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Post by Cole_blooded on Mar 15, 2007 13:58:31 GMT -5
Like I said a truly great man! ;D 44 BC: The ides of March: Julius Caesar is murdered Julius Caesar, the perpetual dictator of the Roman Empire, is murdered by his own senators at a meeting in a hall next to Pompey's Theatre. The conspiracy against Caesar encompassed as many as sixty noblemen, including Caesar's own protÝgÝ, Marcus Brutus. Caesar was scheduled to leave Rome to fight in a war on March 18 and had appointed loyal members of his army to rule the Empire in his absence. The Republican senators, already chafing at having to abide by Caesar's decrees, were particularly angry about the prospect of taking orders from Caesar's underlings. Cassius Longinus started the plot against the dictator, quickly getting his brother-in-law Marcus Brutus to join. Caesar should have been well aware that many of the senators hated him, but he dismissed his security force not long before his assassination. Reportedly, Caesar was handed a warning note as he entered the senate meeting that day but did not read it. After he entered the hall with Antony, Caesar was surrounded by senators holding daggers. Casca struck the first blow, hitting Caesar in the neck and drawing blood. The other senators all joined in, stabbing him repeatedly about the head. Marcus Brutus wounded Caesar in the groin and Caesar is said to have remarked in Greek, "You, too, my child." In the aftermath of the assassination, Antony attempted to carry out Caesar's legacy. However, Caesar's will left Octavius in charge as his adopted son. Cassius and Brutus tried to rally a Republican army and Brutus even issued coins celebrating the assassination, known as the Ides of March. Octavius, vowing revenge against the assassins, defeated and killed Cassius and Brutus two years later. Antony took his armies east, where he hooked up with Caesar's old paramour, Cleopatra. Octavius and Antony fought for many years until Octavius prevailed. In 30 B.C., Antony and Cleopatra committed suicide together. Octavius, later known as Augustus, ruled the Roman Empire for many more years. Anyone for some Ceasars salad? ;D........Later
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Post by Greg C. on Mar 15, 2007 17:39:39 GMT -5
after caeser, they had such great emperors like nero, caligula, need i go on?
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Post by Cole_blooded on Mar 16, 2007 14:28:46 GMT -5
The hellish battle for Iwo Jima ended! TED COLE....aka....Cole_blooded 1945 : Fighting on Iwo Jima ends On this day, the west Pacific volcanic island of Iwo Jima is declared secured by the U.S. military after months of fiercely fighting its Japanese defenders. The Americans began applying pressure to the Japanese defense of Iwo Jima in February 1944, when B-24 and B-25 bombers raided the island for 74 days straight. It was the longest pre-invasion bombardment of the war, necessary because of the extent to which the Japanese--21,000 strong--fortified the island, above and below ground, including a network of caves. Underwater demolition teams ("frogmen") were dispatched by the Americans just before the actual invasion to clear the shores of mines and any other obstacles that could obstruct an invading force. In fact, the Japanese mistook the frogmen for an invasion force and killed 170 of them. The amphibious landings of Marines began the morning of February 19, 1945, as the secretary of the Navy, James Forrestal, accompanied by journalists, surveyed the scene from a command ship offshore. The Marines made their way onto the island--and seven Japanese battalions opened fire, obliterating them. By that evening, more than 550 Marines were dead and more than 1,800 were wounded. In the face of such fierce counterattack, the Americans reconciled themselves to the fact that Iwo Jima could be taken only one yard at a time. A key position on the island was Mt. Suribachi, the center of the Japanese defense. The 28th Marine Regiment closed in and around the base of the volcanic mountain at the rate of 400 yards per day, employing flamethrowers, grenades, and demolition charges against the Japanese that were hidden in caves and pillboxes (low concrete emplacements for machine-gun nests). Approximately 40 Marines finally began a climb up the volcanic ash mountain, which was smoking from the constant bombardment, and at 10 a.m. on February 23, a half-dozen Marines raised an American flag at its peak, using a pipe as a flag post. Two photographers caught a restaging of the flag raising for posterity, creating one of the most reproduced images of the war. With Mt. Suribachi claimed, one-third of Iwo Jima was under American control. On March 16, with a U.S. Navy military government established, Iwo Jima was declared secured and the fighting over. When all was done, more than 6,000 Marines died fighting for the island, along with almost all the 21,000 Japanese soldiers trying to defend it.
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Post by Cole_blooded on Mar 17, 2007 12:19:16 GMT -5
Mountain man Jim Bridger: 1804 : Jim Bridger born Two months before Lewis and Clark begin their epic western expedition, Jim Bridger is born in Richmond, Virginia. Twenty years later, Bridger, heading West along the routes Lewis and Clark pioneered, became one of the greatest mountain men of the 19th century. The son of a surveyor and an innkeeper, Bridger moved with his family to St. Louis in 1818. There, Bridger apprenticed to a blacksmith, learned to handle boats, and became a good shot and skilled woodsman. When the Ashley-Henry fur trading company advertised for "enterprising young men" to travel the Missouri River to trade with the Indians, Bridger was among the first to respond, and he was hired in 1822. Though he lacked much formal education, Bridger demonstrated a brilliant ability for finding his way and surviving in the wilderness. As part of the Ashley-Henry team, he helped construct the first fur trading post on the Yellowstone River. At the age of 21, Bridger became the first Anglo definitely known to have seen the Great Salt Lake, though he mistakenly thought it was the Pacific Ocean at the time. He was adept at learning Indian dialects and culture, and he had a tremendous memory for geographical detail. For several years Bridger worked as an independent trapper and in 1830 he joined with three partners to gain control of the Rocky Mountain Fur Company. Bridger never really enjoyed the life of the businessman, though, and he sold out in 1834. That same year, he married Cora, the daughter of a Flathead Indian chief, and she accompanied him on his fur trapping expeditions. Yet by 1840, Bridger had grown tired of the nomadic trapper life. He was convinced that the emigrant traffic through the West had become heavy enough to support a trading post. He founded Fort Bridger along the Green River section of the Oregon Trail, in present-day southern Wyoming. Fort Bridger quickly became a regular stopping place for overland emigrants, and Bridger happily settled down with Cora, with whom he had three children. Bridger's idyllic life did not last, though. Cora died, Indians killed one of his daughters, and a second wife died in childbirth. Bridger retreated to the mountains to trap and hunt after each of these tragedies, often living for a time with Indians. In 1850, he married the daughter of a Shoshoni chief, and thereafter he and his bride-whom he called Mary-divided their time between summers at Fort Bridger and winters with the Shoshoni. In 1853, Mormons, resenting the competition from Bridger's fort, tried to arrest him as an outlaw. He escaped into the mountains with Mary and his children, but a band of Mormons burnt and gutted the fort, destroying all his supplies. Concerned for his family's safety, Bridger bought a farm near Westport, Missouri, where he left Mary and the children during all of his subsequent western journeys. He sold Fort Bridger in 1858, and spent the next decade working as a guide and an army scout in the early Indian wars. By 1868, Bridger's eyesight was failing, and he increasingly suffered from rheumatism. He retired to his Westport farm, where he cared for his apple trees and no doubt fondly recalled the rugged western mountains he had known so well. He died at the age of 76 on July 17, 1881.
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Post by neferetus on Mar 17, 2007 13:00:44 GMT -5
Sheez. Those Mormons certainly were not acting Christ-like, were they?
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Post by Bromhead24 on Mar 17, 2007 14:20:02 GMT -5
Kind of like some certain other religous extremists we know about..."Follow our religon or we will kill you" Hmmm, i wonder where i heard that before? ??
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Post by Greg C. on Mar 18, 2007 11:24:38 GMT -5
1852 : Wells and Fargo start shipping and banking company
On this day in 1852, in New York City, Henry Wells and William G. Fargo join with several other investors to launch their namesake business.
The discovery of gold in California in 1849 prompted a huge spike in the demand for cross-country shipping. Wells and Fargo decided to take advantage of these great opportunities. In July 1952, their company shipped its first loads of freight from the East Coast to mining camps scattered around northern California. The company contracted with independent stagecoach companies to provide the fastest possible transportation and delivery of gold dust, important documents and other valuable freight. It also served as a bank--buying gold dust, selling paper bank drafts and providing loans to help fuel California's growing economy.
In 1857, Wells, Fargo and Co. formed the Overland Mail Company, known as the "Butterfield Line," which provided regular mail and passenger service along an ever-growing number of routes. In the boom-and-bust economy of the 1850s, the company earned a reputation as a trustworthy and reliable business, and its logo--the classic stagecoach--became famous. For a premium price, Wells, Fargo and Co. would send an employee on horseback to deliver or pick up a message or package.
Wells, Fargo and Co. merged with several other "Pony Express" and stagecoach lines in 1866 to become the unrivaled leader in transportation in the West. When the transcontinental railroad was completed three years later, the company began using railroad to transport its freight. By 1910, its shipping network connected 6,000 locations, from the urban centers of the East and the farming towns of the Midwest to the ranching and mining centers of Texas and California and the lumber mills of the Pacific Northwest.
After splitting from the freight business in 1905, the banking branch of the company merged with the Nevada National Bank and established new headquarters in San Francisco. During World War I, the U.S. government nationalized the company's shipping routes and combined them with the railroads into the American Railway Express, effectively putting an end to Wells, Fargo and Co. as a transportation and delivery business. The following April, the banking headquarters was destroyed in a major earthquake, but the vaults remained intact and the bank's business continued to grow. After two later mergers, the Wells Fargo Bank American Trust Company--shortened to the Wells Fargo Bank in 1962--became, and has remained, one of the biggest banking institutions in the United States.
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Post by Greg C. on Mar 18, 2007 11:25:31 GMT -5
1999 : Three women are murdered at Yosemite
The bodies of Carole Sund and Silvina Pelosso are found in a charred rental car in a remote wooded area of Long Barn, Califonia. The women, and Sund's daughter Juli, had been missing since February when they were last seen alive at the Cedar Lodge near Yosemite National Park. Juli Sund's body was found thirty miles away a week after the car was found.
The mysterious disappearance of the three women had drawn national attention and landed them on the cover of People magazine. Compounding the mystery, Carole Sund's wallet had been found on a street in downtown Modesto, California, three days after they had disappeared.
Police and the FBI initially focused their investigation on Eugene Dykes, Michael Larwick, and a group of methamphetamine users in Northern California. However, all these leads went up in smoke in July when Joie Ruth Armstrong, a twenty-six year old Yosemite Park worker, was brutally killed and decapitated near her cabin in the park.
The discovery of her body led investigators to Cary Stayner, a thirty-seven year old man who worked at Cedar Lodge motel where the Sunds were last seen. Stayner was tracked down and caught at a nudist colony in Northern California. Stayner confessed to the murder of Armstrong and then surprised the detectives by admitting that he was also responsible for the murder of the Sunds and Pelosso.
Stayner had been on the other end of another high-profile crime years earlier. His younger brother, Steven, was abducted in Merced when Cary was ten years old. Steven Stayner was held for seven years by a sexual abuser, Kenneth Parnell. Following his escape, a television movie, I Know My First Name is Steven, dramatized the incident. Steven Stayner died in a tragic motorcycle accident when he was twenty-four.
The family saw further tragedy when Jesse Stayner, Cary and Steven's uncle was shot to death in 1990 during a bungled robbery attempt.
Stayner was convicted of four counts of first-degree murder in 2001 and sentenced to death.
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Post by neferetus on Mar 19, 2007 12:28:21 GMT -5
March 19th: St. Joseph's Day, when the swallows return to California's Mission San Juan Capistrano.
Romanticized in Leon Rene’s famous song "When the Swallows Come Back to Capistrano," the return of the little birds to Capistrano every Spring has captured the imaginations of millions and provides a major media event every year. The Old Spanish Mission has become world famous as the haven of the swallows, those romantic symbols for nature’s migration with the seasons.
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Post by neferetus on Mar 22, 2007 13:16:20 GMT -5
Oops, missed a day...
March 21, 1845 – New Braunfels was founded by a wagon train of German immigrants. By 1850, it was the fourth largest town in Texas.
March 22, 1879 – British-born Willy Hughes started a ranch near Boerne. He amassed 7,000 acres of land and was among the first to breed Oxford Downs sheep and Angora goats in Texas.
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Post by neferetus on Mar 26, 2007 13:02:32 GMT -5
March 26, 1836: Texian prisoners in the Presidio of La Bahia are getting kind of excited now. Talk is they will be going home tomorrow on parole. Some are singing a song now nearer and dearer to their hearts than ever: HOME SWEET HOME. Others are making friendly with the Mexican guards. According to prisoner Jack Duvall, one of his companions has even won a considerable amount of money from one of the guards in a card game. Life looks good.
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Post by neferetus on Mar 27, 2007 13:28:18 GMT -5
March 27. 1836, Palm Sunday: Fannin's men are led out of the La Bahia compound in several groups. When they are a ways out of Goliad, the Mexican columns halt and began shooting the unarmed prisoners in the back. While some of the survivors make a dash for the river, Jack Duvall falls down among the Texian corpses and the soldados run past him. Once they have passed him, he runs behind them, all the way to the river, then dashes pass them, plunging into the water, then swimming to the opposite shore amidst a hail of musket fire. Jack makes it. Another Texian he sees, also makes it. It is the man who had been so lucky at gambling, just the night before. With the Mexicans hot on his heels, the fellow reaches into his pockets and flings a handful of coins at his pursuers, causing them to halt to pick up the loot. And whenever any soldados get close enough to him in their pursuit, he repeats the act of coin flinging until he makes it across the river to safety.
In all 23 Texians manage to escape. Over 330 others are all killed, including Fannin and the other wounded men in the Presidio La Bahia.
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Post by Bromhead24 on Apr 2, 2007 8:36:25 GMT -5
Fannin, asks to be shot in the heart and recieve a christian burial. He is however shot in the face and burried in a pit or was he burned? i forget
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Post by neferetus on Apr 3, 2007 12:29:40 GMT -5
April 3, 1861: The Pony Express has its first run from St. Joseph MO to Sacramento, CA. April 3, 1864, Union troops enter Richmond, Virginia. April 3, 1882, St. Joseph MO.,Outlaw Jesse James is shot in the back by Bob Ford, a member of the James Gang. April 3, 1934, Bruno Hauptmann is executed for the kidnap/ murder of the Lindberg baby. April 3, 1968, on the eve of his assasination, Martin Luther King Jr. gives his "I have been to the mountain top" speech in Memphis, TN..
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Post by neferetus on Apr 4, 2007 14:01:17 GMT -5
April 4, this day in history:
1818 Congress adopts a U.S. flag with one star for each state.
1841 President William Henry Harrison dies from pneumonia, one month after his inauguration.
1905 Earthquake in Kangra, India, kills more than 20,000.
1945 The Ohrdruf death camp is liberated from Nazi occupation.
1949 The treaty establishing the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is signed.
1968 Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated.
1973 The ribbon is cut to open the World Trade Center in New York City.
1979 Pakistan prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto is executed by the military.
1981 Henry Cisneros becomes the mayor of San Antonio, Texas: the first Hispanic mayor of the city, since Juan Seguin.
1983 Sally Ride becomes the first U.S. woman in space aboard the space shuttle Challenger.
2007 The Caggiano family visit San Antonio.
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Post by neferetus on Apr 5, 2007 13:10:38 GMT -5
April 5th:
1814 In France, the abdication of Napoleon Bonaparte. 1955 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill resigns from office. 1960 Hollywood epic Ben Hur wins a record 10 Oscars. 1976 British Prime Minister Harold Wilson resigns from office. 1982 A British Task Force sets sail from Southampton to recapture the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic after the invasion by Argentina. 1983 First launch of NASA's Challenger spacecraft - the world's first re-usable spaceship.
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Post by neferetus on Apr 6, 2007 12:54:39 GMT -5
April 6th in History 0: Earliest recorded solar eclipse 1789: US Congress begins regular sessions in Federal Hall, NYC Lobbyists only arrive later 1830: Mormon church founded in the United States 1896: First modern Olympic games begin in Athens, Greece 1909: The North Pole reached for the first time, by American Robert Peary 1917: The United States enter World War I 1965: Early Bird, world's first commercial communication satellite, launched
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Post by Greg C. on Apr 6, 2007 13:06:09 GMT -5
Good Friday celebrated around the Christian world.
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Post by Cole_blooded on Apr 7, 2007 11:26:36 GMT -5
This Day........April 7 1963 : Tito is made President for life 1953 : Hammarskjold elected U.N. head 1994 : Rwandan massacres begin 1776 : U.S. Navy captures first British warship 1922 : Haugdahl races at Daytona 1862 : Battle of Shiloh concludes 1954 : Eisenhower gives famous "domino theory" speech 1994 : Absence of international aid for the genocide in Rwanda 1990 : Twin ferry accidents on opposite ends of world 1891 : P.T. Barnum dies 1927 : First telecast of sound and image 1961 : Marian Jordan dies 1770 : William Wordsworth is born 1805 : Lewis and Clark depart Fort Mandan 1961 : JFK lobbies Congress to help save historic sites in Egypt 1975 : North Vietnamese forces begin preparations for final offensive 1934 : Congress tires to aid farmers 1918 : Winston Churchill urges talks with Russia 1939 : Italy invades Albania 1945 : Japanese battleship Yamato is sunk by Allied forces
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Post by Greg C. on Apr 7, 2007 11:30:51 GMT -5
thats a lot of history for one day.
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