The First Continental Congress adopted the Suffolk Resolves.
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A random act by an unstable person does not impute to an entire class.
You can't label a would be assassin a "Republican" or a "Democratic donor", as if it it categorizes all Democratic donors or Republican party members.
Going numb in 2024.
I first heard of the attempted assassination attempt on Donald Trump yesterday. Since that time, up to now, what has surprised me the most is the level of disinterest in it.
Normally, such an event, the attempted assassination of a Presidential candidate, would be so shocking it would seem to dominate the news cycle. And had the Secret Service not disrupted it before Trump was seemingly in actual danger, it likely would have been. Indeed, based on first reports, the Secret Service did a really good job in detecting the assassin prior to his firing a shot.
But people are almost taking the "m'eh" approach ot the news.
This isn't a good sign of the state of American politics or culture. People are, apparently, so worn out, they've just tuned out entirely. Indeed, this is one of several such shocking stories recently that have drawn very little attention.
Saturday, September 16, 1944. "Wacht am Rhein" approved.
Adolf Hitler approved the Ardennes Offensive "Wacht am Rhein", known in the west as the Battle of the Bulge.
Market Garden, the semi failed or wholly failed, hastily put together Allied invasion of The Netherlands hadn't even commenced yet and therefore makes for a remarkable contrast. The Germans were planning a mid winter offensive and it was still summer, showing planning foresight, but also an appreciate at some level of the inevitability of further retreats into the winter.
"Members of an American airborne unit (82nd Airborne Division) flock to an American Red Cross Clubmobile for coffee and donuts on the eve of their takeoff for the airborne invasion of Holland. 16 September, 1944. Cottesmore Airdrome, England." These troops are equipped with the then new M1943 Field Jacket and M1943 paratrooper field pants. This uniform was new and replaced the ones that had been used just a few months prior in Operation Overlord. The M1943 field jacket wa already becoming a universal issue item, although oddly the trousers were not.
The Red Army took Sofia, Bulgaria. They then turned west to attempt to block the Germans from retreating from Greece.
The fronts were drawing close.
A general strike broke out in Denmark over deportations by the Germans.
The Royal Navy raided Sigli in Northern Sumatra.
The Second Quebec Conference ended. The course of combat across the globe was ratified, wit there being an additional agreement for a campaign in Burma, and the British joining American forces in the Pacific in its final campaigns against the British, something the US would effectively recant on as the war drew to a close.
Gustav Bauer, German Chancellor in 1919 and 1920, and very briefly a prisoner of the early Third Reich, died.
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Friday, September 15, 1944. Landing at Peleliu.
Monday, September 16, 1974. Letting the evaders and deserters off, somewhat.
President Ford issued a conditional amnesty to American draft evaders and military deserters provided that they agree to work for 24 months in alternative service.
In my view, this was a mistake.
President Carter would compound the mistake in 1977 by issuing a general pardon to most evaders, but not deserters.
None of this should have been granted. People died in the place of those who deserted and evaded. If a person had a genuine objection, and more than a few did, the honorable thing would have been to refuse to serve and to take the consequences. Muhammed Ali provides an example of this, as does Walt Whitman from an earlier era.
The legacy of the Vietnam War in this regard continues to haunt us. The same generation that reviled their parents, went on to brand their parents "the Greatest Generation", and never made peace with the largescale evadence of the call of duty. Examples of course, abound, including Donald Trump, who was excused priority in the draft due to shin splints, and Joe Biden, who had multiple deferments including health related ones.
The first female Royal Canadian Mounted Police began training.
The Provisional IRA assassinated Martin McBirney QC, 56, and Rory Conaghan, 54, both judges in Northern Ireland.
Argentinian terrorist set off fifty bombs, killing four people.
The Bay Area Underwater Rapid Transit Tube, the first tunnel underneath the San Francisco Bay, opened to the public.
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Tuesday, September 19, 1974. Recognizing independence.
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Tuesday, September 16, 1924. RBI record.
Jim Bottomley of the St. Louis Jim Cardinals set a major league baseball record for RBIs in a single game with 12, during a 17–3 win over the Brooklyn Robins. In 1993 the record was tied, but it has never been beaten.
Bottomly would retire from baseball in 1938 and go on to raise Hereford cattle in Missouri as well as being a radio announcer. HE scouted for the Cubs starting in 1957 and managed their Class D minor league Appalachian League club. He died in 1959 at age 59.
Betty Joan Perske, known on the screen as Lauren Bacall, was born in the Bronx.
Both of her parents were of Eastern European Jewish ancestry, with her mother having been born in Romania. Her mother had adopted the maiden name of Bacall, that she later adopted as a screen name. Her parents divorced when she was five, and she no longer saw her father. She uniformly came across as a highly intelligent, graceful, figure on the screen.
She married Humphrey Bogart in 1947 when she was 20 and he was 45. It was his fourth, and last, marriage. She'd marry Jason Robards after Bogart's death, but her second marriage would end in divorce.
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Sunday, September 14, 1924. Most Valuable Player.
Thursday, September 16, 1824. Death of King Louis XVIII.
He reigned from 3 May 1814 until 20 March 1815, and then again from 8 July 1815 – 16 September 1824, following the defeat of Napoleon. He was succeeded by Charles X.
He introduced a parliamentary form of government, payed off French indemnity imposed by the Napoleonic Wars, modernized the French Army.
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Sunday, August 29, 1824. Battle of Gerontas (Ναυμαχία του Γέροντα).
Does a "Freedom" Caucus victory in the primaries mean the Democrats have a chance in the general?
Some quarters of the press are hinting it does, and Rep. Yin took advantageof the news:
The effective head of the Democratic Party issued an immediate statement:
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But what of it?
This has been in the news, in Wyoming politico circles, quite a bit.
Well, frankly, let me note that I doubt this will be the case. At the same time, I predict some Democrats will in fact do better than expected, and the Democrats would have to be fools not to attempt to take advantage of the Populist pushing out real Republican candidates.
The scary thing is the Wyoming Freedom Caucus may very well control the next legislature, which will take us clean off the Wyoming political map into something we've never experienced before. My perditions are that Wyoming won't like it much.
Sunday, September 15, 2024
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Friday, September 15, 1944. Landing at Peleliu.
US forces invaded Peleliu. Initial troops were from the 1st Marine Division, which would later be joined by the Army's 81st Infantry Division for the hard fought battle. The landing on the island was in order to seize its airfields for the invasion of the Philippines.
The landings were bizarrely named Operation Stalemate II.
Corporal William R. Scott, and Prince Doberman. Peleliu. 15 September, 1944.
American and Australian forces landed at Morotai near New Guinea. The Battle of Morotai would go on until the end of the war.
The Battle of Gemmano in Italy ended in an Allied victory.
The Lapland War between Germany and Finland commenced when the Kriegsmarine attempted to take the island of Suursaari in order to secure the shipping routes in the Gulf of Finland. Up until that time the German withdrawal from Finland had been going peacefully, although it was deteriorating as the Germans destroyed things on their way out. The attempted German landing was resisted and the Finns withdrew their shipping from German evacuation efforts, although evacuation from Lapland to Norway, guaranteed by a secret agreement between the countries, continued peacefully at first.
The failed landings at Suursaari were an attempt to secure the island out of a fear the Soviets would.
Pvt. Stanley J. Zielonka fires an automatic rifle at a hidden sniper in Harze, Belgium. 15 September, 1944. 9th Infantry Division. Like almost all BAR gunners, Pvt. Zielonka has removed the bipod and flash hinder from his BAR. The unnamed soldier with a Thompson submachinegun has a short belt of machinegun ammunition around his neck. The other two soldiers are armed with M1 carbines. The one in front has a combat knife strapped to his lower leg.
The French Provisional Government issued arrest warrants for Philippe Pétain and his cabinet.
The Great Atlantic Hurricane made landfall on Long Island and Rhode Island.
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Thursday, September 14, 1944. Dragoon concludes. More SOE agents executed. The toll of the 1944 Great Atlantic Hurricane increases.
Monday, September 15, 1874. Grant addresses the situation in Louisiana. Treaty No. 4.
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
Whereas it has been satisfactorily represented to me that turbulent and disorderly persons have combined together with force and arms to overthrow the State government of Louisiana and to resist the laws and constituted authorities of said State: and
Whereas it is provided in the Constitution of the United States that the United States shall protect every State in this Union, on application of the legislature, or of the executive when the legislature can not be convened, against domestic violence; and
Whereas it is provided in the laws of the United States that in all cases of insurrection in any State or of obstruction to the laws thereof it shall be lawful for the President of the United States, on application of the legislature of such State, or of the executive when the legislature can not be convened, to call forth the militia of any other State or States, or to employ such part of the land and naval forces as shall be judged necessary, for the purpose of suppressing such insurrection or causing the laws to be duly executed; and
Whereas the legislature of said State is not now in session and can not be convened in time to meet the present emergency, and the executive of said State, under section 4 of Article IV of the Constitution of the United States and the laws passed in pursuance thereof, has therefore made application to me for such part of the military force of the United States as may be necessary and adequate to protect said State and the citizens thereof against domestic violence and to enforce the due execution of the laws; and
Whereas it is required that whenever it may be necessary, in the judgment of the President, to use the military force for the purpose aforesaid, he shall forthwith, by proclamation, command such insurgents to disperse and retire peaceably to their respective homes within a limited time.
Now, therefore, I, Ulysses S. Grant, President of the United States, do hereby make proclamation and command said turbulent and disorderly persons to disperse and retire peaceably to their respective abodes within five days from this date, and hereafter to submit themselves to the laws and constituted authorities of said State; and I invoke the aid and cooperation of all good citizens thereof to uphold law and preserve the public peace.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington, this 15th day of September, A.D. 1874, and of the Independence of the United States the ninety-ninth.
U.S. GRANT.
By the President:
HAMILTON FISH, Secretary of State.
Treaty No. 4 was signed between the Cree and Saulteaux and the Crown in Canada.
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The best posts of the week of September 8, 2024.
Carpetbagging Carpetbaggers criticize carpetbagging.
Something for Wyoming populists to consider.
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Thursday, September 14, 1944. Dragoon concludes. More SOE agents executed. The toll of the 1944 Great Atlantic Hurricane increases.
Troops of the 3rd Bn., 7th Inf. Regt., 3rd Div., move through a muddy street in Montjustin-et-Velotte, France. 14 September, 1944. 3rd Battalion, 7th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division.
Operation Dragoon concluded.
The Red Army commenced the Baltic Offensive.
The Red Army and Romanian Army fought the Hungarian Army at Păuliș.
British and Canadian troops took Coriano, Italy.
Captured Canadian Army officers assigned to the John Kenneth Macalister, 30, Frank Pickersgill, 29, and Roméo Sabourin, 21, were executed at Buchenwald.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration recorded the third highest water level of Woods Hole, MA to date at 1.488 meters, no doubt due to the ongoing 1944 Great Atlantic Hurricane.
The USCGC Bedlo and USCGC Jackson went down in the hurricane.
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Wednesday, September 13, 1944. The Execution of the SOE Agents.
Sunday, September 14, 1924. Most Valuable Player.
Premiered on this day in 1924. It had been filmed on location. Anna Mae Wong, the famous Chinese American actress, was cast as an Inuit.
It was a bad day for police officers:
Deputy Constable J. Edward Brown:
Police Officer Francis X. "Buck" Roy
Patrol Inspector James F. Mankin
Walter "Big Train" Johnson was chosen Major League Baseball's Most Valuable Player
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Saturday, September 13, 1924. Pershing retires.
Sunday, September 14, 1874. Battle of Liberty Place.
An attempted racist coup took place in New Orleans by the Crescent City White League . 5,000 members of the white Confederate veterans militia fought the racially integrated New Orleans Metropolitan Police and state militia in what became known as the Battle of Liberty Place.
After three days of fighting pending intervention by Federal troops caused the white rats to withdraw.
Being in the U.S. Army during these days must have been really something else. Reconstruction duty in the South, Indian Wars in the West.
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Saturday, September 12, 1874. Battle of Buffalo Wallow
Sunday, September 14, 1524. The Order of Clerics Regular, Theatine.
Saint Cajetan, Giampietro Caraffa, later Pope Paul IV, Bonifacio De Colle and Paolo Consiglieri founded the Order of Clerics Regular, Theatine.
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Tuesday, March 25, 1524. Exploration of the Carolina Coast.
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Wednesday, September 13, 1944. The Execution of the SOE Agents.
The first meeting of American troops of General Patton's Third U.S. Army forces with French troops of General Patch's Seventh U.S. Army took place recently when their long reconnaissance arms met at Autun, France. Here Adjutant Emile Lancery, Bouhy, France, left, whose native group landed near Toulon, is shown shaking hands with Sgt. Louis Basil, Follansbee, W.Va., in the first scout vehicle of the Combat Command. 13 September, 1944. Combat Command B, 6th Armored Division.
Greek, Canadian and New Zealand forces attacked the Germans at Rimini, Italy.
The Red Army took the Warsaw suburb of Praga. That evening, the Soviet air force began dropping supplies to the Home Army in Warsaw. The action was undertaken due to US and UK pressure.
The Greek People's Liberation Army and the collaborationist Security Battalions fought at Melgalas.
The Navy begana pre invasion bombardment of Peleliu and Angaur.
SOE agents Yolande Beekman, 32, Madeleine Damerment, 26, and Noor Inayat Khan, 30, were executed at Dachau.
Yolande Beekman.
Madeleine Damerment
Noor Inayat Khan.
The USS Warrington sunk in the 1944 Great Atlantic Hurricane.
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