Posted on 06/24/2004 2:26:53 AM PDT by Neets
We will not tire, we will not falter, and we will not fail!
Today In History
1314 - Scottish forces led by Robert the Bruce won over Edward II of England at the Battle of Bannockburn in Scotland.
1340 - The English fleet defeated the French fleet at Sluys, off the Flemish coast.
1664 - New Jersey, named after the Isle of Jersey, was founded.
1509 - Henry VIII was crowned King of England.
1497 - Italian explorer John Cabot, sailing in the service of England, landed in North America on what is now Newfoundland.
1675 - King Philip's War began when Indians massacre colonists at Swansee, Plymouth colony.
1793 - The first republican constitution in France was adopted.
1812 - Napoleon crossed the Nieman River and invaded Russia.
1859 - At the Battle of Solferino, also known as the Battle of the Three Sovereigns, the French army led by Napoleon III defeated the Austrian army under Franz Joseph I in northern Italy.
1861 - Federal gunboats attacked Confederate batteries at Mathias Point, Virginia.
1862 - U.S. intervention saved the British and French at the Dagu forts in China.
1869 - Mary Ellen "Mammy" Pleasant officially became the Vodoo Queen in San Francisco, CA.
1896 - Booker T. Washington became the first African American to receive an honorary MA degree from Howard University.
1910 - The Japanese army invaded Korea.
1913 - Greece and Serbia annulled their alliance with Bulgaria following border disputes over Macedonia and Thrace.
1922 - The American Professional Football Association took the name of The National Football League.
1931 - The Soviet Union and Afghanistan signed a treaty of neutrality.
1940 - France signed an armistice with Italy.
1940 - TV cameras were used for the first time in a political convention as the Republicans convened in Philadelphia, PA.
1941 - U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt pledged all possible support to the Soviet Union.
1947 - Kenneth Arnold reported seeing flying saucers over Mt. Rainier, Washington.
1948 - The Soviet Union began the Berlin Blockade.
1953 - John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier announced their engagement.
1955 - Soviet MIG's down a U.S. Navy patrol plane over the Bering Strait.
1962 - The New York Yankees beat the Detroit Tigers, 9-7, after 22 innings.
1964 - The Federal Trade Commission announced that starting in 1965, cigarette manufactures would be required to include warnings on their packaging about the harmful effects of smoking.
1968 - "Resurrection City," a shantytown constructed as part of the Poor People's March on Washington D.C., was closed down by authorities.
1970 - The U.S. Senate voted overwhelmingly to repeal the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution.
1970 - The movie "Myra Breckinridge" premiered.
1971 - The National Basketball Association modified its four-year eligibility rule to allow for collegiate hardship cases.
1975 - 113 people were killed when an Eastern Airlines Boeing 727 crashed while attempting to land during a thunderstorm at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport.
1985 - Natalia Solzhenitsyn the wife of exiled, Soviet author Alexander Solzhenitsyn, became a U.S. citizen.
1997 - 18-year-old Melissa Drexler was charged with murder in the death of her baby. Drexler had given birth during her prom.
1997 - The U.S. Air Force released a report on the "Roswell Incident," suggesting the alien bodies witnesses reported seeing in 1947 were actually life-sized dummies.
1998 - AT&T Corp. struck a deal to buy cable TV giant Tele-Communications Inc. for $31.7 billion.
1998 - Walt Disney World Resort admitted its 600-millionth guest.
2002 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that juries, not judges, must make the decision to give a convicted killer the death penalty.
2002 - A painting from Monet's Waterlilies series sold for $20.2 million.
2003 - In Paris, France, manuscripts by novelist Georges Simenon brought in $325,579. The original manuscript of "La Mort de Belle" raised $81,705.
Good morning boys and girls.
Thanks for starting the thread.
Big goings on in Iraq this morning.....I need everyone to hit the threads and keep the doom and gloomers at bay......they are out in force.....wringing their hands over the new TET OFFENSIVE.
Keep them at bay?
It's hard !
PS - If we don't do anything...we'll be a socialist EU partner in a few years.
QUOTE FOR THE DAY:
"I have not yet read Mr. Clinton's book, but you can bet that my Judicial Watch attorneys will. I have learned that Bill Clinton has repeated his lies about me, and I am sickened by his continued disregard for the truth. Bill Clinton pretends to be contrite, but he continues to bear false witness against his neighbor. He is a national disgrace." - Gennifer Flowers, Bill Clinton's former long-term mistress.
Fox & Friends just concluded a discussion of Gennifer Flowers & 'the book'.
I've kilt the thread. already!
ACT hires felons to canvass neighborhoods to get out the vote...
P.S. Some of these felons are convicted sex offenders and wife beaters who are asking people for their phone numbers and Social Security Numbers...
Good morning everyone,
Nita, thanks for starting the thread. I enjoyed the "this date in history".
I've been starring at the monitor....trying to wake up. Let's just say that my sleep was disturbed by an insignificant reason.
This is a habit that will have to stop!
I woke up around 1 am, with the strangest pain in my "back" of all places.
Nothing I could do to get comfortable so I kinda slept sitting up.
All was fine this morning.
Sorry to hear about your "rude awakenings".
Mine has been falling back to sleep just as I am waking up for the morning.
Nah!
it's just too early.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, I bet I can guess...
My dog woke me up at 5:00 due to the thunder. I swear she is going to hyperventilate some time.
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