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Post by justjohn on Sept 1, 2010 11:40:10 GMT -7
;D ;D ;D 1894> By an act of Congress, Labor Day is declared a national holiday. 1905> Alberta and Saskatchewan become Canadian provinces. (We should have claimed them and named them "The Maple Leaf States" !!!)
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Post by Jaga on Sept 1, 2010 21:04:24 GMT -7
Cube,
yes, I have heard about this Slovak contingent also, but we should not forget that small Polish contingent also participated in the invasion of Czechoslovakia. Slovakia was not really a free country then... after Czechoslovakia invasion.
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Post by Nictoshek on Sept 2, 2010 5:54:56 GMT -7
65 years ago this morning Japan did this in front of Douglas MacArthur (video)September 2, 2010 | 5:04 am Today is the 65th anniversary of Japan's surrender, officially ending World War II. Since so many alive today were not back then, return with us now to those moving 20 minutes on the deck of the battleship Missouri moored in Tokyo Bay on that overcast day of renewed peace six years and one day after the war began. And the simple and thus enduring words of Gen. Douglas MacArthur about that morning and that era's titanic global struggle: "These proceedings are closed." There's also a fascinating photo gallery on the surrender over here: framework.latimes.com/2010/09/01/world-war-ii/#/0
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cube
Junior Pole
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Post by cube on Sept 2, 2010 6:28:28 GMT -7
Jaga, yes I am aware. But such note on This Day in History on 1 September will not be too clear
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Post by justjohn on Sept 3, 2010 4:00:49 GMT -7
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Post by justjohn on Sept 5, 2010 9:08:45 GMT -7
1910> Marie Curie demonstrates the transformation of radium ore to metal at the Academy of Sciences in France. Marie Skłodowska Curie (7 November 1867 – 4 July 1934) was a physicist and chemist of Polish upbringing and subsequent French citizenship. She was a pioneer in the field of radioactivity and the first person honored with two Nobel Prizes[1]—in physics and chemistry. She was also the first female professor at the University of Paris. She was born Maria Skłodowska in Warsaw (then in Vistula Land, Russian Empire; now in Poland) and lived there until she was twenty-four. In 1891 she followed her older sister Bronisława to study in Paris, where she obtained her higher degrees and conducted her subsequent scientific work. She founded the Curie Institutes in Paris and Warsaw. Her husband Pierre Curie shared her Nobel prize in physics. Her daughter Irène Joliot-Curie and son-in-law, Frédéric Joliot-Curie, also shared a Nobel prize.
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Post by justjohn on Sept 7, 2010 15:04:42 GMT -7
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Post by justjohn on Sept 10, 2010 19:33:31 GMT -7
Marine code talker dies Posted - 3 hours ago WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. — Allen Dale June, one of the 29 original Navajo Code Talkers who confounded the Japanese during World War II by transmitting messages in their native language, has died. He was 91. June died of natural causes Wednesday night at a veterans hospital in Prescott, his wife, Virginia, told The Associated Press on Thursday. His health had been failing since earlier this year when he was hospitalized for a urinary tract infection and kidney failure because he wasn't drinking enough water, his wife said. He was hospitalized again two months ago after visiting family on the Navajo Nation and was transferred from a Flagstaff hospital to Prescott, where he was under round-the-clock care. The Code Talkers took part in every assault the Marines conducted in the Pacific from 1942 to 1945. They sent thousands of messages without error on Japanese troop movements, battlefield tactics and other communications critical to the war's ultimate outcome. Several hundred Navajos served as Code Talkers during the war, but a group of 29 that included June developed the code based on their native language. Their role in the war wasn't declassified until 1968. June, who attained the rank of sergeant, received the Congressional Gold Medal in 2001 along with other members of the original Code Talkers. 1. With his death, only two of the 29 are still living. "The Navajo Nation lost a great warrior," Tribal Council Speaker Lawrence T. Morgan said in a statement. "His unique service to his country brought positive attention to the Navajo Nation. He will be missed." June first tried to sign up for the Marines in his hometown of Kaibeto on the Navajo Nation, but a recruiter told him he was too young. He then traveled to the reservation town of Chinle to enlist — because he figured people there wouldn't recognize him — and he could lie about his age and forge his father's signature, Virginia June said. 1. Even after the code was declassified in 1968, June said little about his role as a Code Talker because he viewed it as bragging, his wife said. Anyone who saw him in the past several years might have been able to guess he was a Code Talker, as he wore a red Navajo Code Talker cap with his name on it wherever he went and a black leather jacket with "Marines" written across the back. He completed his look with a bolo tie that had a large turquoise stone. Virginia June routinely handed out cards bearing Allen June's picture and rank in the Marines that he had autographed. Besides his wife, Allen June is survived by 10 children. Funeral services are scheduled for Monday in Page, with burial in Kaibeto.
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Post by justjohn on Sept 23, 2010 4:12:18 GMT -7
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Post by justjohn on Oct 17, 2010 5:43:56 GMT -7
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Post by justjohn on Oct 28, 2010 4:25:31 GMT -7
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Post by justjohn on Nov 19, 2010 9:28:23 GMT -7
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Post by justjohn on Nov 29, 2010 5:50:49 GMT -7
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Post by Nictoshek on Nov 29, 2010 6:32:04 GMT -7
Yeah, and it almost succeeded.
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Post by Nictoshek on Dec 7, 2010 5:23:56 GMT -7
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