On This Day: Monday July 18, 2005 This is the 199th day of the year, with 166 days remaining in 2005.
1936 - The Spanish Civil War began. It was the first major military contest between left-wing forces and Fascists led by General Francisco Franco, and has been called the first chapter of World War II.
1969 - A car driven by Senator Edward M. Kennedy (D-MA) plunged off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island near Martha's Vineyard; passenger Mary Jo Kopechne died. The senator did not report the fatal car accident for 10 hours. http://www.reference.com/thisday/
Today in Military History - 18 July Born 1887 Vidkun Quisling, Norwegian traitor
Died 1792 John Paul Jones, in Paris
Event 390 -BC- Battle of the Allia: Romans suffer devastating defeat by the Gauls
64 Great Fire of Rome begins, at which Nero didn't fiddle
1536 Henry VIII declares the Pope's authority void in England
1716 Jews are expelled from Brussels, Belgium
1775 Congress authorizes each colony to provide armed ships of war
1779 Commo Abraham Whipple's squadron takes 11 British prizes
1813 US Frigate President captures 4 British ships
1814 British capture Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin
1861 Bull Run Campaign: Combat at Blackburn's Ford, Va
1863 Cavalry skirmish near Columbus, Ga
1863 Failure of the 54th Massachusetts to storm Fort Wagner, SC
1898 Us and Spanish light forces engage in naval skirmish off Manzanillo
1907 French troops attack Casablanca
1925 Hitler's "Mein Kampf" published
1941 SS drowns 40 Jews in Dvina River, Belorussia
1942 Messerschmitt Me 262, the first jet fighter, takes its first flight
Strange career Boston Globe - Boston,MA,USSA Fifty years ago, C. Vann Woodward wrote a slim volume that changed our understanding of the segregated South and became, in Martin Luther King Jr.'s words, 'the historical bible of the civil rights movement.' Not all historians, however, saw it that way. http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2005/07/17/strange_career/?page=1
OSCEOLA'S HISTORY: JIM ROBISON Last of Everglades outlaws recalls 19th-century forebears By Jim Robison | Commentary This is the first of two columns about a witness to the vanishing of the Florida frontier. Today: An author describes the Florida's wilderness his grandfathers found in the late 1800s. Totch Brown is not proud of his time as a marijuana smuggler. He did get a kick out of the thrill of it all, but making Colombian dope runs with his Florida fishing boat was about the only way he could make any real money in the late 1970s. Totch Brown's brief life as a criminal came out of necessity, he claims. Besides, he had been raised around wildlife poachers and moonshine makers. As the head of a third generation of Everglades river rats, Totch Brown witnessed the end of Florida's frontier era.
Confederate sons hit town headed in new direction Some fear that deeper activism has led to extremism By LEON ALLIGOOD Staff Writer The SECESSION War ended in April 1865 at a courthouse in Appomattox, Va., when Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant. A century and forty years later, another kind of civil war - a protracted dispute among male descendants of the men and boys who fought for the South - also appears to be coming to a close. When the Sons of Confederate Veterans holds its 110th reunion this week at the Music City Sheraton in Nashville, representatives of about 800 "camps," as the local units are called, are expected to approve measures that will cement a new direction for the 30,000-member organization, which is headquartered in Columbia, Tenn. http://tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050717/NEWS01/507170359/1006/NEWS
Governors raise concerns on National Guard role By John Whitesides, Political Correspondent DES MOINES, Iowa (Reuters) - Governors voiced concern about repeated National Guard deployments overseas and considered ways to improve schools on Saturday as they opened their annual meeting in Iowa, traditional host of the country's first presidential nominating contest. More than 30 governors, including at least a half-dozen potential candidates in the wide-open 2008 White House race, discussed subjects like education and health care for the poor during the opening day of their three-day meeting. http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1895&e=3&u=/nm/20050717/us_nm/politics_governors_dc
Brutal march scarred Navajos, Apaches El Defensor Chieftain - Socorro,NM ... on reservations to learn White man ways, should adopt the Christian religion, and ... of the Union army was still fighting a determined Confederate army back East. ... http://www.dchieftain.com/news/52749-07-16-05.html
[WANTA BET HE CAN STILL VOTE???] Man illegally possessing guns sentenced to 5 years in prison Roanoke Times - Roanoke,VA ... Drive home in December 2003 after a police officer stopped by the residence to talk with him about a neighborhood issue and the conversation turned to guns. http://www.roanoke.com/news/roanoke%5C27602.html
Charges fly over Confederate flag Grand Forks Herald - Grand Forks,ND,UsA ROCHESTER, Minn. - Three men face charges after being accused of damaging a car that displayed the Confederate flag. Police say ... http://www.grandforks.com/mld/grandforks/12152994.htm
[THEY'VE ALWAYS WANTED WHAT WE HAVE...] Jackson marks landmark library protest BY MONIFA THOMAS Staff Reporter Advertisement They were used to being told where they couldn't eat, play or sit. But members of the group known as the "Greenville Eight" -- composed of black college and high school students, including the Rev. Jesse Jackson -- refused to be denied the right to read [???]under South Carolina's rigid system of racial segregation. http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-jackson17.html
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