Lost and Found – January 6th Edition

What to remember about January 6th…

• 1759  George Washington marries widow Martha Dandridge Custis
• 1777  General Washington sets Morristown, New Jersey as winter quarters for his army after victories at Trenton
• 1838  American inventor Samuel Morse publicly demonstrates telegraph for 1st time
• 1853  President-elect Franklin Pierce and family are in train accident near Boston; 11-year old son Benjamin dies in wreck
• 1893  President Benjamin Harrison signs charter for Washington National Cathedral
• 1912  New Mexico enters the Union as the 47th State
• 1919  26th president Theodore Roosevelt dies in New York (b. 1858)
• 1946 Future 41st President George Herbert Walker Bush marries Barbara Pierce
• 1994  Olympic hopeful Nancy Kerrigan is attacked at practice session before Olympic skating trials; teammate Tonya Harding hired attacker to ensure her place on team
• 2000  Congress certifies 2000 election; George Bush will become 43rd President with 271 electoral votes to Al Gore’s 266

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Lost and Found – October 23rd Edition

What to remember about October 23rd…

• 1777  A British fleet is defeated with 2 ships destroyed at Fort Mifflin, Pennsylvania
• 1835  Vice President Adlai Stevenson is born in Christian County, Kentucky (d. 1914)
• 1890  President Benjamin Harrison extends borders of Nebraska to include Dakota territory ending indian territorial claims
• 1921  Body of Americas 1st Unknown Soldier is selected in France
• 1942  American author and director Michael Crichton is born in Chicago, Illinois; best known for medical thrillers and sci-fi
• 1944  4-day Battle of Leyte Gulf begins in the Philippine Sea; largest naval engagement in history leads to Allied victory
• 1965  Operation Silver Bayonet begun by 1st Cavalry Division in Pleiku Province of Vietnam
• 1983  Muslim suicide bomber attacks peacekeepers barracks in Beirut, Lebanon; 220 U.S. Marines, 18 sailors, and 3 soldiers killed by the 2000-pound truck bomb
• 1996  Civil trial of O.J. Simpson begins; jury will find him liable in the deaths of Nocole Simpson and Ron Goldman
• 2002  Chechen Muslim terrorists seize over 800 hostages at a theater in Moscow; siege ends with more than 120 dead on the 26th

Lost and Found – June 6th Edition

What to remember about June 6th…

• 1639 General Court of Massachusetts grants 500 acres for the establishment of the first gunpowder mill in America
• 1664 New Amsterdam transferred to British and is renamed New York City
• 1755 Nathan Hale born ; hanged by British September 22, 1776; states “I only regret that I have but one life to give for my country.” before
• 1775  Marinus Willett and Sons of Liberty confront evacuating British soldiers in New York and seize five wagon loads of weapons
• 1862  Battle of Memphis; Confederate fleet destroyed and Union takes effective control of Memphis and the Mississippi River
• 1892  Benjamin Harrison becomes 1st sitting president to attend a professional baseball game and throw out the 1st pitch
• 1918  US Marines begin Battle of Belleau Wood; for his heroic actions, Gunnery Sergeant Ernest A Janson earns 1st Medal of Honor awarded in WWI
• 1921  William “Big Bill” Gatewood pitches the first no-hitter in the Negro National League beating the Cincinnati Cuban Stars
• 1932  1st federal gasoline tax created by Revenue Act of 1932
• 1933  1st drive-in theater opens; Camden, New Jersey
• 1942  Japanese invade Kiska Island in the Aleutians (Alaska) taking U.S. Navy weather detachment prisoner
• 1944  Operation Overlord (D-Day) begins; 6000 ships and landing craft carrying 176,000 troops, 822 aircraft carrying paratroopers, 13,000 other aircraft provide support and air cover; Baseball cancels all games to honor the troops
• 1949  George Orwell’s classic dark futurist novel “1984″ is published
• 1966  Republican civil rights activist James Meredith shot and wounded by a white supremacist during March Against Fear
• 1977  SCOTUS rules in Coker v. Georgia that imposition of the death penalty for rape constitutes cruel and unusual punishment
• 1982 Operation Peace For Galilee (First Lebanon War) begins with IDF invasion of southern Lebanon, attack is in response to over 200 PLO attacks in pervious year and assassination of Israeli diplomat
• 1984  Tetris is released; one of the best-selling video games of all time

Lost and Found – January 6th Edition

What to remember about January 6th…

• 1759  George Washington marries widow Martha Dandridge Custis
• 1777  General Washington sets Morristown, New Jersey as winter quarters for his army after victories at Trenton
• 1838  American inventor Samuel Morse publicly demonstrates telegraph for 1st time
• 1853  President-elect Franklin Pierce and family are in train accident near Boston; 11-year old son Benjamin dies in wreck
• 1893  President Benjamin Harrison signs charter for Washington National Cathedral
• 1912  New Mexico enters the Union as the 47th State
• 1919  26th president Theodore Roosevelt dies in New York (b. 1858)
• 1946 Future 41st President George Herbert Walker Bush marries Barbara Pierce
• 1994  Olympic hopeful Nancy Kerrigan is attacked at practice session before Olympic skating trials; teammate Tonya Harding hired attacker to ensure her place on team
• 2000  Congress certifies 2000 election; George Bush will become 43rd President with 271 electoral votes to Al Gore’s 266

Lost and Found – October 23rd Edition

What to remember about October 23rd…

• 1777  A British fleet is defeated with 2 ships destroyed at Fort Mifflin, Pennsylvania
• 1835  Vice President Adlai Stevenson is born in Christian County, Kentucky (d. 1914)
• 1890  President Benjamin Harrison extends borders of Nebraska to include Dakota territory ending indian territorial claims
• 1921  Body of Americas 1st Unknown Soldier is selected in France
• 1942  American author and director Michael Crichton is born in Chicago, Illinois; best known for medical thrillers and sci-fi
• 1944  4-day Battle of Leyte Gulf begins in the Philippine Sea; largest naval engagement in history leads to Allied victory
• 1965  Operation Silver Bayonet begun by 1st Cavalry Division in Pleiku Province of Vietnam
• 1983  Muslim suicide bomber attacks peacekeepers barracks in Beirut, Lebanon; 220 U.S. Marines, 18 sailors, and 3 soldiers killed by the 2000-pound truck bomb
• 1996  Civil trial of O.J. Simpson begins; jury will find him liable in the deaths of Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman
• 2002  Chechen Muslim terrorists seize over 800 hostages at a theater in Moscow; siege ends with more than 120 dead on the 26th

Lost and Found – September 16th Edition

What to remember about September 16th…

• 1620  Mayflower departs with 102 passengers bound for Virginia; bad weather and navigation errors take them to modern-day Massachusetts
• 1776  Colonial troops under George Washington win the 1st battlefield victory of the war at Harlem Heights, New York
• 1893  100,000 people join in the Cherokee Land Rush; President Benjamin Harrison authorized the settlement of Indian lands in Oklahoma
• 1908  William Crapo Durant spends $2,000 to incorporate the General Motors Corporation; later he helps found Chevrolet
• 1919  In the aftermath of WWI veterans form a mutual aid society; Congress grants this “American Legion” a national charter
• 1920  Wall Street bombing kills 38 and wounds over 100; horse-drawn wagon contained the device; considered the 1st “car bomb”
• 1940  President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Selective Service and Training Act requiring males citizens between 26 and 35 to register for the draft even though America is not yet at war
• 1992  Currency manipulation led by speculator George Soros destabilize British pound; he makes $1 billion on Black Wednesday
• 2007  O.J. Simpson is arrested for his role in September 13th robbery and kidnapping of sports memorabilia dealer Bruce Fromong
• Update:  2013  34-year old Aaron Alexis opens fire inside the Navy Yard in Washington, D.C., 12 die before rampage ends with his death

Lost and Found – August 20th Edition

What to remember about August 20th…

• 1794  American troops under General”Mad Anthony” Wayne defeat Shawnee and British forces at Battle of Fallen Timbers
• 1833  23rd President of the United States Benjamin Harrison is born; grandson of 9th President William Henry Harrison
• 1862  Horace Greeley writes to Lincoln the “Prayer of the Twenty Millions” arguing that abolition should be the goal of the Union in the Civil War
• 1866  President Johnson formally declares Civil War is over
• 1920  Professional football is born at a meeting in Ohio
• 1968  Soviet troops invade Czechoslovakia to crush the “Prague Spring”
• 1975  Viking I planetary probe is launched towards Mars
• 1986 Mail carrier  Patrick Henry Sherrill goes on shooting spree in Edmund, Oklahoma killing 14; in the aftermath the phrase “going postal” is coined
• 1989  Lyle and Erik Menendez shoot and kill their parents in the den of the family’s Beverly Hills home
• 1998  President Clinton orders cruise missile strikes on  Afghanistan and Sudan in retaliation for Osama bin Laden’s involvement in August embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania

Lost and Found – June 6th Edition

What to remember about June 6th…

• 1639 General Court of Massachusetts grants 500 acres for the establishment of the first gunpowder mill in America
• 1664 New Amsterdam transferred to British and is renamed New York City
• 1755 Nathan Hale born ; hanged by British September 22, 1776; states “I only regret that I have but one life to give for my country.” before
• 1775  Marinus Willett and Sons of Liberty confront evacuating British soldiers in New York and seize five wagon loads of weapons
• 1862  Battle of Memphis; Confederate fleet destroyed and Union takes effective control of Memphis and the Mississippi River
• 1892  Benjamin Harrison becomes 1st sitting president to attend a professional baseball game and throw out the 1st pitch
• 1918  US Marines begin Battle of Belleau Wood; for his heroic actions, Gunnery Sergeant Ernest A Janson earns 1st Medal of Honor awarded in WWI
• 1921  William “Big Bill” Gatewood pitches the first no-hitter in the Negro National League beating the Cincinnati Cuban Stars
• 1932  1st federal gasoline tax created by Revenue Act of 1932
• 1933  1st drive-in theater opens; Camden, New Jersey
• 1942  Japanese invade Kiska Island in the Aleutians (Alaska) taking U.S. Navy weather detachment prisoner
• 1944  Operation Overlord (D-Day) begins; 6000 ships and landing craft carrying 176,000 troops, 822 aircraft carrying paratroopers, 13,000 other aircraft provide support and air cover; Baseball cancels all games to honor the troops
• 1949  George Orwell’s classic dark futurist novel “1984″ is published
• 1966  Republican civil rights activist James Meredith shot and wounded by a white supremacist during March Against Fear
• 1977  SCOTUS rules in Coker v. Georgia that imposition of the death penalty for rape constitutes cruel and unusual punishment
• 1982 Operation Peace For Galilee (First Lebanon War) begins with IDF invasion of southern Lebanon, attack is in response to over 200 PLO attacks in pervious year and assassination of Israeli diplomat
• 1984  Tetris is released; one of the best-selling video games of all time

Lost and Found – January 6th Edition

What to remember about January 6th…

• 1759  George Washington marries widow Martha Dandridge Custis
• 1777  General Washington sets Morristown, New Jersey as winter quarters for his army after victories at Trenton
• 1838  American inventor Samuel Morse publicly demonstrates telegraph for 1st time
• 1853  President-elect Franklin Pierce and family are in train accident near Boston; 11-year old son Benjamin dies in wreck
• 1893  President Benjamin Harrison signs charter for Washington National Cathedral
• 1912  New Mexico enters the Union as the 47th State
• 1919  26th president Theodore Roosevelt dies in New York (b. 1858)
• 1946 Future 41st President George Herbert Walker Bush marries Barbara Pierce
• 1994  Olympic hopeful Nancy Kerrigan is attacked at practice session before Olympic skating trials; teammate Tonya Harding hired attacker to ensure her place on team
• 2000  Congress certifies 2000 election; George Bush will become 43rd President with 271 electoral votes to Al Gore’s 266

Lost and Found – October 23rd Edition

What to remember about October 23rd…

• 1777  A British fleet is defeated with 2 ships destroyed at Fort Mifflin, Pennsylvania
• 1835  Vice President Adlai Stevenson is born in Christian County, Kentucky (d. 1914)
• 1890  President Benjamin Harrison extends borders of Nebraska to include Dakota territory ending indian territorial claims
• 1921  Body of Americas 1st Unknown Soldier is selected in France
• 1942  American author and director Michael Crichton is born in Chicago, Illinois; best known for medical thrillers and sci-fi
• 1944  4-day Battle of Leyte Gulf begins in the Philippine Sea; largest naval engagement in history leads to Allied victory
• 1965  Operation Silver Bayonet begun by 1st Cavalry Division in Pleiku Province of Vietnam
• 1983  Muslim suicide bomber attacks peacekeepers barracks in Beirut, Lebanon; 220 U.S. Marines, 18 sailors, and 3 soldiers killed by the 2000-pound truck bomb
• 1996  Civil trial of O.J. Simpson begins; jury will find him liable in the deaths of Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman
• 2002  Chechen Muslim terrorists seize over 800 hostages at a theater in Moscow; siege ends with more than 120 dead on the 26th