Today in History

[dbostedo]

"Hot Lips", would not like your response.

I don't think Hawkeye would like my response either, but oddly I bet Radar would be OK with it.

FWIW, I do know the show, mostly by reference - so I was kidding above. But it ended when I was 6. So I have seen a few episodes on reruns as a kid, but it didn't leave much of an impression.

 

[Bad Bob]

It is a double!

1872
Yellowstone National Park, situated in the western United States and designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1978, was established by the U.S. Congress as the country's—and the world's—first national park this day in 1872.

1961
The Peace Corps was established by U.S. President John F. Kennedy by means of his Peace Corps Act.

 

[Jilly]

And 7 years ago:

 

[Uncle-A]

15 March 44 BC
Julius Caesar falls victim to an assassination plot.

 

[Doug Briggs]

15 March 44 BC
Julius Caesar falls victim to an assassination plot.

Et tu, Brute?

It was also the day 4 years ago that I was in the ED with a bowel obstruction.


Right at the beginning of ski area closures and severe COVID-19 restrictions. I was only a bit nervous in the hospital.

 

[Posaune]

15 March 44 BC
Julius Caesar falls victim to an assassination plot.

Beware the ides of March.

 

[Uncle-A]

Beware the ides of March.

That is the correct statement, I just don't remember the origin of that statement.

 

[dbostedo]

That is the correct statement, I just don't remember the origin of that statement.

It's from the Shakespeare play "Julius Caesar". Caesar is warned to "Beware the ides of March".

 

[Uncle-A]

It's from the Shakespeare play "Julius Caesar". Caesar is warned to "Beware the ides of March".

That sounds correct, High School English was so long ago for me.

 

[Uncle-A]

Happy Birthday Captain Kirk, 93 today.

 

[crgildart]

The Surrender Meeting - Appomattox Court House National Historical Park (U.S. National Park Service)

www.nps.gov

 

[crgildart]

That sounds correct, High School English was so long ago for me.

 

[Uncle-A]

I think you ment to reply to the post Happy Birthday Captain Kirk just below the post about how long ago HS English was for me.

 

[Bad Bob]

1849
The world is changed in many ways by many things.

The safety pin was patented by Walter Hunt in the United States; he later sold his rights to the fastener for just $400.

 

[crgildart]

5 years ago today the entire block next to my son's high school blew up. I was out back cutting grass 3 miles away and heard the BOOM. Then my phone lit up with the kid kinda freaking out. They were all safe but physically shaken. A couple people across the street died.

2019 Durham gas explosion - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[cantunamunch]

1864: Fort Pillow massacre

Fort Pillow Massacre: Facts, Deaths & Significance | HISTORY

The Fort Pillow Massacre in Tennessee on April 12, 1864, in which some 300 African-American soldiers were killed, was one of the most controversial events of the American Civil War. Though most of the Union garrison surrendered, and thus should have been taken as prisoners of war, the soldiers...

www.history.com

 

[Scruffy]

1633: Galileo is accused of heresy

Galileo was ordered to turn himself in to the Holy Office to begin trial for holding the belief that the Earth revolves around the sun, which was deemed heretical by the Catholic Church. Standard practice demanded that the accused be imprisoned and secluded during the trial.

Galileo goes on trial for heresy | April 12, 1633 | HISTORY

On April 12, 1633, chief inquisitor Father Vincenzo Maculani da Firenzuola, appointed by Pope Urban VIII, begins the inquisition of physicist and astronomer Galileo Galilei. Galileo was ordered to turn himself in to the Holy Office to begin trial for holding the belief that the Earth revolves...

www.history.com

 

[Uncle-A]

18 April 1955

Albert Einstein passed away.

 

[crgildart]

On this day in 1995

https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/oklahoma-city-bombing

My best fiend was working for the DOJ in OKC. He wasn't answering calls all morning. Turns out he had gone on a drive across the state tp pick up and drop off legal documents. Super relieved when he finally called me back that afternoon.

This was retaliation for the raid in Waco.. And there were high profile people praising the terrorists and calling them heroes and patriots. Sound familiar?? Those who ignore history...

 

[Uncle-A]

21 April 753 BC

The city of Rome was founded. Happy 2777th Birthday