Lex Anteinternet: Monday, November 10, 1975. The Wreck of the Edmun...

Lex Anteinternet: Monday, November 10, 1975. The Wreck of the Edmun...:   The massive Great Lakes freighter went down with all 29 hands. The storm. The ballad commemorating the ships loss would come out the follo...

 

Edmund Fitzgerald: Wyoming Meteorologist Vividly Recalls 'The Witch Of November'

Monday, November 10, 1975. The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.

 

The massive Great Lakes freighter went down with all 29 hands.

The storm.

The ballad commemorating the ships loss would come out the following year.

Italy and Yugoslavia signed the Treaty of Osimo resolving the long running dispute over Trieste.

The Communists forces of the MPLA  defeated the FNLA in a battle over the capital of Angola, Luanda.

The United Nations General Assembly passed Resolution 3379 equating Zionism with racism.  The Resolution would be revoked in 1991.

Last edition:

Thursday, October 30, 1975. King Juan Carlos I of Spain became acting head of state of the country after Franco conceded he was too ill to govern.

Labels: 1970s, 1975, Francisco Franco, Spain

Monday, December 20, 1915. Mystery submarine.

The ANZACs completed their evacuation of Gallipoli.  

A submarine, or not, was found off of Chicago.

ON THIS DAY: THE FOOL KILLER SUBMARINE WAS RECOVERED FROM THE CHICAGO RIVER

Last edition:

Sunday, December 19, 1915. Voice of a sparrow.

Labels: 1910s, 1915, 1960s, 1962, Belgium (Ypres), British Army, entertainment, Greece, Medicine, Music, Personalities, World War One

Wednesday, March 15, 1911. .45 ACP Trials.

Final trials began to determine whether the John Browning designed Colt Special Army Model 1910 or the Elbert Searle designed Savage Model 1907 would become the first automatic pistol to be adopted by the U.S. Army.  Both were chambered in .45 ACP, a Colt designed cartridge.

The Colt Special Army Model 1910 is familiar to history as the M1911.  The Savage, less so.

The Colt would go on, of course, to be adopted and is the greatest military handgun of all time.  Still superior, in the minds of many (including the author), to any handgun that came after it.

As a minor note on that, I recently went through security in at a Wyoming court and the Sheriffs Deputy manning it was armed with a high end 1911. I asked him about it.  He'd been in the Army, and rejected all the 9mms that came after the M1911.

He's not the only one.

The Silver Spray was caught in a snowstorm on Lake Erie, foundered, and its fishing crew froze to death in the lake.

Last edition:

Tuesday, March 14, 1911. Worries in El Paso.

Labels: 1910s, 1911, California, Canada (British Columbia), Japanese Antarctic Expedition, law, Maderistas, Mexican Revolution, Mexico, Mexico (Juarez), Progressive Era, Progressivism, Texas (El Paso)