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On This Day In History

Birthdates which occurred on June 22:
1478 - Philips de Schone, Archduke of Austrian/King of Castilia (Philips I)
1757 George Vancouver, surveyed Pacific coast from SF to Vancouver I
1814 James Henry Lane, MC (Union), died in 1866 [or Jul 28 1833]
1837 Paul Morphy New Orleans, greatest chess player of all time (1857-61)
1856 H Rider Haggard author (King Solomon's Mine, She)
1858 Giacomo Puccini Italy, operatic composer (Madama Butterfly)
1887 Sir Julian Huxley London, biologist/philosopher, Darwin's Bulldog
1896 Francis C Denebrink US Naval officer (WW I, WW II, Korea)
1898 Erich Maria Remarque novelist (All Quiet on the Western Front)
1900 Jennie Tourel [Jennie Davidson], St Petersburg Russia, mezzo-soprano
1903 Carl Hubbell pitcher (NY Giants)-253 wins, 2.97 lifetime ERA
1903 John Dillinger one of America's Most Wanted
1906 Billy Wilder movie director (Some Like It Hot, Apartment, Stalag 17)
1907 Anne Morrow Lindbergh aviator/author (Gift from the Sea)
1920 Paul Frees Chicago Ill, animation voice (Bullwinkle)
1921 Gower Champion choreographer (42nd Street)
1922 Bill Blass Ft Wayne Ind, fashion designer (Nancy Reagan)
1928 Orson Bean Burlington Vt, comedian (I Got a Secret, To Tell the Truth)
1929 Ralph Waite actor (Last Summer, Cool Hand Luke, 5 Easy Piece)
1933 Dianne Feinstein (Senator D-Ca.)
1941 Ed Bradley Phila, CBS news correspondant (60 Minutes)
1947 David L Lander Bkln NY, actor (Squiggy-Laverne & Shirley)
1947 Don Henley drummer/singer (Eagles, Boys of Summer)
1948 "Pistol" Pete Maravich NBA star (Atlanta Hawks)
1948 Todd Rundgren rock singer (Hello it's Me, Bang on the Drum All Day)
1949 Lindsay Wagner LA Ca, actress (Bionic Woman, Paper Chase, Nighthawks)
1949 Meryl Streep NJ, actress (French Lieutenant's Woman, Sophie's Choice)
1954 Freddie Prinze NYC, comedian/actor (Chico & the Man)

Deaths which occurred on June 22:
1276 Innocent V, [Pierre the Tarantaise], Pope (1276), dies at about 36
1874 Howard Staunton world chess champion, designer of chess pieces, dies
1922 Field Marshal Sir Henry H Wilson murdered in London
1945 Isamu Tsjo, Japanese chief-staff 32nd Army, commits harakiri
1945 Mitsuri Ushijima, Jap lt-gen/commandant 32nd Army, commits harakiri
1954 Don Hollenbeck newscaster (CBS Weekend News), dies at 49
1965 David O Selznick Gone With the Wind's producer, dies at 63
1969 Judy Garland singer/actress, dies in London at 47
1979 Julius Sommer dies of heart failure, buried in Dayton Ohio
1987 Fred Astaire actor/dancer, dies at Century City Hospital in LA at 88
1988 Dennis Day Jack Benny Show singer, dies of Lou Gehrigs disease at 71
1993 Pat Nixon, 1st lady (1969-75), dies of lung cancer at 81
1995 Georges Yves Marie Congar, Dominican theologian cardinal, dies at 91

Reported: MISSING in ACTION

1966 SMITH WARREN P. JR.---PASADENA TX.
1967 PIRIE JAMES GLENN---TUSCALOOSA AL.
[02/18/73 RELEASED BY DRV, DECEASED 05/09/98]
1969 ENGELHARD ERIC CARL---BELLBROOK OH.
[04/01/74 REMAINS RECOVERED]
1969 ROBERSON JOHN W.---MALAKOFF TX.
1969 SEAGROVES MICHAEL ANTHONY---CHICAGO IL.
[04/01/74 REMAINS RECOVERED]
1970 EARLE JOHN S.---WESTFIELD MA.
1970 GUMBERT ROBERT W. JR.---NEW RICHMOND OH.
1971 STROHLEIN MADISON A.---PHILADELPHIA PA.
[INDICATIONS OF SHOOTOUT WITH NVA]

POW / MIA Data & Bios supplied by
the P.O.W. NETWORK. Skidmore, MO. USA.

On this day...
431 Council of Ephesus (3rd ecumenical council) opens
816 Stephen IV begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1342 Bilbo Baggins returns to his home at Bag End, (Shire Reconning)
1377 Richard II succeeds Edward III as king of England
1497 Antitax insurrection in Cornwall suppressed at Blackheath
1559 Jewish quarter of Prague burned and looted
1611 Henry Hudson & son set adrift in Hudson Bay by mutineers
1675 Royal Greenwich Observatory established in England by Charles II
1772 Slavery outlawed in England
1775 1st Continental currency issued ($3,000,000)
1807 British board USS Chesapeake, a provocation leading to War of 1812
1808 Zebulon Pike reaches his peak
1812 Napoleon's Grand Army invades Russia
1815 2nd abdication of Napoleon (after Waterloo)

1847 Doughnut created

1848 Barnburners (anti-slavery) party nominates Martin Van Buren for Pres
1849 Stephen C Massett opens courthouse using only piano in Calif
1851 Fire destroys part of SF
1868 Arkansas re-enters US
1870 Congress creates Department of Justice
1873 Prince Edward Island joins Canada
1874 Dr Andrew T Sill, of Macon, Missouri, finds science of osteopathy
1889 Louisville Colonels set ML baseball record with 26th consecutive loss
1910 1st airship with passengers sets afloat-Zeppelin Deutscheland
1911 King George V of England crowned
1918 Circus train rammed by troop train kills 68 (Ivanhoe Illinois)
1925 G Shajn discovers asteroid #1058 Grubba
1930 Lou Gehrig hits 3 HRs in a game, Ruth hits 3 in doubleheader
1936 Virgin Islands receives a constution from US (Organic Act)
1937 Joe Louis KOs James Braddock for the heavyweight boxing crown
1938 Joe Louis KOs Max Schmeling at 2:04 of 1st round at Yankee Stadium
1940 France falls to Nazi Germany; armistice signed, France disarmed
1941 Estonians starts armed resistance against Soviet occupation
1941 Germany declares war on Soviet Union during WW II
1944 FDR signs "GI Bill of Rights" (Servicemen's Readjustment Act)
1944 Longest shut out in Phillies history, Phils beat Braves 1-0 in 15 inn Boston Brave Jim Tobin 2nd no-hitter of yr beats Phils, 7-0 in 5 inn
1947 12" rain in 42 mins (Holt, MO)
1949 Ezzard Charles defeats Jersey Joe Walcott for the boxing title
1957 KC stops using streetcars in it's transit system
1958 Game in KC between A's & Red Sox delayed 29 minutes due to tornado
1959 "Along Came Jones" by Coasters peaks at #9
1959 Eddie Lubanski bowls 2 consecutive perfect games
1959 Most Phillies strike out in a game (16 by Sandy Koufax)
1959 Vanguard SLV-6 launched for Earth orbit (failed)
1969 Aretha Franklin arrested in Detroit for creating a disturbance
1970 Pres Nixon signs 26th amendment (voting age lowered to 18)
1973 Skylab 2's astronauts land
1977 Former AG John Mitchell starts 19 months in Alabama prison
1978 James Christy's discovery of Pluto's moon Charon announced
1978 Neo-Nazis call off plans to march in Jewish community of Skokie, Ill (I hate Illinois Nazis)
1980 Jim King begins riding Miracle Strip Roller coaster 368 hours
1981 2 Habash terrorists attack a travel agency in Greece killing 2
1981 John McEnroe exhibites a disgraceful act of misbehavior at Wimbeldon (SHOCK)
1981 Mark David Chapman pleads guilty to killing John Lennon
1982 Susan Lea Hammett, of Miss, 18, crowned 25th America's Junior Miss
1983 "Monty Python's The Meaning of Life," released in France
1983 1st time a satellite is retrieved from orbit by Space Shuttle
1983 NHL institutes a 5 minute sudden death overtime period
1984 Calvin Griffith signs letter of intent to sell ownership of Twins
1984 Carl Pohlad becomes CEO of Minn Twins
1990 Florida passes a law prohibits wearing a throng bathing suit
1991 Underwater volcano, Mount Didicas, erupts in Phillipines
1996 At their first summit in six years, Arab leaders meeting in Cairo, Egypt, urged Israel to prove its commitment to peace by resuming negotiations without delay.
(and now back to the real world)
2000 Independent Counsel Robert Ray ended his investigation of the 1993 firings in the White House travel office, issuing no indictments but saying he'd found "substantial evidence" that First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton played a role in the dismissals.

Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"

Congo : Army Day
El Salvador : School Teacher's Day/D¡a del Maestro
Haiti : Sovereignty Day/President's Day
Virgin Islands : Organic Act Day (1954)
Yemen PDR : Corrective Move Day
Newfoundland : Discovery Day (1497-John Cabot) (Monday)
National Sheriff's Week (Day 2)
National Doughnuts Day
National Dream Work Month

Religious Observances
RC : Mem of SS John Fisher, bp, martyr, & Thomas More, martyr (opt)
witch : Alban Hefin sabbat
Ang : Feast of Alban, 1st martyr of Britain
RC : Feast of St Paulinus, bishop of Nola, confessor

Religious History
1559 In England, Queen Elizabeth's Prayer Book was issued. During her 45-year reign, Elizabeth I rejected the Catholic faith, adopting instead the Thirty-Nine Articles of the Anglican Church.
1745 Colonial missionary to the American Indians David Brainerd wrote in his journal: 'I am often weary of this world, and want to leave it on that account; but it is more desirable to be drawn, rather than driven out of it.'
1750 Clergyman Jonathan Edwards was dismissed from his Congregational pulpit in Northampton, MA, after serving there 23 years. Maintaining his ultra- conservative theology, Edwards had grown to become administratively too inflexible for his congregation.
1865 The society known today as the Palestine Exploration Fund (PEF) was first organized. Its purpose is to provide information about the archaeology, the history and the people of the Holy Land.
1870 Scholars began translation work on the English Revised Version of the Bible. Released in 1881, the ERV became the textual basis for the American Standard Version (ASV), first published in the United States in 1901.

Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.

Thought for the day :
"You are not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others."

Things To Do If You Ever Became An Evil Overlord...
The hero is not entitled to a last kiss, a last cigarette, or any other form of last request

The World's Shortest Books...
Dr. Kevorkian's Collection of Motivational Speeches

Dumb Laws...
North Carolina:
If a man and a woman who aren't married go to a hotel/motel and register themselves as married then, according to state law, they are legally married.
(A word to the wise)

Top 10 signs your family is stressed...
You have to check your kid's day-timer to see if he can take out the trash.

When I was quite young, my father had one of the first telephones in our
neighborhood. I remember well the polished, old case fastened to the wall.

The shiny receiver hung on the side of the box. I was too little to reach
the telephone, but used to listen with fascination when my mother talked to
it. Then I discovered that somewhere inside the wonderful device lived an
amazing person. Her name was Information Please" and there was nothing she
did not know. Information Please could supply anyone's number and the
correct time.

My personal experience with the genie in-a-bottle came one day while my
mother was visiting a neighbor. Amusing myself at the tool bench in the
basement, I whacked my finger with a hammer, the pain was terrible, but
there seemed no point in crying because there was no one home to give
sympathy.

I walked around the house sucking my throbbing finger, finally arriving at
the stairway. The telephone! Quickly, I ran for the footstool in the parlor
and dragged it to the landing. Climbing up, I unhooked the receiver in the
parlor and held it to my ear. "Information, please" I said into the
mouthpiece just above my head.

A click or two and a small clear voice spoke into my ear. "Information."
"I hurt my finger..." I wailed into the phone, the tears came readily
enough now that I had an audience.

"Isn't your mother home?" came the question.

"Nobody's home but me," I blubbered.

"Are you bleeding?" the voice asked. "No," I replied. "I hit my finger
with the hammer and it hurts."

"Can you open the icebox?" she asked. I said I could. "Then chip off a
little bit of ice and hold it to your finger," said the voice.

After that, I called "Information Please" for everything. I asked her for
help with my geography, and she told me where Philadelphia was. She helped
me with my math. She told me my pet chipmunk, that I had caught in the park
just the day before, would eat fruit and nuts.

Then, there was the time Petey, our pet canary, died. I called,
"Information Please," and told her the sad story. She listened, and then
said things grown-ups say to soothe a child. But I was not consoled. I asked
her, "Why is it that birds should sing so beautifully and bring joy to all
families, only to end up as a heap of feathers on the bottom of a cage?"

She must have sensed my deep concern, for she said quietly, "Paul always
remember that there are other worlds to sing in."

Somehow I felt better.

Another day I was on the telephone, "Information Please."

"Information," said in the now familiar voice.

"How do I spell fix?" I asked.

All this took place in a small town in the Pacific northwest.

When I was nine years old, we moved across the country to Boston. I
missed my friend very much. "Information Please" belonged in that old wooden
box back home and I somehow never thought of trying the shiny new phone that
sat on the table in the hall.

As I grew into my teens, the memories of those childhood conversations
never really left me.

Often, in moments of doubt and perplexity I would recall the serene sense
of security I had then. I appreciated now how patient, understanding, and
kind she was to have spent her time on a little boy.

A few years later, on my way west to college, my plane put down in
Seattle. I had about a half-hour or so between planes. I spent 15 minutes or
so on the phone with my sister, who lived there now. Then without thinking
what I was doing, I dialed my hometown operator and said, "Information
Please."

Miraculously, I heard the small, clear voice I knew so well.
"Information."

I hadn't planned this, but I heard myself saying, "Could you please tell
me how to spell fix?"

There was a long pause. Then came the soft spoken answer, "I guess your
finger must have healed by now."

I laughed, "So it's really you," I said. "I wonder if you have any idea
how much you meant to me during that time?"

I wonder," she said, "if you know how much your call meant to me. I never
had any children and I used to look forward to your calls."

I told her how often I had thought of her over the years and I asked if I
could call her again when I came back to visit my sister.

"Please do", she said. "Just ask for Sally." Three months later I was back
in Seattle. A different voice answered, "Information." I asked for Sally.
"Are you a friend?" she said. "Yes, a very old friend," I answered.

I'm sorry to have to tell you this," she said. "Sally had been working
part-time the last few years because she was sick. She died five weeks ago."
Before I could hang up she said, "Wait a minute, did you say your name was
Paul?" "Yes." I answered. "Well, Sally left a message for you. She wrote
it down in case you called. Let me read it to you."

The note said, "Tell him there are other worlds to sing in. He'll know
what I mean."

I thanked her and hung up. I knew what Sally meant. Never underestimate
the impression you may make on others. Whose life have you touched today?

Why not pass this on? I just did....Lifting you on eagle's wings. May you
find the joy and peace you long for.

Life is a journey ... NOT a guided tour.

STROHLEIN, MADISON ALEXANDER Name: Madison Alexander Strohlein Rank/Branch: E5/US Army Unit: USARV, TAG, Task Force 1 Advisory Element Date of Birth: 17 May 1948 (Abington PA) Home City of Record: Philadelphia PA Date of Loss: 22 June 1971 Country of Loss: South Vietnam Loss Coordinates: 154910N 1071919E (YC487502) Status (in 1973): Missing in Action Category: 1 Aircraft/Vehicle/Ground: Ground Refno: 1756 Source: Compiled from one or more of the following: raw data from U.S. Government agency sources, correspondence with POW/MIA families, published sources, interviews. Updated by the P.O.W. NETWORK in 2000 with information from George Hewitt. Other Personnel in Incident: (none missing) REMARKS: INDICATONS OF SHOOTOUT W/NVA SYNOPSIS: On June 22, 1971, Sgt. David M.A. Strohlein and three other U.S. soldiers were on a reconnaissance mission in South Vietnam. At 0300 hours, the four-man team entered their mission area by parachute, but were unable to link up on the ground. At 0730 hours, Sgt. Strohlein radioed for an emergency medical evacuation for himself, and that he had sustained injury in the jump. From 0730 until 1100 hours, radio contact was maintained with him, but contact was eventually broken because of enemy movement near his position. The following day, a rescue team was inserted in his vicinity. The team found Strohlein's weapon and evidence of a fire fight, however, they were not able to locate any other trace of Sgt. Strohlein's whereabouts. It seems unlikely that the enemy would have left Sgt. Strohlein's weapon behind if they had crossed his original position, so it is logical to speculate that Strohlein left his position to try and evade an approaching enemy; perhaps having expended his ammunition, he discarded the gun. Category 1 means that the U.S. has information that the enemy absolutely knows the fate of the individual in the category. Category 1 does not mean the individual lived or that he died, only that the enemy knows his fate. It is a category primarily reserved for those who were known to be captured. Public record does not indicate how badly Strohlein was injured in the jump, or if there was evidence that he was wounded in the firefight. The record does not indicate if enemy movement in the area included approach and capture. However, since he was apparently not mortally wounded (having been on radio for 3 1/2 hours), it can be safely assumed that Sgt. Strohlein was captured or killed by the enemy in the area he was last seen. The U.S. points to enormous "progress" being made in the area of the missing, having acquired through years of negotiating, almost half of the American remains that Vietnam is known to have stockpiled. Meanwhile, over 1,000 eye-witness reports of living Americans who are captive in Southeast Asia "cannot be proven". One of the hundreds suspected to be alive by many authorities could be Sgt. Strohlein. How must it feel to be forgotten and abandoned? ========================= Reprinted with permission: Subject: RE: Request for Information Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 07:04:22 -0400 From: George Hewitt Your site is most informative. I knew Srohlein in training and served with him at CCS&CCN MACSOG in VietNam where we ran "deep' recon missions. His loss was painful and agonizing as we knew he was alive when they found him. On a personal note, I remember being invited many times to his Hootch (house at CCS, MACSOG) to listen to some popular tunes he would play on his newly acquired tape recorder [a big investment for one of us back then] or eat some of the great home made cookies his Mom would send - along with Rolaids - that he seemed always in need of. She sent him great Care Packages and I was always a willing extra-refugee. He was quiet and non-assuming, but knew how to project in a group. He missed his parents a great deal and honored them in his talks with me. I was newer to the CCS Recon teams (not yet tested or accepted) and it was hard to get these guys to open up and share their thoughts or even experience - something you needed to be able to survive when you got your chance to go out on mission. He and I had gone through training at Ft. Bragg and he volunteered a great deal of the things I needed to know. He also volunteered to go out on a local training mission with me - sopmething that you have to understand only increased the odds of him getting killed [local is relative there]. Hey, I had already served one tour in VietNam as an infantryman (in combat) and here he was - almost newly arrived in country - but unlike me he had been "out there - eyes on target". The difference was that SOG missions encompassed many technical and "hunter" skills that the most hardened of combat veterans would have a hard time adopting. The depth of the missions and being "completely" in the terrain of the enemy was overwhelming at times. I liken it to books I have read about the American Indians and how they counted coup in the enemy camps - you had to darn near touch them to understand the thrill and fear of the situations. If you got into trouble it was like the movie "Run of the Arrow" (of course the AirForce did help when they could make it in - they were Angels in their own right). At CCN I ran a couple of missions as Strohlein was there too. He was regarded as one of the most steady team leaders. He had promised to include me on a team of his but it never turned out that way. At the end of my tour and I believe he had extended his, I was serving out my last month working in the TOC. I had the honor of helping prep his team for an airborne operation into the AO. This was "big" and it took a special guy to step up to the plate. Strohlein was the guy along with another gent and I forget his name (interesting history though as he was older, 101st ABN - non-SF) - we didn't have many like that! Anyway, I was on the tarmac on the night of his first attempt to parachute into the AO and he and I joked about those Rolaids and maybe I could make sure they got into a resupply mission if they managed to stay in long. We both knew the chances of that were slim. That night he came back without dropping due to bad weather or visibility over target. He was exhausted from standing on the ramp with all the gear. They were both soaked to the skin from nervous sweat - something that you don't get from the weather! Even the bravest have a smell that I beleive is produced by a fear at the core being. Strohlein said something that proved fateful as he got off the craft - exact phrase unrecalled "Next time we go the distance!" - Well, he eventually did and he continues to be there for me. I went on to serve a long career but he and one other hero friend (Dale Dehnke) were mentioned at my retirement as reasons I continued on - trying to always do right for them. I'll miss him/them - and he was one brave soul. ====================== Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 09:45:33 -0800 (PST) Subject: David Madison Alexander Strohlein The information you have on my uncle is incorrect. His name is "Madison Alexander Strohlein". Lose the David. I see other sites that keep doing that. If you look on the WALL, his name is as I spell it. Plus the comment from George Hewitt was a little confusing. Some of the things he said were very wrong. But he did say something though that made me believe he knew him. Erik Madison Strohlein