On this day .....

I remember that

 

Someone made a bobblehead of it

 

May 26, 1853
John Wesley ( Wes) Hardin, outlaw , son of James G. ( a Methodist preacher , circuit rider, school teacher and lawyer)and Elizabeth Hardin , was born in Bonham, Tx. Hardin’s violent career began in 1867 in a school yard squabble when he stabbed another child.

 

From Enjoying Texas And American History facebook page.
Famous Cattle Trail - the Chisholm Trail - Debuts in Print

In its edition of 27 May 1870, the “Kansas Daily Commonwealth” made the earliest known printed reference to the Chisholm Trail, the major livestock route out of Texas. Cattle drovers followed the old Shawnee Trail by way of San Antonio, Austin, and Waco, where the trails split. The Chisholm Trail continued on to Fort Worth, then passed east of Decatur to the crossing at Red River Station. It followed the same route as modern U.S. Highway 81 from Fort Worth to Newton, Kansas. Although the Chisholm Trail was used only from 1867 to 1884, the longhorn cattle driven north along it provided a steady source of income that helped the impoverished state recover from the Civil War. [The image is of an 1873 map of the Chisholm Trail. – Jeff Modzelewski]

 

May 28

1830 - US President Andrew Jackson signs the Indian Removal Act, authorizing the Army to force Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole tribes out of Georgia and surrounding states, setting the stage for the Cherokee Trail of Tears.

1937 - German airship Hindenburg explodes in flames at Lakehurst, New Jersey, killing 35 of the 97 on board and 1 on the ground.

 

May 29

1953 - Edmund Hillary of New Zealand and Tenzing Norgay, a Sherpa of Nepal, become the first explorers to reach the summit of Mount Everest, which at 29,035 feet above sea level is the highest point on earth.

1917 - Future U.S. President John F. Kennedy is born.

 

Damn, that ruined the movie for me.

 

The Babe played his last major league game..........1st game of a twinbill as Boston lost to the Phillies 11-6.......he went 0-1 and ended up with a .181 BA.

 

I keep remembering Hillary saying she was named after Sir Hillary.
May have been one of her first big lies

 

99 years ago
f**k Racists

 

JUNE 3

1943 - A mob of 60 from the Los Angeles Naval Reserve Armory beat up everyone perceived to be Hispanic, starting the week-long Zoot Suit Riots

1989 - Beginning of the Tiananmen Square Massacre as Chinese troops open fire on pro-democracy supporters in Beijing

 

June 4

1876 - An express train called the Transcontinental Express arrives in San Francisco, California, via the First Transcontinental Railroad only 83 hours and 39 minutes after having left New York City.

1940 - The Allied military evacuation of some 338,000 troops from Dunkirk, France, ended. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill declared: “We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.”

1942 - The Battle of Midway–one of the most decisive U.S. victories against Japan during World War II–begins. ... The United States, however, was a growing threat, and Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto sought to destroy the U.S. Pacific Fleet before it was large enough to outmatch his own.

1944 - During World War II in Europe, Rome was liberated by the U.S. 5th Army, led by General Mark Clark. Rome had been declared an open city by German Field Marshal Albert Kesselring amid Allied concerns the Germans might stage a Stalingrad-style defense that would devastate the historic 'Eternal' city.

 

1944- D-Day Invasion is launched as the final phase of the War in Europe begins.

1971- Freddie Steinmark dies in Houston Texas.

 

June 6,

1944 - The United States and allied troops invaded at Normandy. This was the largest air, land, and sea invasion in history. The goal was to surprise Germany, but Germany was ready to fight. It was the beginning of the end of World War II.

 

OTD 1858, Abe in Springfield,

"A house divided against itself cannot stand."​

He might have also said something like 'history repeats itself' or 'what goes around ... comes around'

 

It's been 5 years to the day
Let us know when you see them

 

June 22
1941 - Adolf Hitler launched his armies eastward in a massive invasion of the Soviet Union: three great army groups with over three million German soldiers, 150 divisions, and three thousand tanks smashed across the frontier into Soviet territory. The invasion covered a front from the North Cape to the Black Sea, a distance of two thousand miles. Despite the early successes, the invasion of Russia would turn out to be Hitler's biggest blunder, eventually costing Germany the war.

 

They would have to be modified to live on a thinner O2 content since the atmospheric oxygen was at least double that of today's O2 content. It would be an interesting project, but they need to evaluate the premise of "just because you can doesn't mean you should."

 

Now seems like the perfect time to set some dinosaurs free
I hope they let me do it because I know exactly where to release them

 

So do I...College Station!

 

June 25

1876 - A total force of 600 men under command of Lt. Col. George A. Custer entered the Little Bighorn Valley. Among the Native Americans, word quickly spread of the impending attack. The older Sitting Bull rallied the warriors and saw to the safety of the women and children, while Crazy Horse set off with a large force to meet the attackers head on. Despite Custer’s desperate attempts to regroup his men, they were quickly overwhelmed. Custer and some 200 men in his battalion were attacked by as many as 3,000 Native Americans; within an hour, Custer and all of his soldiers were dead. Several members of George Armstrong Custer's family were also killed at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, including two of his brothers, his brother-in-law and a nephew.

 

70 years ago today troops from the North Korean KPA invaded South Korea and the Forgotten War began........be fore it was ended by a ceasefire on July 27th, 1953 the US lost 36,574 KIA......103,284 were wounded including my Dad Don Hall C Co, 1st Batt, 7th Marines............there are still over 4,000 MIA's.

 

July 1

1863 - The Battle of Gettysburg begins. This decisive battle of the Civil War lasted three days and resulted in a retreat to Virginia by Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. On the morning of July 1, advance units of the forces came into contact with one another just outside of Gettysburg. The sound of battle attracted other units, and by noon the conflict was raging. During the first hours of battle, Union General John Reynolds was killed, and the Union troops found that they were outnumbered. The battle lines ran around the northwestern rim of Gettysburg. The Confederates applied pressure all along the Union front, and they slowly drove the Yankees through the town. By evening, the Federal troops rallied on high ground on the southeastern edge of Gettysburg.

 

My father was also a Marine and fought in Korea. He was in the Pusan perimeter and later was in the group which landed at Inchon. He only told a couple of stories, but still talks each winter about how cold it was. My mother's cousin was in the Army and also fought in in Korea. He was KIA when a grenade landed in the middle of his unit and he sacrificed himself by falling on it. Two other uncles were there as well, one in the Navy and the other in the Air Force.

 

July 1 = Bobby Bonilla Day
He gets $1.19M from the Mets
He last played for them in 1999, but still gets paid every year through 2035, when he will be 72.

 

July 2,

1863 - Battle of Gettysburg (2nd Day). On the second day of the struggle, the Confederate and Union armies faced each other a mile apart in two sweeping parallel arcs. The Union forces were deployed along Cemetery Ridge to Culp's Hill, forming the shape of a fishhook, while the Confederates were spread along Seminary Ridge.

Gen. Robert E. Lee ordered Gen. James Longstreet to immediately attack the Union’s southern flank along the hills at the southernmost end of Cemetery Ridge. These hills, known as the Little Round Top and Big Round Top, had been left unoccupied and would have afforded the Confederates a vantage point from which to rake the Union lines.

Longstreet disregarded Lee’s orders in hopes that the cavalry under the command of Gen. J. E. B. Stuart would soon join in the attack, was slow to advance on the hills. Although Longstreet’s soldiers broke through to the base of Little Round Top, Union Gen. G. K. Warren perceived the Confederate plan in time to rouse his men to take the strategic hill, fending off the thrust.

Lee had also ordered Gen. R. S. Ewell to attack the northernmost flank of the Union Army. On one occasion, Ewell’s troops succeeded in taking possession of a slope of Culp’s Hill. But the Union men remained entrenched both there and on Cemetery Ridge, where Gen. George Meade made his headquarters.

 

Now THAT is a contract, what IS a contract!!

 

OTD 1775, George Washington took command of the Continental Army in Cambridge
A full year and a day before the Declaration of Independence.

 

July 3

1863 - Battle of Gettysburg (3rd Day). Having failed on the Union's right and the left, General Lee planned an assault on Meade’s center. A 15,000-man strong column under General George Pickett was organized, and Lee ordered a massive bombardment of the Union positions. The 10,000 Federals answered the Confederate artillery onslaught, and for more than an hour the guns raged in the heaviest cannonade of the Civil War. At 3 p.m., Pickett led his force into no-man’s-land and found that Lee’s bombardment had failed. As Pickett’s force attempted to cross the mile distance to Cemetery Ridge, Union artillery blew great holes in their lines. Meanwhile, Yankee infantry flanked the main body of "Pickett's Charge" and began cutting down the Confederates. Only a few hundred Virginians reached the Union line, and within minutes they all were dead, dying, or captured. In less than an hour, more than 7,000 Confederate troops had been killed or wounded.