History Thread...

[CMRivdogs]

June 8, 1775. Lord Dunmore leaves the Palace in Williamsburg, Va  and takes refuge aboard the British ship Fowey in the York River. (He's feeling reprisals following the Gun Powder Theft from the Williamsburg Armory in April)

 June 8, 1775. The three remaining Shawnee chiefs are left to consider their position. After Dunmore' s retreat and fearing reprisals by the Virginians, one Shawnee chief, Chenusaw, flees Williamsburg en route to Ohio Shawnee towns. There, he spreads rumors of Virginia' s intent to invade the Ohio and enslave Shawnee; he urges a unified attack against the frontier settlements.

 

[CMRivdogs]

June 9

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/june-9

With a spectacular victory at the Belmont Stakes, Secretariat becomes the first horse since Citation in 1948 to win America’s coveted Triple Crown: the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness and the Belmont Stakes. In one of the finest performances in racing history, Secretariat, ridden by Ron Turcotte, completed the 1.5-mile race in 2 minutes and 24 seconds, a dirt-track record for that distance.

Secretariat was born at Meadow Stables in Doswell, Virginia, on March 30, 1970. He was sired by Bold Ruler, the 1957 Preakness winner, and foaled by Somethingroyal, which came from a Thoroughbred line known for its stamina. An attractive chestnut colt, he grew to over 16 hands high and was at two years the size of a three-year-old.

Edited June 9 by CMRivdogs

[CMRivdogs]

1 minute ago, CMRivdogs said:

June 9

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/june-9

With a spectacular victory at the Belmont Stakes, Secretariat becomes the first horse since Citation in 1948 to win America’s coveted Triple Crown: the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness and the Belmont Stakes. In one of the finest performances in racing history, Secretariat, ridden by Ron Turcotte, completed the 1.5-mile race in 2 minutes and 24 seconds, a dirt-track record for that distance.

Secretariat was born at Meadow Stables in Doswell, Virginia, on March 30, 1970. He was sired by Bold Ruler, the 1957 Preakness winner, and foaled by Somethingroyal, which came from a Thoroughbred line known for its stamina. An attractive chestnut colt, he grew to over 16 hands high and was at two years the size of a three-year-old.

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1954 

In a dramatic confrontation, Joseph Welch, special counsel for the U.S. Army, lashes out at Senator Joseph McCarthy during hearings on whether communism has infiltrated the U.S. armed forces. Welch’s verbal assault—including the enduring question "Have you no sense of decency?"—marked the end of McCarthy’s power during the anticommunist hysteria of the Red Scare in America.

Senator McCarthy (R-Wisconsin) experienced a meteoric rise to fame and power in the U.S. Senatewhen he charged in February 1950 that “hundreds” of “known communists” were in the Department of State. In the years that followed, McCarthy became the acknowledged leader of the so-called Red Scare, a time when millions of Americans became convinced that communists had infiltrated every aspect of American life. Behind closed-door hearings, McCarthy bullied, lied, and smeared his way to power, destroying many careers and lives in the process. Prior to 1953, the Republican Party tolerated his antics because his attacks were directed against the Democratic administration of Harry S. Truman.

 

[romad1]

I've been listening to "We Have Ways of Making you Talk" which is doing an 85th anniversary take on Dunkirk.  Talk about the hinge of history.  So many variables.  Apparently the decision for the Germans to back off the pocket around Dunkirk was driven by Hitler's vanity when confronted by Generals who had through their own initiative had crossings over the canal line which could be exploited to drive on the beach and perhaps capture the entire BEF and French allied forces, and confronted by more cautious generals did the one thing he would do in that circumstance: he exerted his prerogative to exert his prerogatives and issued the halt order. 

Meanwhile, Churchill was desperate to prevent Halifax from convincing the war cabinet to sue for peace and he was fortunate to have Chamberlain who had been burned by Hitler and Mussolini on his side.   

Without Dunkirk, its a totally different war.  Without Britain holding up the Germans in Eastern Europe and Africa and the Battle of Britain, they have much more to throw at the Soviet Union in 1941 (and could have started earlier in the year). 

[CMRivdogs]

June 10

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/june-10

 

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On June 10, 1775, John Adams proposes to Congress, meeting in Philadelphia, that the men laying siege to Boston should be considered a Continental Army led by a general.

The men who had armed themselves and rushed to surround British forces in Boston following the Battle of Lexington and Concord were overwhelmingly from New England. However, John Adams, representing Massachusetts, realized that the military effort would only succeed if the British thought the colonies were united. To this end, Adams suggested the appointment of a Virginian, George Washington, to command the Continental forces, despite the fact that New Englanders were used to fighting in local militias under officers elected from among their own ranks.

 

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1953 In a forceful speech, President Dwight D. Eisenhower strikes back at critics of his Cold War foreign policy. He insisted that the United States was committed to the worldwide battle against communismand that he would maintain a strong U.S. defense. Just a few months into his presidency, and with the Korean War still raging, Eisenhower staked out his basic approach to foreign policy with this speech.

 

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1967 The Six-Day War between Israel and its Arab neighbors ends with a United Nations-brokered cease-fire. The outnumbered Israel Defense Forces achieved a swift victory in the brief war, rolling over the Arab coalition and more than doubling the amount of territory under Israel’s control. The greatest fruit of victory lay in seizing the Old City of Jerusalem from Jordan; thousands of Jews wept while bent in prayer at the Second Temple’s Western Wall.

 

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1752 

In the summer of 1752—possibly on the 10th of June—Benjamin Franklin flies a kite during a thunderstorm to collect ambient electrical charge in a Leyden jar, enabling him to demonstrate the connection between lightning and electricity. (Scholars debate the June 10 date, but agree it likely happened sometime in June of that year.) It is one of his most famous—and mythologized—experiments.

Franklin became interested in electricity in the mid-1740s, a time when much was still unknown on the topic, and spent almost a decade conducting electrical experiments. He coined a number of terms used today, including battery, conductor and electrician. He also invented the lightning rod, used to protect buildings and ships.

 

[1776]

Regarding the Six Day War above, a book recommendation:

Six Days of War by Michael B Oren (copyright 2002) 

Great book!

 

[CMRivdogs]

June 11

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/june-11

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Two African American students, Vivian Malone and James A. Hood, register for classes at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa on June 11, 1963, after federalized Alabama National Guard troops force Alabama Governor George Wallace to halt his blockade and submit to a judge’s order ending segregation at the university.

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On June 11, 1776, the Continental Congress selects Thomas Jefferson of Virginia, John Adams of Massachusetts, Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania, Roger Sherman of Connecticut and Robert R. Livingston of New York to draft a declaration of independence. They have come to be known as the Committee of Five.

Knowing Jefferson’s prowess with a pen, Adams urged him to author the first draft of the document, which was then carefully revised by Adams and Franklin before being given to Congress for review on June 28.

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1989 In the wake of the Tiananmen Square Massacre on June 4, China issues a warrant for a leading Chinese dissident who had taken refuge in the U.S. embassy in Beijing. The diplomatic standoff lasted for a year, and the refusal of the United States to hand the dissident over to Chinese officials was further evidence of American disapproval of China’s crackdown on political protesters.

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1919 Three-year-old Sir Barton wins the Belmont stakes, becoming the first horse to earn the coveted American Triple Crown. Amazingly, the thoroughbred had never notched a single career win until that year’s Kentucky Derby.

 

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June 12

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/june-12

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On June 12, 1987, in one of his most famous Cold War speeches, President Ronald Reaganchallenges Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev to “tear down” the Berlin Wall, a symbol of the repressive Communist era in a divided Germany.

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Six days after the D-Day landing, the five Allied landing groups, made up of some 330,000 troops, link up in Normandy to form a single solid front across northwestern France.

On June 6, 1944, after a year of meticulous planning conducted in secrecy by a joint Anglo-American staff, the largest combined sea, air, and land military operation in history began on the French coast at Normandy. The Allied invasion force included 3 million men, 13,000 aircraft, 1,200 warships, 2,700 merchant ships, and 2,500 landing craft.

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On June 12, 1920, Man O’ War wins the 52nd Belmont Stakes, and sets the record for the fastest mileever run by a horse to that time. Man O’ War was the biggest star yet in a country obsessed with horse racing, and the most successful thoroughbred of his generation.

 

[CMRivdogs]

June 13

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/june-13

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On June 13, 1966, the U.S. Supreme Court hands down its decision in Miranda v. Arizona, establishing the principle that all criminal suspects must be advised of their rights before interrogation. Now considered standard police procedure, “You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can, and will, be used against you in court of law. You have the right to an attorney. If you cannot afford one, one will be appointed to you,” has been heard so many times in television and film dramas that it has become almost cliche.

As a result of the case against Miranda, each and every person must now be informed of his or her rights when in custody and about to be interrogated. However, on June 23, 2022, the Supreme Court ruled that law enforcement officers may not be sued for damages under federal civil rights law for failing to issue the Miranda Warning to suspects.

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On June 13, 1777, a 19-year-old French aristocrat, Marie-Joseph Paul Roch Yves Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, arrives in South Carolina with the intent to serve as General George Washington’s second-in-command.

Following his safe arrival in South Carolina, Lafayette traveled to Philadelphia. Although Lafayette’s youth made Congress reluctant to promote him over more experienced colonial officers, the young Frenchman’s willingness to volunteer his services without pay won their respect and Lafayette a commission as major-general on July 31, 1777.

Lafayette served at Brandywine in 1777, as well as Barren Hill, Monmouth and Rhode Island in 1778. Following the formal treaty of alliance with Lafayette’s native France in February 1778 and Britain’s subsequent declaration of war, Lafayette asked to return to Paris and consult the king as to his future service. Washington was willing to spare Lafayette, who departed in January 1779. By March, Franklin reported from Paris that Lafayette had become an excellent advocate for the American cause at the French court.

Following his six-month respite in France, Lafayette returned to aid the American war effort in Virginia, where he participated in the successful siege of Yorktown in 1781, before returning to France and the further service of his own country.

 

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1805 

Having hurried ahead of the main body of the expedition, Meriwether Lewis and four men arrive at the Great Falls of the Missouri River, confirming that the explorers are headed in the right direction.

Meriwether Lewis and William Clark had set out on their expedition to the Pacific the previous year. They spent the winter of 1804 with the Mandan Indians in present-day North Dakota. The Hidatsa Indians, who lived nearby, had traveled far to the West, and they proved an important source of information for Lewis and Clark. The Hidatsa told Lewis and Clark they would come to a large impassable waterfall in the Missouri when they neared the Rocky Mountains, but they assured the captains that portage around the falls was less than half a mile.

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President Thomas Jefferson receives a subpoena to testify in the treason trial of his former vice president, Aaron Burr, on June 13, 1807. In the subpoena, Burr asked Jefferson to produce documents that might exonerate him.

Burr had already been politically and socially disgraced by killing former Treasury Secretary and Revolutionary-era hero Alexander Hamilton in a duel in 1804. After killing Hamilton, Burr, still Jefferson’s vice president, went into hiding. Burr then concocted a seditious plan to enlist the help of Britain and Spain to create a separate nation in the southwestern reaches of the American continent, including parts of Mexico, over which Burr would rule. The outrageous plan failed miserably when one of Burr’s co-conspirators, General James Wilkinson, betrayed Burr and alerted Jefferson to the plot. Burr was hunted down and arrested in 1806 and indicted for treason.

Jefferson refused to appear in Burr’s defense and released only a few of the documents Burr had requested, invoking his presidential right to protect the public interest. If Jefferson’s intent was to help get Burr convicted, his refusal to supply documentation backfired. In the end, Supreme CourtChief Justice John Marshall found Burr not guilty by lack of evidence.

 

[romad1]

10 minutes ago, CMRivdogs said:

June 13

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/june-13

 

aw damn...Now I'm going to play the Leslie Odom's parts of Hamilton today at work.  

[CMRivdogs]

8 minutes ago, romad1 said:

aw damn...Now I'm going to play the Leslie Odom's parts of Hamilton today at work.  

Wait for it...

[CMRivdogs]

What's been interesting to me lately after studying the "founders" a bit more is that quite a few of them (Hamilton, Jefferson, Burr, Adams, etc) were all jerks to some extent.

Look at all the feuds..

[romad1]

35 minutes ago, CMRivdogs said:

What's been interesting to me lately after studying the "founders" a bit more is that quite a few of them (Hamilton, Jefferson, Burr, Adams, etc) were all jerks to some extent.

Look at all the feuds..

Hamilton does not come out well in the John Adams movie that had Paul Giamati. 

[CMRivdogs]

6 minutes ago, romad1 said:

Hamilton does not come out well in the John Adams movie that had Paul Giamati. 

Two very ambitious men. It's interesting to learn about the Founders squabbles. Jefferson was a real jerk.

[CMRivdogs]

 

[oblong]

1 hour ago, romad1 said:

Hamilton does not come out well in the John Adams movie that had Paul Giamati. 

This clip leaves out a good part after this... Hamilton says something like "You'd do well sir to remember how you became President... by 3 votes"

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3 hours ago, oblong said:

This clip leaves out a good part after this... Hamilton says something like "You'd do well sir to remember how you became President... by 3 votes"

Sewell and Giamatti had just worked together in "the Illusionist" with Ed Norton before this series was made.

[CMRivdogs]

June 14

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/june-14

June 14, 1777: During the American Revolution, the Continental Congress adopts a resolutionstating that “the flag of the United States be thirteen alternate stripes red and white” and that “the Union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new Constellation.” The national flag, which became known as the “Stars and Stripes,” was based on the “Grand Union” flag, a banner carried by the Continental Army in 1776 that also consisted of 13 red and white stripes.

 

Henry Ossian Flipper, born into slavery in Thomasville, Georgia, in 1856, becomes the first African American cadet to graduate from the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York on June 14, 1877.

On June 14, 1917, as the soldiers of the American Expeditionary Force (AEF) travel to join the Allies on the battlefields of World War I in France, United States President Woodrow Wilsonaddresses the nation’s public on the annual celebration of Flag Day.

On June 14, 1775, the Continental Congressauthorizes the enlistment of expert riflemen to serve the United Colonies for one year. This launches the U.S. Army as America's first national institution, more than a year before the Declaration of Independence is published on July 4, 1776.

 

 

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June 15

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/june-15

 

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Following a revolt by the English nobility against his rule, King John puts his royal seal on Magna Carta, or “the Great Charter,” on June 15, 1215. The document, essentially a peace treaty between John and his barons, guaranteed that the king would respect feudal rights and privileges, uphold the freedom of the church, and maintain the nation’s laws. Although more a reactionary than a progressive document in its day, Magna Carta was seen as a cornerstone in the development of democratic England by later generations.

 

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On June 15, 1775, the Continental Congress votes to appoint George Washington, who would one day become the first American president, the commander of the colonies' first official army. Four days later, he accepts the assignment and signs his commission.

Washington had been managing his family’s plantation and serving in the Virginia House of Burgesses when the second Continental Congress unanimously voted to have him lead the revolutionary army. He had earlier distinguished himself, in the eyes of his contemporaries, as a commander for the British army in the French and Indian War of 1754.

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On June 15, 1776, the Assembly of the Lower Counties of Pennsylvania declares itself independentof British and Pennsylvanian authority, thereby creating the state of Delaware.

Delaware did not exist as a colony under British rule. As of 1704, Pennsylvania had two colonial assemblies: one for the “Upper Counties,” originally Bucks, Chester and Philadelphia, and one for the “Lower Counties on the Delaware” of New Castle, Kent and Sussex. All of the counties shared one governor.

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1846 Representatives of Great Britain and the United States sign the Oregon Treaty, which settles a long-standing dispute with Britain over who controlled the Oregon territory. The treaty established the 49th parallel from the Rocky Mountains to the Strait of Georgia as the boundary between the United States and British Canada. The United States gained formal control over the future states of Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana; and the British retained Vancouver Island and navigation rights to part of the Columbia River.