When Sarah Palin booked a flight to Europe, the French immediately surrendered.
Thursday - August 05, 2004
Daily Dose
Quotes of the DayThe keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities. Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC)
If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside. Robert X. Cringely, InfoWorld magazine
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life. Rita Rudner
On This Day in History
1861 US Army abolishes flogging
1861 For the first time, the U.S. government levied an income tax.
1864 Battle of Mobile Bay, Ala; Adm David Farragut orders "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!"
1884 The cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty was laid on Bedloe's Island.
1945 Atom Bomb dropped on Hiroshima (Aug 6th in Japan)
1962 Marilyn Monroe died.
1981 Pres Reaan fires 11,500 air traffic controllers who struck 2 days ago
1944 Hundreds of Jews are freed from forced labor in Warsaw
On this day in 1944, Polish insurgents liberate a German forced-labor camp in Warsaw, freeing 348 Jewish prisoners, who join in a general uprising against the German occupiers of the city.
As the Red Army advanced on Warsaw in July, Polish patriots, still loyal to their government-in-exile back in London, prepared to overthrow their German occupiers. On July 29, the Polish Home Army (underground), the People's Army (a communist guerilla movement), and armed civilians took back two-thirds of Warsaw from the Germans. On August 4, the Germans counterattacked, mowing down Polish civilians with machine-gun fire. By August 5, more than 15,000 Poles were dead. The Polish command cried to the Allies for help. Churchill telegraphed Stalin, informing him that the British intended to drop ammunition and other supplies into the southwest quarter of Warsaw to aid the insurgents. The prime minister asked Stalin to aid in the insurgents' cause. Stalin balked, claiming the insurgency was too insignificant to waste time with.
Britain succeeded to getting some aid to the Polish patriots, but the Germans also succeeded-in dropping incendiary bombs. The Poles fought on, and on August 5 they freed Jewish forced laborers who then joined in the battle, some of whom formed a special platoon dedicated solely to repairing captured German tanks for use in the struggle.
The Poles would battle on for weeks against German reinforcements, and without Soviet help, as Joseph Stalin had his own plans for Poland.
1914 Red Light, Green Light
The first traffic light was installed at the intersection of Euclid Avenue and East 105th Street in Cleveland, Ohio. Earlier roads, shared by horses, cars, and streetcars, were chaotic. As accidents and traffic increased it became apparent that some rules of the road were required. The traffic light was only one of several improvements to arrive in this period--the traffic island was introduced in 1907, dividing lines appeared in 1911, and the "No Left Turn" sign debuted in 1916
Today's Birthdays
1540 Joseph Justice Scaliger, proposed Julian dating
1604 John Eliot "Apostle to Indians," Bible translator
1624 William, Jamestown Va, 1st black child born in English America
1930 Neil Armstrong, X-15 pilot, 1st Moonwalker (Gemini 8, Apollo 11)
Thanks to The Quotations Page Famous Birthdays Snopes
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