Posted on 07/19/2012 8:26:07 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
In a few hours it will be July 20. I take note of this because I have noticed that the date of July 20 is a date in which some very unusual events have taken place.
July 20, 70 AD---Siege of Jerusalem by the Romans.
July 20, 1944---Operation Valkyrie. Assassination attempt on Hitler at his East Prussia HQ.
July 20, 1969---Man lands on the Moon.
July 20, 1973---Bruce Lee dies at age 32.
July 20, 1976---Viking I lander lands on Mars.
July 20, 1993---Vince Foster "commits suicide" in Ft. Marcy Park.
Could this not be true, historically, for any date?
Obama will keep his mouth shut?
Also on July 20, 1969, Teddy Kennedy was engaged in the full-fledged coverup of the negligent homicide of Mary Jo Kopechne.
Seriously.....July 20, 1969 is THE date for me. Neil Armstrong, closely followed by Buzz Aldrin. Man.....men.....Americans.....walking on the moon. Incredible accomplishment. I’ll never, ever forget it.
Too bad so many have.
Funny you should ask...
For those who think Obama might be the beast, as mentioned in Rev 13, he begins his forty-second month of authority tomorrow.
Rev 13:5 The beast was given a mouth to utter proud words and blasphemies and to exercise its authority for forty-two months.
20 July 1974 - Turkey invades Cyprus
That’s what I’m thinking.
Look at historical events that happened on the 4th of July.
I believe Thomas Jefferson was born and died on July 4th. One of the Mars rovers landed on the 4th.
1636 - City of Providence, Rhode Island form
1754 - George Washington gives Ft Necessity to France
1776 - Declaration of Independence-US gains independence from Britain
1836 - Wisconsin Territory forms
1845 - Texas Congress votes for annexation to US
1874 - Social Democratic Workmen’s Party of North America formed
1876 - 1st public exhibition of electric light in SF
1911 - Ty Cobb goes 0 for 4 & ends a 40 game hit streak
1936 - League of Nations starts sanctions against Italy
1942 - 1st American bombing mission over enemy-occupied Europe (WW II)
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Bruce Lee will lay siege to Ft Marcy Park.
1810 Colombia declared independence from Spain.
1861 The Congress of the Confederate States began holding sessions in Richmond, Va.
1871 British Columbia joined the confederation as a Canadian province.
1881 Sioux Indian leader Sitting Bull surrendered to federal troops.
1917 The World War I draft lottery began.
1944 Adolf Hitler was only slightly wounded when a bomb planted by would-be assassins exploded at the German leader’s Rastenburg headquarters.
1944 President Franklin D. Roosevelt was nominated for an unprecedented fourth term at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
1976 America’s Viking 1 robot spacecraft landed on Mars.
1977 A flash flood hit Johnstown, Pa., killing 80 people and causing $350 million in damage.
1990 A federal appeals court set aside Oliver North’s Iran-Contra convictions.
1993 White House deputy counsel Vince Foster was found shot to death in a park near Washington, D.C., in an apparent suicide.
1999 After 38 years at the bottom of the Atlantic, astronaut Gus Grissom’s Liberty Bell 7 Mercury capsule was recovered.
I copied this from something that said this is an AP list.
July 20, the day after the fourth anniversary of my 29th birthday . . .duh duh duhhhhhhhhh!
July 20 is the only day ever that my wife was born.
It is also the day my good friend is coming to visit, around 2 p.m.
Of course. For instance, my birthday August 3rd.
What happened on August 3rd
August 3, 0008 Roman Empire general Tiberius defeats Dalmatians on the river Bathinus.
August 3, 0435 “Deposed Patriarch of Constantinople Nestorius, considered the originator of Nestorianism, was exiled by Byzantine Emperor Theodosius II to a monastery in Egypt.”
August 3, 0881 “Battle of Saucourt-en-Vimeu, where Louis III of France defeated the Vikings, an event celebrated in the poem Ludwigslied”
August 3, 1492 “Columbus sets sail from Palos, Spain for “”Indies”””
August 3, 1492 The Jews of Spain are expelled by the Catholic Monarchs.
August 3, 1527 “First known letter was sent from North America by John Rut while at St. John’s, Newfoundland.”
August 3, 1635 “The third of the Tokugawa shoguns, Iemitsu, establishes the system of alternate attendance (sankin kotai) by which the feudal daimy are required to spend one year at Edo Castle in Tokyo and one year back home at their feudal manor, while their families remained in Tokyo as virtual political hostages. (Traditional Japanese Date: June 21, 1635).”
August 3, 1645 “Thirty Years’ War: Second Battle of Nrdlingen (Battle of Allerheim) - A French army under the command of Louis de Bourbon, Duc d’Enghien and Marshal Henri, Vicomte de Turenne attacks and defeats an Imperial army, led by Field Marshal Franz Baron (Freiherr) von Mercy at Alerheim, near Nrdlingen, Germany.”
August 3, 1678 “Robert LaSalle builds first ship in America, Griffon”
August 3, 1783 “Mount Asama erupts in Japan, killing 35,000 people.”
August 3, 1852 “First Boat Race between Yale and Harvard, the first American intercollegiate athletic event. Harvard won.”
August 3, 1852 “First intercollegiate rowing race, Harvard beats Yale by 4 lengths”
August 3, 1860 American Canoe Association founded at Lake George NY
August 3, 1860 Second Maori War begins
August 3, 1860 The Second Maori War begins in New Zealand.
August 3, 1861 “First manned balloon from a ship used to observe Confederate artillery position at Hampton Roads, VA”
August 3, 1882 Congress passes first law restricting immigration
August 3, 1900 Firestone Tire & Rubber Company founded.
August 3, 1913 Wheatland Hop Riot
August 3, 1914 “Australian government offers to place the vessels of the Royal Australian Navy under control of the British Admiralty and to raise a force of 20,000 troops in event of war”
August 3, 1914 World War I: Germany declares war against France.
August 3, 1916 “Australian Light Horse in battle of Romani, Egypt”
August 3, 1921 First aerial cropdusting in Troy Ohio to kill caterpillars
August 3, 1923 “Calvin Coolidge is sworn in as the 30th president of the United States, following the death of Warren G. Harding.”
August 3, 1923 The deceased Warren G. Harding was succeeded by Vice President Calvin Coolidge as the 30th President of the United States.
August 3, 1934 Adolf Hitler becomes the supreme leader of Germany by joining the offices of President and Chancellor into Fhrer.
August 3, 1934 “Three days of anti-Jewish rioting in Constantine, Algeria leave 23 Jews killed and 35 wounded. The pogroms are traced to Radio-Berlin and Radio-Stuttgart Nazi broadcasts.”
August 3, 1936 Jesse Owens wins the 100 meter dash by defeating Ralph Metcalfe at Berlin Olympics.
August 3, 1936 “SS Calyx, built at Eems, Germany in 1929 and renamed in 1936, she sank at the entrance to Ipswich dock. Declared a total loss and later broken up at Ipswich.”
August 3, 1936 The U.S. State Department urges Americans living in Spain to leave because of the Spanish civil war.
August 3, 1940 Lithuanian is accepted into the USSR
August 3, 1943 “A private in an army hospital in Sicily is slapped by U.S. General George S. Patton, who accused the soldier of cowardice. Patton later apologized for the incident, at the request of General Dwight D. Eisenhower.”
August 3, 1948 Whittaker Chambers accuses Alger Hiss of being a communist and a spy for the Soviet Union.
August 3, 1949 National Basketball Association is founded in the United States.
August 3, 1949 The National Basketball Association was formed.
August 3, 1950 “Elements of Marine Corps Observation Squadron, VMO-6, equipped with HO3S helicopters and OY observation planes, began operations in Korea”
August 3, 1952 15th Olympic games close in Helsinki Finland
August 3, 1954 First VTOL (Vertical Take-off & Land) airplane flown
August 3, 1955 Automobile Association of America ends support of auto racing
August 3, 1955 Hurricane Connie begins pounding US for 11 days
August 3, 1956 Willie Williams of the US sets 100 meter record at 10.1
August 3, 1958 The Billboard Hot 100 is founded
August 3, 1958 The nuclear submarine USS Nautilus travels beneath the Arctic ice cap.
August 3, 1958 The USS Nautilus (the first nuclear submarine) passes under the North Pole.
August 3, 1960 Niger gains independence from France
August 3, 1961 Number one hit on UK music charts - Eden Kane - Well I Ask You
August 3, 1963 “Allan Sherman releases hit “”Hello Mudda, Hello Fadda”””
August 3, 1963 Beatles final performance at the Cavern Club in Liverpool
August 3, 1963 Great Train Robbery in Britain
August 3, 1970 First submerged launching of Poseidon nuclear missile off Cape Kennedy
August 3, 1970 “Hurricane “”Celia”” becomes most expensive Gulf storm in history”
August 3, 1970 “Mairiam Hargrave of Yorkshire, passes her driving test on 40th try”
August 3, 1972 U.S. Senate ratifies the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
August 3, 1973 “Flash fire kills 51 at amusement park. (Isle of Man, UK)”
August 3, 1975 500 drown when 2 river boats collide & sink in China’s West River
August 3, 1975 “A privately chartered Boeing 707 impacts the mountainside near Agadir, Morocco killing 188.”
August 3, 1975 Louisiana Superdome is dedicated
August 3, 1977 Radio Shack announces TRS-80 computer. Within weeks thousands were ordered
August 3, 1977 United States Senate Hearing on MKULTRA.
August 3, 1981 “Senegalese opposition parties, under the leadership of Mamadou Dia, launches the Antiimperialist Action Front-Suxxali Reew Mi.”
August 3, 1984 365.7 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
August 3, 1985 Number one hit on UK music charts - Madonna - Into The Groove
August 3, 1989 Lawrence Delisle drives his 4 kids into river
August 3, 1990 “Radio Kuwait goes off the air, due to the Iraqi invasion”
August 3, 1990 US announces commitment of Naval forces to Gulf regions
August 3, 1991 Pan Am games open in Havana
August 3, 1996 “General William F. Garrison accepted responsibility for the outcome of the 1993 raid in Somalia, and he retired from military service.”
August 3, 1997 Oued El-Had and Mezouara massacre in Algeria; 40-76 villagers killed.
August 3, 2001 “The Real IRA detonate a car bomb in Ealing, London, U.K injuring seven people. (See 3 August 2001 Ealing bombing).”
August 3, 2004 “The pedestal of the Statue of Liberty reopens after being closed since the September 11, 2001 attacks.”
August 3, 2005 President Maaouya Ould Sid’Ahmed Taya of Mauritania is overthrown in a military coup while attending the funeral of King Fahd in Saudi Arabia.
August 3, 2009 185 people are killed in tribal clashes in South Sudan.
August 3, 2009 “A town in Qinghai, China, is sealed off after a second person dies of pneumonic plague.”
August 3, 2009 An Australian radio show is axed and presenter Kyle Sandilands sacked from a television show after a lie detector stunt sees a 14-year-old girl say she was raped so her mother could claim Pink tickets.
August 3, 2009 “Barclays posts a profit of œ2.98bn for the first half of the year, up 8% on the same period of 2008.”
August 3, 2009 Bolivia becomes the first country in the history of South America to declare the right of indigenous people to govern themselves.
August 3, 2009 “Continental Airlines Flight 128, from Rio de Janeiro to Houston, makes an emergency landing in Miami after severe turbulence, injuring dozens.”
August 3, 2009 Evidence that haggis was invented by the English is unearthed.
August 3, 2009 Georgia accuses Russia of trying to seize more of its territory as the anniversary of the 2008 war between the two countries approaches.
August 3, 2009 “Iran is reportedly ready to build a nuclear weapon, according to Western intelligence services.”
August 3, 2009 Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei formally approves the second-term presidency of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
August 3, 2009 “Several earthquakes, including one of 6.9 magnitude, hit northwestern Mexico.”
August 3, 2009 Somali pirates release a Malaysian tugboat with 11 Indonesian crew after being held for more than seven months. (
August 3, 2009 The death sentences of more than 4000 prisoners in Kenya are commuted to life imprisonment.
August 3, 2009 The Washington Post newspaper in the United States reports that officials are considering a plan to move Guant namo Bay detainees to a prison camp.
August 3, 2009 “Water supplies in Chifeng, Inner Mongolia, China, are cut off to over 580,000 people after contaminants caused the hospitalization of 4,125 people due to gastrointestinal illness.”
Not a day passes that 0bama doesn’t do act like the beast. If he’s not it, he’s a close disciple.
It is one of the greatest achievements in the history of the world.
My father worked at Rocketdyne on the F-1 rocket engine for the Saturn V.
1.52 million pounds of thrust.
The F-1 is still the most powerful rocket engine in the world.
July 20, 2012-—
Yes God, surprise us with one of your really humorous touches...like vaporizing DC...or some other really great event...
I hate to be a downer on August 3 but July 20 definitely trumps that date. Just the Moon landing alone would do it but we also have those other significant dates. For some reason I am very aware of the July 20 date.
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