Latest poll shows “poor little rich girl playing politics with family money” “Katrina Mary” Landrieu trailing her Republican opponent by mid double digits. She’s scrambling. The DNC already called this one for the republicans and pulled a couple of million dollars in campaign money from Little Miss Mary.
1533 – Conquistadors from Spain under the leadership of Francisco Pizarro arrive in Cajamarca in the Inca empire. They didn’t have an exit plan either, so they just took all the gold and took over the country.
1862 – American Civil War: President Abraham Lincoln approves General Ambrose Burnside’s plan to capture the Confederate capital at Richmond, Virginia, leading to the Battle of Fredericksburg. The Union lost this one with TWO casualties for every Southern casualty. In the long run, they could afford the losses. The South couldn’t.
1910 – Aviator Eugene Ely performs the first take off from a ship in Hampton Roads, Virginia. He took off from a makeshift deck on the USS Birmingham in a Curtiss pusher.
1916 – World War I: The Battle of the Somme ends indecisively with a million and a quarter casualties, 300,000 dead.
1965 – Vietnam War: Battle of the Ia Drang begins – the first major engagement between regular American and North Vietnamese forces. After the Ia Drang campaign is over, the Americans lose 304 KIA and the NVA loses over 1500.
1967 – American physicist Theodore Maiman is given a patent for his ruby laser systems, the world’s first laser.
1991 – In Royal Oak, Michigan, a fired United States Postal Service employee goes on a shooting rampage, killing four and wounding five before committing suicide. A couple of years later, the Louisiana Highpower Rifle Champ was a postal worker. No, we never said ANYTHING.
2007 – The last direct-current electrical distribution system in the United States is shut down in New York City by Con Edison. Today high voltage DC is gaining a lot of followers in power TRANSMISSION, moving huge blocks of power over long distances.