On This Day In History
Birthdates which occurred on July 27:
1612 Murad IV, sultan of Turkey (1623-40)/conquered Baghdad
1768 Charlotte Corday assassin of Jean-Paul Marat
1812 Thomas Lanier Clingman, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1897
1820 John Franklin Farnsworth, Brig General (Union volunteers)
1824 Alexandre Dumas fils France, playwright/novelist (Camille)
1840 Ranald Slidell Mackenzie, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1857 Jos‚ Celso Barbosa Puerto Rico, found Federalist Party in 1900
1870 Joseph Hilaire Belloc England, author (Path to Rome)
1880 Donald Crisp Scotland, actor (How Green Was My Valley, Pollyana)
1880 Joseph Tinker baseball Hall of Famer, 1/3 of fame double play combo
1906 Leo (the lip) Durocher, baseball manager (Brooklyn Dodgers, NY Giants)
1916 Kennan Wynn NYC, actor (Dr Strangelove, Absent Minded Professor)
1922 Norman Lear TV writer/producer/leftwing loonytoon...I mean activist(PFTAW) (All in The Family)
1924 Vincent Canby critic (NY Times)
1931 Jerry Van Dyke Danville Ill, actor (My Mother the Car, Coach)
1937 Don Galloway Brooksville Ky, actor (Arrest & Trial, Ironside)
1939 Irv Cross NFL sportscaster (CBS-TV)
1939 James McGee, pathologist/professor (Morbid Anatomy at Oxford)
1944 Bobbie Gentry Mississippi, what did Billi-Jo throw off the bridge
1947 Betty Thomas St Louis Mo, actress (Lucy Baines-Hill Street Blues)
1948 Peggy Fleming San Jose Cal, ice figure skater (Olympic-gold-1968)
1949 Maureen McGovern Youngstown Oh, singer (Got to be a morning after)
Deaths which occurred on July 27:
0082 Joseph of Arimathea, dies & is buried in tomb he once lent to Jesus
0432 Celestine I, Italian Pope (422-32), dies
1101 Koenrad, RC-German king (1087-98), dies
1498 Vespasiano da' Bisticci, Italian book seller/writer, dies at about 77
1811 Miguel Hidalgo y Castilla, Mexican priest/freedom fighter, executed
1844 John Dalton, Engl physicist/chemist (molecular theorist), dies at 77 (any relaation to the Dalton brothers
http://www.gunslinger.com/dalton.html )
1863 William Lowndes Yancey one of the South's strongest voices of states' rights.
1883 Montgomery Blair lawyer (Dred Scot V Sandford), dies at 70
1921 Engelbert Humperdinck (The Original), composer (Hansel und Gretel), dies at 66 (never played Vegas)
1946 Gertrude Stein, US/Fren author/poet (Ida, Tender Buttons), dies at 72
1970 Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, dictator of Portugal (1932-68),
1974 Lightning Slim blues singer, dies at 61
1976 Ray Brennan becomes 1st to, die of "Legionnaire's Disease"
1980 Shah Mohammed Reza Pahavala of Iran, dies in Cairo at 60
1984 James Mason actor, dies at 75 of a heart attack
1990 Bobby Day rocker (Rockin' Robin), dies of cancer at 60
1997 Mohammed Mahdi al-Jawahri Iraqi poet dies in exile
2003 Bob Hope (b.1903), master of the one-liner and favorite comedian of servicemen and presidents alike
A National Salute to Bob Hope and our Military.
http://www.hopetribute.org/
GWOT Casualties
Iraq
27-Jul-2003 1 | US: 1 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Sergeant Heath A. McMillin Al Haswah - Babil Hostile - hostile fire - RPG attack
27-Jul-2004 1 | US: 1 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Sergeant DeForest L. "Dee" Talbert Balad Ruz (near, ~30 mi. E Ba’qubah) - Diyala Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
Afghanistan
A Good Day
http://icasualties.org/oif/ Data research by Pat Kneisler
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On this day...
0432 St Celestine I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1214 At the Battle of Bouvines in France, Philip Augustus of France defeats John of England.
1298 Albert I, son of Rudolf of Habsburg, crowned Holy Roman Emperor
1360 Danish King Waldemar IV destroys Visby Gotland
1501 Copernicus formally installed as canon of Frauenberg Cathedral
1586 Sir Walter Raleigh brings 1st tobacco to England from Virginia (The HORROR, The HORROR!)
1643 Cromwell defeats Royalist at Battle of Gainsborough
1655 Jews of New Amsterdam petition for a Jewish cemetery
1661 Parliament confirms the Navigation Act
1663 British Parliament passes a second Navigation Act, requiring all goods bound for the colonies be sent in British ships from British ports.
1689 Jacobite Scottish Highlanders defeat royal force at Killiecrankie
1694 Bank of England chartered
1777 The Marquis of Lafayette arrives in New England to help fight the British.
1789 Congress establishes Dept of Foreign Affairs (State dept)
1809 Arthur Wellesley leads British troops to defeat Spanish King Joseph Bonaparte at Talavera de la Reina. He is named Lord (the Duke of) Wellington
1816 US troops destroy Ft Apalachicola, a Seminole fort, to punish Indians for harboring runaway slaves
1836 Adelaide, South Australia founded
1837 US Mint opens in Charlotte, NC
1844 Fire destroys the US mint at Charlotte, NC
1861 Battle of Mathias Point, VA - Confederate forces repel a Federal landing
1861 Battle of St Augustine Springs, NM Terr
1861 Confederate troops occupy Fort Fillmore, New Mexico
1861 Union Gen George McClellan took command of Potamic Army
1862 Hurricane hits Canton; about 40,000 die
1862 Steamer "Golden Gate" burns & sinks off west coast of Mexico
1864 Battle of Darbytown, VA (Deep Bottom, Newmarket Road) (Strawberry Plains)
1866 Cyrus W. Field finally succeeded, after two failures, in laying the first underwater telegraph cable between North America and Europe.(1,686 miles long)
1897 14.75" of rainfall, Jewell, Maryland (state 24-hr record)
1898 Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of The Dancing Men" (BG)
1909 Orville Wright tests 1st US Army airplane, flying 1h12m
1919 Chicago race riot (15 whites & 23 blacks killed, 500 injured)
1920 Resolute beats Shamrock IV (England) in 14th running of America's Cup
1931 Grasshoppers in Iowa, Nebr and SD destroyed thousands of acres of crops
1932 Paul Gorgoulov, French president Doumer's assassin, sentenced to death
1940 Bugs Bunny's debut, in Warner Bros. cartoon "A Wild Hare".
1940 Billboard magazine starts publishing bestseller charts
1941 Japanese forces land in Indo-China
1942 Benny Goodman and his Orchestra and vocalist Peggy Lee recorded "Why Don't You Do Right"
1944 1st British jet fighter used in combat (Gloster Meteor)
1944 US regains possession of Guam from Japanese
1944 Soviet Army liberates Majdanek concentration camp
1946 Red Sox Rudy York hits 2 grand slams in 1 game
1947 Yogi Berri starts record 148 game errorless streak
1948 Otto Skorzeny escapes anti-nazi camp at Darmstadt
1949 Havilland Comet 40-passenger airliner makes maiden flight
1953 Armistice signed ending Korean War
1954 Armistice divides Vietnam into two countries
1955 Israeli passenger plane shot down above Bulgaria, 58 die
1955 Austria regains full independence after 4-power occupation
1955 Goethe Link Observatory discovers asteroid #1751 Herget
1960 VP Nixon nominated for pres at Republican convention in Chicago
1962 Mariner 2 launched to Venus; flyby mission
1962 Martin Luther King Jr jailed in Albany Georgia
1964 President Lyndon Johnson sends an additional 5,000 advisers to South Vietnam.
1965 Pres Johnson signs a bill requiring cigarette makers to print health warnings on all cigarette packages about the effects of smoking
1967 President Johnson appointed the Kerner Commission to assess the causes of the violence.
1968 Race Riot in Gary Indiana
1969 Pioneer 10 launched
1972 NHL star Maurice "Rocket" Richard signs with WHL Quebec Nordiques
1974 House Judiciary Committee votes 27-11 recommends Nixon impeachment
1976 Japanese ex-premier Tanaka arrested (Lockheed Affair)
1976 8.2 Tangshan earthquake kills estimated 240,000 Chinese
1977 John Lennon is granted a green card for permanent residence in US
1980 Palestinian terrorist throws hand grenade at Jewish children in Antwerp, 1 dead
1987 John Demjanjuk, accused Nazi "Ivan the Terrible" testifies in Israel
1988 Boston's worst traffic jam in 30 years (until today)
1988 Tommy John commits rec 3 errors on 1 play as Yanks rout Brewers 16-3
1988 Radio Shack announces the Tandy 1000 SL computer
1990 Zsa Zsa Gabor begins a 3 day jail sentence for slapping a cop
1991 TV Guide publishes it's 2000th edition
1995 The Korean War Veterans Memorial was dedicated in Washington by President Bill Clinton and South Korean President Kim Young-sam.
1996 A pipe bomb was set off at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta. Eric Rudolph was later charged with the bombing. He was arrested May 31, 2003
1997 5-7 thousand marchers rally in Belarus to condemn Pres. Lukashenko. Within hours activists were detained by the government
1999 Binney & Smith Inc., makers of Crayola crayons, adopted the name "chestnut" to replace "Indian red."
2002 Iranian court outlaws the leading reform-minded opposition party, the Freedom Movement, and gave its leaders jail terms of up to 10 years and fines of more than $6,000.
2003 Lance Armstrong wins the Tour de France, for the 5th consecutive year.
Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
Puerto Rico : Jos‚ Celso Barbosa Birthday (1857)
Virgin Islands : Hurricane Supplication Day
Gilroy, California : Garlic Festival (Friday)
National Parents Day.
Day of Hatshepsut (Egyptian).
Take Your House Plants for a Walk Day
57 Varieties Day
National July Belongs to Blueberries Month
Religious Observances
RC : Commem of St Pantaleon, martyr/patron of medicine
Orth : Feast of Vladimir, evangelizer of Russia (7/15 OS)
Ang : Commemoration of William Reed Huntington, priest
Religious History
1741 Birth of Fran‡ois H. Barth‚l‚mon, French Swedenborgian composer. Two of his manyworks later became hymn tunes: AUTUMN (Hail, Thou Once Despised Jesus) and BALERMA (Oh, fora Closer Walk with God).
1861 Birth of Cyrus H. Nusbaum, an American Methodist clergyman who penned the hymn,'Would You Live for Jesus, and Be Always Pure and Good?' (aka 'His Way With Thee').
1901 Death of B.F. Westcott, 76, English N.T. scholar. In 1881, he and colleague F.J.A.Hort published the most precise critical text of the Greek New Testament ever compiled --still in use today.
1903 Death of Caroline (Lina) V. Sandell Berg, 71. Known as the 'Fanny Crosby of Sweden,' her most beloved hymns (in their English translation) include 'Day by Day' and'Children of the Heavenly Father.'
1913 In Oxford, PA, the first Victorious Life Conference closed. Founder Robert C.McQuilkin, inspired by England's Keswick Movement, emphasized in these meetings anattainment of spiritual freedom from the power of every known sin.
Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.
MONSTER TORNADO
10,000 CHINESE DIED IN SECONDS AND...
IT WILL HAPPEN HERE, SAY EXPERTS
By DICK SIEGEL
SHANGHAI, China -- Last week, what the Chinese government is secretly describing as "a super-monster tornado the size of a mountain" ripped through the Hunan Province in China.
It generated a path of death and destruction unparalleled in history. Worse, scientists predict it will happen here!
UN rescue teams and scientists from the Federal Oceanic Atmospheric Administration have pieced together the story from the few citizens who escaped the deadly vortex.
"I was just finishing dinner when I heard a thunderous roar," miracle survivor Hubei Ma Chu, a Shashon villager told Weekly World News through a translator. "The weather had been oppressive all day -- the air was so humid you could actually feel the weight of the water.
"Suddenly, a violent thunderstorm then erupted over the Wuling Mountains. Lightning crashed against the peaks. And then I saw it -- a gigantic swirling vortex, a monster tornado the size of a mountain! The funnel was 10 kilometers wide and it was heading right at me!"
Giant hailstones began raining from the skies, utterly destroying barns and killing livestock. Ma Chu and his family hurriedly barricaded themselves in the basement, praying the tornado would safely pass over them.
But the monster tornado was unforgiving. It moved across the farm, splintering every structure, and scooping the terrified family from the cellar. Ma Chu blacked out as he went spinning up into the turbulence.
Days later, Ma Chu was found clinging to a tree some 20 miles away. The rest of his family is still missing.
"I don't know how I managed to stay alive," he said, choking back tears.
"It registered a staggering and unprecedented F-7 on the Pearson- Fujita scale, which is like the Richter scale for earthquakes," FOAA scientist Dr. Gardner F. Thompson told WWN. "The wind speeds were more than 600 m.p.h. -- that's nearly double the most powerful tornado ever recorded.
"According to the path of destruction -- and the few surviving eyewitnesses -- the super tornado followed the Yangtze River and swept through the Xuefung mountains to the West, sucking up village after village."
It was finally stopped when it reached the Convergence of Four Rivers at Lake Dongting, the largest body of water in the province. "It sucked up kilo-liters of lakewater," said Thompson. "Overwhelmed by the weight of the liquid, the tornado collapsed and then dissipated as fast as it had been created."
But the damage had already been done. More than 10,000 people died in 20 minutes. The Chinese government declared a state of emergency and sent a global SOS for relief. The International Red Cross and UN were soon on the scene, though all of the agencies agreed to keep news of the storm quiet.
"The reason is simple," Dr. Thompson said. "Due to global warming, the El Nino effect -- the heating of the world's oceans -- will grow more powerful. As it does, warm air from the seas and frigid air from the poles will produce more and more of these super-twisters. Computer models suggest that similar unstable weather patterns will strike parts of Spain, Mexico -- and the American Midwest, sometime this August.
"I suggest we begin preparing for the unthinkable now," Dr. Thompson concluded. "Underground shelters need to be dug deeper and heavily reinforced, and a satellite-triggered early warning system needs to be put into place
"Most of all," he added, "we have to cut back on the burning of fossil fuels and stop global warming. Otherwise, our society may well be gone with the wind!"
Thought for the day :
"I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them?"
Leo Durocher
Very fascinating read. Is it safe to say the early phase on Massacre Bay and the North Landing Force was a "quagmire"? A very thorough account of the Japanese act of Banzai . . . couldn't help but see the similarity to suicide bombers today. What a mental mind set.
You do a great job putting these threads together, well thought out and accurate. You and the those here at the Foxhole are true patriots.
Thought you all might like this compilation. These are articles written by Mike Phillips (and others). Mike chased me around for a while in Iraq trying to do a story when the command stepped in and ask me to at least sit down with him and hear him out. After talking to him at length we came to an arrangement, he could come on some of my missions (at my desecration) as long as nothing he reported put my team at risk. The Ops officer and CO had overriding authority on striking anything that may divulge techniques and procedures. Nothing Mike ever wrote put us at risk and although I don't agree with all his perspectives he is a damn fair reporter who is worth trusting/reading. http://mcrdsd.us/usmc/downloads/Mike-Phillips-PhotoJournalist-With-37-Marines.pdf Iraq articles Start of------current
