On this day in 1965,

WATTS RIOTS BEGIN

14,000 National Guard Troops Required To Restore Order

On this day in 1964, five days of rioting started in the predominantly black Watts neighborhood of South Central Los Angeles after two white policemen stopped a black motorist suspected of drunken driving. The rioters eventually ranged over a 50-square-mile area looting stores, torching buildings, and beating whites as snipers fired at police and firefighters. The National Guard had to be called in to restore order.  The rioting left 34 dead, 1,032 injured, nearly 4,000 arrested, and $40 million worth of property destroyed. 

On this day in 1984,

President Reagan Jokes that the Bombing of Russia Starts in Five Minutes

On this day in 1984, Ronald Reagan joked during a sound check prior to his weekly radio address, “My fellow Americans, I’m pleased to tell you today that I’ve signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes.”  

The press (local and foreign), Democrats, moral preeners, and other humorless elitists went apoplectic:

In Paris, a leading newspaper expressed its dismay, and stated that only trained psychologists could know whether Reagan’s remarks were “a statement of repressed desire or the exorcism of a dreaded phantom.” A Dutch news service remarked, “Hopefully, the man tests his missiles more carefully.” Other foreign newspapers and news services called Reagan “an irresponsible old man,” and declared that his comments were “totally unbecoming” for a man in his position. In the Soviet Union, commentators had a field day with Reagan’s joke. One stated, “It is said that a person’s level of humor reflects the level of his thinking. If so, aren’t one and the other too low for the president of a great country?” Another said, “We would not be wasting time on this unfortunate joke if it did not reflect once again the fixed idea that haunts the master of the White House.” 

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Before The Holocaust there was 

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How Stalin starved to death nearly 4,000,000 Ukrainians while the commie-friendly Western press covered for him.

On this day in 1945,

U.S. Drops 2nd Atomic Bomb on Nagasaki

On this day in 1945, the U.S. dropped a second atom bomb on Japan at Nagasaki, forcing Japan’s unconditional surrender.  Somewhere between 60,000 and 80,000 people were killed, with exact figures impossible to determine because so many bodies were virtually vaporized.

Although the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were devastating, the “fire-bombing” of Tokyo the prior March was worse, resulting in 100,000 deaths, a million homeless, and 16 square miles of complete desolation.

Wikipedia Bombing of Nagasaki

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On this day in 1974,

NIXON RESIGNS

"I am not a quitter but, as president, I must put the interests of America first."

Video summary of last days.

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On this day in 1863,

Robert E. Lee Offers to Resign

On this day in 1863, in partial response to the viciously negative press of his day, Confederate General Robert E. Lee offered to resign following his loss at Gettysburg and the near simultaneous fall of Vicksburg.  Confederate President Jefferson Davis refused to accept Lee’s resignation.  

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On this day in 1876,

Mata Hari Born

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Margaretha Geertruida MacLeod was a Dutch exotic dancer and courtesan who was convicted of being a spy for Germany during WWI. Born in Leeuwarden, Netherlands, she was the eldest of four children of Adam Zelle and Antje van der Meulen.

On this day in 1964, in response to U.S. destroyers supposedly being attacked by North Vietnam:

Congress Passes Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

58,000 American boys killed during Vietnam War

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On this day in 1945,

U.S. Drops First Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima

80,0000 killed immediately - 60,0000 die few months later

Truman announces

U.S. Army film of post-bomb Hiroshima

On this day in 1945, the United States dropped the first atom bomb over the city of Hiroshima.  The bomb exploded 1,900 feet over a hospital.  Approximately 80,000 people were killed immediately, another 35,000 injured, and at least another 60,000 killed by the end of the year from the effects of the fallout.

The Hiroshima city government had put hundreds of schoolgirls to work clearing fire lanes in the event of incendiary bomb attacks. They were out in the open when the Enola Gay dropped its load.

There were 90,000 buildings in Hiroshima before the bomb was dropped; only 28,000 remained after the bombing. Of the city’s 200 doctors before the explosion; only 20 were left alive or capable of working. There were 1,780 nurses before - only 150 remained who were able to tend to the sick and dying.

President Harry Truman made the decision to drop the atomic bomb because Japan refused to surrender and Truman feared a long campaign with many fatalities if the U.S. were forced to invade and fight a land war.  Three days later the U.S. dropped a second atomic bomb on Nagasaki.  Japan announced its surrender on August 15.

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50 years ago today, Billboard's #1 Song:

"Hello, I Love You" by The Doors

Live at The Bowl 1968

"Hello, I Love You"

Hello, I love you 
Won't you tell me your name? 
Hello, I love you 
Let me jump in your game 
Hello, I love you 
Won't you tell me your name? 
Hello, I love you 
Let me jump in your game 

She's walking down the street 
Blind to every eye she meets 
Do you think you'll be the guy 
To make the queen of the angels sigh? 

Hello, I love you 
Won't you tell me your name? 
Hello, I love you 
Let me jump in your game 
Hello, I love you 
Won't you tell me your name? 
Hello, I love you 
Let me jump in your game 

She holds her head so high 
Like a statue in the sky 
Her arms are wicked, and her legs are long 
When she moves my brain screams out this song 

Sidewalk crouches at her feet 
Like a dog that begs for something sweet 
Do you hope to make her see, you fool? 
Do you hope to pluck this dusky jewel? 

Hello, Hello, Hello, Hello, Hello, Hello, Hello 
I want you 
Hello 
I need my baby 
Hello, Hello, Hello, Hello

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On this day in 1864,

Union Admiral Farragut Captures the Confederate Port of Mobile

On this day in 1864, Union Admiral David Farragut and his flotilla sailed through floating mines (then called “torpedoes”), and past Confederate batteries hidden inside Fort Morgan and Fort Gaines on the southern end of the bay, to seal off the last major Southern port. The fall of Mobile was a huge blow to the Confederacy, and the victory was the first in a series of Yankee successes that helped secure the re-election of Abraham Lincoln later that year against the Democrats, who wanted to end the Civil War and let the South maintain slavery.

After Farragut’s takeover of the port of New Orleans in 1862, Mobile became the major Confederate port on the Gulf of Mexico, with blockade runners carrying critical supplies from Havana.  Ulysses S. Grant made the capture of the Port of Mobile a top priority after assuming command of all Federal forces in early 1864.

One of Farragut’s first ships through the Bay channel was immediately sunk by a torpedo, throwing the rest of the Union fleet into a panic.  Farragut, who suffered from vertigo, strapped himself to a mast and rallied the Union forces by yelling, “Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!” Miraculously, Farragut’s ship and those that followed made it past all the torpedoes without losing another vessel.  Once past the torpedoes and forts, the Union fleet quickly demolished the Confederate fleet.  Fort Gaines fell a couple days later and Fort Morgan surrendered a couple weeks later.

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