Did You Know – Early American History
If you are a regular reader you do. St. Augustine Florida is the oldest continuous settlement in the United States. It was originally a Spanish settlement as well as its oldest port. St. Augustine was founded by Pedro Menéndez de Avilés on September 8, 1565. The first English child born in America was Virgina Dare [...]
Female Aviators
I was looking at some of the keywords that have been used by people that have landed here and one jumped out at me. That was, “sexy female fighter pilots”. Other than Amelia Earhart, there wasn’t a lot that I knew about women in aviation history so I took a look. Orville and Wilbur Wright’s [...]
Evil in the Air
Two nights August 8 and 9, 1969 rocked Los Angeles. On the night of the August 8th at the rental home of Roman Polanski and his pregnant wife Sharon Tate a group of deranged hippies gruesomely killed Steven Parent, Jay Sebring, Wojciech Frykowski, Abigail Folger, Sharon Tate and Sharon Tate’s unborn child. Polanski was in [...]
Damn The Torpedoes! The Battle of Mobile Bay
Many of us have heard the phrase, “Damn the Torpedoes! Full speed ahead”. And many of us may also have not idea who said these words or when. Admiral David Farragut, who was commanding a Union Fleet during the American Civil Words is credited with saying this at the Battle of Mobile Bay on August [...]
Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus is thought to have been born between August and October 1451 in Genoa, Italy. Little is known about his youth, although it is thought that he had a brother, Bartolomeo who may have worked in a cartography workshop in Lisbon. He did claim that he began his life at sea at the age [...]
The First United States Census – 1790
The first United States Census began on Monday, August 2,1790 using that date as the ‘as of’ of the census. President George Washington had taken office the year before and the country wished to have a count of its population. The Congress assigned responsibility for the 1790 census to the marshals of the U.S. judicial [...]
The Department of Foreign Affairs
It wasn’t very long before George Washington and the 1st Congress saw that even though the President was granted the power to conduct the nation’s foreign relations under the Constitution, he needed assistance. Congress approved legislation to establish a Department of Foreign Affairs on July 21, 1789, and President Washington signed it into law on [...]
The Eleven States of the United States
It was on July 26, 1788 that New York became the eleventh state to ratify the Constitution of the United States. The Constitution’s Seventh Article stated that “The Ratification of the Conventions of nine States, shall be sufficient for the Establishment of this Constitution between the States so ratifying the Same.” The ninth to ratify [...]
The Rank of General in the United States
The military rank of 5 Stars was not known until World War II. It has only been given to 9 men. Four of these were Army Generals George C. Marshall, Douglas MacArthur, Dwight David Eisenhower and Omar Bradley. Four were given to Naval Fleet Admirals William D. Leahy, Ernest J. King, Chester W. Nimitz and [...]
The Lost Roanoke Colony
Jamestown, Virginia, which was established in 1607, was not the first English colony in America, but was the first successful one. In the later part of the 16th century, twice colonies were started in what is now Northern North Carolina. Sir Walter Raleigh had received a charter to colonize North America with 10 years to [...]
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