No Kings.

Happening everywhere, but particularly cool event here.

Sunday, March 5, 1775. The Boston Massacre.

In Boston, a young wigmaker's apprentice began a pestering British sentry about an allegedly unpaid barber bill, although the bill was paid in fact and the officer produced a receipt. Applying a universal rule about harassing people with guns being a bad idea, sort of like at Kent State many years later, a British soldier tired of the event and butted the kid was his musket.

A crowed soon gathered, somebody yelled "Fire", perhaps because Church Bells were ringing which was a fire alarm, and the troops fired their muskets, killing five.  This is also reminiscent of Kent State.

The troops went on to be defended in a trial by John Adams.

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Friday, March 3, 1775. A British ship.

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Saturday, September 6, 1924. Putting down in Boston.

 

And of course, it was Saturday.

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Friday September 5, 1924. Back in the US.

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Friday, August 26, 1774. The Suffolk County Convention of the Committees of Correspondence

Community leaders in Suffolk County, Massachusetts, which included Boston, gathered in the Suffolk County Convention of the Committees of Correspondence to discuss the situation facing the colonies and the Intolerable Acts.

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Thursday, August 25, 1774. North Carolina's First Provincial Congress.

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Tuesday, August 24, 1824. Shipping Up To Boston with Lafayette.

 A large procession escorted Lafayette into Boston.

While there, he laid the cornerstone of the Bunker Hill Memorial.

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Saturday, August 14, 1824. Return of Lafayette.

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Tuesday, April 11, 1944. Plowing.

An RAF Mosquito raid destroys the Central Population Registry building in The Hague, destroying the records of the Gestapo.

The Red Army captures Dzhankoy and Kerch, Crimea.

The USS Redfin sank the Akigumo.

The U-108 was destroyed in its pen at Stettin in a U.S. Army Air Force air raid.

 USS Altamaha (CVE-18). Crash of TBM April 11, 1944.

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Monday, April 10, 1944. Odessa taken by the Red Army.

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Wednesday, March 30, 1774. Inquiry.

Ordered, That all the Lords who have been present this day, be appointed a Committee to inquire into the several Proceedings in the Colony of Massachusetts Bay, in opposition to the sovereignty of his Majesty, in his Parliament of Great Britain, over that Province; and also what has passed in this House relative thereto, from the 1st of January, 1764.

Ordered, That the several Papers laid before this House relating to Disturbances in the Colony of the Massachusetts Bay, be referred to the said Committee; and the said Committee is hereby empowered to send for Persons, Papers, and Records.

Their Lordships, or any five of them, to meet to-morrow, in the Prince' s lodgings, near the House of Peers; and to adjourn as they please.

The Lords present, who formed the Committee, were:

The Duke of Gloucester; Lord Apsley, Lord High Chancellor; Earl of Gower, Lord President; Earl of Hertford, Lord Chamberlain.

Dukes: Beafort, Ancaster, Chandos, Montagu.

Earls: Suffolk, Denbigh, Westmoreland, Stanford, Sandwich, Doncaster, Rochford, Abercorn, Loudon, March, Marchmont, Stair, Roseberry, Dartmouth, Macclesfield, Waldegrave, Asburnham, Bucks, Hardwicke, Fauconberg, Ilchester, Northington, Spencer, Hillsborough.

Viscounts: Montague, Townshend, Falmouth.

Hon: Frederick Cornwallis, Archbishop of Canterbury; Richard Terrick, Bishop of London; Edmund Keene, Bishop of Ely; Sir William Asburnham, Bart˙, Bishop of Chichester; John Hume, Bishop of Salisbury; John Green, Bishop of Lincoln; Charles Moss, Bishop of St˙ Davids; Edmund Law, Bishop of Carlisle; John Hinchcliffe, Bishop of Peterborough; William Markham, Bishop of Chester.

Lords: Abergavenny, Willoughby, Br˙, Cathcart, Cadogan, King, Godolphin, Montfort, Edgcumbe, Sandys, Bruce, Walpole, Mansfield, Lyttelton, Wycombe, Scarsdale, Boston, Pelham, Camden, Sundridge.

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Friday, March 25, 1774. The Boston Port Act passes the House of Lords.

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March 21, 1774

Lex Anteinternet: Friday, March 18, 1774. Lord North goofs.: Lord Frederick North introduced the Boston Port Act to the House of Commons.  The proposed act stated: Parliament of Great Britain Anno Deci...

On this day the Port Act passed, closing, in time delayed fashion, the Port of Boston.

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Friday, March 18, 1774. Lord North goofs.

Thursday, March 17, 1774The Lyme Tea Party

Boston 1775: The Lyme Tea Party: Yesterday I suggested that when young people in Lyme, Connecticut , celebrated Independence Day in 1805 by toasting “The Tea Party,” they d...

 

Saturday, September 8, 1923. The Honda Point Disaster.

Captain Edward H. Watson ordered a squadron of 14 ships to make a fast passage to San Diego in heavy fog resulting in the USS Delphy, USS S. P. Lee, USS Young, USS Woodbury, USS Nicholas, USS Fuller and USS Chauncey beaching and sustaining irreparable damage. 

It remains the largest peacetime loss in U.S. Navy History.

Watson was court-martialed for the event.  He was not universally condemned for the disaster, which some attributed to a failure in newly developed technology.  He went on to be Assistant Commandant of the Fourteenth Naval District in Hawaii until he left active duty in November 1929.  He died at age 67 in 1942.

After killing innocent people to achieve them, Italy's demands were adopted by the ambassadors appointed to mediate the dispute.

Boston's Logan airport opened.

Saturday, November 28, 1942. Battle of Réunion and the Coconut Grove Fire.

The Coconut Grove nightclub in Boston caught fire, resulting in 492 people losing their lives.  It's the worst such disaster in American history.

The Léopard.

The Léopard landed Free French Troops at Réunion off of the east coast of Madagascar in order to take the island from Vichy, which rapidly occurred.

July 27, 1920. Old and new.

Babies at a Red Cross baby clinic in Boston, and automobiles and carriages.

December 26, 1919. The Red Sox trade Babe Ruth.

A look at the news in Albany Count, New York, December 26, 1919.

Elsewhere in New York, on this day in 1919 Babe Ruth was sold by the Boston Rod Sox to the New York Yankees.  The price was $125,000, the largest every paid to that date, and an enormous sum in context.

The Red Sox had one five of the first sixteen World Series.  They would not win another one until 1946.

August 26, 1919. Pinto House to Willow Springs on the Motor Transport Convoy.

As the 1919 transcontinental Motor Transport Convoy was being received in Willow Springs, Nevada, the crew of an Italian warship was being received in Boston Commons.

On this day in 1919, the Motor Transport Convoy traveled from Pinto House to Willow Spring, making 44 miles in 8.25 hours.

Mention is made of the Mack "chain drive".  During this period, and for quite some time thereafter, some vehicles used chain drives, like bicycles, rather than drive shafts, to convey the rotation of the engine to the axle.

By and large, however, the vehicles held up that day in spite of the conditions.

March 10, 1919. The arrival of the USS Nebraska, Anticipating the arrival of Company I in Casper, Tennis in New York, Romantic comedies in the US

The battleship USS Boston, carrying soldiers on their way home from France, arrives in Boston.

People familiar with the efforts to bring the far flung U.S. military home after World War Two are familiar with Operation Magic Carpet. That operation employed sufficiently large U.S. Navy surface ships as troops transports, something they really weren't designed to be, to bring home soldiers and Marines.

Red Cross workers, also in Boston, awaiting the arrival of the USS Nebraska.

Almost forgotten is the fact that the same thing was done after World War One, an example of which we have here in the form of troops that were brought home on the USS Nebraska, a pre dreadnought Navy battleship.  It would have been a quite uncomfortable ride.

Wyoming National Guardsmen from Casper were coming home as well, by train.

The Casper men were set to arrive back in Casper by train on Tuesday, March 11.  The 20 plus men had been part of Company I of the Wyoming National Guard and had been assigned to the 116th Ammunition Train when the Wyoming Guard was busted up and converted from infantry to artillery and transport.

These men had been in service since the Guard had been mustered in the spring of 1917.  They had not been part of the earlier group mustered for the Punitive Expedition, or at least Company I hadn't existed as part of that group, in that form, as Casper had been too small in 1916 to have its own Guard unit.  That tiny status had rapidly passed, however, due to the World War One oil boom which built Casper.  By the spring of 1917 the town was big enough to contribute its own Company and some of those men were back, having just been mustered out of service at Ft. D. A. Russell in Cheyenne.

In New York, where the Nebraska had arrived, things were returning to a peacetime normal.

Betty Baker, who had won round at the indoor national women's tennis championship on this day in 1919.  She was sixteen years old at the time.

Betty Baker, about whom I know nothing else, was a tennis standout in 1919 at age 16.  Does anyone know if that continued?  I don't, but if you do, put in a comment and let us know.

And Monday movie releases continued to be a thing.

The public seemed to be in the mood for romantic comedies.

In other areas of speech, the United States Supreme Court was okay with restrictions:

1919 In  Schenk v United States, the US Supreme Court holds that the Espionage Act, restricting speech, does not violate the First Amendment to the US Constitution.

Teenage Florist Delivery Boy. February 2, 1917

Abe Singer, age fourteen, delivering flowers for Wax Florist in Boston Massachusetts.

Note that, in this pre driving license era, he was apparently delivering these by car.

Wednesday, March 20, 1901. Selbsttäuschung

Engaging in a massive act of self delusion on behalf of the German Navy, Hubert von Rebeur-Paschwitz accompanied the ship SMS Vineta to Boston to scout out possible German landing sites for an American invasion.

He's serve after the Great War as the Kaiser Wilhelm II's adjutant until retiring.  He died at age 69 in 1933.

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Saturday, March 16, 1901. Boers reject British surrender terms.

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Monday, December 24, 1900. Banning a hereditary right of slaughter.

The Eight Nation Alliance presented their twelve conditions for reform to the Chinese government.  Included amongst them were that China was to reduce its military, punish Boxer rebels, and pay $500,000,000 to the eight nations over a period of 60 years.

Secretary of War Elihu Root barred the hereditary right of slaughtering which had been granted a monopoly to the descendants of the Countess of Buena Vista in Cuba. They's sue, but lose.

Horse drawn street cars came to an end in Boston in favor of electric trolleys and elevated trains.

Pope Leo XIII conducted ceremonies to close the Holy Year, with the closing of the holy door in St. Peter's Basilica a year after it had been opened.

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Sunday, September 23, 1900. AM.

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