Day late but you know what they say better late than never..........75 years ago on April 18, 1942.......80 men took off from the deck of the USS Hornet and hurtled themselves into history...........I salute you Gen Doolittle and the intrepid Doolittle Raiders!
April 21, 1836 at a little place called San Jacinto......and a legend was born called the Republic of Texas.............'Remember the Alamo....Remember Goliad'!
April 21, 1957 VP President Richard Nixon & daughter Tricia @ Washington Senators vs. Baltimore Orioles game Tricia apparently liked her some baseball
72 Years ago.....2:45 AM, May 7, 1945....the German armed forces surrender to the Allied Forces in Reims, France. The war in Europe would officially end at 12:01AM May 8...VE Day.
VE Day as the surrender signed in Reims becomes official. There were 3 more months to go until VJ Day and the end of the most destructive conflict in human history.
May 9, 1945. Field Marshal Keitel (center) signs documents of surrender for the Russians. (Stalin wanted a separate ceremony).
May 23, 1934 -- Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker trapped, shot and killed on a Louisiana road by Texas Rangers and local police
On this day in 1815, Napoleon was defeated decisively at the Battle of Waterloo and was forced to abdicate the throne
I just read a blow-by-blow of the battle. It sounds like it was very back and forth with the battle outcome still up in the air until very late in the day when General Blucher's Prussian troops arrived from the east while other French forces, also fighting to the east, failed to arrive. The Prussians started caving in the French right flank and Wellington was able to reinforce the center and rout the unbeatable French Imperial Guard there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Waterloo
83 Years Ago Today: June 30, 1934: "The Night of the Long Knives" a/k/a Operation Hummingbird or the Roehm Putsch, was a purge that took place in Nazi Germany between June 30 and July 2, 1934, when the Nazi regime carried out a series of political executions, most of those killed being members of the Sturmabteilung (SA), the paramilitary Brownshirts, chief among them Ernst Roehm head of the SA. Primary reasons for the action against the SA were Hitler moved against the SA and its leader, Ernst Roehm, because he saw the independence of the SA and the penchant of its members for street violence as a direct threat to his newly gained political power. Hitler also wanted to conciliate leaders of the Reichswehr, the official German military who feared and despised the SA, in particular Roehm's ambition to absorb the Reichswehr into the SA under his own leadership. At least 85 people died during the purge, although the final death toll may have been in the hundreds and more than a thousand perceived opponents were arrested. Most of the killings were carried out by the Schutzstaffel (SS) and the Gestapo (Geheime Staatspolizei), the regime's secret police.
