The Smithsonian Air and Space Museum opened.
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Wednesday, July 1, 2026
Monday, July 1, 1946 Crossroads Able.
Crossroads Able, "Gilda" July 1, 1946.
Atomic weapons were detonated, this time on Bikini Atoll, for the fourth time in human history. The testing was on ships. The device was not on target, so the impact was less than expected.
It was front page news, of course, but it was mixed with economic news and concerns.
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Thursday, July 1, 1926. Sweden creates an air arm, Safeway and Skaggs merge, Canada goes back on the gold standard.
The Country Gentleman had switched over to being a monthly at this point.
The Swedish Air Force was founded with the merger of the aviation elements of the Swedish army and navy.
Safeway and Skaggs merged with the Safeway as the surviving entity. It had 995 stores.
The march of the chain grocery store was of course on. Casper had a Piggly Wiggly at this time, but it also retained a huge number of local grocery stores at this time.
Canada returned to the gold standard.
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Saturday, July 1, 1876. Coloradans say yes to an anticipated state constitution.
Territorial seal of Colorado.
Voters in the Territory of Colorado voted to approve a state constitution, in anticipation of being admitted to the Union. The proposed Constitution was published in March 1876,approved on this day with 15,443 voting ‘yes’ and 4,062 voting ‘no’.
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Friday, June 30, 1876. A rainy day.
Tuesday, June 30, 2026
The SAVE Act. Ihre Papiere, bitte.
When I was young there used to be periodic calls for a National Identity Card.
The concept was that the card would show you were a US citizen, be your social security card, proof of ID, etc.
Everything in one package.
President Clinton proposed national IDs during his administration as part of his administration's health care plan. Some people on the right and left proposed it as a way to combat illegal immigration.
Frankly, it'd make a lot of sense, or it did, in context. The card could be general proof of your identity, be your SSN card, your medicare card, your draft card, etc.
It was always opposed by the far right. Indeed, opposed fanatically. Ronald Reagan joked that it would be "the mark of the beast", but that was a joke that tapped into the Evangelical element of his base. A halfway joke, basically, pitched at people who were already afraid that the Antichrist was soon to appear.
But the left opposed it too, and adamantly.
I note this for the current irony. The Trump Administration is boosting the SAVE Act as a means of trying to keep the "wrong" people from voting.
We all know who those people are. . . . wink, wink.
And that's because they know that in the fall they're going to lose.
But ironically, they're basically proposing that millions of adults do, and millions won't be able to do, what would have been done decades ago, if they hadn't run around preventing it.
Of course, that wouldn't have required a national seizure of the elections, but that isn't required now, either.
It's funny, we used to think that the state demanding your papers was fascist.
Now, Chuck Gray just gleefully turns voter roles over to the Federal Government. . . . which doesn't mean that the state demanding paper is not, in fact, fascist.
Ihre Papiere, bitte.
Sunday, June 30, 1946. Wartime powers expire.
The OPA's emergency wartime powers ended at midnight in spite of an effort by President Truman to extend them.
The Fair Employment Practice Committee (FEPC) authority also expired at midnight as did the authority of the War Relocation Authority.
Surplus military vehicles were being sold.
Sunday was apparently the cheesecake edition of the News. A photo of an actress was given the full page treatment for no other discernable reason, while later in the paper the famous Jane Russell Outlaw poster was also.
And an add depicted teenagers advertising at home.
A sham election in Poland placed the country under the Communist Party and approved the post war borders with the USSR.
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Saturday, June 29, 1946. Operation Agatha.
Friday, June 30, 1876. A rainy day.
The wounded from the Battle of the Little Big Horn reached the steamer Far West. It was a rainy day.
The steamer departed at 1:40, continually hitting the banks of the river on the way downstream.
The Cheyenne who had been at Little Big Horn had moved down near where they had fought Crook on the Rosebud. They were pursuing game.
Gibbon was left completely in charge of his command at 4:00 p.m. that day. A roster was called of the 7th Cavalry to see who remained.
Frank Grouard, who was half polynesian, and who had been captured by, and had lived with, the Sioux as a young man, taking a Sioux wife. In spite of that close association he later "escaped" and became a scout. His biography is particularly odd and complicated and this barely touches on it.
Crook's troops remained in camp on Goose Creek on what was a rainy day there as well. Scout Frank Grouard went sent scouting and returned finding nothing. In fact, Sitting Bull's camp was moving straight for them.
Three miners strayed into the camp and told Crook that natives had told them of a large battle in which cavalrymen had been wiped out. Crook didn't believe them and began to organize a hunting party into the Bighorns in what would become one of the greatest hunting and fishing expeditions of all time.
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June 29, 1876. Evacuating the wounded and turning east.
Going Feral: Utah's burning while Deseret Mike Lee is grinning.
Going Feral: Utah's burning while Deseret Mike Lee is grinning.: The U.S. Forest Service closed Utah’s Bears Ears National Monument and Dark Canyon Wilderness on Sunday, June 28, due to the catastrophic Ba...
Utah's burning while Deseret Mike Lee is grinning.
The U.S. Forest Service closed Utah’s Bears Ears National Monument and Dark Canyon Wilderness on Sunday, June 28, due to the catastrophic Babylon Wildfire. The same day, the National Park Service (NPS) announced it was closing the Needles District of Canyonlands National Park as well.
Wake up Utah.
This is the result of climate change. You keep electing people like MAGA zealot Deseret Mike Lee. In Lee's case he feels climate science is a fib, and, based upon his background, he wants to take the public lands for housing (and development) so that as many souls can be downloaded onto Earth as soon as possible to bring about the end of the world, under his belief system, probably.
Vote these people out. It's not too late to reverse this idiocy.
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