Bands of militiamen descended upon Cambridge, Massachusetts following news of Gage's removal of gun powder from the Somerville Powder House. the day prior. Gage's troops had left and nothing occurred. The militia had not been mustered by colonial authorities but was acting under its own volition.
But for the British departure, the Revolution may well have commenced a year prior to when it did.
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The First Canadian Army captured Dieppe.
The Red Army took Călărași, Romania and reached the Bulgarian frontier. The Soviet Union asked for permission for the Red Army to enter Bulgarian territory. The Bulgarian prime minister, Ivan Bagrianov, resigned and. Constantine Muraviev took his place.
The Battle of Lone Tree Hill, in Dutch New Guinea, ended in American victory.
The battle had been fought since May 17.
Lone Tree Hill. Not One Tree Hill. The latter was the name of a horrifically bad television series that featured, for some weird reason, basketball as the center of the universe.
The U-247 was sunk in the English Channel by the Canadian Navy.
Arsenic and Old Lace premiered.
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The Dawes Plan went into effect.
The Russian All-Military Union, comprised of the remaining members of the White Russian Army, was founded in Yugoslavia by General Pyotr Wrangel in the Serbian town of Sremski Karlovci. It was supposed to be an aid origination for White veterans.
Joe Boyer was fatally injured at the infamous Altoona Speedway in Altoona, Pennsylvania.
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General Gage sent troops to Charlestown (Somerville) to retrieve the stock of gunpowder sparking a reaction that resulted in the mustering of Massachusetts militia.
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The Red Army entered a Bucharest already cleared of German troops by the Romanian Army. Crowds cheered the arrival of the Red Army.
Romania would be one of the tragic examples of the Red Army not leaving where it appeared following the war. It would take a revolution in the USSR, more or less, and definitely in Romania, to restore Romanian sovereignty and establish Romanian democracy.
Bernard Law Montgomery was promoted to Field Marshal.
The 5th Army crossed the Arno.
Slovene partisans rescued 105 Allied POWs in the Raid at Ožbalt.
The US prevailed in the Battle of Sansapor.
Task Force 38.4 attacked Japanese positions on Iwo Jima and Chichi Jima.
The first of the Mad Gasser of Mattoon incidents in Mattoon, Illinois.
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World has a good episode on this really weird event.
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The around the world flyers landed at Indian Harbour, Labrador (which was not yet part of Canada), thereby having arrived again in North America.
United with Newfoundland, Labrador would not become part of Canada until 1949.
Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich of Russia proclaimed himself heir to the Russian throne.
Wine was released, which featured Clara Bow in her first leading role.
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Great.
Making a formerly pretty wild area an effective city park.
This is just the kind of bullshit that ruins everything.
I hope the 4x4s coming off the muddy roads rip this newly paved road to shreds as soon as possible.
Ronald Reagan was the first President that I was able to vote for, or against (I voted for) in my lifetime.
The GOP of that era was far from perfect, but I knew what it stood for.
It was pro life, pro defense, tough on crime, pro fiscal responsibility, and overall conservative.
People have claimed that for the Trumpist GOP, but what of it?
1. Pro life?
The GOP went into this election cycle claiming responsibility, which it had every right to do, for the repeal of Roe v. Wade, which returned the abortion issue to the states. Not surprisingly, however, a controversial issue remains controversial. Now the GOP is running from the issue as quickly as it can. It took its pro life plank out of its platform, where it's been for decades. And now we have Trump, who has flip flopped on the issue for decades, stating this, in regard to a proposed six week provision in Florida:
I think the six week is too short, there has to be more time
This is really a simple issue. Either you believe that life starts at conception, or aren't sure when a human is a human and therefore you err on the side of life, or you think killing only matters at some arbitrary point in time in which you can't stomach it.
At best, the Republicans here can claim to support State's Rights, but pro life? Donald isn't.
Added to that is this, which gets also into the next topic.
I am announcing today that under the Trump administration, your government will pay for or your insurance company will be mandated to pay for all costs associated with IVF treatment.
We want more babies!
IVF means the creation of large numbers of embryos that are later killed, and in Catholic theology, IVF is regarded as a moral evil.
It's notable that Vance, who is a Catholic convert, has made some statements now generally supporting IVF as he runs towards Trump and away from his Faith.
2. Fiscal Responsibility?
Trump added 8T to the federal debt in his term in office.
And he proposed, prior to Harris, cutting income taxes on tips, which has no logical defense. Income is income.
Trump has stood for tax cuts, which have amounted to tax cuts for the wealthy. People, including the wealthy like Elon Musk, have noted the country is going bankrupt. Well, this is a big part of the reason why.
Back to the above, the GOP whined endlessly about Obamacare, and now proposes to expand government support for an insurance payment. What the crud?
3. Pro defense?
The Republican willingness in many quarters to abandon Ukraine says all you need to know about this. Added to it, Trump has a weird relationship with Russia that has never been explained.
Much of the current GOP wants to return to isolationism, which worked oh so well during the 1930s.
4. Tough on crime?
Running Trump says all you really need to know on that.
This party, in spite of what its supporters believe, stands only for reelecting Donald Trump, and nothing else.
Mind you, there were signs of this happening for some time. The entire spectacle of Evangelical Christians lashing themselves to the decks of the Trump serial polygamy ship was never easy to fathom. National Conservatives came on board in a calculated fashion, thinking that when Trump shuffled off his mortal coil they'd be in charge, only to see the less popular portions of their beliefs mocked and categorized as "weird". The Hawk Tuah girl was embraced by the Lynyrd Skynyrd branch of the populist whose Christianity is rather thin and not hardly of the Mike Johnson New Apostolic Reformation variety.
So what does that do to the populist movement in the GOP and the GOP in general? Well, quite a few real Republicans are abandoning ship, particularly those cultural conservatives who were never really Trumpites, but believed there was a moral obligation to support the GOP due to its cultural conservative positions. The American Solidarity Party is suddenly getting a lot of attention because its actually prolife. But a lot of the Trumpites now stand for nothing but Trump and will go down with him like stormtroopers in Berlin on May 2, 1945. Locally those politicians who have arisen in the Populist Freedom Caucus will keep on saying the same things they've been saying, even as their leader is saying the opposite.
Populism always gets co-opted in the end. Here, it already has been. Conservatism, for its part, was simply killed in the party.
Operation Overlord officially concluded.
A French government was operating again in Paris and massive parts of the country had been cleared of the Germans.
The Red Army took Polesti, the oil refining center of Romania. Most of the Romanian oilfields had already been taken by the Soviets.
The 8th Army commenced assaults on the Gothic Line.
Filipino writer and guerilla Manuel Estabillo Arguilla was beheaded by the Japanese.
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The Dawes Plan went into effect.
Germany replaced paper marks with a coin, due to hyperinflation.
Clashes with the Ku Klux Klan resulted in six deaths in Herrin Illinois.
The French High Commission of the Levant created Lebanese citizenship.
Edwards, Prince of Wales, met with Calvin Coolidge.
Saturday magazines were out.
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The Black Hills Expedition returned to Ft. Abraham Lincoln after covering nearly 1,200 miles over lasting sixty days.
The Sixth Cavalry and Fifth Infantry under the command of Colonel Nelson A. Miles attacked a large group of Southern Cheyenne near the Prairie Dog Town Fork of the Red River in Texas in what became the day long Battle of Red River.. Though armed with Gatling guns and a 10-pounder Parrott rifle, the Cheyenne were able to hold them the Army long enough to escape up Tule Canyon into the Staked Plains.
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A prediction, or rather an estimate based on odds.
I think there's a 55% chance that Donald Trump will not be the Republican candidate by November, or even by mid October.
No, I don't think that some random wacko is going to assassinate him.
Rather, I'm going back to what I always thought, that one of the two candidates would depart due to the impact of time and mortality, and add to it.
On mortality, Trump really doesn't look well, when you see him as he actually looks, which is rarely. Most of the time we see him in a baggy blue suit with his strange orange spray on tan and back comb over in evidence, a look we're so used to that we have come to regard it as normal, which it is not. But if you see him golfing, which we do occasionally, you see him as he really is. A fat old pasty man. He looks his age and doesn't look great. If a guy looking like that died tomorrow, you wouldn't be surprised.
Added to that, however, is the growing evidence of mental decline.
Trump is under an enormous amount of stress. If you've ever been familiar with somebody entering dementia, routine can keep them going for a long time. Trump has had a surprisingly consistent routine since 2020. The election was stolen has been his mantra. Joe Biden is a crook and the worst President of all time. He repeats it over and over, and he still is.
Now, however, Biden has mounted up and is fading into the sunset. Trump, in turn, has entered the part of the map labeled "here there be dragons" and doesn't know where he is. It's showing in his behavior, which has become increasingly odd.
Indeed, his behavior is now so odd we're completely acclimated to it and pay it little regard. In more or less controlled scripted moments, which seem to occur during the day time, he delivers a routine rambling speech, often with a flat affect. He tends to go badly off script into the bizarre. In interviews he can go way off script.
When he does, odd things show up again and again. He's really smart, he tells us. . . a lot. He draws big crowds, bigger than his opponents. . .
It's weird.
At night, now, he seems to have taken to Twitter and the tweets are often really weird.
I'm not a psychiatrist but it looks to me like the stress an anxiety of the race are getting to him, and organically.
Hence my added prediction. I don't think this nearly 80 year old who has avoided exercise his entire life can keep this up. It'll kill him, or it'll render his mid mush to the point it can't be ignored.
And it'll happen before the end of October.
I'm not saying any of this, I'd note, as some sort of wish. I've seen more than my share of death, and I've seen dementia. We all die, but dementia isn't something we all endure and I don't wish that on anyone.
15,000 U.S. troops of the 28th Infantry division marched down the Champs Elysees in Paris.
The Battle of Marseille ended in an Allied victory.
The British 8th Army crossed the Foglia.
The Slovak National Uprising began.
At the time, with Romania having changed sides, the Red Army actually in East Prussia, and Hungary attempting to get out of the war, it looked as if the collapse of Germany was eminent.
It should be noted that the Warsaw Uprising was still going on.
The Jassy–Kishinev Offensive, Lvov–Sandomierz Offensive and Šiauliai Offensive all ended in Soviet victories. The Red Army took the Black Sea port of Constanta and the Romanian city of Buzau.
The Soviets rejected the Bulgarian proclamation of neutrality.
The British government proclaimed the Polish Home Army was a de jure belligerent force. The US also did.
Operation Goodwood, the Royal Navy effort to sink the Tirptiz, concluded as a failure.
Dumbarton Oaks concluded.
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The Sultanate of Nejd, led by King Abdulaziz ibn Saud, attacked the Kingdom of Hejaz, ruled by King Hussein bin Ali, British ally during World War One.
Hejaz contained Mecca and the city of Jeddah. Citizens of Jejd had been barred from making the pilgrimage to Mecca, bringing on the war, and the thereby the birth of Saudi Arabia., at least as an immediate causa belli. A more significant one may have been the end of British subsidies to both royal houses, removing restraint on both of them, and in the case of Hejaz, the ability to bribe other Arab principalities.
The Reichstag accepted the London protocol of the Dawes plan.
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The Battle of Gerontas (Ναυμαχία του Γέροντα) was fought in the southeast Aegean, seeing 75 small Greek vessels defeat an Ottoman armada of 100 vessels contributed by various parts of the Ottoman Empire. The engagement was one of the most significant of the Greek War of Independence, fought from 1821 to 1829, which freed Greece from Ottoman rule.
