Category: This Day In History
04/11/10
On about April 11, 1900, one-hundred-ten years ago, the United States Navy purchased the submarine USS Holland1 and later retroactively designated it as SS-1, thus began our submarine service.Some current and former submariners use the birthday o… more »
08/25/09
Originally Published July 27, 2007; Last Updated and Republished August 21, 2009:On this day in 1953 America entered into the Korean War Armistice Agreement effecting the end of hostilities.It is now past time to conclude a peace agreement, end t… more »
03/23/09
Originally Published February 11, 2007; Updated and Republished March 23, 2009:
American born and educated poet and novelist Sylvia Plath would have been in her demisesquicentennial year, diamond anniversary, and 75th year today. Her February 11, 1963… more »
01/22/09
Originally Published December 15, 2008; Updated and Republished December 29, 2008; Updated and Republished January 22, 2009:
On this day thirty years ago America and China concurrently announce their intention to formally establish diplomatic relation… more »
12/07/08
On this sixty seventh anniversary of Japan's bombing of America's Pearl Harbor let us resolve that we will lead our world toward greater transparency, security, peace, and sustainable economic prosperity (the later is dependent on the former three).
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10/12/08
Yep, on this day in 1492 Christopher Columbus "discovered"1 San Salvador, sailing right past America on a south by south-west course.
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1. Actually one of the lookouts spotted San Salvador before Columbus.
Those wanting to read a… more »
09/17/08
On this day in 1787 all but 16 of the the 551 delegates to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia signed our beautiful Constitution2—most or all of the delegates were unsatisfied with it!
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National Archives, Founding Fathers' S… more »
09/11/08
One of our nation's great strengths is its ability to move on—we've always had an ability to remember and recall our past with a determined resiliency—remembering to rebuild instead of reminisce.
On September 11, 2001, acts of terrorism took t… more »
08/14/08
On this day in history, August 14, 1954, Joseph Needham published the first volume of his massive magnum opus, Science and Civilisation in China.
Today, China is dominating the 2008 Summer Olympics gold medal count—all the athletes' performances… more »
10/28/07
01:54:26 am by halibut, Categories: American Submarines, Missions, Books, This Day In History, Deep Submergence Vehicles, Russian Submarines , Tags: all hands down, books, compass island, edward offley, glomar explorer, halibut, jerome preisler, k-129, kenneth sewell, project jennifer, pueblo, scorpion, scorpion down, seawolf, ssn 575, ssn 587, ssn 589, submarines On this day, October 28, 1968, the USNS Mizar (T-AGOR-11) towed her magnetometer and cameras over a sunken wreckage two miles below. Two days later the United States Navy declared to the world that the sunken USS Scorpion (SSN 589) had been located.
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