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Sodom - Marines
November 10, 1775
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“Word to the Nation: Guard zealously your right to serve in the Armed Forces, for without them, there will be no other rights to guard.” President John F Kennedy May was designated as Military Appreciation Month back in 1999. There are numerous military holidays in May – Armed Forces Day, Memorial Day, Military Spouse Appreciation […]
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May is Military Appreciation Month
May is Military Appreciation Month
“Word to the Nation: Guard zealously your right to serve in the Armed Forces, for without them, there will be no other rights to guard.” President John F Kennedy May was designated as Military Appreciation Month back in 1999. There are numerous military holidays in May – Armed Forces Day, Memorial Day, Military Spouse Appreciation Day, and Victory in Europe Day, so it was a natural fit. But…
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Tun Tavern in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
November History
November 10 1619 – René Descartes had the dreams that inspired his Meditations on First Philosophy.
1775 – The United States Marine Corps was founded at Tun Tavern in Philadelphia by Samuel Nicholas.
1871 – Henry Morton Stanley in Ujiji, Central Africa, encountered David Livingstone with the immortal words: ‘Dr. Livingstone, I presume?’
1885 – The world’s first motorcycle, designed by Gottlieb Daimler, made its first announced test-run.
1908 – The first Gideon Bible put in hotel rooms at the Superior Hotel in Superior, Montana.
1919 – The American Legion’s first national convention (Minneapolis). The American Legion is an organization of U.S. war veterans that formed in Paris on March 15-17, 1919.
1951 – The first direct-dial, coast-to-coast telephone service in North America began as Mayor M. Leslie Denning of Englewood, NJ called Mayor Frank Osborn in Alameda, CA.
1974 – The discovery of the “charmed quark” subatomic particle was announced simultaneously by an MIT group at Brookhaven National Laboratory and a SLAC-Berkeley group on the west coast at Stanford Linear accelerator center.
1975 – The 729-foot-long freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank during a storm on Lake Superior, killing all 29 crew on board.
1977 – The Incredible Hulk (made for TV movie) was shown on CBS. Bill Bixby starred as David Banner, but the comics (and current films) refer to the character as Bruce Banner.
1983 – Bill Gates introduced Windows 1.0.
1984 – The first Breeders’ Cup took place at Hollywood Park Racetrack.
1989 – German citizens began to bring the Berlin Wall down.
1997 – WorldCom and MCI Communications announce a $37 billion merger (the largest merger in US history at the time). It is now part of Verizon.
1999 – Sesame Street celebrated its 30th anniversary. The series created by Joan Ganz Cooney and Lloyd Morrisett.
2001 – Fox Family Channel became ABC Family on Cable television.
2008 – NASA declared the Phoenix Mission concluded after communications with the lander were lost.
2010 – Disney composer Alan Menken received the 2,442nd star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
Tun Tavern
Philadelphia
Tun Tavern
Our Detachment had their Tun Tavern Social, which is the 4th Tues of every month at the San Leandro Vet Memorial Bld starting at 6pm. Thought I would share some art insured by it. 🙂
Still working on it…
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