This day in history

[KTPhil]

11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month.

Shallow as it may seem compared to the magnitude of their service, please thank every veteran you see today.


Veterans Day (originally known as Armistice Day) is a federal holiday in the United States observed annually on November 11, for honoring military veterans who served in the United States Armed Forces (that were discharged under conditions other than dishonorable).

It coincides with other holidays including Armistice Day and Remembrance Day which are celebrated in other countries that mark the anniversary of the end of World War I.

Major hostilities of World War I were formally ended at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918 when the Armistice with Germany went into effect. At the urging of major U.S. veteran organizations, Armistice Day was renamed Veterans Day in 1954.

Veterans Day is distinct from Memorial Day, a U.S. public holiday in May. Veterans Day celebrates the service of all U.S. military veterans, while Memorial Day honors those who had died while in military service.

[slayer61]

Thank you. Thank you all. We appreciate it and our lives depend on it.
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[Fish]

100 years ago today a unknown soldier brought back from France was interned at Arlington National Cemetery.

Thank you to all Veterans.
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[calvinater]

Very stirring to see the changing of the guards, quite the disciplined manuver.
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[ToolBox]

11-14-2021 will mark 30 years since our streets fill in mail carrier went on a shooting spree at the Royal Oak, Mi post office. My Father (ex-cop) umpired kids baseball games with him and knew he had a temper but saide he never saw that side of him on his route ar at games.

https://www.officer.com/active-shooter/article/21139515/going-postal-in-royal-oak-michigan

[Zundfolge1432]

A day late but

On November 18, 1978, Peoples Temple founder Jim Jones leads hundreds of his followers in a mass murder-suicide at their agricultural commune in a remote part of the South American nation of Guyana. Many of Jones’ followers willingly ingested a poison-laced punch while others were forced to do so at gunpoint. The final death toll at Jonestown that day was 909; a third of those who perished were children.

Jim Jones was a charismatic churchman who established the Peoples Temple, a Christian sect, in Indianapolis in the 1950s. He preached against racism, and his integrated congregation attracted many African Americans. In 1965, he moved the group to Northern California, settling in Ukiah and after 1971 in San Francisco. In the 1970s, his church was accused by the media of financial fraud, physical abuse of its members and mistreatment of children. In response to the mounting criticism, the increasingly paranoid Jones invited his congregation to move with him to Guyana, where he promised they would build a socialist utopia. Three years earlier, a small group of his followers had traveled to the tiny nation to set up what would become Jonestown on a tract of jungle.

READ MORE: What Really Happened at Jonestown?

Jonestown did not turn out to be the paradise their leader had promised. Temple members worked long days in the fields and were subjected to harsh punishments if they questioned Jones’ authority. Their passports were confiscated, their letters home censored and members were encouraged to inform on one another and forced to attend lengthy, late-night meetings. Jones, by then in declining mental health and addicted to drugs, was convinced the U.S. government and others were out to destroy him. He required Temple members to participate in mock suicide drills in the middle of the night.


In 1978, a group of former Temple members and concerned relatives of current members convinced U.S. Congressman Leo Ryan, a Democrat of California, to travel to Jonestown and investigate the settlement. On November 17, 1978, Ryan arrived in Jonestown with a group of journalists and other observers. At first the visit went well, but the next day, as Ryan’s delegation was about to leave, several Jonestown residents approached the group and asked them for passage out of Guyana. Jones became distressed at the defection of his followers, and one of Jones’ lieutenants attacked Ryan with a knife. The congressman escaped from the incident unharmed, but Jones then ordered Ryan and his companions ambushed and killed at the airstrip as they attempted to leave. The congressman and four others were murdered as they boarded their charter planes.

Back in Jonestown, Jones commanded everyone to gather in the main pavilion and commit what he termed a “revolutionary act.” The youngest members of the Peoples Temple were the first to die, as parents and nurses used syringes to drop a potent mix of cyanide, sedatives and powdered fruit juice into children’s throats. Adults then lined up to drink the poison-laced concoction while armed guards surrounded the pavilion.

When Guyanese officials arrived at the Jonestown compound the next day, they found it carpeted with hundreds of bodies. Many people had perished with their arms around each other. A few residents managed to escape into the jungle as the suicides took place, while at least several dozen more Peoples Temple members, including several of Jones’ sons, survived because they were in another part of Guyana at the time.

[Zundfolge1432]

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[Fish]

I'll never forget that day. I was too young to understand all the implacations, but understood more when watching the funeral. I was a few years older then little John.

On the lighter side, 62 years ago today, Rocky & His Friends premiered for the first time on TV. Later changed to The Rocky & Bullwinkle Show.
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[KTPhil]

My mom kept is all home from school to watch the procession. I still remember it form our B&W TV, and the loud noises the horses and the caisson seemed to make.. but it was due to the utter silence of the crowd.

I got chills of deja vu when they walked John Lewis over the Edmund Pettus Bridge.

[Zundfolge1432]

Aerosmith and 50 Cent headline a $10 million bat mitzvah
In exchange for a multimillion-dollar fee, Steven Tyler and Joe Perry of Aerosmith and rapper 50 Cent took to the stage at New York City’s famous Rainbow Room in the early morning hours of November 27, 2005, as headline performers at the $10 million bat mitzvah of Long Island 13-year-old Elizabeth Brooks

According to the ensuing coverage of the event in the New York Daily News, guests at the Brooks bat mitzvah began their celebration unaware of what lay ahead. When a soprano-sax player who looked suspiciously like Kenny G turned out, in fact, to be Kenny G, the bizarrely star-studded event was only getting started. In the hours preceding the appearances of Aerosmith and 50 Cent, former A-list stars Don Henley, Stevie Nicks and Tom Petty all graced the stage at the Rainbow Room, entertaining guests who had been given gift bags containing upwards of $1,000 in personal electronics, including digital cameras that 50 Cent’s bodyguard reportedly tried and failed to stop guests from using to snap keepsake photos of the event. Within days, however, those photos had appeared on numerous blogs, along with thousands of snarky comments.

The father who spent $10 million celebrating his daughter’s coming-of-age was defense contractor David H. Brooks, CEO of DHB Industries, a Long Island company that manufactured body armor for the United States military. Two years after the lavish event, Brooks was served with a 71-page federal indictment featuring charges of insider trading, tax evasion and raiding his company’s coffers for personal gain—including for the $10 million he used to pay for his daughter’s lavish bat mitzvah. He died in prison in 2016.

[Glenn]

3 years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittsburgh_synagogue_shooting

My friend is the rabbi there.

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[KTPhil]

"It was twenty years ago today"...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Harrison

Probably the most grounded of the four, fame never seemed to go to his head. It was about music, friends, collaboration.

I am looking forward to the new short series, "Get Back" and watched "Let It Be" last weekend.

[Zundfolge1432]

Just imagine the hell George went through as a teenager dragged into Hamburg by the older boys into a world of drinking, amphetamines and whoring. Very educational. I never saw them as the Beatles but I have seen Ringo and Paul as solo acts and they were both fantastic. People always cite Here comes the sun or Something as George’s best work but consider While my guitar gently weeps with Clapton as guest lead guitarist while John actually plays bass.

[KTPhil]

"All Things Must Pass" is a landmark set. Almost as depressing as Sara McLachlan at times, but very deep and strong and stands the test of time.

Funny you mention the Beatles as tough guys... The Stones have that rep but in actuality Mick Jagger lamented that they were suburban white kids playing dress-up as tough boys early in their career, while the REALLY bad boys (fights, girls, drugs) from Liverpool dressed up clean (played in suits!) and looked so wholesome!

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[ach60]

December 1, 1913 – Ford starts moving assembly line

https://automotivehistory.org/ford-moving-assembly...x8zS8A4NPc
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[Zundfolge1432]

Aircraft squadron disappears in the Bermuda Triangle
At 2:10 p.m., five U.S. Navy Avenger torpedo-bombers comprising Flight 19 take off from the Ft. Lauderdale Naval Air Station in Florida on a routine three-hour training mission. Flight 19 was scheduled to take them due east for 120 miles, north for 73 miles, and then back over a final 120-mile leg that would return them to the naval base. They never returned.

Two hours after the flight began, the leader of the squadron, who had been flying in the area for more than six months, reported that his compass and back-up compass had failed and that his position was unknown. The other planes experienced similar instrument malfunctions. Radio facilities on land were contacted to find the location of the lost squadron, but none were successful. After two more hours of confused messages from the fliers, a distorted radio transmission from the squadron leader was heard at 6:20 p.m., apparently calling for his men to prepare to ditch their aircraft simultaneously because of lack of fuel.

READ MORE: Bermuda Triangle Mystery: What Happened to the USS Cyclops?

By this time, several land radar stations finally determined that Flight 19 was somewhere north of the Bahamas and east of the Florida coast, and at 7:27 p.m. a search and rescue Mariner aircraft took off with a 13-man crew. Three minutes later, the Mariner aircraft radioed to its home base that its mission was underway. The Mariner was never heard from again. Later, there was a report from a tanker cruising off the coast of Florida of a visible explosion seen at 7:50 p.m

Also on this date in 1991 Pan Am made their last revenue flight as the 63 year old company closed their doors having been the world standard just 20 years earlier. I bet all of the living ex employees remember this date too.

[KTPhil]

A date that will live in infamy.

Survivors are still gathering today despite the awful storms that have hit Hawai'i.

[Jacks]

1941 Pearl Harbor attacked. 2403 Americans killed
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