The government issued the Warren Report concluding that Lee Harvey Oswald had acted alone and that Kennedy had been inadequately protected during his November 22, 1963, visit to Dallas.
US troops rescued sixty Vietnamese hostages and seized the main camp of Montagnard rebels operating at Buon Sar Pa.
The Beach Boys appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show.
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The Red Army and Yugoslav partisans crossed into Albania.
The Battle of Metz began.
Only four B-24s out of thirty-five from the 445th BG survive the round trip from their base in the UK to their target at Kassel.
The Finnish army took Pudasjärvi in northern Finland from the Germans.
Sweden closed its ports to German shipping.
The Japanese troop transport and hospital ship Ural Maru was sunk in the South China Sea by the USS Flasher. 2,000 perished in the sinking.
The HMS Rockingham hit a mine in the North Sea and ultimately sank.
Controversial evangelist Aimee Elizabeth Semple McPherson died at age 53 from an accidental overdose of sleeping pills.
McPherson inspired a major plot, in a very fictionalized form, in the revived Perry Mason series.
That from and after the first day of December next, there be no importation into British America from Great Britain or Ireland, of any goods, wares or merchandizes whatsoever, or from any other place, of any such goods, wares or merchandizes, as shall have been exported from Great-Britain or Ireland; and that no such goods, wares or merchandizes, imported after the said first day of December next, be used or purchased.
Oh oh.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana, The Life of Reason, 1905
I thought of this as a new topic, and a new theme here, due to something J. D. Vance recently said.
If ever there was a time that average, and even educated, Americans showed a pathetic lack of grasp of history, science, religion and culture, at a massive level, this is it. We hope to correct it a bit.
Gilligan's Island premiered on CBS.
UPI critic Rick Dubrow commented: "It is impossible that a more inept, moronic or humorless show has ever appeared on the home tube."
As a kid, I'd often watch the show, already in syndication, when I got home from school.
Rebels in the Congo rounded up of all foreigners trapped in Stanleyville and Paulis.
The "High National Council" was installed to function as the legislature for South Vietnam.
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The British 8th Army crossed the Uso (Rubicon).
The British 2nd Army took Turnhout between Antwerp and Eindhoven. They also took Oss.
The Germans shelled the British coastal city of Dover with long-range artillery implaced near Calais. The British returned fire with long range coast artillery at Dover. This would end the long range artillery duels across the channel.
The RAF bombed Calais and Cap Griz Nez.
The Red Army prevailed in its Tallinn Offensive.
Greek resistance groups recognized the authority of the Greek government in exile and to place themselves under the Allied Supreme Commander in the Mediterranean.
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Johnathan Chapman, known to history as Johnny Appleseed, was born in Massachusetts.
During his life he introduced seed planted trees to large parts of Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Ontario, as well as the northern counties of West Virginia, becoming a legend in his own time.
He was additionally a missionary for The New Church, a Swedenborgianism denomination.
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NOTHING CAN EVER STOP THIS MAN FROM FIGHTING FOR OUR COUNTRY
Except maybe bone spurs.
Going silent on September 30. Read about it here: GMRS Live, dies.
The advice is get your HAM license. . . but I'm not going to. That was never my intent in getting a GMRS radio in the first place.
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. premiered on CBS.
Somehow, Pvt. Pyle managed never to be deployed to Vietnam, and seemingly, with the exception of one single episode I can think of, remain in the Pre Vietnam War era entirely.
President Johnson and Mexican President López Mateos shook hands on the International Bridge at El Paso. Later that day President Johnson flew to Oklahoma for the dedication of the new Eufaula Dam and spoke about the Vietnam War, stating: "There are those that say you ought to go north and drop bombs, to try to wipe out the supply lines, and they think that would escalate the war. We don't want our American boys to do the fighting for Asian boys."
FRELIMO (Frente de Libertação de Moçambique) launched the Mozambican War of Independence.
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Operation Market Garden failed to achieve its final objective at Arnhem and the British 1st Airborne was ordered to evacuate at night across the Rhine. Only 2,400 men of the 10,000 that dropped into fight at the city were recovered. 1,100 were killed in the battle. 6.400 were captured. A few remained hidden in Arnhem with Dutch families.
The battle achieved legendary status with the British nearly immediately, and was memorialized in a 1946 movie featuring many original British combatants entitled Theirs Is The Glory. In spite of the significant American role, the battle tended to be ignored by American historians until 1974's book A Bridge Too Far by popular historian Cornelius Ryan, which was turned into a major movie in 1977.
Operation Market Garden has been a matter of enduring controversy in military history circles. It was an unusually bold plan for Montgomery, but it also emphasized his own forces, with the addition of available American airborne, for what was essentially a very long strike for a roundabout path into Germany based on a narrow advance over a single road, and depending upon all of the bridges that were targeted being taken. If things had worked perfectly, it's doubtful that it would have brought the war to a conclusion in 1944, as was hoped, as the Germans, after the fall of France, were effectively regrouping for the defense of Germany.
It tends to be portrayed as an overall failure, which in many ways it was. It did, however, liberate much of the Netherlands, although it helped to create the tactical scenario which gave rise to the German offensive in Belgium in December. At the same time, however, Wacht am Rhein, which had already been approved, arguably only achieve a wasting of German resources in the final month of the war. Moreover, if the offensive was a defeat, as some claim, it bears comparison to the treatment of the Battle of Anzio, which was arguably on part with it as a failure but which is not regarded as a defeat, or the delayed taking of Caen.
The British 2nd Army took Helmond and Deurne east of Eindhoven. The Canadian 3d Division attacked trapped German troops in Calais.
The British urged foreign workers and slave laborers in Germany to rebel.
The Red Army took Haapsalu, Estonia on the Baltic.
Hitler ordered the formation of the Volkssturm, the militia formed of civilian men.
Partisans occupied Banja Luka, Yugoslavia.
Harvard announced that for the first time it would admit women to medical school starting in the fall of 1945.
Claire Poe of Miami Beach appeared on the cover of a Life magazine special issue entitled "A Letter to GI's" because she was attractive in the girl next store sort of way. She was only 18, which is interesting to Generation Jones members like myself, as she clearly looked much more mature than 18 year old girls did when I was 18.
Life revealed that she'd just entered college with hopes of becoming a math teacher, and was corresponding to a Sergeant in Puerto Rico and an Ensign at Fort Lauderdale.
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Tilmahtli from the 1531 apparition of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Mexico.
Mexico enacted The Act of September 25, 1874 making the provisions of the Reform Law constitutional.
The act provided "liberal" reforms basically on the French model, following the results of the bitter Reform War of the late 1850s, and were hostile accordingly to the Church in certain ways. They provided:
Cementina Rind, age 34, died in Williamsburg, Virginia. She was the first female printer in North America, having assumed the role of publisher of the Virginia Gazette upon the death of her husband the prior year. She left five children.
This is interesting for a variety of reasons, including the common early arrival of death in the 18th Century, and that women did occupy roles that would surprise us.
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The 2025 Legislature is a general session, not a budget session The budget won't be considered. Only conventional legislation will be.
The bills that make it to the committees after November 4 are those, to a fairly significant degree, that are being advanced now. That means that a full bore populist agenda won't be considered in 2025. A partial one will be, but the populist party that claims to be conservative, but which isn't, and which claims to be Republican, but which isn't really, by traditional standards, won't be calling all the tunes.
That leaves it ample room to be disruptive and to complain, which it excels at. The problem is, for it, is that people will conceive of it as being "in power". It won't pass all of its agenda, maybe any of iit, and will have to explain why it couldn't.
The Senate and the Governor will be who it blames.
The 2026 legislature will be a budget session, and that's where the rubber will really meet the road. At least in the past, WFC members have backed wiping out property taxes (a moronic idea) and cutting the state's budget by 30% (another moronic idea).
That would wipe out much of the funding for education and decimate the primary schools, the University of Wyoming and the community colleges, some of which I'd guess will not survive. When UW starts to teeter, which it'll start too soon, second glances will really commence.
"What do you mean that we're going to Division l700 F in football?"
What'll also start to be impaired is all the emergency funding and the highway funding. We'll rely, ironically, very heavily on the Federal Government for that which, if it takes notice, may very well require the state to get its tax act together.
Frankly, it'll be a disaster for the state.
I'd like to be more optimistic about 2026, but I really can't. The Freedom Caucus won't get everything it wants, but it'll damage things enormously. Maybe enough that the intellectual poverty of much of its positions will become exposed and we can hope for a better 2026 set of results.
You know, the one that was once part of the Soviet Union.
Oh, the unintentional irony
Israel is not "fighting Lebanon". I've seen that claim made, but it isn't.
It's striking Hezbollah targets in Lebanon.
Hezbollah, which translates as the "Party of God" is a Lebanese Shia Islamist political party and paramilitary group. The party does control large sections of Lebanon where Shia is dominant religious group.
Lebanon itself was carved out of Syria by the French during the French mandate period as it had a majority Christian population. It's one of the few areas of the Middle East which still does, with Islamic repression over centuries having forced conversions and emigration throughout the Middle East. Be that as it may, Lebanon is no longer a majority Christian state, and its a mess because of internal strife and division.
That came in due to the conflicts in the region, with the Palestinian refugee population of the 1970s being particularly problematic. The country fought a civil war that lasted in one form or another from 1975 to 1990. It's never been stable since.
It's very difficult to see a positive future for Lebanon in any form. That doesn't mean it won't occur, but it's hard to see.
What can be seen, in my view, is an Israeli invasion of southern Lebanon coming in the next week or so.
The British took Deume, Netherlands. 30th Corps reached the south bank of the Rhine near Arnhem. Other elements entered Germany southwest of Nijmegen.
The Italian government reopened the case of the murder of Giacomo Matteotti which had occurred in 1924.
The U-596 was damaged by US aircraft in Salamis Bay and scuttled.
Task Force 38 hit Japanese targets on the Visayan Islands.
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