I used to do some pages for photofacts. That's as close to autocad as I come.
I want one of those saberspoons. I'm going to try to find them when I go to the store. We seldom buy cereal. Hobbit Lass must have been the only child ever born who doesn't like cereal. She has to have a "real" breakfast. It must be those Kentucky genes.
On This Day In History
Birthdates which occurred on June 10:
1637 Jacques Marquette, jesuit/missionary founder (Chicago)
1706 John Dollond owner of 1st patent for achromatic lens
1735 John Morgan American physician-in-chief of Continental Army
1836 Yamaoka Tesshu Japanese swordsman, master of kendo
1895 Immanuel Velikovsky writer (Worlds in Collision)
1904 Frederick Loewe composer/partner of Learner
1910 Howlin' Wolf [Chester Arthur Burnett], Blues Genius (Evil, Big City Blues)
1911 Ralph Kirkpatrick Leominster Mass, harpsichordist
1913 Wilbur J Cohen 1st employee of Social Security System
1914 Saul Bellow author (Mr Sammler's Planet)
1921 Prince Philip Mountbatten Greece, Duke of Edinburgh, Mr Elizabeth II
1922 Judy Garland [Frances Gumm],Grand Rapids Mn., actress/singer (Wizard of Oz)
1923 Earl Hamner Jr Schuyler Va, TV narrator (The Waltons)
1923 Robert Maxwell [Jan Hoch], Czech, billionaire/CEO (NY Daily News)
1925 Nat Hentoff columnist/novelist (Village Voice, The Cold Society)
1928 Maurice Sendak NYC, author/illustrator (Where The Wild Things Are)
1929 James McDivitt Chicago, Brig Gen USAF/astronaut (Gemini 4, Apollo 9)
1933 F Lee Bailey Waltham Mass, attorney (Sam Shepard case)
1941 Shirley Alston Passaic NJ, singer (Shirelles-Soldier Boy)
1943 Jeff Greenfield NYC, media commentator/idiot (Firing Line, Nightline)
1945 Ron Glass Evansville Ind, actor (Ron-Barney Miller, New Odd Couple)
1946 Matthew Fisher England, keyboardist (Procal Harum-Conquistador)
1951 Dan Fouts NFL QB (San Diego Chargers)
1973 David Friedman LA Calif, actor (Jason-Little House on the Prairie)
1982 Tara Lipinski, Philadelphia Pa, figure skater
Deaths which occurred on June 10:
1190 Frederik I van Hohenstaufen "Barbarossa", German King, dies
1580 Lu¡s Vaz de Camoes Portugal's national poet, dies
1839 Nathaniel Pryor sgt of Lewis & Clark Expedition, dies
1903 King Alexander I & Queen Dragia of Serbia are assassinated
1924 Giacomo Matteotti Italian socialist deputy, assassinated by fascists
1941 Marcus Garvey dies at 52 in London England
1946 Jack Johnson 1st black heavyweight champion, dies in car accident
1971 Michael Rennie actor (Day the Earth Stood Still), dies at 61
1981 Russell "Lucky" Hayden actor (Judge Roy Bean), dies at 68
1982 Rainer Werner Fassbinder film-maker, dies of drug overdose at 36
1985 George Chandler actor (Lassie), dies of Alzheimer's disease at 87
1988 Louis L'Amour western writer, dies at 80 of cancer
2000 Syrian President Assad dies from a heart attack at age 69. (hip hip hooray)
2002 John Gotti (b.1940), former mob boss, died at age 61 (hip hip hooray)
2004 Ray Charles (b.1930), rhythm ‘n’ blues piano player and singer (Hit the Road Jack" & "Georgia on My Mind, & America the Beautiful"
GWOT Casualties
Iraq
10-Jun-2003 1 | US: 1 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Private 1st Class Gavin L. Neighbor Baghdad Hostile - hostile fire - RPG attack
Afghanistan
A Good Day
http://icasualties.org/oif/ Data research by Pat Kneisler
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On this day...
1610 1st Dutch settlers arrive (from NJ), to colonize Manhattan Island
1639 1st American log cabin at Fort Christina (Wilmington Delaware)
1682 Tornado in Connecticut uproots a 3' diameter oak tree
1720 Mrs Clements of England markets 1st paste-style mustard
1752 Ben Franklin's kite is struck by lightning-what a shock!
1760 NY passes 1st effective law regulating practice of medicine
1772 Burning of the Gaspee British revenue cutter by Rhode Islanders
1776 Continental Congress appoints a committee to write a Decl of Ind
1801 Tripoli declares war on US for refusing tribute (Bad Move!)
1809 1st US steamboat to a make an ocean voyage leaves NY for Phila
1846 Robert Thomson obtains an English patent on a rubber tire
1848 1st telegraph link between NYC & Chicago
1854 Georg F.B. Reiman proposes that space is curved
1854 The U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, holds its first graduation
1863 Battle of Brice's Crossroads, Miss; Forrest w/3500 defeats 8000 Feds
1865 Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde" 1st performance Munchen Germany
1871 A landing force of 110 U.S. Marines came ashore on Korea's Kangwha Island, a fortress island guarding the approaches to Seoul. The Korean Punitive Expedition was launched from an American fleet, which anchored in the Han River after the isolationist Korean government rejected U.S. diplomatic demands for an explanation of the fate of an American ship and her crew believed killed by the Koreans. In two days of fighting, the Marines and sailors captured the defensive forts on the Island, leaving 243 Koreans dead. Nevertheless, the expedition failed to open Korea to foreign trade.
1880 Charlie Jones becomes 1st to hit 2 HRs in 1 inning
1892 Wilbert Robinson of Balt Orioles sets record of 7 for 7 in 9 inning game
1898 US Marines land in Cuba, during Spanish-American War
1899 Improved Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks forms in Cincinnati
1902 Patent for window envelope granted to H.F. Callahan
1905 1st forest fire lookout tower placed in operation, Greenville, Me
1908 1st flying club, Aeronautical Society of NY, opens
1916 Great Arab Revolt begin
1924 1st political convention broadcast on radio-Republicans at Cleveland
1926 Phillies Russ Wrightstone hits for the cycle
1932 1st demonstration of artificial lightning Pittsfield Mass
1935 Dr Robert Smith & William Wilson of Akron form Alcoholics Anonymous
1940 Italy declares war on France & Britain during WW II
1942 Massacre at Lidice (Czechoslovakia) Gestapo kills 173
1943 FDR becomes 1st US pres to visit a foreign country during wartime
1943 FDR signs withholding tax bill into law (W-2 Day!)
1944 Joe Nuxhall at 15 becomes youngest ML baseball player
1946 Italian Republic established
1948 The news that the sound barrier has been broken is finally released to the public by the U.S. Air Force. Chuck Yeager, piloting the rocket airplane X-1, exceeded the speed of sound on October 14, 1947.
1953 Chinese Communist attack Outpost Harry (
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-vetscor/1420095/posts) 1955 1st separation of virus into component parts reported
1956 16th modern Olympiad equestrian events open in Stockholm
1957 Harold MacMillan becomes British PM
1957 John Diefenbacker (C) elected PM of Canada
1959 Rocky Colovito hits 4 HRs in 1 game
1964 Southern filibuster on civil rights bill ends; cloture invoked
1965 A R Klemola discovers asteroid #2370 van Altena
1966 Beatles "Paperback Writer" is released in the UK
1967 Israel, Syria, Jordan, Iraq & Egypt end "6-Day War"
1972 Hank Aaron's grandslammer (14) ties him for NL lead with Gil Hodges & moves him ahead of Willie Mays as the #2 HR hitter (649)
1973 NASA launches Radio Astronomy Explorer 49 into lunar orbit
1975 Rockefeller panel reports on 300,000 illegal CIA files on Americans
1977 Apple Computer ships its 1st Apple II
1977 James Earl Ray (Martin Luther King's killer) escapes from prison
1979 Balt Orioles pull their 8th triple play (5-4-3 vs Cleve)
1979 Pope John Paul II visits Poland
1981 Pete Rose ties Stan Musial's NL record of 3,630 hits
1982 Israeli troops reach outskirts of Beirut
1984 US missile shot down an incoming missile in space for 1st time
1985 Claus von Bulow acquitted on charges he tried to murder his wife
1985 Coca Cola announces they'd bring back their 99-year-old formula (the rule of holes)
1986 A Bartlett Giamatti becomes president of baseball's NL
1988 Greatest number of participants (31,678) on a bicycle tour (London)
1990 Rap group 2 Live crew members arrested in Fla for obscenity
1991 Mother of All Parades-NYC welcomes desert storm troops
1996 Anthony Marceca confirmed to Congress that he ran FBI background checks from the White House, using a list of White House pass holders that included many officials from the previous administration. Marceca says he looked for derogatory information and gave it to his boss, Craig Livingstone.
1996 Intel releases 200 mhz pentium chip
2001 Silvio Berlusconi (64), known as Il Cavaliere, becomes Italian premier for a 2nd time and formed his Cabinet
2002 Israeli tanks and troops attack Ramallah before sunrise Monday, surrounding the compound of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and arresting 20 suspected terrorists
2003 In Iran riot police and hard-line vigilantes clashed with teenage demonstrators who denounced supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (note Freeper on the ground reporting)
2005 Demonstrators continue protests in Iran.
Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
Argentina : Affirmation of Argentina's Rights over the Malvinas
Azores : Camoes Day (1580)
Cape Verde, Maderia : National Day (1580)
Portugal : Day of Portugal (1580)
Massachusett : Children's Day (Sunday)
Shelby, Mich : National Asparagus Festival(Thursday)
Great Britain : Queen's official birthday (National Day)(Saturday)
National Humor Week (Day 6)
National Fragrance Week (Day 6)
National Bathroom Reading Week (Day 5)
US: Iced Tea Day
National Forest System Month
Religious Observances
RC-Vatican City : Sacred Heart Day (moveable feast)
Ang : Commemoration of Ephrem of Edessa, Syria, deacon
old RC : Commemoration of St Margaret, Queen of Scotland, widow
RC : Solemnity of Corpus Christi (Body & Blood of Christ)
Religious History
1692 Bridget Bishop became the first person hanged for witchcraft, during the ordeal known to history as the 'Salem Witch Trials.' In all, 20 people died before theological jurisprudence was restored in this isolated Puritan community in Massachusetts.
1850 The American Bible Union was founded, organized by church leaders who had broken from the American and Foreign Bible Society.
1854 Eventually to become the first African- American Roman Catholic bishop, James Augustine Healy, 24, was ordained a priest in Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris.
1925 The United Church of Canada was formed, uniting both the Methodist and Presbyterian denominations of Canada. The merger also took in 3,000 independent Canadian Congregational churches.
1983 The Presbyterian Church (USA) was formed in Atlanta, through a reunification of the United Presbyterian Church (UPCUSA) and the Southern Presbyterian Church (PCUS).
Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.
Boy, 11, Crashes After Mom Lets Him Drive
A woman allowed her 11-year-old son to drive the family's minivan to his elementary school, where the boy crashed the vehicle near a group of children.
No one was hurt. The boy, however, was expelled from school, and both he and his mother were ordered to traffic court later this month.
The crash happened Monday outside St. John Fisher School on Chicago's South Side, not far from where the children were lining up to go inside. The minivan jumped the curb and hit a school zone sign as the boy tried to turn a corner, authorities said.
Police said they don't know why Erin Sarandah decided to let her son drive the couple of blocks from home to the school while she and her daughter were passengers.
"She had a license," said police spokesman Pat Camden.
Sarandah was cited for damage to property and allowing an unauthorized person to drive, Camden said. The boy received a traffic ticket for negligent driving and driving without a license.
A telephone listing for Sarandah could not immediately be found.
Thought for the day :
"The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives."
Korean war at 50/June 1953
This June 2003 Army Magazine chronology confirms Communists respect only force, applicable to the current Islamist terrorist enemy.
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65th Infantry Regiment - 3RD Infantry Division
3rd Division Command Report for June 1953 for 65th Infantry Regiment.
Presidential Unit Citation for Action on June 10th reads as follows:
Company F, 65th Infantry Regiment, 3d Division, is cited for outstanding performances of duty and extraordinary heroism in action against an armed enemy in the vicinity of Kumwha, Korea (hill 412 across from Outpost Harry), on 10 June 1953. This unit, a member of a combined attacking team, was assigned the mission of assaulting a heavily fortified enemy hill for the purpose of diverting the concentration of communist strength at a nearby strategic point. As the company moved into a forward position it encountered heavy enemy fire from the crest of the hill. While two friendly tanks departed for a point to the left of the objective, a 10-man assault team approached the crest under the support of tank, artillery, and small arms fire. The assault platoon twice placed machine guns on the eastern slope of the hill to cover the advance but these were quickly destroyed by enemy fire. As the assault group engaged the hostile defenders in close combat, the platoon leader was wounded. His men moved back 10 yards, regrouped, and again charged the cave position, killing and critically wounding its occupants with hand grenades. As the assault platoon moved along the southern slope of the ridge in an effort to pinpoint the enemy fire, they were met by intense resistance from a well-entrenched enemy on the reverse slope. Sending word for two support squads to move up, the Company Commander led his unit in a repeated attempt to rush the crest of the hill. Again encountering concentrated enemy fire, the group managed to deploy to the right and left of the eastern end of the ridge to prevent an enemy envelopment. While the platoon made ready a further attempt to capture the reverse slope position, strengthened by the support squads, a squad-leader of the first platoon moved to the forward side of the hill and discovered the location of the enemy emplacements. With this information, the assault elements again moved forward, crossed the ridge, and routed the enemy with hand grenades and small arms fire. The hard-fought positions immediately were occupied and reorganized in time to stem enemy efforts to regain them. The heroism and courage exhibited by members of this unit reflect great credit on themselves, their organization, and the military service of the United States. (General Orders 620, Headquarters Eighth United States Army, 16 September 1954.)
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Sergeant Ola L. Mize
Sergeant
Company G. 15th Inf. Reg.
3rd Infantry Division
Army Korean Conflict
10-11 June 1953
Korea
CITATION: “Sergeant Ola L. Mize, a member of Company K, 15th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division, distinguished himself by conspicuous gallantry and outstanding courage above and beyond the call of duty in action against the enemy near Surang-ni, Korea, on 10-11 June 1953. Company K was committed to the defense of “Outpost Harry,” a strategically valuable position, when the enemy launched a heavy attack. Learning that a comrade on a friendly listening post had been wounded, he moved through the intense barrage, accompanied by a medical aid man, and rescued the wounded soldier. On returning to the main position he established an effective defense system and inflicted heavy casualties against attacks from determined enemy assault forces which had penetrated into trenches within the outpost areas. During his fearless actions he was blown down by artillery and grenade blast three times but each time he dauntlessly returned to his position, tenaciously fighting and successfully repelling hostile attacks. When enemy onslaughts ceased, he took his few men and moved from bunker to bunker, firing through the apertures and throwing grenades at the foe, neutralizing their positions. When an enemy soldier stepped out from behind a comrade, prepared to fire, Sergeant Mize killed him, saving the life of his fellow soldier. After rejoining the platoon, moving from man to man, distributing ammunition and shouting words of encouragement, he observed a friendly machine gun position overrun. He immediately fought his way to the position, killing ten of the enemy and dispersing the remainder. Fighting back to the command post, and finding several friendly wounded there, he took a position to protect them. Later, securing a radio, he directed friendly artillery fire upon the attacking enemy’s routes of approach. At dawn he helped regroup for a counter-attack which successfully drove the enemy from the outpost. Sergeant Mize’s valorous conduct and unflinching courage reflect lasting glory upon himself and uphold the noble traditions of the military service.”
Colonel Mize has also been awarded these medals:
Bronze Star - Good Conduct with Two Loops - National Defense Service - Korean Service with Two Bronze Stars - United Nations Service.
Ola L. Mize was born at Albertville and attended Emma Sansom High School in Gadsden, where he entered the service.
In 1954 he was married to the former Betty Ruth Jackson and they have two daughters. He is a resident of Gadsden, Alabama.
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In a narrative written over a decade ago entitled, “The Longest Night of My Life – June 10, 1953”, Buck, who later received a Silver Star for his actions on June 10-11, wrote the following account about the events immediately prior to and immediately after a grenade came into the CP, injuring Captain Markley.
“At about 9 p.m., on June 10th, all hell broke loose with artillery fire and Chinese swarming all over. While Captain Markley and Lieutenant Richards were firing over my head to keep them out, I was on the radio calling in fire on ourselves. The next thing I heard was that unmistakable sizzle of an armed grenade behind me, and before I could complete my transmission, it went off and Markley and Richards fell. I ran to the door where I had left my carbine and caught a Chinese coming at me. Another grenade came in and I would step in the corner and put my head down against the blast and step back in the door and catch another trying to run in. This kept going on at least three or four more times before my hand and leg went numb.
I switched hands and laid the barrel of my carbine on the edge of the doorway and I let this Chinese almost run into me before I fired. The next grenade knocked me off my feet and I fell partly on the Captain. I heard some conversation outside the door and then I saw a Chinese with a flashlight coming in. I pulled the trigger on my carbine, but nothing happened. The CCF soldier started looking at the other side of the bunker and I wiped my bloody hand on my face to play dead.
He checked out and searched Lt. Richards, then Capt. Markley, and then he jerked my carbine out of my hands, went through my pockets and taking our weapons, he left. Almost immediately, two CCF came in carrying a wounded comrade, then more came in with wounded, and the next thing I felt a guard squatting near my feet. Every time he would let someone in, his rifle butt would slide up my leg that was cut up from the shrapnel. I knew if I moved, he would kill me.
Mr. Richards started coming around and was moving and groaning. After some conversation with the wounded, the guard got up and shot him. A little later, Captain Markley started to cough up something in his throat and the same thing happened to him. I could tell the Captain was still alive as I could feel him moving and due to the darkness, they couldn’t see him. A little later, a shell landed in our door and I could feel the guard lurch and fall over.
Just after daybreak the next morning, I heard GI voices outside and I could tell there was still hand-to-hand fighting in the trenches. Later a GI came through the door firing and I was shouting, “Cease Fire – GI.” He stopped and said, “OK Doc” and left. At that time a shadow rose up in the middle of the room and was looking for something to use on me. I started digging too, and all I could find was a flashlight. I turned it on and stuck the light in his eyes and he seemed to quit reaching for something.
I could hear GI’s outside, but couldn’t get them to hear me. Finally, one came in and took care of the wounded Chinese. Then we looked at Captain Markley. His head was split open from one ear to the other and his eyeball was laying on his cheek. I’ll never know why I did it, but I cleaned the blood and dirt out of the socket with my fingers and put the eyeball back in place. What is hard to believe is that he still has the eye 40 years later and can see a little out of it.
My replacement F.O. was hit in both feet before he got to the top. Somehow, he found me and said he was going to take me back. About that time, I saw the medics taking the Captain down the hill. It was very hard going as the trenches were full of bodies (Chinese and American) as well as commo wire and all kinds of debris. I remember being on the back of a tank, in a jeep with litters sticking out, in a half track, and finally, an ambulance. I spent some time in a MASH unit, a school auditorium in Seoul, and finally an airplane for Japan.
It’s hard to believe that I survived the worst nightmare of my life, and I couldn’t if it had not been for men like Captain Markley, Lt. Richards (who never made it home) and the FO (whose name I never got) who wouldn’t let me quit until we got off that damn hill.”
“The Longest Night of My Life – June 10, 1953”
- Sam Buck
Sam Buck stated in a message to Martin Markley during the writing of this memoir in 2004 that he still didn't know why he cleaned the captain's dangling eyeball and pushed it back in its socket. "I couldn't stand to see your eyeball laying on your cheek," he said. "You were always so military and proper, I knew that was not the way you wanted to meet your Maker." The medic who checked Markley's condition when the battle was over told Buck that Markley was still alive, but he didn't have much hope that he would survive his injuries. - End of KWE Note. Return to Markley's narrative.]
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Truman hewed to the UN mandate and eschewed victory. Which certainly worked as well then as it did in 1990-1.