On
This Date In 0871 England's King Alfred (Alfred the Great)
defeated the Danes at the Battle of Ashdown in Berkshire.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/alfred_the_great.shtml
On
This Date In 1066 Following the death of Edward the
Confessor, Harold Godwineson, head of the most powerful noble family
in England, was crowned King Harold II.
On
This Date In 1205 Philip of Swabia (1177 – June 21,
1208), king of Germany and duke of Swabia, and rival of the emperor
Otto IV, was crowned for the second time.
On
This Date In 1759 26-year-old George Washington married
Martha Dandridge Custis. The recently widowed, Virginia-born Martha
was an educated mother of two. George Washington--then a rising young
officer in the colonial British army--moved his new bride and family
to his estate at Mount Vernon. Washington soon adopted Martha's two
young children, Jack and Patsy. The couple were married until his
death in 1799, a 40-year union.
On
This Date In 1777 After two significant victories over the
British in Trenton and Princeton, New Jersey, General George
Washington marched north to Morristown, New Jersey, where he set up
winter headquarters for himself and the men of the Continental Army
on this day in 1777. The hills surrounding the camp offered
Washington a perfect vantage point from which to keep an eye on the
British army, which was headquartered across the Hudson River in New
York City. Morristown's position also allowed Washington to protect
the roads leading from the British strongholds in New Jersey to New
England and the roads leading to Philadelphia, where the leaders of
the American Revolution were headquartered.
On
This Date In 1781 The Battle of Jersey was fought, an
attempt by France to invade Jersey and remove the threat the island
posed to American shipping in the American War of Independence.
Jersey was used as a base for privateering by the British, and
France, engaged in the war as an ally of the United States, sent an
expedition to gain control of the island. The expedition ultimately
failed, and its commander, Baron Phillipe de Rullecourt, died of
wounds sustained in the fighting.
On
This Date In 1838 Samuel Morse's telegraph system was
demonstrated for the first time at the Speedwell Iron Works in
Morristown, New Jersey. The telegraph, a device which used electric
impulses to transmit encoded messages over a wire, would eventually
revolutionize long-distance communication, reaching the height of its
popularity in the 1920s and 1930s.
On
This Date In 1912 New Mexico was admitted into the United
States as the 47th state.
On
This Date In 1916 Through
January 8 the Battle of Sheikh Sa'ad was fought during the
Mesopotamian Campaign of the First World War. The battle took place
along the banks of the Tigris River between the Anglo-Indian Tigris
Corps and elements of the Ottoman Sixth Army. The engagement was the
first in a series of assaults by the Tigris Corps to try and
breakthrough the Ottoman lines to relieve the besieged garrison at
Kut.
On
This Date In 1919 President
Theodore Roosevelt died in his sleep in his Oyster Bay, New York home
of a coronary thrombosis (heart attack), preceded by a 2 1/2-month
illness described as inflammatory rheumatism, and was buried in
nearby Youngs Memorial Cemetery.
http://www.theodoreroosevelt.org/life/nytobit.htm
On
This Date In 1928 “The Circus,” a silent film written
and directed by Charlie Chaplin with Joseph Plunkett as an uncredited
writer, was released. The film stars Chaplin, Al Ernest Garcia, Merna
Kennedy, Harry Crocker, George Davis and Henry Bergman.
On
This Date In 1941 President Franklin D. Roosevelt
addressed the 77th Congress in an effort to move the nation away from
a foreign policy of neutrality. The president had watched with
increasing anxiety as European nations struggled and fell to Adolph
Hitler's fascist regime and was intent on rallying public support for
the United States to take a stronger interventionist role. In his
address, Roosevelt stated that the need of the moment is that our
actions and our policy should be devoted primarily--almost
exclusively--to meeting the foreign peril. Roosevelt insisted that
people in all nations of the world shared Americans' entitlement to
four freedoms: the freedom of speech and expression, the freedom to
worship God in his own way, freedom from want and freedom from fear.
On
This Date In 1942 President Franklin D. Roosevelt
announced to Congress that he was authorizing the largest armaments
production in the history of the United States. He announced to
Congress that the first year of the supercharged production schedule
would result in 45,000 aircraft, 45,000 tanks, 20,000 antiaircraft
guns, and 8 million tons in new ships. Congressmen were stunned at
the proposal, but Roosevelt was undeterred: “These figures and
similar figures for a multitude of other implements of war will give
the Japanese and Nazis a little idea of just what they accomplished.”
On
This Date In 1945 George
Herbert Walker Bush, on leave from active duty in World War II,
married former Smith College student Barbara Pierce.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/jan06.html
On
This Date In 1948 The
Ministries Trial (or, officially, The United States of America vs.
Ernst von Weizsäcker, et al.) was the eleventh of the twelve trials
for war crimes the U.S. authorities held in their occupation zone in
Germany in Nuremberg after the end of World War II, held between
January 6 – April 13, 1949.
On
This Date In 1952 “Peanuts,” an American comic strip
written and illustrated by Charles M. Schulz, debuted its first
Sunday newspaper strip in the half page format, which was the only
complete format for the entire life of the Sunday strip.
On
This Date In 1958 The
Soviet Union announced plans to cut the size of its standing army by
300,000 troops in the coming year. The reduction was part of a 1956
policy announced by Soviet Premier Nikita Krushchev in anticipation
of “peaceful coexistence” with the West, and an indication that
Cold War relations between the United States and the Soviet Union
were undergoing a slight thaw in the mid- to late-1950s.
On
This Date In 1967 Operation
Deckhouse Five was conducted by the United States Marine Corps and
South Vietnamese Marine Corps forces along the Mekong River Delta, as
part of the Vietnam War. The operation was notable in that it was a
sizable, combined U.S. Marine and Vietnamese Marine amphibious
operation and it was the last Special Landing Force (SLF) amphibious
landing to take place beyond the boundaries of I Corps. The operation
occurred January 6–15, 1967.
On
This Date In 1971 The U.S. Army dropped charges of an
alleged cover-up in the My Lai massacre in Vietnam against four
officers. After the charges were dropped, a total of 11 people had
been cleared of responsibility during the My Lai trials. The only
conviction was of 1st Lt. William Calley, a platoon leader in the
23rd (Americal) Division, who allegedly led his men to massacre
innocent Vietnamese civilians, including women and children, in a
cluster of hamlets in Son Tinh District in the coastal south of Chu
Lai. A Fort Benning court-martial jury found Calley guilty of the
premeditated murder of at least 22 South Vietnamese civilians and
sentenced him to life in prison. Subsequent counter-rulings and
interventions by President Richard Nixon and the federal courts would
eventually reduce his sentence to 20 years, and be paroled after
serving 40 months for good behavior.
On
This Date In 1975 During the Vietnam War, Phuoc Binh, the
capital of Phuoc Long Province, about 60 miles north of Saigon, fell
to the North Vietnamese. Phuoc Binh was the first provincial capital
taken by the communists since the fall of Quang Tri on May 1, 1972.
On
This Date In 1975 Ronald Reagan served his last day as the
Governor of California.
On
This Date In 1993 Dizzy
Gillespie (October 21, 1917 – January 6, 1993), the last of the
primary originators of Be-Bop jazz, died in Englewood, New Jersey of
pancreatic cancer at age 75, and was buried in the Flushing Cemetery,
Queens, New York. The trumpeter-composer-bandleader had laid the
foundation of modern jazz with pianist Thelonius Monk, drummer Kenny
Clarke, guitarist Charlie Christian, and alto saxophonist Charlie
"Yardbird" Parker.
On
This Date In 1996 The
Blizzard of 1996 began in Washington, D.C., and moved up the Eastern
seaboard, killing 154 people and causing over $1 billion in damages
before it ended. President Bill Clinton was forced to shut down the
federal government for nearly a week, and declared D.C. and nine
states to be disaster areas after this record-breaking snowstorm.
On
This Date In 1998 The
spacecraft Lunar
Prospect
was launched into orbit around the moon. The craft was crashed into
the moon, in an effort to find water under the lunar surface, on July
31, 1999.
On
This Date In 2001 After a bitterly contested
election, Vice President Al Gore presided over a joint session of
Congress that certified George W. Bush as the winner of the 2000
election. In one of the closest Presidential elections in U.S.
history, George W. Bush was finally declared the winner more than
five weeks after the election due to the disputed Florida ballots.
George W. Bush took the oath of office on January 20, 2001, to become
the 43rd President of the United States.
Hat
tip to any included contributing sources, along with:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
, http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history
, http://timelines.com/
, http://www.on-this-day.com/
Happy
Birthday
Earl Scruggs (1924), Lou Holtz (1937), Bonnie Franklin (1944), Alan
Stivell (1944), Rowan Atkinson (1955), Howie Long (1960), Julie Chen
(1970), and Pierre Woods (1982).
RIP
Jedediah Smith (1799 – 1831),
Charles Sumner (1811 – 1874), Victor Horta (1861 – 1947), Carl
Sandburg (1878 – 1967), Tom Mix (1880 – 1940), Danny Thomas (1912
– 1991), Loretta Young (1913 – 2000), Mickey Hargitay (1926 –
2006), Vic Tayback (1930 – 1990), and Syd Barrett (1946 – 2006).
Quotes
Just remember, the same as a
spectacular Vogue magazine, remember that no matter how close you
follow the jumps: Continued on page whatever. No matter how careful
you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the
collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all.
There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the
moments where you should've been paying attention. Well, get used to
that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel some day. This is
all practice. None of this matters. We're just warming up. Chuck
Palahniuk
Life is full of beauty. Notice it.
Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell
the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential,
and fight for your dreams. Ashley Smith
Don't ask what the
world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because
what the world needs is people who have come alive. Howard
Thurman
The life that conquers is
the life that moves with a steady resolution and persistence toward a
predetermined goal. Those who succeed are those who have thoroughly
learned the immense importance of plan in life, and the tragic
brevity of time. W.J. Davison
For a long time it had
seemed to me that life was about to begin - real life. But there was
always some obstacle in the way. Something to be got through first,
some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid.
Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles
were my life. Fr. Alfred D'souza
Courtesy
YouTube et al
just
amazing
Researchers
now believe that about a fifth of planet 55 Cancri e (once thought to
be mostly rocky) is comprised of light elements in a supercritical
state, comparable to the condition of rocket propellent when firing
from a spaceship during launch.
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The Creep (feat. Nicki Minaj & John Waters) - http://youtu.be/tLPZmPaHme0
Maria Aragon - Born This Way (Cover) by Lady Gaga
The Force: Volkswagen Commercial - http://youtu.be/R55e-uHQna0
Cat mom hugs baby kitten - http://youtu.be/Vw4KVoEVcr0
http://www.youtube.com/rewind
Buy Avicii - Levels on Android Market (http://goo.gl/cO10Y) and iTunes (http://goo.gl/mYIWH).
Re-watch the year's most viewed videos and use the interactive timeline to see the moments that defined YouTube in 2011 - the year YouTube hit one trillion views.
Video Produced by Portal A Interactive [http://portal-a.com]
Top 10 Most Viewed:
Rebecca Black - Friday (OFFICIAL VIDEO) - http://youtu.be/kfVsfOSbJY0
Ultimate Dog Tease - http://youtu.be/nGeKSiCQkPw
Jack Sparrow (feat. Michael Bolton) - http://youtu.be/GI6CfKcMhjY
Talking Twin Babies - OFFICIAL VIDEO - http://youtu.be/_JmA2ClUvUY
Nyan Cat [original] - http://youtu.be/QH2-TGUlwu4
Look At Me Now - Chris Brown ft. Lil Wayne, Busta Rhymes (Cover by @KarminMusic) - http://youtu.be/khCokQt--l4
The Creep (feat. Nicki Minaj & John Waters) - http://youtu.be/tLPZmPaHme0
Maria Aragon - Born This Way (Cover) by Lady Gaga
The Force: Volkswagen Commercial - http://youtu.be/R55e-uHQna0
Cat mom hugs baby kitten - http://youtu.be/Vw4KVoEVcr0
This
is my wish for you: Comfort on difficult days, smiles when sadness
intrudes, rainbows to follow the clouds, laughter to kiss your lips,
sunsets to warm your heart, hugs when spirits sag, beauty for your
eyes to see, friendships to brighten your being, faith so that you
can believe, confidence for when you doubt, courage to know yourself,
patience to accept the truth, Love to complete your life. Ralph
Waldo Emerson
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