronghold: Agfa was strongest with consumers, Gevaert with non consumer markets. In secrecy forms of collaboration were devised which ended in the merger of the two in 1964. Due to the legal situation then in Europe the founding of two new companies on shares was planned: Agfa-Gevaert AG and Gevaert-Agfa NV. Two entities in which Agfa and Gevaert put their plants whereas the shares of each entity were split 50/50. Together a much stronger No. 2 in the western world emerged, gaining 25% of the production of Kodak. https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/i...084bqtmh3jVO_y From the APUG post! |
1867- Canada becomes a nation.
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Operation Crossroads: the mid Pacific ain't so "mid'
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963 - The imperial army proclaims Nicephorus Phocas to be Emperor of the Romans on the plains outside Cappadocian Caesarea.
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A pellet gun or a sextant-stay focused
1926: The United States Army Air Corps is created. 1937: Amelia Earhart disappears over the Pacific Ocean while attempting the first round the world trip along the equator-probably without a Link 12 bubble sextant... 1982: Larry Walters of San Pedro California uses a lawn chair with 45 helium filled balloons to rise to 16,000 feet and lands eight miles away in Long Beach. "After 45 minutes in the sky, he shot several balloons, and then accidentally dropped his pellet gun overboard. He descended slowly, until the balloons' dangling cables got caught in a power line, causing a 20-minute blackout in a Long Beach neighborhood. Walters was able to climb to the ground. The lawn chair used in the flight was reportedly given to an admiring boy named Jerry, though Walters regretted doing so when the Smithsonian Institution asked him to donate it to its museum. :salute:Twenty years later, Larry, by then an adult, sent an email to Mark Barry, a pilot who had documented Walters's story and dedicated a website to it, and identified himself. The chair was still sitting in his garage, attached to some of the original tethers and water jugs used as ballast. The chair is now on loan to the San Diego Air & Space Museum, on exhibition through 2014." Lawnchair Larry" died, sadly, in 1993 at age 44. A former truck driver and security officer like myself, who dared 'rise above it all-California style' he crosses my thoughts often to this day. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Walters . As to the Army Air Corps: My gratitude! My dad, a Pratt chemistry-math engineer grad, signed up for the army after Pearl Harbor along with his classmates. In its wisdom, the army assigned them to chemical weapons ie flame throwers for use against pillboxes-an expendable one-way-trip up the beach to a pillbox slit-and a preferred Jap sniper's target, especially in the Pacific Island campaigns. The heavens opened!: My dad, after basic, transferred to the Air Corps; completed OCS and became an Engineer/Navigator (Short crews in Ferry Command) on B25's and 29's rising to 1st Lt. He never saw any of his classmates again... His offices in the 40's: The navigation station http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...g_B-29_Nav.jpgand the engineer station on B-29's http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...29_FEPanel.jpg The top gun turret came and went; the navigation dome (sextants) stayed...the Link model 12 bubble sextant, obviously the 'weapon of choice' across the wide Pacific; and used on the Enola Gay too. The devil is in the details:hmmm: and Nav math is a lot of details: 5 degrees of variation can be the difference between Howland island or(possibly) ditching at Gardiner Island 500 miles away(Earhart?)...-thanks Dad!:salute: http://www.collectair.com/images/linka12.jpg |
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683 - St Leo II ends his reign as Catholic Pope
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A myth of the Lost Cause-not really Pickett's Charge!
^That's Armistead in the picture not Pickett!:D" As soldiers straggled back to the Confederate lines along Seminary Ridge, Lee feared a Union counteroffensive and tried to rally his center; Pickett was inconsolable. When Lee told Pickett to rally his division for the defense, Pickett allegedly replied, "General Lee, I have no division." Pickett's official report for the battle has never been found. It is rumored that Gen. Lee rejected it for its bitter negativity and demanded that it be rewritten, and an updated version was never filed." Not without a (very) dry wit of his own as other post war Confederates commented on the war: Asked by reporters why Pickett's Charge failed, Pickett frequently replied: "I've always thought the Yankees had something to do with it.":hmmm: General Lee lost 23 battle flags in Pickett's Charge -- more than he had lost in the previous 14 months combined. IMHO: it should have been called Longstreet's Charge; but he successfully shifted responsibility-and blame-to his artillery chief, Col Alexander, and wrote better postwar accounts in defense of his actions as R.E.Lee's "old War Horse"... Pickett, who wrote none, died in 1875. In the end, the man who knew best, said it best, to returning Gen. Cadmus Wilcox: "It has all been my fault"- R.E. Lee http://www.mwclarkson.com/2013/07/the-man-who-lost-gettysburg/ http://july1863.homestead.com/files/pickettcharge4.giffrom the 300' Cyclorama painting at Gettysburg Museum-the 'High water mark of the Confederacy' at the wall 6/3/1863. A day's simple plan-the flank attacks having failed-break their center:http://www.thomaslegion.net/sitebuil...charge1863.gif
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"Lafayette We are here"!
1917: On July 4, U.S. troops make their first public display of WWI, marching through the streets of Paris to the grave of the Marquis de Lafayette, a French aristocrat and general of the American Revolutionary army. 1826: Presidents John Adams and Thomas Jefferson die. 1831: President James Monroe, the last US president who was a Revolutionary veteran dies...they go in threes on the fourth?! At least his Doctrine endures!:timeout:
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836 - Pactum Sicardi, peace between the Principality of Benevento and the Duchy of Naples
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Born on the 4th of July
1802: the United State Military Academy at West Point opens; 1863: The Siege of Vicksburg ends: "The Father of Waters (Mississippi) flows unvexed once more"; 1872: Calvin Coolidge the 30th president gets it right and is BORN-Unlike some presidents, “Silent Cal” Coolidge wasn’t known for making memorable statements. The most famous quote associated with him is a line about business being the business of America.
That line is often cited “The business of America is business” or “The business of the American people is business.” In fact, both of those versions are misquotes. They aren’t radically different from what he actually said, which was “the chief business of the American people is business.” Yeah BBY-'Monkey business"! 1960; the fifty star flag recognizing Hawaiian statehood is unfurled- President Clinton later issues an official apology to the Native Hawaiians in 1993 for our annexation in 1893- essentially pineapple fueled 'monkey business'. At least President Grover Cleveland was an outspoken anti-imperialist and thought Americans had acted shamefully in Hawaii. He withdrew the annexation treaty from the Senate and ordered an investigation into potential wrong doings but the business of Manifest Destiny overruled... and I need a good vacation spot (Kauai) to escape all these California tourists!:doh: |
July 5
1806 - A Spanish army repelled the British during their attempt to retake Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1940 - During World War II, Britain and the Vichy government in France broke diplomatic relations. 1941 - German troops reached the Dnieper River in the Soviet Union. 1943 - The battle of Kursk began as German tanks attack the Soviet salient. It was the largest tank battle in history. |
1295 - Scotland and France form an alliance, the beginnings of the Auld Alliance, against England.
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July 6
1483 - King Richard III of England was crowned.
1699 - Captain William Kidd, the pirate, was captured in Boston, MA and deported back to England. 1777 - British forces captured Fort Ticonderoga during the American Revolution. 1917 - During World War I, Arab forces led by T.E. Lawrence captured the port of Aqaba from the Turks. 1942 - Diarist Anne Frank and her family took refuge from the Nazis in Amsterdam. |
Politcs, death & sixgun sangfroid
1535: Sir Thomas More is executed for treason for failing to sign Henry VIII's Act of Supremacy. At one point Lord Chancellor of England: A man of character, More had charm, unfailing humor, piercing wit, and a fearlessness that enabled him to jest even on the scaffold. His Utopia (published in Latin) is a picture of an ideal state founded entirely on reason.:timeout: His wit is immortal: at the scaffold he said to the attending officer: "You must help me to go up (the steps to the block) as for my coming down, I may shift for myself!":huh: 1944: Georges Mandel, France's minister of colonies and vehement opponent of the armistice with Germany, is executed in a wood outside Paris by collaborationist French. Mandel escaprd to Morocco, where he was arrested and sent back to France and imprisoned. He handed over to the Germans, and put in concentration camps in Oranienburg and Buchenwald. On July 4, 1944, he was shipped back to Paris, where the French paramilitary pro-Vichy "Milice", took him out to a wood and shot him. As he was being handed over to his countrymen by the German SS, he said: "To die is nothing. What is sad is to die without seeing the liberation of the country and the restoration of the Republic.":huh: 1998: Leonard Frank Sly passes away. AKA Roy Rogers set the standard for the Code of the West, not the least of which was staying married to Dale Evans! The star of 87 movies and a TV show; with his band, The Sons of the Pioneers: what all-American boy didn't have Tumblin' Tumbleweeds, Ghostriders in the Sky and a Palomino steed in his own fantasy inventory: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQc5gDXQGIs 'Happy Trails' to you' ol' Pard!:salute: http://media2.s-nbcnews.com/j/MSNBC/...1.grid-5x2.jpg
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1189 - Richard the Lionheart is crowned King of England.
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