Lost and Found – January 15th Edition

What to remember about January 15th…

• 1777  New Connecticut (Vermont) declares independence from Britain and the colony of New York
• 1815  USS President is captured by British squadron during War of 1812
• 1919  Storage tank holding 2.5 million gallons of boiling molasses ruptures in Boston killing 21 and injuring scores with 8-foot high molten wave
• 1929  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. is born in Atlanta, Georgia (d. 1968)
• 1943  Dedication of the United States Department of Defense headquarters in Arlington, Virginia; building popularly called “the Pentagon”
• 1947  “Black Dahlia” investigation  begins with discovery of body of Elizabeth Short in Los Angeles, California; mystery remains unsolved today
• 1951  Ilse Koch known as “Witch of Buchenwald”, wife of commandant of Buchenwald concentration camp is sentenced to life in prison
• 1973  President Nixon suspends offensive military action in Vietnam to give peace process a better chance of success
• 2009  Commercial airline pilot Captain “Sully” Sullenberger performs his Miracle on the Hudson; lands powerless Airbus 320 safely on the water; walks the flooding aircraft twice to ensure all 150 passengers escape safely

Lost and Found – January 9th Edition

What to remember about January 9th…

• 1776 Patriot Thomas Paine 1st publishes his pamphlet on independence from Britain “Common Sense”
• 1788  Connecticut becomes 5th state admitted to the Union
• 1861  Confederate forces in Charleston fire on the Union supply ship Star of the West when it tries to reach Fort Sumter
• 1913  Future 37th president of the United States Richard Milhous Nixon is born on this day in Yorba Linda, California
• 1916  Ottoman Empire defeats Allied forces at Battle of Gallipoli leading to evacuation by sea
• 1945  U.S. forces led by General MacArthur land at Luzon to continue recapture of the Philippine Islands
• 1964  One of the Hillside Stranglers, Angelo Buono, is sentenced to life in prison; his accomplice Kenneth Bianchi testifies
• 1991  Talks between representatives of the U.S. and Iraq fail to resolve growing crisis over the invasion of Kuwait
• 2007  Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveils the first iPhone

Lost and Found – January 5th Edition

What to remember about January 5th…

• 1779  American explorer and army general Zebulon Montgomery Pike Jr. is born in Lamberton, New Jersey (d. 1813)
• 1781  Traitor Benedict Arnold, now a General in British army, leads loyalist troops to capture and destroy Richmond, Virginia
• 1920  New York Yankees announce the purchase of Babe Ruth from Boston Red Sox; worst baseball deal in history?
• 1933  Construction begins on the Great Depression delayed Golden Gate Bridge; most popular suicide location in the world
• 1949  President Truman gives “Fair Deal” State of the Union speech outlining national health insurance, public housing, and more
• 1967  U.S. Marines begin amphibious operations in Mekong Delta
• 1970  United Mine Workers (UMW) leader Jock Yablonski and his family found murdered in their home; investigation reveals that UMW leadership had paid for their murders for disputing election
• 1972  President Nixon signs bill authorizing Space Shuttle program
• 1976  Pol Pot, murderous, communist dictator of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, renames the country Democratic Kampuchea
• 1993  Serial killer and  child molester Westley Allen Dodd is executed; last execution by hanging in the U.S.
• 1996  Palestinian master bomb maker is killed by Israel’s Shin Bet with bomb placed in his cell phone

Lost and Found – January 4th Edition

What to remember about January 4th…

• 1847  Texas Rangers order 1000 .44 revolvers from Samuel Colt for use in Mexican-American War; Colt Firearms born
• 1865  New York Stock Exchange moves into its 1st permanent home at 10–12 Broad Street in New York City
• 1884  Fabian Society founded in London; socialist society promoting internationalism, eugenics, and infiltration of governments
• 1896  Utah is admitted to the Union as the 46th state
• 1951  Communist forces of China and North Korea capture Seoul
• 1965 President Lyndon Johnson unveils his plan for a Great Society at State of the Union address
• 1974  President Nixon refuses to turn over materials subpoenaed by Senate committee investigating Watergate
• 1995  104th Congress begins when Newt Gingrich becomes Speaker; 1st Republican Congress since Eisenhower
• 1999  Resulting from 1992 Maastricht Treaty on European union, the Euro debuts as universal currency in 11 nations
• 2004  NASA’s MER-A Spirit rover explorer lands on Mars
• 2007  110th Congress elects Nancy Pelosi (D – Ca) as the 1st female Speaker of the House

Lost and Found – January 2nd Edition

What to remember about January 2nd…

• 1776  Congress publishes Tory Act to advise colonies on how to deal with persons remaining loyal to Britain
• 1788  Georgia becomes 4th state in the Union by voting to ratify the U.S. Constitution
• 1909 Father of modern conservatism and 5-term U.S. Senator Barry Morris Goldwater is born in Phoenix, Arizona (d. 1998)
• 1923  Albert Fall, Secretary of the Interior under President Harding resigns over corruption charges in Teapot Dome scandal
• 1935  Bruno Hauptman goes on trial for the murder of the infant son of aviation hero Charles Lindbergh
• 1974  President Nixon signs Emergency Highway Energy Conservation Act to establish a national speed limit during oil crisis
• 1980  President Carter reacts to Soviet invasion of Afghanistan by delaying implementation of SALT-II Treaty; Soviets unimpressed

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 17th Edition

What to remember about November 17th…

• 1777  Articles of Confederation are submitted by the Continental Congress to the states for ratification
• 1800  U.S. Congress holds 1st session in Washington, D.C.
• 1856  U.S. establishes Fort Buchanan to assert control of territory acquired in Gadsden Purchase
• 1871  National Rifle Association is founded when granted a charter by the state of New York
• 1947  U.S. Screen Actors Guild implements anti-Communist loyalty oath for its members
• 1965  Units of the 1st Cavalry (Airmobile) are ambushed during Battle of Ia Drang Valley; costly victory for U.S. forces
• 1970  1st Lt. William Calley goes on trial for massacre at My Lai
• 1973  Answering questions at a  press conference, President Nixon declares “I am not a crook”
• 1997  Islamic terrorists murder 62 in Luxor Massacre at archaeological and tourist site at Deir el-Bahri, Egypt
• 2003  John Muhammad is found guilty of murder while on trial for his role in the “Beltway sniper” attacks
• 2003  Actor and former bodybuilder Arnold Schwarzenegger becomes 38th governor of California
• 2009  Administrators at  University of East Anglia discover their servers are hacked and thousands of emails and files showing their falsification of global warming research data are made public

Lost and Found – November 16th Edition

What to remember about November 16th…

• 1776  Fort Washington falls to Redcoats; deserter William Dermot had delivered defense details to the British
• 1907  Oklahoma enters Union as 46th state
• 1945  U.S. secretly brings 88 former Nazi rocket scientists to America to assist in military research and development
• 1973  President Nixon signs legislation allowing construction of Alaskan oil pipeline from North Slope to Valdez
• 2000  Bill Clinton becomes 1st U.S. President to visit Vietnam since end of hostilities there
• 2001  J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone opens in theaters across America
• 2006  American free market economist, author, and academic Milton Friedman dies in San Francisco, California (b. 1912)

Lost and Found – September 8th Edition

What to remember about September 8th…

• 1565  St. Augustine, Florida founded; Spaniards arrive with the 1st African slaves in North America
• 1900  Devastating hurricane destroys Galveston, Texas; more than 6000 people die
• 1915  German Zeppelin successfully bombs London; 22 killed in the massive fire that develops
• 1943  General Eisenhower announces that Italy has surrendered to the lies
• 1966  1st episode of Star Trek airs on national television
• 1974  President Ford pardons his predecessor, President Nixon
• 2003  Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) begins suing individuals that share copyrighted music files online
• 2004  CBS News releases forged documents that claim to show President George Bush’s military record is tainted

Lost and Found – August 15th Edition

What to remember about August 15th…

• 1780  Irregulars led by LTC Frances “Swamp Fox” Marion rout crown loyalists at Port’s Ferry, South Carolina
• 1914  Opening of the American-built Panama Canal is inaugurated with the transit of the U.S. ship Ancon, President Carter signs canal over to Panamanian control December 31, 1977
• 1935  Famed aviator Wiley Post and celebrated actor and journalist Will Rogers die in plane crash in Alaska
• 1939  Classic film The Wizard of Oz premiers at Grauman’s Chinese Theater
• 1945  Emperor Hirohito announces to his people that Japan has surrendered to the Allies
• 1947  200 years of English rule ends and the nations of India and Pakistan become independent
• 1969  The Woodstock Music Festival opens in upstate New York; performers includes Jimi Hendrix, the Who, the Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, CCR and more
• 1971  President Nixon imposes a 90-day freeze on wages and prices; ends the convertibility of U.S. dollars into gold
• 1979  Francis Ford Coppola film Apocalypse Now opens in U.S.
• 2003  Libya formally accepts responsibility for 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland; express no remorse and admit no guilt