Today in History

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I more or less copy and pasted my FB post, so obviously the 78th anniversary isn't tomorrow, it was yesterday I just read it and it was too late to edit.

 

[Uncle-A]

7 June 1780

The Battle of Connecticut Farms, Union, NJ

 

[James]

My dad graduated from the US Naval Academy class of 1943 and was at D-Day, or at least, very close by. He was a gunnery officer on a destroyer off the coast of Omaha Beach shelling German fortifications during the invasion. For many years he downplayed his participation in that action as just one of many events in a 26 year active duty Navy career. But later in his life (he died in 2013 at age 94) my siblings and I got him to talk more about D-Day, prodding him with the fact that he'd witnessed perhaps the most important single military action in the history of the world.

This is not his ship, but a sister destroyer at Normandy:
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About ten years ago I obtained a copy of this print courtesy of my friend @Johnfmh , it's by a famous WWII military artist, Dwight Shepler who also happened to do numerous very nice ski posters before and after the war.
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This doc on Dunkirk goes into Hitler’s “secret weapon” against ships early in the war. It was a mine with a special magnetic switch, often dropped from a plane. Luckily for the allies, the Germans dropped one on the coast of England they were able to defuse and then reverse engineer.

They were able to counteract the mines by putting electrical cables around the ship in port and running current through it for a time. This would last for a few months.
Don’t know if they were still doing this in 1944.

Great Escape at Dunkirk

How courage and ingenuity saved Allied troops during the epic Dunkirk operation in 1940.

www.pbs.org

 

[James]

50 years after the famous photo in Vietnam. June 8, 1972

It’s Been 50 Years. I Am Not ‘Napalm Girl’ Anymore.​

Opinion | It’s Been 50 Years. I Am Not ‘Napalm Girl’ Anymore.

The surviving people in war photographs, especially the children, must somehow go on. We are not symbols. We are human.

www.nytimes.com

 

[Uncle-A]

9 June 1934

The first day that Donald Duck makes it's appearance in a Disney film.

 

[crgildart]

9 June 1934

The first day that Donald Duck makes it's appearance in a Disney film.

 

[Uncle-A]

16 June 2022

International Day of the Cannoli

Sorry it is so late in the day only about a half hour left today.

 

[Posaune]

16 June 2022

International Day of the Cannoli

Sorry it is so late in the day only about a half hour left today.

It's still happenin' here, still got almost 3 hours!

 

[Uncle-A]

It's still happenin' here, still got almost 3 hours!

I hope you had an extra one for me.

 

[James]

16 June 2022

International Day of the Cannoli

 

[Tricia]

Oh man, did I miss my chance to eat a cannoli?

 

[dbostedo]

Oh man, did I miss my chance to eat a cannoli?

No... you're an adult. You can eat a cannoli anytime you want!! It's one of the best parts of being an adult!!

 

[Tricia]

No... you're an adult. You can eat a cannoli anytime you want!! It's one of the best parts of being an adult!!

...but my mom said...

 

[Tricia]

On THIS day in history, 2011, @Philpug and I signed the title to our home which is currently the Worldwide Headquarters for SkiTalk.com.
Things have changed a lot in 11 years. Glad we bought it when we did because we couldn't afford to buy this same house today.

This was taken in 2017

 

[Uncle-A]

On THIS day in history, 2011, @Philpug and I signed the title to our home which is currently the Worldwide Headquarters for SkiTalk.com.
Things have changed a lot in 11 years. Glad we bought it when we did because we couldn't afford to buy this same house today.

This was taken in 2017

Great picture. Is that a little gray in that beard? I thought he was a youngster.

 

[dbostedo]

Great picture. Is that a little gray in that beard? I thought he was a youngster.

Well that pic is 11 years old. He's gotten younger since then.

 

[Tricia]

Great picture. Is that a little gray in that beard? I thought he was a youngster.

LOL grey is the word around here.

Well that pic is 11 years old. He's gotten younger since then.

That was taken after we owned the house for 6 years, so 5 years ago.
But yeah, we're all getting younger, right??

 

[Jim Kenney]

Paul McCartney, everyone's favorite Beatle, was born 80 years ago, June 18, 1942.

 

[James]

Well yesterday was the OJ bronco chase-

28 years ago today: The O.J. Simpson police chase that captivated L.A. and the nation

Friday is the 28th anniversary of the infamous slow-speed chase that fascinated California and the nation.

www.latimes.com

 

[Uncle-A]

22 June 1938

Joe Lewis beats Max Schmeling in the first round at Yankee Stadium.