Lost and Found – January 21st Edition

What to remember about January 21st…

Flag Day (Quebec, Canada)

• 1738  American patriot, Revolutionary War hero, and founder of Vermont Ethan Allen is born in Litchfield, Connecticut (d. 1789)
• 1855  (21st or 23rd) American firearms designer and inventor John Moses Browning is born in Ogden, Utah (d. 1926); known as father of modern firearms
• 1861  Jefferson Davis delivers farewell speech and then resigns from the senate; will become president of the Confederate States of America
• 1924  Architect of the Bolshevik Revolution and 1st leader of the Soviet Union Vladimir Lenin dies (b. 1870); replaced by Joseph Stalin
• 1950  Former State Department official and Soviet spy Algier Hiss is convicted of perjury
• 1954  USS Nautilus is launched; worlds 1st operational nuclear powered submarine
• 1968  Initial engagements of the 66-day long Battle for Khe Sanh
• 1976  Concorde SST aircraft carries its 1st commercial passengers with simultaneous departures from London and Paris
• 1977  President Carter unconditionally pardons thousands who dodged the draft during the Vietnam War
• 1985  Ronald Reagan inaugurated to second term as president; ceremony delayed as the 20th fell on a Sunday
• 2003  U.S. Census bureau announces that Hispanic population outnumbers African-American population in U.S. for the 1st time
• 2010  Supreme Court rules in Citizens United v. FEC that portions of McCain-Feingold Act are unconstitutional; 1st Amendment prohibits limits on campaign spending by corporations and unions

From beginning in this humble shop in the old West, J.M. Browning went on to bring the world such important weapons as the M1911 pistol, the Browning M2 .50 caliber machine gun, the Browning Hi-Power pistol, the Browning Automatic Rifle, and the Browning Auto-5, and the Ithaca Model 37 semi-automatic shotgun.