The 7th Cavalry under Lt. Col George Armstrong Custer crossed into Wyoming Territory from Montana Territory.
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On this day in 1774 those eligible to vote in Hanover County, Virginia, which was far from everyone, met at the courthouse to elect representatives for the upcoming First Virginia Convention at Williamsburg.
Patrick Henry and his half brother John Syme were chosen, and presented with resolutions to carry to the assembly. Syme was as close friend of Henry's and older than he was. He'd outlive him and die in 1805 at age 76.
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A couple of big items are reported by Sarah Sundin:
These include the beginning of the 1944 Democratic Convention and the 5th Army taking Livorno, Italy.
President Roosevelt had no real opposition to his nomination. The big question was who would be his vice president.
The Battle of Verrières Ridge in Normandy south of Caen, with two Canadian divisions pitted against three SS divisions.
Saint-Lô was taken by U.S. troops.
The Red Army entered Latvia.
The Ōi was sunk by the USS Flasher.
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Argentinian police and ranchers killed 400 indigenous people of the Toba and Mocoví native groups following heighted tensions between the native groups and ranchers which had lead to livestock killing.
Democratic Senator Burton K. Wheeler was chosen as the VP candidate for the Progressive Party.
Stan Hathaway, Governor of Wyoming from 1967 to 1975,and briefly Secretary of the Interior, was born in Osceola, Nebraska.
Hathaway, whom I saw argue in front of the Wyoming Supreme Court many years ago, was the fifth of six children born to Lily (Koehler) and Robert C. Knapp. He was raised and adopted by a cousin and her husband, Velma and Frank Hathaway, following his mother's death, on their farm near Huntley Wyoming. He served on a B-17 in World War Two as a radioman, and was shot down over occupied France where he avoided capture with the crew through the assistance of the French Resistance. He term of Governor was marked by the passage of environmental laws and the enactment of the first mineral severance tax in Wyoming and the creation of the Trust Fund from the same.
He was a great Governor who would no doubt be constantly attacked as being a RINO by populist who think they're Republicans today.
Hathaway was an Episcopalian for most of his life, but late in life, converted to Catholicism.
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Hideki Tojo was removed premier of Japan and resigned as Chief of Staff of the Army.
Gen. Kuniaki Koiso and Adm. Yonai were chosen to form a new cabinet. Gen. Umezu became the Army Chief of Staff.
The Red Army launched the Lublin-Brest Offensive.
The British launched Operation Goodwood to expand out from Caen, making costly advances. The action has, as one of its goals, keeping German forces committed against the British so they do not redeploy against US forces.
The US 19th Corps occupied Saint-Lô.
The Polish 2nd Corps took Ancona, Italy.
The U-672 was sunk by the HMS Balfour.
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US Foreign Officer Robert Whitney Imbrie was murdered in Tehran following injuries sustained when a crowd at a well where a miracle had been claimed to have taken place mistook him for being Bahai, apparently. Feelings had been running high in Persia against the Bahai, which is the country it which the universalist religion had arisen in the 19th Century.
The incident was used by Reza Khan, prime minister and minister of war, to declare martial law and consolidate power, and has been regarded by some as suspicious.
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Statement by Secretary
of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III on the Exoneration of American Sailors
Unjustly Accused After the Port Chicago Tragedy of 1944 July 17, 2024 Today,
the Department of Defense has moved to rectify an old injustice—and face up
to a painful episode in our own history. I
applaud the Secretary of the Navy’s decision to exonerate 258 Black Sailors
who were unjustly court-martialed in the wake of the devastating explosion at
the Port Chicago Naval Magazine in California, which killed 320 Sailors on
July 17, 1944. After the blast, these 258 Sailors refused to keep loading
munitions in the same unsafe and inhumane conditions that contributed to the
catastrophe. Eighty years later, we recognize that those 258 Sailors were
right, and the segregated Navy that unnecessarily risked their lives was
wrong. The
NAACP, Thurgood Marshall, Eleanor Roosevelt, and others recognized the case
as a travesty at the time. The Department of Defense must continue to learn
from our past, and today’s decision reflects our commitment to reckoning with
our history—even when it is painful. I
am deeply grateful for all the people of conscience in the U.S. Navy who have
worked diligently to make this day possible, and to the advocates and family
members who have pushed hard for so many decades to remedy this injustice. We
honor the memory of the 320 dedicated Americans who lost their lives in the
Port Chicago explosion, and we honor the service of the 258 brave Americans
who refused afterward to bend to racist and cruel treatment. The Department
of Defense must always ensure that our Service members, our military
families, and our civilian employees are treated with fairness and dignity,
especially within our military justice systems. |
The Port Chicago (California) Disaster occured.
From the Corps of Engineer's item above:
The British prevailed in the Second Battle of Odon.
An RAF Spitfire of the RCAF piloted by Charley Fox strafed a random German command car that turned out to be carrying Erwin Rommel. Rommel was wounded and taken out of commission for a while. His driver was killed. Kluge takes temporary command.
Fox was a humble man and upon being identified as the pilot in later years expressed regret for the killing, as he accepted the stories that Rommel was planning to participate in the July 20 plot. He worked in a shoe factory after the war and died in an automobile accident, ironically, in 2008.
The U.S. Army penetrates the perimeter of Saint-Lô
Napalm was used for the first time in an Army Air Force raid conducted by P-38s on on a fuel depot at Coutances, near Saint-Lô.
The Royal Navy attempted a raid on the Tipitz in Norway but it was unsuccessful.
The Finns prevailed in the Battles of Vuosalmi and Nietjärvi.
57,600 German prisoners of war captured by the Red Army were marched through Moscow.
Japanese Admiral Nomura replaced Shmada as Minister of the Navy.
The U-347 and U-361 were sunk by the RAF. The I-166 was sunk in the Strati of Malacca by the Royal Navy.
The British government announced a plan for the mass construction of housing following the war.
Franklin Roosevelt announced he would leave the choice of his running mate to the Democratic Convention.
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The USS Barracuda, the first of the Navy's V-boats, was launched. She was decommissioned in 1937, recommissioned in 1940, served throughout World War Two and never fired a shot in anger.
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The Polish Government in Exile claimed German territory in East Prussia, Danzia and the Polish Corridor.
The Red Army took Grodno.
British forces took Arezzo, Italy and cross the Arno.
Sarah Sundin reports that the Allied Sixth Army Group was created and Jacob Devers placed in command, in anticipation of the invasion of Southern France, Operation Dragoon.
She also reports on an amazing escape from the Japanese.
In case you wondered, Bretton Woods was still going on, and the alcohol supply was holding out.
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BY JORG TOTSGI, CLALLAM TRIBE, Editor of the Real American, Hoquiam Washington.
The story was then picked up by the Associated Press.
US flyers flew from Paris to London.
The London Conference opened to address the Dawes Plan.
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