December 17
1903 - Wilbur and Orville Wright made the first successful controlled flight in a powered aircraft, the Wright Flyer, on the beach at Kitty Hawk, N.C.
The world shrank considerably with this event...The ability to overcome time and space is a huge factor in civilian and military life. Travel was sped up by an incredible amount, and as a result the enormity of the planet was cut down more than a little.
The ability to pull off such genius is one of the many things which separates humans from every other living thing on earth.
546 - Totila, King of the Ostrogoths, captured Rome.
The Goths claimed Rome when the Empire fell, but the East Roman Empire (Byzantine) rightfully felt they were the true holders of the Roman tradition...Unfortunately for these ‘Romans,’ they couldn’t hold the Goths out of Rome, and were eventually run out themselves.
That said, it's a joke to think of anyone ruling Rome at this time as anything close to ruling the Empire - which had ceased to exist in reality around a hundred years earlier.
1526 - Ferdinand Hapsburg, of Austria, was elected King of Bohemia - establishing the Kingdom of Austria-Hungary.
The Hapbsurgs had been consolidating power for years (through political marriages), and uniting the Austrian and Hungarian nations was a major issue...It also re-started a period of non-stop European wars over control of Central Europe. And more important, it led to a European fight about Hapsburg control of Spain and its possessions - most important of which were the the Netherlands, South and Central America
1538 - Pope Paul III excommunicated England's King Henry VIII for the second time.
Another in a long line of events which pushed England away from the Continent...A blessing for the English, and later, American people.
1777 - France formally recognized American independence, and agreed to send the new nation money, troops and ships.
France had its own strategic issues in mind with this act, which was more an act against Britain than for the U.S...That said, receiving French help was instrumental in the American victory.
Little did the French know, they'd soon have their own revolution coming their way.
1927 - U.S. Secretary of State Frank Kellogg suggested a worldwide pact renouncing war.
What an idiotic Utopian.
"Sometimes war is the only answer.” – Dennis Prager
War is part of the human condition. Always has been. Always will be.
1944 - The U.S. Army announced the end of its policy of holding Japanese-Americans in internment camps, allowing 'evacuees' to return home: WWII.
Japanese Internment was terrible, but necessary...National Security is every nation’s top priority, and it's unfortunate that civil liberties are often stomped on, but the other option isn’t acceptable.
Sadly, it will happen again someday - with Muslims.
FYI: I made that statement long before Donald Trump became a presidential contender.
1957 - The United States successfully test-fired the 'Atlas' intercontinental ballistic missile for the first time.
An extension of the U.S. Military’s policy of ‘Global Reach, Global Power’...And a truly awesome power it is.
The world shrank considerably with this event...The ability to overcome time and space is a huge factor in civilian and military life. Travel was sped up by an incredible amount, and as a result the enormity of the planet was cut down more than a little.
The ability to pull off such genius is one of the many things which separates humans from every other living thing on earth.
546 - Totila, King of the Ostrogoths, captured Rome.
The Goths claimed Rome when the Empire fell, but the East Roman Empire (Byzantine) rightfully felt they were the true holders of the Roman tradition...Unfortunately for these ‘Romans,’ they couldn’t hold the Goths out of Rome, and were eventually run out themselves.
That said, it's a joke to think of anyone ruling Rome at this time as anything close to ruling the Empire - which had ceased to exist in reality around a hundred years earlier.
1526 - Ferdinand Hapsburg, of Austria, was elected King of Bohemia - establishing the Kingdom of Austria-Hungary.
The Hapbsurgs had been consolidating power for years (through political marriages), and uniting the Austrian and Hungarian nations was a major issue...It also re-started a period of non-stop European wars over control of Central Europe. And more important, it led to a European fight about Hapsburg control of Spain and its possessions - most important of which were the the Netherlands, South and Central America
1538 - Pope Paul III excommunicated England's King Henry VIII for the second time.
Another in a long line of events which pushed England away from the Continent...A blessing for the English, and later, American people.
1777 - France formally recognized American independence, and agreed to send the new nation money, troops and ships.
France had its own strategic issues in mind with this act, which was more an act against Britain than for the U.S...That said, receiving French help was instrumental in the American victory.
Little did the French know, they'd soon have their own revolution coming their way.
1927 - U.S. Secretary of State Frank Kellogg suggested a worldwide pact renouncing war.
What an idiotic Utopian.
"Sometimes war is the only answer.” – Dennis Prager
War is part of the human condition. Always has been. Always will be.
1944 - The U.S. Army announced the end of its policy of holding Japanese-Americans in internment camps, allowing 'evacuees' to return home: WWII.
Japanese Internment was terrible, but necessary...National Security is every nation’s top priority, and it's unfortunate that civil liberties are often stomped on, but the other option isn’t acceptable.
Sadly, it will happen again someday - with Muslims.
FYI: I made that statement long before Donald Trump became a presidential contender.
1957 - The United States successfully test-fired the 'Atlas' intercontinental ballistic missile for the first time.
An extension of the U.S. Military’s policy of ‘Global Reach, Global Power’...And a truly awesome power it is.
Labels: Austria, Christianity, Europe, France, HRE, Hungary, Japan, Revolutionary War, Rome, Science, UK, US, WWII
posted by Poison Pero @ Sunday, December 16, 2018
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