The one millionth run in Major League Baseball history was scored by Bob Watson of the Houston Astros.
The Khmer Rouge seized control of South Vietnam's Phú Quốc Island.
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Sunday, May 4, 2025
Thursday, May 1, 2025
Thứ Năm, ngày 1 tháng 5 năm 1975. Chiến tranh Việt Nam kết thúc.* Thursday, May 1, 1975. The conclusion of the Vietnam War. Jeudi 1er mai 1975. Fin de la guerre du Vietnam.
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ARVN troops in Cần Thơ surrendered to the VC following the suicide of Gen. Nguyễn Khoa Nam, age 48, Major General of IV Corps in Cần Thơ. This effectively brought organized resistance to the VC and NVA almost to an end after twenty years of combat. The country remains, of course, under the regime that won the war.
Quân VNCH ở Cần Thơ đầu hàng VC sau cái chết của Tướng Nguyễn Khoa Nam, 48 tuổi, Thiếu tướng Quân đoàn IV ở Cần Thơ. Điều này đã khiến cho sự kháng cự có tổ chức chống lại VC và Bắc Việt gần như chấm dứt một cách hiệu quả sau hai mươi năm chiến đấu. Tất nhiên, đất nước vẫn nằm dưới chế độ đã thắng trong chiến tranh.
Les troupes de l'ARVN à Cần Thơ se sont rendues au VC suite au suicide du général Nguyễn Khoa Nam, 48 ans, major général du IVe Corps à Cần Thơ. Cela a effectivement mis fin à la résistance organisée au VC et à la NVA après vingt ans de combat. Le pays reste bien entendu sous le régime qui a gagné la guerre.
By this point, I'd quit tracking the war on my National Geographic map of Vietnam. There came to be no point.
Khmer Rouge forces landed on Phú Quốc which was claimed by Cambodia but controlled by South Vietnam. It was also the location of a large South Vietnamese POW camp.
Hank Aaron broke the career record for RBIs.
Thursday, May 1, 2025
The New York Stock Exchange dropped the requirement of a fixed commission for stock transactions following pressure to do so from the SEC.
Footnotes:
*Google Translate text. I don't speak Vietnamese.
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Wednesday, April 30, 1975. The Fall of Saigon.
Saturday, April 19, 2025
Thursday, April 19, 1945. Broadcasting from Belsen.
Army machine gunners on Okinawa, April 19, 1945. Not the visible rear sight on the M1917 machine gun and the high angle the gun is being used at.
The Battle of the Seelow Heights ended in Soviet/Polish victory.
The US 1st Army took Leipzig.
Robert Cappa, the famous photographer, took a series of photos in an event that occurred in this battle, in which a tank crewman who was manning a machinegun in a building was killed by a German sniper. The bloody scene and the soldier's lifeless body is the recalled photograph. A nearly as dramatic photo of another crewman stepping over him to man the gun is not as well recalled.
Richard Dimbleby broadcast the conditions of Belsen on the BBC.
The Battle of Odžak began in Croatia between Yugoslav Partisans and the Axis aligned Croatian Armed Forces. The last battle to be fought in the Second World War in Europe, it would continue until May 25.
Pyinmana, the base of the Japanese aligned Burma Defence Army, fell to the 5th Indian Division.
Japanese Gen. Sōsaku Suzuki, age 53, was killed in action in the Philippines.
Nazi Party member Fritz Wächtler, age 54, was executed by the Nazis for desertion over the surrender of Bayreuth. The charge was unjust and due to rivalry on the part of other Nazis.
It's amazing to think of this sort of infighting when it should have been obvious they'd all be facing trials by the victors soon.
The U-251, U-548 and U-879 were sunk.
Johnny Kelley won the Boston Marathon.
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Wednesday, April 18, 1945. The death of Ernie Pyle.Labels: 1940s, 1945, Adolf Hitler, Army, Canadian Army, Heroes, Mussolini, Okinawa, The Holocaust, The Press, The written word, Waffen SS, World War Two
Monday, April 14, 2025
Monday, April 14, 1975. Collapse In Viet Nam
Operation Babylift concluded.
Congressional staff members, Richard Moose and Charles Miessner, back from South Vietnam released a report stating that "no one including the Vietnamese military believes that more aid could reverse the flow of events."
Their report further stated that evacuation of Americans from Saigon was being resisted by Ambassador Graham Martin and other senior officials.
The cover of Time featured a crying Vietnamese child and the words "Collapse in Viet Nam".
Soviet power lifter Vasily Ivanovich Alekseyev appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated.
Widely admired all over the globe, he died at age 69 of heart problems, something not all that uncommon for the very bulky.
The Federal Election Commission commenced operating.
Sikkim voted to merge into India.
Actor Fredric March passed away at age 77. He acted for many years, but is best recalled by me for his role in The Best Years Of Our Lives.
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Sunday, April 13, 1975. Start of the Lebanese Civil War.
Thursday, April 14, 1910. Taft throws out the first pitch.
William Howard Taft threw the first pitch of the 1910 Washington Senators game, the first "first pitch" to be thrown by a U.S. President.
The Senators played the Philadelphia Athletics and won 3 to 0.
The Sperry Gyroscope Company was founded.
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Saturday, April 9, 1910. Transfer of Lourdes.
Labels: 1910, 1910s, Catholic, Christianity, Communism, France, France (Lourdes), Indochina, Laos, Laotian Civil War, Pathet Lao, religion, Thailand
Saturday, April 14, 1900. Racing.
The Automobile Club of America staged the first car race in U.S. history.
The race took place on Long Island, with the course from Springfield to Babylon, New York, and back. A. L. Riker won in two hours and 3.5 minutes.
Also in racing, but in bicycles, the Union Cycliste Internationale , the controlling body, was founded in Switzerland.
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Friday, April 13, 1900. Direct election.
Sunday, April 13, 2025
Tuesday, April 13, 1915. Even matches.
Pancho Villa attempted a second assault on Celaya, this one nearly succeeding, with Obregón's forces being saved by the timely arrival of an ammunition train on the following day.
Meanwhile, Huerta was looking at the situation and weighting on jumping back in.
A night attack by Ottoman troops was repelled by the British at the Battle of Shaiba, with Arab irregulars routed the following day, massively depleting the Ottoman forces.
Joe Jeannette beat Sam Langford in a twelve round heavyweight match.
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Sunday, April 11, 1915. The Tramp.
Labels: 1910s, 1915, 1915 at the Movies, British Army, Indian Army, Iraq, Movies, Ottoman Army, World War One
Tuesday, April 8, 2025
Tuesday, April 8, 1975. "Over in a month".
U.S. Senator Barry Goldwater claimed that the Vietnam War "would have been over in a month" had he been elected President in 1964.
1964 Goldwater bumper sticker.
Seems doubtful.
Goldwater was the most right wing truly conservative Republican candidate to have ever been nominated, far more conservative than Ronald Reagan, and a true conservative, unlike the current occupant of the Oval Office.
A South Vietnamese pilot, Nguyễn Thành Trung, dropped bombs on the Presidential Place and then defected.
This is an event that I can recall occuring.
He want on to serve in the North Vietnamese air force and then worked as a commercial pilot for Vietnam Airlines.
South Vietnamese Major General Nguyễn Văn Hiếu was found shot dead in his command post.at the Biên Hòa airbase,
The Godfather Part II won an Academy Award for best picture, the first sequel to do so.
Frank Robinson became the first black manager in Major League. More on Robinson:
April 8, 1975: Frank Robinson Becomes Baseball's 1st Black Manager
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Monday, April 7, 1975. A meeting in Thailand.
Labels: 1970s, 1975, Cambodia, Cambodian Civil War, Indochina, Japan, Khemr Rouge, Operation Babylift, Thailand, U.S. Air Force, Vietnam War, Women
Sunday, March 30, 2025
Monday, March 30, 1925. Cougars win the Stanley Cup.
Newly ordained St. Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer y Albás celebrated his first Mass in the Chapel of Our Lady of Pilar in the Saragossa Cathedral.
He would found Opus Dei in 1928.
The Victoria Cougars of the WCHL beat the Montreal Canadiens 6-1 to become the last non-NHL team to win the Stanley Cup.
Bringing Up Father On Broadway premiered.
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Saturday, March 28, 1925. Society Number.
Thursday, March 27, 2025
Thursday, March 27, 2025 It's Opening Day, and I'm Not Feeling It
A post I really sympathize with:
Thursday, March 27, 2025
I'm not feeling it either, and for a lot of reasons.
End Athletic Admissions to Military Academies — Minding The Campus
End Athletic Admissions to Military Academies — Minding The Campus: Secretary Peter Hegseth’s first order to the Department of Defense promised “a focus on lethality, meritocracy, accountability, standards, and readiness.” To the extent that the Service Academies—West Point, Annapolis, the Air Force Academy, the Coast Guard Academy, and the Merchant Marine Academy—take this directive seriously, they should end athletic admissions. Such a move would change […]
Monday, March 24, 2025
Monday, March 24, 1975. Huế falls to the NVA.
Huế fell to the NVA, with many of its residents, having endured the horror of NVA and VC occupation during the Tet Offensive, having evacuated the city.
Time's cover featured a ARVN soldier with the caption "How Much Longer?"
Chuck Wepner put in a good performance agains tMuhammad Ali in a fight promoted by Sylvester Stallone.
The beaver became the symbol of Canada.
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Sunday, March 23, 1975. Advances in the Central Highlands.
Friday, February 21, 2025
Cliffnotes of the Zeitgeist. 75th Edition. Dim Wit.
Finnish journalist Mikko Marttinen after listening to Donald Trump's recent speeches:
Trump, 78, is the most dim-witted president of modern US history, and old age has made him even dumber.
Of interest, from the Atlanta Journal Constitution:
U.S. Rep. Rich McCormick was peppered with boos and catcalls throughout a town hall meeting in Roswell late Thursday, as hundreds of critics jeered the Republican for backing President Donald Trump’s agenda during his first month in office.
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Cliffnotes of the Zeitgeist. 74th Edition. Surgery by butchers, MAGA Concubines, the Gualieter of Ohio, Portents, and the blind and deaf.
Wednesday, February 19, 2025
On being duped, and staying duped. I saw some Trumpsplainers go berserk on Twitter on the question of betraying Ukraine, with . . .
well at least he isn't having kids get gender bending surgery.
Oh?
Has Trump done anything on that topic?
Well, no. He hasn't.
He did ban biological men from participating in women's sports, something states were doing anyhow, and which is widely supported. And his Secretary of Defense banned those who had received such surgeries from joining the service (not from staying in).
And on the social issues, somethings to consider.
Has he done anything to widen prohibitions against abortion?
Nope. In fact, to the contrary, he's supporting IVF which results in millions of abortions and which is condemned by the Apostolic Faiths, including the one J. D. Vance claims to adhere to.
Has he done anything to protect the traditional definition of marriage?
Nope. Indeed, his Treasury Secretary is openly homosexual. I'm not saying he shouldn't be Treasury Secretary, but the populist had a four year fit over Biden's Transpiration Secretary being in the exact same domestic situation.
Exact same.
I guess its okay now.
Deportation of illegal aliens?
Well, it's at pretty much the same rate it was under Biden.
So, those who supported Trump as they wanted to advance social issues on the right, well, what did you get?
Anything?
Just men out of women's sports, which was being done anyhow.
Piles of cost saving cuts of wasteful things?
Nope, a few cuts of wasteful things combined with cuts we'll soon have to make up, supported by lies (like 150 year olds getting Social Security, not happening).
Indeed, this one is amusing as the most famous "discoveries" of the week is that Musk's minors in charge aren't familiar with COBAL, which is before their time. They read COBAL entries literally when in fact they're a code, so they thing they think were literally years, weren't.
That's known now, but will they admit it? Nope.
Oh, and the end of DEI, which wasn't really impacting you much anyhow, was it?
And all in exchange for a government dominated by oligarchs, being hated globally, and losing protections long won.
You were duped.
But you won't admit it.
Saturday, February 1, 2025
Subsidiarity Economics 2025. The Times more or less locally, Part 1.
The word "beer" in Saxon, as it appears in Beowulf.
January 1, 2025
Wyoming wise, brewing seems to be the most distributist business going.
Cygnet Brewing Company opened in downtown Casper last night, joining Skull Tree, Oil City Brewing, Gruner Brothers, Frontier Brewing, Mountain Hops, Stahoos, and Bull Horn as Casper breweries, and larger Wyoming regional brewery Black Tooth.
Rent shaming is breaking out in various parts of the country to attack absurdly high rents.
January 9, 2025
President Joe Biden blocked the acquisition of U.S. Steel by Japan’s Nippon Steel.
January 10, 2025
BlackRock, the world's biggest asset manager, is leaving the Net Zero Asset Managers Initiative under pressure from Republican politicians, which believes that man made climate change is a fib.
Ironically, Republicans trying to justify the demented ravings o. president elect Donald Trump have stated that we need it for the sea lanes once the ice melts.
The Ski Patrol strike at Park City, Utah, ended after the resort agreed to raise their pay by $2 an hour.
January 18, 2025
TikTok will go dark tomorrow.
Good riddance.
January 21, 2025
If the President does choose to proceed with tariffs on Canada, Canada will respond, and everything is on the table.
Prime Minister Trudeau.
Trump's going to wreck the economy after having not even been in office for a month.
January 28, 2025
Welcome to the Trump Economy:
Columbia refused to accept U.S. military flights carrying Columbian deportees.
I don't blame it for refusing military flights. Would we accept military flights?
So now we're slapping 25%, going to 50%, tariffs on Columbian goods.
27% of US coffee comes from Columbia.
Double digit inflation, here we come.
And runs on coffee? Yep. I'm buying some coffee tomorrow, I'm sure I'm not the only one.
Oh, on that, the price of coffee went up today.
| Coffee | 346.67 | 1.53 | 0.44% | 5.19% | 85.44% | Jan/24 |
January 27, 2025
Columbian amazingly backed down and the tariffs are off.
January 31, 2025
25% tariffs kick on on Canadian and Mexican imports tomorrow.
This is insane.
February 1, 2025
The Insurrectionist signed an executive order imposing 25% tariffs on Canada and Mexico, and 10% on China.
This horrible person isn't legally the President now. Congress needs to do something.
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Invoke the 25th Amendment now. Trump is insane.
This is absolutely reprehensible. Trump belonged in prison to start with. Now we'll all pay the price for his not being.'
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Oh, and Mexico too. They're also imposing tariffs.
Thanks MAGA. Great job there.
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Subsidiarity Economics 2024. The Times more or less locally, Part 4. A return to Pre Covid status
Tuesday, December 31, 2024
Tuesday, December 31, 1974. Americans get to own gold again.
Depression era restrictions on the private ownership of gold in the US were removed.
The prohibition, as well as government price setting of Gold, had come into effect in 1933.
South African Kugerrands and Canadian gold coins immediately became very popular as a hedge against inflation.
France ended its state monopoly on television.
Catfish Hunter signed with the Yankees, becoming baseball's highest paid player at that point.
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Monday, December 16, 1974. Safe Drinking Water.
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