Obamacare – Trick Or Treat?

A little something to get you in the holiday spirit…

 

 

 

Lost and Found – October 31st Edition

What to remember about October 31st…

• 1517  Martin Luther, Instigator of the Protestant Reformation, sends his letter and The Ninety-Five Thesis to his bishop
• 1776  In speech to parliament, King George III acknowledges that war in America is going badly
• 1864  Nevada is admitted to the Union as 36th state
• 1926  Master escape artist and magician Harry Houdini dies in Detroit, Michigan of a ruptured appendix
• 1941  Work ends on the carvings at Mt. Rushmore
• 1941  USS Reuben James is torpedoed by German U-Boat; is 1st U.S. Navy vessel sunk in enemy action of WWII
• 1959  Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald attempts to renounce his U.S. citizenship at embassy in Moscow, U.S.S.R.
• 1968  President Johnson halts bombing of North Vietnam days before the election citing progress at peace talks
• 2000  Russian Soyuz TM-31 launches with 1st resident crew for the International Space Station
• 2003  While surfing, 13-year old Bethany Hamilton loses her arm in shark attack; her autobiography Soul Surfer becomes film in 2011
• 2005  President George W. Bush nominates Judge Samuel Alito to the United States Supreme Court

Lost and Found – October 30th Edition

What to remember about October 30th…

• 1735  Founding Father and 2nd President of the United States John Adams is born in Braintree, Massachusetts (d. 1826)
• 1831  Escaped slave Nat Turner is captured after bloody slave rebellion that killed over 60; after a trial he hangs on November 11
• 1938  Orson Welles radio broadcast of “War of the Worlds” causes nationwide panic
• 1941  President Franklin Roosevelt approves $1 billion Lend Lease aid program for Soviet Union; hopes to stay out of the war
• 1944  Anne Frank and her sister are moved from Auschwitz to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
• 1961  Soviet Union test 50 megaton hydrogen bomb; still the largest explosive device ever detonated
• 1974  Muhammad Ali wins the Rumble in the Jungle
• 1995  Vote for establishing an independent Quebec fails in Canada

Lost and Found – October 29th Edition

What to remember about October 29th…

• 1777  After an extended illness John Hancock resigns his post as president of the Continental Congress
• 1863  18 national delegations at meeting in Geneva, Switzerland agree to form the International Red Cross
• 1901  Leon Czolgosz, assassin of President McKinley’ is executed less than 2 months after the shooting in Buffalo, New York
• 1956  In response to Egyptian seizure and nationalization of the Suez Canal, Israel invades Sinai Peninsula
• 1969  1st computer-to-computer link is established, 1st message is sent on ARPANET, precursor of the internet
• 1998  Senator John Glenn returns to space at age 77 aboard shuttle Discovery; in 1962 was 1st American to orbit Earth
• 2004  Al-Jazeera broadcasts tape of Osama bin Laden admitting direct responsibility for attacks of September 11, 2001

Human Statue Of Liberty

Given as a gift to the United States from the people of France, President Grover Cleveland dedicated the Statue of Liberty this day in 1886.

What you’re looking at here are 18,000 U.S. troops standing in a formation that resembles the Statue of Liberty. The photo was used as an advertisement for war bonds during World War I.

The layout at the reported 400 yards was nearly 4 times the length of the actual Statue of Liberty and the viewer will note that the correct perspective is maintained. The number of men in the various parts include: Flame of Torch – 12,000 men, Torch – 2,800, Right Arm – 1,200 men, Body, Head and balance of figure – 2,000 men.

Lost and Found – October 28th Edition

What to remember about October 28th…

• 1775  British Major General Howe issues proclamation forbidding residents from leaving the city
• 1818  Abigail Adams, First Lady and wife of President John Adams dies in Quincy, Massachusetts (b. 1744)
• 1886  President Grover Cleveland dedicates Statue of Liberty
• 1918  Sailors of the German High Seas Fleet mutiny instead of attack British fleet with armistice in the works
• 1922  Benito Mussolini leads Italian fascists in March on Rome; takes over the Italian government
• 1929  Black Monday stock market crash
• 1962  Cuban Missile Crisis ends as Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev agrees to remove Russian missiles from the island
• 1965  In St. Louis, Missouri the 630-foot Gateway Arch portion of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial is completed
• 1971  Britain launches Prospero; it is their 1st satellite
• 2005  Iran launches its 1st satellite in joint effort with Russia

Lost and Found – October 27th Edition

What to remember about October 27th…

• 1659  Massachusetts executes 2 Quakers for their beliefs
• 1787  1st essay of the Federalist Papers is published
• 1810  United States annexes former Spanish colony of West Florida
• 1858  Future President Theodore Roosevelt is born in New York City (d. 1919)
• 1904 1st Subway opens in New York City
• 1962  America pilot becomes only casualty of the Cuban Missile Crisis when his U-2 reconnaissance plane is shot down by Soviet missile
• 1964  Ronald Reagan gives “A Time For Choosing” speech on behalf of Barry Goldwater; launches his political career
• 1988  President Reagan decides to demolish the new U.S. Embassy in Moscow after discovery of built-in Soviet listening devices
• 2004  Boston Red Sox win 1st World series since 1918

Lost and Found – October 26th Edition

What to remember about October 26th…

• 1775  King George III speaks to parliament declaring the American colonies to be in rebellion; authorizes military force to end it
• 1776  Benjamin Franklin sets sail from Philadelphia for France to negotiate aid and an alliance
• 1825  360 mile Erie Canal is completed after 4 years
• 1861  The Pony Express officially ends operations; replaced by modern transcontinental telegraph system
• 1881  In Tombstone, Arizona the Earp brothers confront the Clanton-McLaury gang in a legendary gunfight at the OK Corral
• 1940  Maiden flight of the P-51 Mustang fighter
• 1944  At the end of 4 days of air-naval conflict, Battle of Leyte gulf leaves Japanese fleet devastated and on the run
• 1966  President Johnson makes surprise visit to troops in Vietnam
• 2001  In response to 9/11/01 attacks, President George W. Bush signs controversial anti-terrorism law; The USA Patriot Act
• 2002  Moscow theater siege ends with 50 Chechen terrorists and 150 hostages killed during Russian commando assault

Lost and Found – October 25th Edition

What to remember about October 25th…

• 1415  On St. Crispin’s Day, small force led by Henry V defeats numerically superior French army at Battle of Agincourt in Hundred Years’ War; English longbows prove highly effective
• 1764  Future President John Adams and Abigail Smith marry in Massachusetts
• 1774  Continental Congress petitions king of England to address the Intolerable Acts
• 1854  Confusion leads to Charge of the Light Brigade during Crimean War; inspires Tennyson’s famous poem
• 1861  Keel is lain for the 1st Union ironclad USS Monitor
• 1962  U.S. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson presents photographic evidence to U.N. of Soviet missile bases in Cuba
• 1971  United Nations votes to admit Peoples Republic of China and expel Republic of China (Taiwan)
• 1983  President Reagan orders Marines to invade island of Grenada to protect American students and tourists; now celebrated as Thanksgiving Day
• 1994  Susan Smith reports her car was hijacked with her 2 children in the back; this lie is to cover her murder of the kids

Lost and Found – October 24th Edition

What to remember about October 24th…

• 1861  Western Union completes 1st transcontinental telegraph line
• 1901  Annie Edson Taylor becomes the first person to survive a trip over Niagara Falls in a barrel; it is her 63rd birthday
• 1929  “Black Thursday” begins a  stock market crash that starts the 12-year Great Depression
• 1944  American Navy sinks Japanese aircraft carrier and battleship at the Battle of Leyte Gulf
• 1945  United Nations is formally established with the ratification of the United Nations Charter
• 1949  Cornerstone of the United Nations Headquarters in New York is lain; construction financed by $65 million loan from U.S.
• 1951  President Truman proclaims that the war with Germany is officially over
• 1992  Toronto Blue Jays become 1st team outside of the United States to win Major League Baseball’s World Series
• 2003  Supersonic Concorde passenger jet makes its last commercial flight
• 2005  Civil rights activist Rosa Louise McCauley Parks dies at home in Detroit, Michigan (b. 1913)