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Today in Naval History
May 30
1864 During the Civil War, the side-wheel steamship USS Keystone State and the iron screw steamship USS Massachusetts capture British blockade-runner Caledonia south of Cape Fear, N.C.
1944 USS Guitarro (SS 363) sinks Japanese freighter Shisen Maru, 60 miles south-east of Keelung, Formosa. Also on this date, USS Pompon (SS 267) sinks Japanese freighter Shiga Maru off Muroto Saki, Japan while USS Rasher (SS 269) sinks the gunboat Anshu Maru about 110 miles north-northeast of Halmahera.
1945 A TBM (VC 82) from USS Anzio (CVE 57) sinks Japanese submarine (I 361), 400 miles southeast of Okinawa. Also on this date, USS Blenny (SS 324) sinks Japanese cargo ship Hokoku Maru 40 miles southwest of Banjarmasin, Borneo while USS Croaker (SS 246) sinks Shuttle Boat (No.154) and Shuttle Boat (No. 146).
2008 USS Dubuque (LPD 8) rescues six Filipino mariners from a sinking vessel in the Balabac Strait. She was originally commissioned in September 1967 and decommissioned in June 2011. Dubuque is now in the reserve fleet at Bremerton, Wash.
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Today in History May 30
1416 | Jerome of Prague is burned as a heretic by the Church. | |
1431 | Joan of Arc is burned at the stake by the English. | |
1527 | The University of Marburg is founded in Germany. | |
1539 | Hernando de Soto lands in Florida with 600 soldiers in search of gold. | |
1783 | The first American daily newspaper, The Pennsylvania Evening Post, begins publishing in Philadelphia. | |
1814 | The First Treaty of Paris is declared, returning France to its 1792 borders. | |
1848 | William Young patents the ice cream freezer. | |
1854 | The Kansas-Nebraska Act repeals the Missouri Compromise. | |
1859 | The Piedmontese army crosses the Sesia River and defeats the Austrians at Palestro. | |
1862 | Union General Henry Halleck enters Corinth, Mississippi. | |
1868 | Memorial Day begins when two women place flowers on both Confederate and Union graves. | |
1889 | The brassiere is invented. | |
1912 | U.S. Marines are sent to Nicaragua to protect American interests. | |
1913 | The First Balkan War ends. | |
1921 | The U.S. Navy transfers the Teapot Dome oil reserves to the Department of the Interior. | |
1942 | The Royal Air Force launches the first 1,000 plane raid over Germany. | |
1971 | NASA launches Mariner 9, the first satellite to orbit Mars. |
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AMERICAN AEROSPACE EVENTS for May 30
FIRSTS, LASTS, AND SIGNIFICANT ACCOMPLISHMENTS FOR MAY 30
THANKS TO HAROLD "PHIL" MYERS CHIEF HISTORIAN AIR FORCE INTELLIGENCE, SURVEILLANCE, AND RECONNAISSANCE AGENCY
1912: Wilbur Wright died of typhoid fever at the age of 45 at Dayton. (21)
1913: Assistant Naval Constructor Jerome C. Hunsaker started a course in aerodynamics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (5) (18)
1917: The Navy's first successful dirigible, the B-1, landed 10 miles from Akron, Ohio, after completing an overnight test flight from Chicago, Ill. Goodyear's Ralph H. Upson piloted the craft.
1928: Capt Charles E. Kingsford-Smith and three other crewmen piloted a Fokker F-VII Trimotor, the Southern Cross, on the first flight from the US to Australia. The 7,400-mile flight ended at Brisbane on 8 June after stops in Honolulu and the Fiji Islands. (9)
1929: A DH-4 with a 400-HP Liberty engine completed cross country refueling tests during a flight from Dayton to New York to Washington DC.
1932: Lt Wilfred J. Paul and Lt K. J. H. Bishop won the National Balloon Race. They flew 901.4 miles from Omaha, Nebr., to Hatton in Saskatchewan, Canada, in 29 hours 15 minutes. This set new distance and duration records for a 35,000 cubic foot capacity balloon. (24)
1942: The first Boeing B-17F was built. 1958: The Air Force disclosed the development of the GAR-9, the first air-to-air atomic missile. (16)
1966: After a 30 May launch and a 63 1/2-hour flight, Surveyor I became the first US spacecraft to softland on the moon. It landed in the Ocean of Storms and sent clear TV pictures of the lunar surface back to earth. (21)
1972: Northrop's A-9A prototype completed its first flight. This aircraft competed against Fairchild's A-10A to become the Air Force's next close-air-support fighter. (3)
1974: The US launched the world's first communications broadcast satellite, the Applications Technology Satellite (ATS-6). From its synchronous orbit, the satellite provided coverage to half of the globe.
1998: The Dryden Research Center and the Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory successfully dropped the Mars Aerobot Validation Program (MABVAP) vehicle over the Rogers Dry Lake bed. The Planetary Aerobot Testbed (PAT) was a reversible-fluid balloon platform designed to hover for several days on end as an autonomous Mars explorer. (3)
2001: A C-17 from Charleston AFB flew a Thermosphere, Ionosphere, Mesophere, Energetics, and Dynamics (TIMED) spacecraft from Andrews AFB to Vandenberg AFB. The TIMED would be launched later in 2001 on a two-year mission. Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md., which designed and built the TIMED, would operate the spacecraft to study the sun's influences on the Mesophere and Lower Thermosphere/Ionosphere, some 40 to 110 miles above the earth. (22)
2003: A 910 AW C-130 from Youngstown ARS, Vienna, Ohio, delivered 7.5 tons of humanitarian supplies to Houari Boumediene Airport in Algiers, the capital city of Algeria. The C-130 crew, on temporary duty at Ramstein AB delivered the first American relief supplies to the earthquake victims. (22)
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This Day in American Military History May 30
1806 – In Logan County, Kentucky, future president Andrew Jackson participates in a duel, killing Charles Dickinson, a lawyer regarded as one of the best pistol shots in the area. The proud and volatile Jackson, a former senator and representative of Tennessee, called for the duel after his wife Rachel was slandered as a bigamist by Dickinson, who was referring to a legal error in the divorce from her first husband in 1791. Jackson met his foe at Harrison's Mills on Red River in Logan, Kentucky, on May 30, 1806. In accordance with dueling custom, the two stood 24 feet apart, with pistols pointed downward. After the signal, Dickinson fired first, grazing Jackson's breastbone and breaking some of his ribs. However, Jackson, a former Tennessee militia leader, maintained his stance and fired back, fatally wounding his opponent. It was one of several duels Jackson was said to have participated in during his lifetime, the majority of which were allegedly called in defense of his wife's honor. None of the other rumored duels were recorded, and whether he killed anyone else in this manner is not known. In 1829, Rachel died, and Jackson was elected the seventh president of the United States.
1868 – By proclamation of General John A. Logan of the Grand Army of the Republic, the first major Memorial Day observance is held to honor those who died "in defense of their country during the late rebellion." Known to some as "Decoration Day," mourners honored the Civil War dead by decorating their graves with flowers. On the first Decoration Day, General James Garfield made a speech at Arlington National Cemetery, after which 5,000 participants helped to decorate the graves of the more than 20,000 Union and Confederate soldiers buried in the cemetery. The 1868 celebration was inspired by local observances that had taken place in various locations in the three years since the end of the Civil War. In fact, several cities claim to be the birthplace of Memorial Day, including Columbus, Mississippi; Macon, Georgia; Richmond, Virginia; Boalsburg, Pennsylvania; and Carbondale, Illinois. In 1966, the federal government, under the direction of President Lyndon B. Johnson, declared Waterloo, New York, the official birthplace of Memorial Day. They chose Waterloo–which had first celebrated the day on May 5, 1866–because the town had made Memorial Day an annual, community-wide event, during which businesses closed and residents decorated the graves of soldiers with flowers and flags. By the late 19th century, many communities across the country had begun to celebrate Memorial Day, and after World War I, observers began to honor the dead of all of America's wars. In 1971, Congress declared Memorial Day a national holiday to be celebrated the last Monday in May. Today, Memorial Day is celebrated at Arlington National Cemetery with a ceremony in which a small American flag is placed on each grave. It is customary for the president or vice president to give a speech honoring the contributions of the dead and to lay a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. More than 5,000 people attend the ceremony annually. Several Southern states continue to set aside a special day for honoring the Confederate dead, which is usually called Confederate Memorial Day.
1942 – Four Japanese submarines arrive too late to intercept the American task forces destined for Midway.
1942 – US aircraft carrier Yorktown left Pearl Harbor.
1943 – US forces complete the occupation of Attu Island. American losses are reported as 600 dead and 1200 wounded. Japanese losses are given as 2350 killed (including many suicides) and 28 wounded have been captured.
1945 – On Okinawa, American forces reach Shuri, south of the former Japanese positions. Two battalions of US Marines reach the southeast edge of Naha.
1958 – Memorial Day: the remains of two unidentified American servicemen, killed in action during World War II and the Korean War respectively, are buried at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery.
1999 – Astronauts from the space shuttle "Discovery" rigged cranes and other tools to the exterior of the international space station during a spacewalk; then, the astronauts entered the orbiting outpost for three days of making repairs and delivering supplies.
Congressional Medal of Honor Citations for Actions Taken This Day
Rank and organization: Private, Company L, 8th U.S. Cavalry. Place and date: At San Carlos, Ariz., 30 May 1868. Entered service at: ——. Birth: Clermont County, Ohio. Date of issue: 28 July 1868. Citation: With 2 other men he volunteered to search for a wagon passage out of a 4,000-foot valley wherein an infantry column was immobile. This small group passed 6 miles among hostile Apache terrain finding the sought passage. On their return trip down the canyon they were attacked by Apaches who were successfully held at bay.
CUBBERLY, WILLIAM G.
Rank and organization: Private, Company L, 8th U.S. Cavalry. Place and date: At San Carlos, Ariz., 30 May 1868. Entered service at: ——. Birth: Butler County, Ohio. Date of issue: 28 July 1868. Citation: With 2 other men he volunteered to search for a wagon passage out of a 4,000-foot valley wherein an infantry column was immobile. This small group passed 6 miles among hostile Apache terrain finding the sought passage. On their return trip down the canyon they were attacked by Apache who were successfully held at bay.
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itz... this is the equivalent of a Bucket List for old Bears... all the things I'd like to see before I tip-over my bucket (bad knees will preclude kicking it)... Bear
On May 30, 2020, at 11:26 AM, Fritz wrote:
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From Jim Kunstler's blog.
"What "the Resistance" really fears more than anything is General Michael Flynn's mouth. He's been under a judicial gag order since his case went before Judge Emmet Sullivan's federal district court. Understandably, Gen. Flynn wasn't eager to complicate his unjust plight with a contempt citation. Judge Sullivan's recent shenanigans have one object: to keep that gag order in force as long as possible. The moment Judge Sullivan confirms the DOJ's move to dismiss the charges, as he is duty-bound to do, General Flynn will be free to offer his views to the public. That might be inconvenient in an election season.
I'm sure he has a lot to say. Gen. Flynn was head of the Defense Intelligence Agency for two years (2012 – 2014) under Barack Obama, and he knows a ton about every crooked operation Mr. Obama presided over, including the Benghazi fiasco, the Ukraine regime change op, and especially Mr. Obama's hijacking of the NSA supercomputer surveillance database known as "the Hammer," which was set up originally to track terrorists and then used by DNI James Clapper and CIA chief John Brennan to spy on Americans, most particularly Mr. Obama's political adversaries. It's rumored that Mr. Obama took the database with him when he left the White House, and it is said to contain great amounts of usefully damning information about just about everyone in government, including senators, congressmen, and Supreme Court justices.
Gen. Flynn became an antagonist to Obama & Co. when he objected to the nuclear deal they were cooking up with Iran and when he spoke out against the CIA's 2013 Timber Sycamore op to arm and give money to Isis terrorists opposing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Mr. Obama canned Gen. Flynn in 2014. What really sealed Gen. Flynn's fate was when he started publicly complaining about the politicization of John Brennan's CIA. The New York Times quoted him saying, "They've lost sight of who they actually work for. They work for the American people. They don't work for the president of the United States. Frankly, it's become a very political organization."
And a few months later, he jumped on Donald Trump's campaign bandwagon. When he led the cheer "Lock her up" at the Republican convention, you can imagine how that gave the heebie-jeebies to a whole lot of other Deep State denizens besides She-Whose-Turn-Was-Foiled. And then, Lord have mercy, he was appointed to sit at Mr. Trump's very elbow in the West Wing as National Security Advisor! Well, you can imagine the tremors that provoked. Gen. Flynn had declared his intention to completely reorganize, partially dismantle, and audit the intel community monster that had spread like a slime mold through the government. Mr. Brennan especially feared the audit part of the deal, since his agency regarded the billions of dollars that flowed in and out of it as just another one of its sacred secrets. Flynn had to be stopped.
So, John Brennan concocted the RussiaGate scam to put over the idea that General Flynn was an errand boy of Vladimir Putin —lock him up! — and for good measure, Mr. Trump probably was, too. Once they embarked on that grand misadventure, and enlisted the foolish James Comey and his FBI zealots to assist, the gang found themselves involved in a dangerous game of sedition, poorly thought out and executed desperately. And finally, by all that's holy, the improbable Mr. Trump actually won the election, ensuring that he would be privy to every dark secret moldering in the vaults of the US government.
For three years, the whole wicked scheme has been slowly but steadily unspooling. The hapless (and perhaps senile) Robert Mueller was brought in to cap what threatened to become a political nuclear meltdown. We must suppose that Mr. Mueller was just a figurehead, and yet the supposedly brightest gang of Lawfare attorneys he enlisted — Weissmann, Van Grack, Rhee, Zebley, et. al. — absolutely blew it. They came up with zilch on Russian collusion, they muffed the attempt to nail Mr. Trump on an obstruction of justice rap (and watched helplessly as the inept Schiff & Nadler flopped fecklessly at impeachment), and now, having been exposed in the malicious prosecution of Gen. Flynn, they were forced to drop the case against him.
Finally, Judge Sullivan was recruited by The Resistance in a last-ditch effort to keep Gen. Flynn silent for a couple months more by ginning up an amicus circus that would invite a zillion bogus filings of briefs to be meticulously examined and argued, a pointless exercise in sound and fury. In doing so, he contradicted 25 of his own previous rulings against amicus filings by the defendant, and also moved in violation of a Supreme Court decision (Sineneng-Smith, 2020) and a DC Circuit case (Fokker Services 2016), as well as federal court rules against the use of amicus filings in criminal proceedings.
Now he has a few days to answer a mandamus motion from the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit to cut the shit and do his bound duty in the case. I won't rehearse the separation-of-powers argument, except to say that Judge Sullivan doesn't have a leg to stand on, and will be lucky if he is not reprimanded by the higher court. He's been played by the Lawfare gang and exposed as a useful idiot. They've tossed aside his personal honor like a banana skin. Gawd knows what else prompted him to lawyer-up.
The colossal melodrama of a sedition conspiracy is unspooling swiftly now. Before much longer, US Attorney John Durham will weigh in with something, whether it's a mere report detailing gross abuses of power, or perhaps a string of hard indictments against the seditionists. With bales of evidence of their misdeeds now in the public domain, the various players must be turning on each other viciously now. There's probably not enough room under the proverbial bus to throw anybody else. They'll need a train.
Also, comically, FBI Director Christopher Wray opened an "internal investigation" last week to ascertain whether any current members of his agency engaged in any misconduct around the Flynn case. That's cute. It only took him three years. Of course, most of the major perps have already been fired, Comey, McCabe, Strzok, Page. Why is Mr. Wray even still in that job, where his main occupation has been obstructing the release of court-ordered and congressionally subpoenaed documents?
You know what would be really a great move? Fire Chris Wray's ass and replace him with outgoing Acting DNI Richard Grenell. Let Mr. Grenell just be Acting FBI Director for the statutory six months moving toward the election. Don't even bother to nominate him and go through a senate confirmation. I bet a lot remaining information would get unstuck fast.Oh, and get ready for Gen. Michael Flynn to speak. He might have a few interesting things to say. Not all of the news media will ignore him, and then those who do will have a lot to answer for about their long-running complicity in the criminal conspiracy to overthrow a president."
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I often wondered what happened to that lady
Thanks to Dutch
The Real Story Behind the 'Migrant Mother' Great Depression-Era Photo - HISTORY
WOW!!! Thanks to Tam
And now you know... the rest of the story.
Tam
https://www.history.com/news/migrant-mother-new-deal-great-depression
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Thanks to Carl
Very interesting video about squirrels! Amazing how they jump! Many good tidbits of info about squirrels. Have to double check but think he is wrong about age at the end! Just did—said Eastern Greys can live in the wild for up to 12 years but most die before they reach 6! Had always heard about six years!
TOUGH NUTS TO CRACK
Former NASA Engineer Builds An Obstacle Course To 'Squirrel Proof' His Bird Feeder
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