July 31
1498 Columbus discovers Trinadad
1620 Pilgrims set sail from England
1774 Joseph Priestley discovers oxygen (what did they breath before then)
1975 Jimmy Hoffa Disappears
July 29th
1588 Spanish Armada defeated by English
1920 Pancho Villa surrenders
1928 Steam Boat Willie released Official Birthday of Mickey Mouse. (can anyone spell M i c k e y m o u s e without humming the theme song
1967 Fire aboard USS Forrestal kills 134
2011 House passes increase in debt ceiling Senate rejects it
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July 31
1498 Columbus discovers Trinadad
1620 Pilgrims set sail from England
1774 Joseph Priestley discovers oxygen (what did they breath before then)
1975 Jimmy Hoffa Disappears
One good thing about growing old is your secrets are safe with your friends they can't remember them either
Good Morning. Today is Wednesday, August 1, 2012.
On this day in 1981 MTV made its debut.
The first video shown was Video Killed the Radio Star by the Buggles.
Appropriate because it did not take long for video to kill rock and roll.
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1943 Ploesti Raid on this date my father was a tail gunner in a B24 bomber that got shot down while bombing the Romanian oil fields at Ploesti. He was a pow for 13 months before escaping. His plane caught fire and crash landed in a corn field before hitting an apple grove . His tail turret fell of the plane saving his life all the other crew members were killed
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They were the Greatest generation for what they did in WWII but not for what happened to the country once they grew older and got control of the government our problems today are their making and left to us to fix
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Good Morning. Today is Thursday, August 02, 2012.
On this day in 1876 James Butler (Wild Bill) Hickok was murdered in Deadwood, SD by Broken Nose Jack McCall.
He was holding all black Aces and Eights.(The deadmans hand)
He is currently buried at Mount Moriah cemetery after having been moved from the original burial place.
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Good Evening. Today is Saturday, August 4th.
On this day in 1950: The Battle of Pusan, Korea.
140,000 troops, backed into a corner of the Korean Peninsula, made their final heroic stand against the invading North Korean Army, and held the line.
Pusan was a 140 mile defensive line surrounding southeastern Korea, including the port of Pusan.
For the next 45 days, UN forces withstood multiple attacks from ten divisions of North Korean troops equipped with artillery and hundreds of Soviet T-34 tanks.
Their stand bought precious time, for the Army to regroup, refit and launch a crippling counterattack at Inchon.
MacArthur's 8th Army Commander, Lt. Gen. Walton Walker (posthumously awarded his 4th star after his death in a jeep accident in December of 1950) rallied his forces to hold after crushing defeats in Osan and Taejon which virtually wiped out the 24th Infantry Division.
On July 29, a few days prior to the Pusan stand, Walker issued his famous "Stand or Die" order:
"We are fighting a battle against time. There will be no more retreating, withdrawal or readjustment of the lines or any other term you choose. There is no line behind us to which we can retreat.…There will be no Dunkirk, there will be no Bataan. A retreat to Pusan would be one of the greatest butcheries in history. We must fight until the end.…We will fight as a team. If some of us must die, we will die fighting together.…I want everybody to understand we are going to hold this line. We are going to win."
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Good Morning. Today is Sunday, August 05, 2012.
On this day in 1861 the first income tax was levied.
It was repealed in 1872 but restored in 1879.
At that time the Supreme Court declared it unconstitutional.
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Joe Biden is in Scranton eating paste.
Good Morning. Today is Monday, August 06, 2012.
On this day in 1945 an atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan.
That was so a few years down the road all the idiot liberals could trudge over there and apologize.
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August 8
1945 Truman signs UN charter
1963 The great train robbery !5 men rob 7 million dollars worth of cash and gems
1974 Nixon resigns
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Good Morning. Today is Thursday, August 09, 2012.
On this day in 586 B.C. Solomon’s temple was destroyed in Jerusalem and the Ark of the Covenant was carried away and has never been recovered.
My theory is that it was destroyed to obtain the gold covering.
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August 10
1944 USA win battle for Guam
1948 Candid Camera debuts on television
1961 Vietnam 1st use of agent orange. and vets are still fighting the VA over this
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Good morning. Today is Sunday, August 12th.
On this day in 1981.
IBM released its first PC, or personal computer, the IBM 5150 which sold for around $1,600 as a basic config but to get a fully working PC with with 64 kb of RAM and a single 5 1/4 inch floppy drive and monitor cost $3,005.
Specs For The Original IBM PC
An Intel 8088 processor running 4.77 MHz,
PC-DOS 1.0,
Floppy disk or cassette player
Hard Disc ( Optional extra as an external 10MB hard disk )
Memory 256 kb
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Good Morning. Today is Tuesday, August 14, 2012.
On this day in 1935 a major step towards the United States becoming socialist was taken when FDR’s Social Security Act became law.
Its initial impact was a tax increase
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