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Posted: Jun 10, 2023 - 9:10am

1964 – United States Senate breaks a 75-day filibuster against the Civil Rights Act of 1964, leading to the bill's passage.
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Posted: Jun 8, 2023 - 6:04am

1949 – George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is published.
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Posted: Jun 6, 2023 - 7:09am

 black321 wrote:

Cut and paste from another site

Twenty-four years apart, this day represents both one of the greatest and worst events in the history of our country, highlighting how we are capable of both miraculous and awful things.

On this date in 1944, Allied forces - led by the United States military and comprised of troops from Canada, the UK and other countries - began the invasion of France on the beaches of Normandy.

As History.com explains, "France at the time was occupied by the armies of Nazi Germany, and the amphibious assault - codenamed Operation Overlord - landed some 156,000 Allied soldiers on the beaches of Normandy by the end of the day. Despite their success, some 4,000 Allied troops were killed by German soldiers defending the beaches. At the time, the D-Day invasion was the largest naval, air and land operation in history, and within a few days about 326,000 troops, more than 50,000 vehicles and some 100,000 tons of equipment had landed. By August 1944, all of northern France had been liberated, and in spring of 1945 the Allies had defeated the Germans. Historians often refer to D-Day as the beginning of the end of World War II."

(By the way, if you've never been to Normandy and you get the opportunity, take it, because I can promise you that a visit will be one of the most profound events in your life.)

And then, on June 6, 1968, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in an insurgent effort to defeat incumbent President Lyndon Baines Johnson, died after being shot by Sirhan Sirhan a day earlier at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles after winning the California primary.

Writer Pete Hamill, who was there when RFK was shot, wrote later about the assassination, that "in this slimy little indoor alley in the back of a gaudy ballroom, in this shabby reality behind the glittering facade, Americans were doing what they do best: killing and dying, and cursing because hope doesn’t last very long among us … I saw Kennedy lurch against the ice machine, and then sag, and then fall forward slowly, to be grabbed by someone, and I knew then that he was dead … Kennedy’s face had a kind of sweet acceptance to it, the eyes understanding that it had come to him, the way it had come to so many others before him. The price of the attempt at excellence was death. You saw a flicker of that understanding on his face, as his life seeped out of a hole in the back of his skull, to spread like spilled wine across the scummy concrete floor."

I know this Eye-Opener has nothing to do with business, but it has everything to do with life and possibilities and hope and the sometimes cold, hard breath of reality. And history - because in the moment, when we think that the sun and the moon both revolve around current events and the 24-hour news cycle, it is important to put things in context. And, remember the events in Normandy on this day in 1944, and in Los Angeles in 1968.




thank you for this.

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Posted: Jun 6, 2023 - 6:57am

Cut and paste from another site

Twenty-four years apart, this day represents both one of the greatest and worst events in the history of our country, highlighting how we are capable of both miraculous and awful things.

On this date in 1944, Allied forces - led by the United States military and comprised of troops from Canada, the UK and other countries - began the invasion of France on the beaches of Normandy.

As History.com explains, "France at the time was occupied by the armies of Nazi Germany, and the amphibious assault - codenamed Operation Overlord - landed some 156,000 Allied soldiers on the beaches of Normandy by the end of the day. Despite their success, some 4,000 Allied troops were killed by German soldiers defending the beaches. At the time, the D-Day invasion was the largest naval, air and land operation in history, and within a few days about 326,000 troops, more than 50,000 vehicles and some 100,000 tons of equipment had landed. By August 1944, all of northern France had been liberated, and in spring of 1945 the Allies had defeated the Germans. Historians often refer to D-Day as the beginning of the end of World War II."

(By the way, if you've never been to Normandy and you get the opportunity, take it, because I can promise you that a visit will be one of the most profound events in your life.)

And then, on June 6, 1968, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in an insurgent effort to defeat incumbent President Lyndon Baines Johnson, died after being shot by Sirhan Sirhan a day earlier at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles after winning the California primary.

Writer Pete Hamill, who was there when RFK was shot, wrote later about the assassination, that "in this slimy little indoor alley in the back of a gaudy ballroom, in this shabby reality behind the glittering facade, Americans were doing what they do best: killing and dying, and cursing because hope doesn’t last very long among us … I saw Kennedy lurch against the ice machine, and then sag, and then fall forward slowly, to be grabbed by someone, and I knew then that he was dead … Kennedy’s face had a kind of sweet acceptance to it, the eyes understanding that it had come to him, the way it had come to so many others before him. The price of the attempt at excellence was death. You saw a flicker of that understanding on his face, as his life seeped out of a hole in the back of his skull, to spread like spilled wine across the scummy concrete floor."

I know this Eye-Opener has nothing to do with business, but it has everything to do with life and possibilities and hope and the sometimes cold, hard breath of reality. And history - because in the moment, when we think that the sun and the moon both revolve around current events and the 24-hour news cycle, it is important to put things in context. And, remember the events in Normandy on this day in 1944, and in Los Angeles in 1968.



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Posted: Jun 6, 2023 - 5:41am

1944 – Commencement of Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Normandy, with the execution of Operation Neptune—commonly referred to as D-Day—the largest seaborne invasion in history. Nearly 160,000 Allied troops cross the English Channel with about 5,000 landing and assault craft, 289 escort vessels, and 277 minesweepers participating. By the end of the day, the Allies have landed on five invasion beaches and are pushing inland.
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Posted: Jun 6, 2023 - 5:41am

1942 – The United States Navy's victory over the Imperial Japanese Navy at the Battle of Midway is a major turning point in the Pacific Theater of World War II. All four Japanese fleet carriers taking part—Akagi, Kaga, Sōryū and Hiryū—are sunk, as is the heavy cruiser Mikuma. The American carrier Yorktown and the destroyer Hammann are also sunk.
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Posted: Jun 5, 2023 - 5:42am

1989 – The Tank Man halts the progress of a column of advancing tanks for over half an hour after the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
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Posted: Jun 5, 2023 - 5:41am

1981 – The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that five people in Los Angeles, California, have a rare form of pneumonia seen only in patients with weakened immune systems, in what turns out to be the first recognized cases of AIDS.
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Posted: Jun 4, 2023 - 11:28am

1989 – The Tiananmen Square protests are suppressed in Beijing by the People's Liberation Army, with between 241 and 10,000 dead (an unofficial estimate).
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Posted: Jun 4, 2023 - 11:27am

1975 – The Governor of California Jerry Brown signs the California Agricultural Labor Relations Act into law, the first law in the United States giving farmworkers collective bargaining rights.
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Posted: Jun 4, 2023 - 11:25am

1939 – The Holocaust: The MS St. Louis, a ship carrying 963 German Jewish refugees, is denied permission to land in Florida, in the United States, after already being turned away from Cuba. Forced to return to Europe, more than 200 of its passengers later die in Nazi concentration camps.
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Posted: Jun 4, 2023 - 9:30am

I guess someone missed this or thought that it is unimportant ...
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Posted: Jun 3, 2023 - 7:12am

1844 – The last pair of great auks is killed.
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Posted: Jun 1, 2023 - 6:16am

1495 – A monk, John Cor, records the first known batch of Scotch whisky.
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Posted: May 31, 2023 - 7:39am

1921 – The Tulsa race massacre kills at least 39, but other estimates of black fatalities vary from 55 to about 300.
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Posted: May 25, 2023 - 10:27am

1977 – Star Wars (retroactively titled Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope) is released in theaters.
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Posted: May 20, 2023 - 3:50pm

1964 – Discovery of the cosmic microwave background radiation by Robert Woodrow Wilson and Arno Penzias.
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Posted: May 18, 2023 - 3:14pm

1974 – Nuclear weapons testing: Under project Smiling Buddha, India successfully detonates its first nuclear weapon becoming the sixth nation to do so.
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Posted: May 8, 2023 - 10:09am

1970 – The Beatles release their 12th and final studio album Let It Be.
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Posted: May 6, 2023 - 5:23am

1998 – Steve Jobs of Apple Inc. unveils the first iMac.
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