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Posted on 11/17/17 at 4:02 am
Posted on 11/17/17 at 4:02 am
375 Enraged by the insolence of barbarian envoys, Valentinian, the Emperor of the West, dies of apoplexy in Pannonia in Central Europe.
1558 Queen Elizabeth ascends to the throne of England.
1558 The Church of England is re-established.
1636 Henrique Dias, Brazilian general, wins a decisive battle against the Dutch in Brazil.
1796 Napoleon Bonaparte defeats an Italian army near the Alpone River, Italy.
1800 The Sixth Congress (2nd session) convenes for the first time in Washington, D.C.
1842 A grim abolitionist meeting is held in Marlboro Chapel, Boston, after the imprisonment of a mulatto named George Latimer, one of the first fugitive slaves to be apprehended in Massachusetts.
1862 Union General Ambrose Burnside marches north out of Washington, D.C., to begin the Fredericksburg campaign.
1869 The Suez Canal is formally opened.
1877 Russia launches a surprise night attack that overruns Turkish forces at Kars, Armenia.
1885 The Serbian Army, with Russian support, invades Bulgaria.
1903 Vladimir Lenin's efforts to impose his own radical views on the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party splits the party into two factions, the Bolsheviks, who support Lenin, and the Mensheviks.
1913 The first ship sails through the Panama Canal, which connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
1918 Influenza deaths reported in the United States have far exceeded World War I casualties.
1931 Charles Lindbergh inaugurates Pan Am service from Cuba to South America in the Sikorsky flying boat American Clipper.
1941 German Luftwaffe general and World War I fighter-ace Ernst Udet commits suicide. The Nazi government tells the public that he died in a flying accident.
1951 Britain reports development of the world's first nuclear-powered heating system.
1965 The NVA ambushes American troops of the 7th Cavalry at Landing Zone Albany in the Ia Drang Valley, almost wiping them out.
1967The American Surveyor 6 makes a six-second flight on the moon, the first liftoff on the lunar surface.
1970 Soviet unmanned Luna 17 touches down on the moon.
1980 WHHM Television in Washington, D.C., becomes the first African-American public-broadcasting television station.
1989 Student demonstration in Prague put down by riot police, leading to an uprising (the Velvet Revolution) that will topple the communist government on Dec. 29.
1993 US House of Representatives passes resolution to establish the North American Free Trade Agreement.
1993 Gen. Sani Abacha leads a military coup in Nigeria that overthrows the government of Ernest Shonekan.
2000 Controversial President of Peru Alberto Fujimori removed from office.
Born on November 17
1925 Rock Hudson, actor (McMillan & Wife TV series; Giant).
This post was edited on 11/17/17 at 4:24 am
Posted on 11/17/17 at 4:27 am to Armymann50
Good Morning All
Happy Friday
Good job on the OP, AM50!
Fun Fact- The 1918 Flu epidemic was referred to as “The Spanish Flu”. This was because the first major reports of how bad it was came from Spain. It really first got bad in the U.S. but due to heavy WWI-era news censorship, this was not publicly made known.
Happy Friday
Good job on the OP, AM50!
quote:My paternal grandfather’s unit was at Fort Sill training and couldn’t ship out because they lost so many men due to influenza. (Not my gran pere, yeah for me!) By the time the unit got replenished and retrained, the Armistice had been signed.
1918
Influenza deaths reported in the United States have far exceeded World War I casualties.
Fun Fact- The 1918 Flu epidemic was referred to as “The Spanish Flu”. This was because the first major reports of how bad it was came from Spain. It really first got bad in the U.S. but due to heavy WWI-era news censorship, this was not publicly made known.
Posted on 11/17/17 at 4:30 am to Armymann50
Didn’t even realize it was Friday already
Posted on 11/17/17 at 4:32 am to pioneerbasketball
Mornin PB, Soccerfut, Panny Crickets
Posted on 11/17/17 at 4:32 am to 13SaintTiger
Yes it is Friday already.
Mornin 13SaintTiger
Mornin 13SaintTiger
This post was edited on 11/17/17 at 4:35 am
Posted on 11/17/17 at 4:39 am to Armymann50
Mornin’ y’all.
Army, Crickets, pb, soccer, 13
Army, Crickets, pb, soccer, 13
Posted on 11/17/17 at 4:40 am to Armymann50
Morning Army morning all!
Posted on 11/17/17 at 4:41 am to Armymann50
Morning people.
Have to go to New Orleans this afternoon.
Have to go to New Orleans this afternoon.
Posted on 11/17/17 at 4:42 am to fishfighter
good luck. Don't get robbed.
Posted on 11/17/17 at 4:43 am to Armymann50
Good morning folks. In honor of it being Rock Hudson's birthday, should the word of the day be trickeration?
Posted on 11/17/17 at 4:46 am to fishfighter
quote:
to New Orleans this afternoon
Posted on 11/17/17 at 4:46 am to fishfighter
Mornin’ fish, Hangit,
Drive safe fish. I hate driving into NOLA.
Drive safe fish. I hate driving into NOLA.
Posted on 11/17/17 at 4:47 am to pioneerbasketball
Always packing. I just hope the dam doctors don't keep my arse there for a week. They very good at doing that on Fridays.
Posted on 11/17/17 at 4:47 am to pioneerbasketball
Morning fellas meh
I am out of here. Everyone have a good weekend
I am out of here. Everyone have a good weekend
Posted on 11/17/17 at 4:48 am to fishfighter
it gets you away from the wife
Posted on 11/17/17 at 4:48 am to Armymann50
Morning all
One more day, then 2wks vacation
Yes!!!!!
One more day, then 2wks vacation
Yes!!!!!
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