USA***. I don't know, you but I really appreciate your sense of humor.

April 3, 1882

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Well that dirty little coward that shot Mr. Howard
He laid poor Jesse in his grave

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1925 The ANTIFA Schutzstaffel (SS) is founded under Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party in Germany.
1933 USS Akron (ZRS-4) wrecked off the New Jersey coast due to severe weather, precipitating the demise of combat Zeppelins. The things were so big that the winds at one end could be different than the winds at the other and the framework was too delicate to handle the stresses.
1944 World War II: First bombardment of oil refineries in Bucharest by Anglo-American forces kills 3000 civilians.
1945 World War II: Soviet troops liberate Hungary from German occupation and occupy the country itself, replacing rule by one ruthless dictator with rule by another ruthless dictator.
1949 Twelve nations sign the North Atlantic Treaty creating the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO). (AKA the north American treaty organization per NYT).
1968 Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated by James Earl Ray at a motel in Memphis, Tennessee. Riots break out in many cities.
1972 First electric power plant fueled by garbage begins operating.
1973 The World Trade Center in New York is officially dedicated.
1975 Microsoft is founded as a partnership between Bill Gates and Paul Allen, both of them college dropouts.

RE: my bold above, this will ironically be a historically well-timed meme that lives in infamy, imho. They really did that.

A correction will appear in tomorrow's print edition:
"A headline with an article on Friday about President Trump’s threats to leave NATO misstated the full name of the body. It is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, not the North American Treaty Organization."

— NYTimes Communications (@NYTimesPR) April 3, 2026

1862: Battle of Shiloh begins, within the next 24 hours more men will die than all the previous American wars.

1865: Battle of Sayler's Creek, the last significant battle of the Army of Northern Virginia is a disaster as close to half of the remaining army is captured, leaving Robert E. Lee to exclaim, "My God, has the army dissolved?"

On April 6, 1917, the United States entered World War I, marking a turning point in global history.

After nearly three years of neutrality, Congress declared war on Germany, ultimately mobilizing millions of Americans and reshaping the course of the conflict.

More than four million Americans served, and over 115,000 lost their lives.

In the aftermath of the war, the United States made a promise: to honor those who served and those who never came home.

That promise led to the creation of the American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) in 1923.

Today, ABMC continues that mission, preserving cemeteries and memorials around the world so that their sacrifice is never forgotten.

Every day, more than a century later, we continue to honor their service and remember their sacrifice.

Read more about the American entry into World War I: https://bit.ly/41lJcIS

ABMC is a great organization. I do to this day wonder if we had refused entry after the Lusitania still somehow, would there have been a second WW?

1793 During the French Revolution, the Committee of Public Safety becomes the executive organ of the republic, and the period known as the Reign of Terror begins.
1808 John Jacob Astor founded the American Fur Company, the profits from which made him the first multi-millionaire in the United States, back in the days when 'millionaire' meant you did something more than play games.
1814 Nominal beginning of the Bourbon Restoration anniversary date that Napoleon abdicates and is exiled to Elba. (Rule by the Bourbons was delayed a few weeks, though allies held most key locales of France.) In a year Napoleon is back to restore glory to France, and we KNOW how that ends. So in twenty-odd years France went from a monarchy to a blood-bath to military expansionism and now they're back to making a king out of the brother of the guy they beheaded twenty years before, to an ass-kicking that has given its name forever to ass-kickings (Waterloo) all because the allies who kicked French butt at Waterloo said "You folks ain't doin' really good with this 'democracy' thing, are you?"
1830 Church of Christ, the original church of the Latter Day Saint movement, is organized by Joseph Smith and others at either Fayette or Manchester, New York.
1896 In Athens, the opening of the first modern Olympic Games is celebrated, 1,500 years after the original games were banned by Roman Emperor Theodosius I.
1909 Robert Peary and Matthew Henson become the first to reach the North Pole.
1917 World War I: The United States declares war on Germany. If we'd have stayed out, there might not have been a WW II.
1930 Hostess Twinkies invented by bakery executive James Dewar.
1954 TV Dinner was first put on sale by Swanson & Sons.
1965 Launch of Early Bird, the first communications satellite to be placed in geosynchronous orbit.

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1 November, Wed. 1944
In Leyte Gulf, kamikazes sink destroyer Abner Read (DD- 526), 10deg47'N, 125deg22'E; and damage destroyers Anderson (DD-411), 10deg11'N, 125deg02'E, and Claxton (DD-571) and Ammen (DD-527), 10deg40'N, 125deg20'E.

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Ammen was hit amidship by a Betty at Leyte. I believe 12 were killed. I believe she went to San Francisco for repairs.

My Uncle was a replacement that boarded Ammen in Feb 45.

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"by a Betty" might be a confusing statement.

Mitsubishi G4M bomber with the Allied code name "Betty".

Cant believe all those civil war historians missed April 9th.

National Unicorn Day?

1606 The Charter of the Virginia Company of London is established by royal charter by James I of England with the purpose of establishing colonial settlements in North America.
1815 The Mount Tambora volcano begins a three-month-long eruption, lasting until July 15. The eruption ultimately kills 71,000 people and affects Earth's climate for the next two years.
1864 Archduke Maximilian of Habsburg is elected emperor of Mexico. He has the full faith and backing of the French, until, spoiler, he didn't and then was pretty quickly defeated/killed.
1912 The RMS Titanic leaves port in Southampton, England on a trip that would lead to a movie eventually.
1919 Mexican Revolution leader Emiliano Zapata is ambushed and shot dead by government forces in Morelos. Land and Liberty, just another progressive failure.
1940 Katyn massacre Mass execution of 40,000 Polish officers and intelligentsia approved and signed by USSR leader Joseph Stalin. They'd done the same for Ukraine ten years before, using starvation (holomodor).
1963 129 people die when the submarine USS Thresher sinks at sea. Faulty welding can be a big problem at depth.

Jack and Rose could totally have both fit on that piece of paneling!

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Jack and Rose could totally have both fit on that piece of paneling!

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70 AD Siege of Jerusalem: Titus, son of emperor Vespasian, surrounds the Jewish capital, with four Roman legions, V Macedonia, X Fretensis, XII Fulminata, and XV Apollinaris.
1828 Noah Webster copyrights the first edition of his dictionary.
1860 The first Pony Express rider reaches Sacramento, California carrying mail that was picked up in St. Louis on April 3.
1865 U.S. President Abraham Lincoln is shot in Ford's Theatre by John Wilkes Booth.
1956 In Chicago, Illinois, videotape is first demonstrated.
1958 The Soviet satellite Sputnik 2 falls from orbit after a mission duration of 162 days. This was the first spacecraft to carry a living animal, a female dog named Laika, who likely lived only a few hours.
1960 First underwater launching of Polaris missile.
1971 Supreme Court upheld busing as means of achieving racial desegregation.

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1971 Supreme Court upheld busing as means of achieving racial desegregation.

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Because nothing encourages racial tolerance like moving children around like black and white pawns on a chessboard.

After all the blatant judicial activism of the 1960's and 1970's, especially with Roe v. Wade, I'm surprised that there wasn't a popular uprising against the Supreme Court.

Yes I have similar thoughts and deleted added commentary from the paste.

If I ever become President, one of my first executive orders will be to evict Harry Blackmun from Arlington National Cemetery.

France being France back in April 14th, 1986!

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'The American intervention that took place last night against Libya was decided by the American government,' the Foreign Ministry statement said.
'Informed of the intentions of the U.S. government, France refused to let the American planes fly over its territory.
'France deplores the intolerable escalation of terrorism that has led to an action of reprisal, which itself restarts the chain of violence,' it said.
The French refusal to allow U.S. warplanes to cross French territory forced American F-111s based in England to fly down the Atlantic coast and around Spain before entering air space over the Mediterranean.
The trip was roughly twice what it would have been had the French given permission for a flyover.
European nations now 'must decide on an appropriate response' in the event Libya 'executes the threats that it has made in regard to the countries of southern Europe, in particular Italy and Spain,' the Foreign Ministry said.

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https://www.upi.com/Archives/1986/04/15/France-which-refused-to-allow-US-warplanes-to-cross/9898513925200/