The Battle of the Bulge famously occurred at Christmastime of 1944. The most remembered moment came when the Germans had Bastogne surrounded and decided to demand surrender. The American general’s response became the most famous one word quote in American Read more…
Samuel Mudd was born on Dec. 20, 1833. His father was a wealthy plantation owner who gave his son a plantation of his own with slaves when he reached adulthood. He grew tobacco, but his main job was doctoring. Read more…
The Wright Brothers were based in Dayton, Ohio, but they experimented with gliders and powered flight near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina because they needed the windiness. On Dec. 14, 1903 (the 121st anniversary of the first hot air balloon Read more…
Henry VIII had six wives. The best was his first. Catherine of Aragon was born on Dec. 16, 1485 and went on to live a tragic life. She was the daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain and that Read more…
“The Battle of the Dark” occurred on Dec. 15, 1890. That battle ended in the deaths of twelve Native-Americans. One of them was the famous chief Sitting Bull. Tatanka Iyotake had been the most famous hostile since the Battle Read more…
Ernie Pyle, the most famous war correspondent of WWII, gained his fame from writing columns of the average G.I. Joes. His most famous column was about the reaction to the death of Capt. Henry Waskow. It was reenacted in the Read more…
Today is the anniversary of the start of a typically horrible Nazi program. In 1935, the Nazis began to worry about the birthrate of Aryans in Germany. The Lebensborn (“Spring of Life) program was initiated to facilitate more babies. Read more…
When credit cards first came out, single and divorced women had to get a male co-signer in order to get one. This ended with the Equal Credit Opportunity Act of 1974. Until 1975, it was legal to ban women from Read more…
Here are some interesting facts about one of the most fascinating men of the 20th Century. He had a speech impediment – a lisp. He worked to improve it by reciting the phrase: “The Spanish ships cannot see for they Read more…
The Japanese got the idea for the attack from a book by Hector Bywater, a British naval authority. “1931: The Great Pacific War” describes a surprise attack on the Pacific Fleet, followed by attacks on Guam and the Philippines. Another Read more…