Lost and Found – January 1st Edition

What to remember about January 1st…

• 1781  1500 Patriot troops under General Anthony Wayne mutiny over not being paid; they march off on their own to capture Princeton
• 1808  As the 20-year constitutional prohibition against legislation in relation to slavery expires, Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves goes into effect in any U.S. jurisdiction
• 1863  As promised, President Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation freeing all slaves in rebellious America; Union army is instructed to liberate any they find
• 1892  Federal immigration receiving station opens on Ellis Island
• 1934  Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring goes into effect in Nazi Germany; court ordered sterilization
• 1942  President Roosevelt and Minister Churchill issue proclamation at end of the Arcadia Conference vowing to create United Nations
• 1958  At San Quentin Johnny Cash plays his 1st prison performance; inmate Mearle Haggard is inspired to change his life
• 1959  Communist led by Fidel Castro force Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista to flee the country for the Dominican Republic
• 1962  United States Navy’s Sea, Air, and Land Teams (SEALs) are established
• 1966  Advance units of 1st Marine Division arrive in Vietnam; by march 20,000 Marines will be in country
• 1984  As a result of 1974 anti-trust lawsuit brought by Justice Department, AT&T is broken into 7 holding companies known as “Baby Bells”
• 2004  Roman Catholic and Protestant Boy Scout organizations reunite after almost a century of division

Lost and Found – December 2nd Edition

What to remember about December 2nd…

• 1777  Philadelphia nurse and housewife Lydia Darragh overhears British plans for surprise attack on General Washington’s forces; pretending to need flower, she slips out and passes a warning to Colonials
• 1823  Monroe Doctrine becomes new U.S. foreign policy when unveiled at President’s annual address to Congress
• 1845  President Polk reasserts Monroe doctrine announcing aggressive westward expansion as part of America’s “manifest destiny”
• 1942  Enrico Fermi experiment produces 1st nuclear chain reaction; “atomic pile” was built and tested in a basement at University of Chicago
• 1954  U.S. Senate votes to condemn Joseph R. McCarthy for “conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute”.
• 1970  At the direction of President Nixon and with approval of Congress, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) begins operations
• 1976  Communist dictator Fidel Castro is becomes President of Cuba
• 2001  Energy-trading corporation Enron files bankruptcy after fraud and mismanagement can no longer be concealed
• 2015  Married Islamist terrorists Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik kill 14 and wound 22 in attack on office Christmas party in San Bernadino County, California

 

Lost and Found – November 20th Edition

What to remember about November 20th…

• 1789  New Jersey becomes 1st states to ratify the Bill of Rights amendments to the United States Constitution
• 1945  War crimes trials of 24 Nazis begin at Nuremberg
• 1947  Princess Elizabeth marries Philip Mountbatten at Westminster Abbey; in 1957 becomes Queen Elizabeth II of United Kingdom
• 1962  After removal of Soviet weapons, Cuban Missile Crisis ends with lifting of quarantine of the island
• 1979  Islamic militants seize Grand Mosque at Mecca, days of clashes with Saudi and French troops leave at least 250 dead and 500 wounded
• 1985  Microsoft releases Windows 1.0 operating system
• 1998  Zarya is the 1st module of the International Space Station launched into orbit

Lost and Found – November 6th Edition

What to remember about November 6th…

• 1789  John Carroll is appointed the 1st Catholic Bishop in America; founder of Georgetown University
• 1854  American composed and conductor John Phillip Souza is born in Washington, D.C. (d. 1932)
• 1861  Jefferson Davis elected President of the Confederacy
• 1944  Plutonium is 1st produced at Hanford Atomic Facility; it will be used in the bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan
• 1965  U.S. begins Freedom Flights program that brings 250,000 refugees from communist Cuba
• 1986  John A. Walker, Jr. is convicted of running spy ring for the Soviets; sentenced to life in prison
• 1985  Press accounts reveal that President Reagan authorized arms sales to Iran; Iran-Contra Affair expands
• 2003  President Bush signs Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act

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
• 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 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 22nd Edition

What to remember about October 22nd…

• 1734  American pioneer and explorer Daniel Boone born in Berks County, Pennsylvania (d. 1820)
• 1775  1st president of the Continental Congress Peyton Manning of Virginia dies in Philadelphia
• 1797  André-Jacques Garnerin is the first person to make a parachute jump; he descends from a hot air balloon 3200 feet above Paris
• 1907  A run on New York banks leads to financial crisis and a 50% decline in the New York Stock Exchange
• 1957  1st American casualties of the Vietnam War; 13 injured in terrorist bombing in Saigon
• 1962  President Kennedy addresses nation on television to announce a blockade of Cuba in response to the installation of nuclear weapons on the island by the Soviet Union
• 1968  Apollo 7 mission splashes down as the 1st successful manned mission of the Apollo series
• 1986  President Reagan signs the Tax Reform Act of 1986
• 2008  India launches their 1st unmanned lunar mission

Lost and Found – August 13th Edition

What to remember about August 13th…

• 1818  American suffragette and abolitionist Lucy Stone is born in Massachusetts; inspired Susan B. Anthony to join the cause
• 1878  First death in the Memphis, Tennessee yellow-fever epidemic; in next few months 20,000 will die
• 1910  Florence Nightingale dies; founder of professional nursing and the school at St. Thomas’ Hospital in London
• 1912  Famed American golfer Ben Hogan is born in Stephenville, Texas
• 1918  Opha May Johnson becomes 1st woman to enlist in the United States Marine Corps
• 1926  Cuban communist dictator Fidel Castro is born; responsible for the deaths of thousands of dissidents
• 1937  3-month Battle of Shanghai begins between China’s National Revolutionary Army and the Imperial Japanese Army
• 1995  New York Yankees baseball legend Mickey Mantle dies
• 2004  American chef, author, and television personality Julia Child dies; WWII veteran of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) – that agency later becomes the CIA

Lost and Found – June 28th Edition

What to remember about June 28th…

• 1776  Thomas Hickey convicted and executed for mutiny, sedition, and conspiring with the enemy; Washington signs the death warrant
• 1778  Mary “Molly Pitcher” Hays replaces her wounded husband on the battlefield as cannon crew helping win the Battle of Monmouth
• 1836  James Madison dies; 4th President of the United States, “father” of the Constitution; husband of Dolley Madison
• 1914  Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria is shot to death beginning a chain of events leading to World War I
• 1919  Future 33rd President of the United States Harry S. Truman marries Bess Wallace; afterward they lived in her mother’s house
• 1919  Treaty of Versailles is signed; ends World War I
• 1953  Assembly begins in Flint, MI on the 1st Chevrolet Corvette
• 1965  3000 troops from the 173rd Airborne assault Viet Cong positions north of Saigon; 1st major offensive of the Vietnam War
• 1978  SCOTUS rules in University of California v. Bakke that he be admitted to the medical school; ruled against reverse discrimination
• 1997 Boxer Mike Tyson bites off ear of Evander Holyfield’s ear
• 2000  6-year old Elián González sent back to Cuba
• 2004  Sovereign power is transferred from the Coalition Provisional Authority to Iraq’s interim government
• 2005  Navy Lt. Michael Patrick Murphy is killed in Afghanistan calling in support for his surrounded unit; he will receive the Medal of Honor
• 2012  SCOTUS rules that Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) is constitutional as a tax and not under Commerce Clause; largest tax increase in history of the world goes forward

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