Ostensibly exploring the practice of law before the internet. Heck, before good highways for that matter.
Wednesday, March 26, 2025
Friday. March 26, 1875. Violence in Texas.
Tuesday, March 25, 2025
Thursday, March 25, 1915. Loss of the F-4.
The US submarine USS F-4 sank off of Hawaii with the loss of all 21 hands. It was the U.S. Navy's first submarine loss, discounting of course the CSS H. L. Hunley, the Confederate submarine.
The SS Tamar was sunk by the SMS Kronprinz off of Brazil.
Last edition:
Tuesday, March 23, 1915. Advances at Hartmannswillerkopf.
Wednesday, January 8, 2025
Monday, January 8, 1945. Two Medals of Honor.
T/Sgt Russell E. Dunham performed the actions that resulted in his winning the Medal of Honor.
For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at risk of life above and beyond the call of duty. At about 1430 hours on 8 January 1945, during an attack on Hill 616, near Kayserberg, France, T/Sgt. Dunham single-handedly assaulted 3 enemy machine guns. Wearing a white robe made of a mattress cover, carrying 12 carbine magazines and with a dozen hand grenades snagged in his belt, suspenders, and buttonholes, T/Sgt. Dunham advanced in the attack up a snow-covered hill under fire from 2 machine guns and supporting riflemen. His platoon 35 yards behind him, T/Sgt. Dunham crawled 75 yards under heavy direct fire toward the timbered emplacement shielding the left machine gun. As he jumped to his feet 10 yards from the gun and charged forward, machine gun fire tore through his camouflage robe and a rifle bullet seared a 10-inch gash across his back sending him spinning 15 yards down hill into the snow. When the indomitable sergeant sprang to his feet to renew his 1-man assault, a German egg grenade landed beside him. He kicked it aside, and as it exploded 5 yards away, shot and killed the German machine gunner and assistant gunner. His carbine empty, he jumped into the emplacement and hauled out the third member of the gun crew by the collar. Although his back wound was causing him excruciating pain and blood was seeping through his white coat, T/Sgt. Dunham proceeded 50 yards through a storm of automatic and rifle fire to attack the second machine gun. Twenty-five yards from the emplacement he hurled 2 grenades, destroying the gun and its crew; then fired down into the supporting foxholes with his carbine dispatching and dispersing the enemy riflemen. Although his coat was so thoroughly blood-soaked that he was a conspicuous target against the white landscape, T/Sgt. Dunham again advanced ahead of his platoon in an assault on enemy positions farther up the hill. Coming under machinegun fire from 65 yards to his front, while rifle grenades exploded 10 yards from his position, he hit the ground and crawled forward. At 15 yards range, he jumped to his feet, staggered a few paces toward the timbered machinegun emplacement and killed the crew with hand grenades. An enemy rifleman fired at pointblank range, but missed him. After killing the rifleman, T/Sgt. Dunham drove others from their foxholes with grenades and carbine fire. Killing 9 Germans—wounding 7 and capturing 2—firing about 175 rounds of carbine ammunition, and expending 11 grenades, T/Sgt. Dunham, despite a painful wound, spearheaded a spectacular and successful diversionary attack.
And also, Day G. Turner performed the actions tat caused him to be awarded the Medal of Honor.
He commanded a 9-man squad with the mission of holding a critical flank position. When overwhelming numbers of the enemy attacked under cover of withering artillery, mortar, and rocket fire, he withdrew his squad into a nearby house, determined to defend it to the last man. The enemy attacked again and again and were repulsed with heavy losses. Supported by direct tank fire, they finally gained entrance, but the intrepid sergeant refused to surrender although 5 of his men were wounded and 1 was killed. He boldly flung a can of flaming oil at the first wave of attackers, dispersing them, and fought doggedly from room to room, closing with the enemy in fierce hand-to-hand encounters. He hurled handgrenade for handgrenade, bayoneted 2 fanatical Germans who rushed a doorway he was defending and fought on with the enemy's weapons when his own ammunition was expended. The savage fight raged for 4 hours, and finally, when only 3 men of the defending squad were left unwounded, the enemy surrendered. Twenty-five prisoners were taken, 11 enemy dead and a great number of wounded were counted. Sgt. Turner's valiant stand will live on as a constant inspiration to his comrades. His heroic, inspiring leadership, his determination and courageous devotion to duty exemplify the highest tradition of the military service.
Turner was killed in action a month later.
He survived the war and died at age 89, in 2009.
Parliamentary elections in Egypt were won by a political coalition headed by Ahmad Mahir Pasha.
Last edition:
Sunday, January 7, 1945. Retreat from the Ardennes and Hope.
Wednesday, December 18, 2024
Friday, December 18, 1874. Congress received King Kalakaua.
A joint session of the U.S. Congress received King Kalakaua, the first joint congressional session to receive a foreign head of state.
Last edition:
Tuesday, December 8, 1874. The James Gang robs a train.
Monday, September 9, 2024
Tuesday, September 9, 1924. Waiting in the rain.
The League of Nations began drafting a plan to take over the supervision of German disarmament.
The Hanapēpē Massacre occurred on Kaua'i when a dispute broke out between police were called to a dispute at a labor striked and arrived with arrest warrants sparking resistance. Sixteen Filipino laborers and four policemen were killed.
The US, UK Japan and Italy deployed troops in Shanghai as it appeared that a Chinese civil war was imminent.
President Coolidge, after waiting for four hours in the rain, met the aviators circumnavigating the world at Boling Field.
Last edition:
Monday, September 8, 1924. Landing at Long Island. Beauties in Casper. Gunning down the mistress in Texas.
Thursday, August 8, 2024
Sunday, August 8, 1824. The Humehume Rebellion.
Humehume, son of King Kaumualiʻi, of the islands of Kauaʻi and Niʻihau and a mother who was a commoner, lead a rebellion on Kauaʻi against the Kingdom of Hawaii to reestablish its independence.
Humehume had been taken to the United States as a boy, austensibly to obtain an education, but also potentially to place him away from being a rival to the throne to the sons of the king's royal wife. He served in the War of 1812 as a Marine.
The rebellion failed and he was exiled to Honolulu, where he died of influenza in 1826.
Last edition:
Friday, August 6, 1824. Battle of Junin
Saturday, May 18, 2024
Sunday, May 18, 1924. Kīlauea
Kīlauea erupted in Hawaii.
The last Olympic rugby union game was played, with the United States defeating France 17 to 3.
Last prior edition:
Saturday, May 17, 1924. U.S. Flyers reach Paramashiru.
Wednesday, May 15, 2024
Monday, May 15, 1944. Deportation of the Hungarian Jews.
With Germany in control of the country, the SS began deporting Hungary's Jews, mostly to Auschwitz.
German lines in Italy began to collapse.
French Vice-Admiral Edmond Derrien was sentenced to life in prison for turning over elements of the French Fleet to the Germans after the Allied landing in North Africa.
A terrible training accident happened off of Hawaii.
The U-731 was sunk in the Atlantic by the Allies.
Russian Orthodox Church Patriarch Sergius of Moscow died at age 77.
Saturday, April 13, 2024
Thursday, April 13, 1944. Soviet advances in Crimea.
The Red Army took Feodosia, Evpatoriya and Simferopol in Crimea. The Axis forces of the 17th Army fell back on Sevastopol.
Australian troops took Bogodjim on New Guinea.
The U.S. Army Air Force and RAF raided numerous coast batteries in Normandy.
Operation Overlord had effectively already begun.
Martial law was lifted in Hawaii.
In April 1944, Vogue covered fashions in Texas, Florida and California.
Sunday, February 25, 2024
Some Gave All: Punchbowl, National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, O'ahu, Hawaii
Punchbowl, National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, O'ahu, Hawaii
Perhaps the most beautiful, and in someways the most somber, National Cemetery, this is the "Punchbowl" on O'ahu, Hawaii.
Created after World War Two as a final resting place for the thousands of US servicemen who had died in the Pacific, it was established in 1949 and contains the remains of over 61,000 US servicemen who lost their lives in World War Two, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War.