In July, 1905, the 25th Regiment arrived at Fort Brown outside Brownsville, Texas. The 25th was part of the Buffalo Soldiers. It was an all-black unit with white officers. Whenever the soldiers went to town, they would be verbally Read more
The wrong Kennedy became President. Joseph, Jr. was born in 1915 to a millionaire business man and politician and the daughter of the Mayor of Boston. The first of nine children, he graduated from Harvard and planned on get Read more
Martha Jane Canary was born in Missouri around 1852. Her family moved west, but both her parents died when she was a teenager. She took up prostitution to survive, but decided life as a man was the route to Read more
Today is the anniversary of the birth of Herbert Hoover. Here is the info on him that you can find on this web site for every President. NAME – Herbert Clark Hoover NICKNAME(S) – Chief / the Great Engineer BIRTH Read more
In 1942, the Germans came up with a plan to disrupt American war industries and use terrorism to hurt American morale. On June 13, four men landed on Long Island in an inflatable raft. They were spotted by a Coast Read more
When Ho Chi Minh declared independence, he borrowed from the Declaration of Independence. “All men are created equal. The Creator has given us certain individual rights, the right to life, the right to be free, and the right to Read more
– On August 4, 1964, President Johnson went on national television to tell about an unprovoked attack on American warships off the coast of North Vietnam. He announced that the U.S. had already launched retaliatory air raids on North Vietnam. Three Read more
On August 3, 1943, Gen. George Patton visited a field hospital on the island of Sicily. He was coming off the capture of the city of Palermo and was moving on Messina. “Old Blood and Guts” toured the hospital, Read more
The last of the three battles of Red Cloud’s War occurred on August 2, 1867. The war was an attempt by the Sioux and Cheyenne Indians to force whites to abandon the Bozeman Trail, which crossed Indian lands to Read more
It is estimated that around 400 women disguised themselves as men to serve as soldiers in the Civil War. One of the most famous was born Sarah Edmonds in Canada. The youngest of five daughters of a disciplinarian father Read more