On Oct. 3, 1993, Master Sergeant Gary Gordon and Sergeant First Class Randy Shugart were part of a three-man sniper team that was supporting an attempt by Delta Force and Rangers to capture a warlord in Mogadishu, Somalia when two of the Black Hawk helicopters went down. Their chopper was Read more
The killings of African-Americans in and around Elaine, Arkansas in 1919 is possibly the bloodiest racial incident in American History. On Sept. 30, 1919, black sharecroppers gathered in a church to discuss actions to improve their situation. These men were fed up with getting low prices for their cotton Read more
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio was born on Sept. 29, 1571. His father was a architect/decorator for a nobleman. His father and grandfather died on the same day when he was 6. His mother raised her five children in poverty. At age 13, he was apprenticed to a painter in Read more
Today is the birthday in 1905 of a boxing hall of famer. Max Schmeling got hooked on boxing when his father took him to see a movie of a Jack Dempsey fight. His father was a ship’s navigator and had been enthralled with the sport on his travels. Max began Read more
Little is known about George Washington’s father, Augustine. He died when his son was 11. One thing that is known is he asked his son why he chopped down a cherry tree. It turns out we don’t even know that. The cherry tree story was first chronicled in a Read more
One of the worst days in the history of art was Sept. 26, 1687. That’s the day the greatest temple of the ancient world was blown up. The Parthenon was located on the Acropolis (the hill) in Athens. It was a temple of Athena, the patron goddess of Athens. Read more
The Warren Commission was created by Pres. Lyndon Johnson a week after the Kennedy assassination. It was headed by Chief Justice Earl Warren and included two Senators, two Congressman (including Gerald Ford), the CIA director, and a former head of the World Bank. It presented its 888-page report on Read more
Edith Boling was a direct descendant of Pocahontas and John Rolfe. She was widowed at age 35 when her husband Norman Galt died from the flu. Seven years later, she went walking with her friend Helen Bones. Helen was the cousin of Pres. Wilson and they ended up at Read more
The Seventies saw the rise of the women’s liberation movement. Most women began to demand equal rights. Many called men wanted women to remain in their traditional status of subordination to men. The feminists called them male chauvinist pigs. Few men were willing to accept that label. However, there Read more
Witold Pilecki was a veteran of the Polish-Soviet War of 1919-1921. In 1939, he fought against the Nazi invasion. He then joined an underground group. Pilecki volunteered to infiltrate a new prison camp called Auschwitz. He joined a protest march in Warsaw and was arrested on Sept. 19, 1940. Read more