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Events 5.13

1373 – Julian of Norwich has visions which are later transcribed in her Revelations of Divine Love. 1515 – Mary Tudor, Queen of France, and Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk, are officially married at Greenwich. 1568 – Battle of Langside: The forces of Mary, Queen of Scots, are defeated by a confederacy of Scottish Protestants under James Stewart, Earl of Moray, her half-brother. 1619 – Dutch statesman Johan van Oldenbarnevelt is executed in The Hague after being convicted of treason. 1779 – War of the Bavarian Succession: Russian and French mediators at the Congress of Teschen negotiate an end to the war. In the agreement Austria receives the part of its territory that was taken from it (the Innviertel). 1780 – The Cumberland Compact is signed by leaders of the settlers in early Tennessee. 1787 – Captain Arthur Phillip leaves Portsmouth, England, with eleven ships full of convicts (the "First Fleet") to establish a penal colony in Australia. 1804 – Forces sent by Yusuf Karamanli of Tripoli to retake Derna from the Americans attack the city. 1830 – Ecuador gains its independence from Gran Colombia. 1846 – Mexican–American War: The United States declares war on Mexico. 1861 – American Civil War: Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom issues a "proclamation of neutrality" which recognizes the Confederacy as having belligerent rights. 1861 – The Great Comet of 1861 is discovered by John Tebbutt of Windsor, New South Wales, Australia. 1861 – Pakistan's (then a part of British India) first railway line opens, from Karachi to Kotri. 1862 – The USS Planter, a steamer and gunship, steals through Confederate lines and is passed to the Union, by a southern slave, Robert Smalls, who later was officially appointed as captain, becoming the first black man to command a United States ship. 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Resaca: The battle begins with Union General Sherman fighting toward Atlanta. 1865 – American Civil War: Battle of Palmito Ranch: In far south Texas, the last land battle of the Civil War ends with a Confederate victory. 1880 – In Menlo Park, New Jersey, Thomas Edison performs the first test of his electric railway. 1888 – With the passage of the Lei Áurea ("Golden Law"), Empire of Brazil abolishes slavery. 1909 – The first Giro d'Italia starts from Milan. Italian cyclist Luigi Ganna will be the winner. 1912 – The Royal Flying Corps, the forerunner of the Royal Air Force, is established in the United Kingdom. 1917 – Three children report the first apparition of Our Lady of Fátima in Fátima, Portugal. 1939 – The first commercial FM radio station in the United States is launched in Bloomfield, Connecticut. The station later becomes WDRC-FM. 1940 – World War II: Germany's conquest of France begins as the German army crosses the Meuse. Winston Churchill makes his "blood, toil, tears, and sweat" speech to the House of Commons. 1940 – Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands flees her country to Great Britain after the German invasion. Princess Juliana takes her children to Canada for their safety. 1941 – World War II: Yugoslav royal colonel Dragoljub Mihailović starts fighting against German occupation troops, beginning the Serbian resistance. 1943 – World War II: Operations Vulcan and Strike force the surrender of the last Axis troops in Tunisia. 1948 – Arab–Israeli War: The Kfar Etzion massacre is committed by Arab irregulars, the day before the declaration of independence of the state of Israel on May 14. 1950 – The first round of the Formula One World Championship is held at Silverstone. 1951 – The 400th anniversary of the founding of the National University of San Marcos is commemorated by the opening of the first large-capacity stadium in Peru. 1952 – The Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Parliament of India, holds its first sitting. 1954 – The anti-National Service Riots, by Chinese middle school students in Singapore, take place. 1954 – The original Broadway production of The Pajama Game opens and runs for another 1,063 performances. Later received three Tony Awards for Best Musical, Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical, and Best Choreography. 1958 – During a visit to Caracas, Venezuela, Vice President Richard Nixon's car is attacked by anti-American demonstrators. 1958 – May 1958 crisis: A group of French military officers lead a coup in Algiers demanding that a government of national unity be formed with Charles de Gaulle at its head in order to defend French control of Algeria. 1958 – Ben Carlin becomes the first (and only) person to circumnavigate the world by amphibious vehicle, having travelled over 17,000 kilometres (11,000 mi) by sea and 62,000 kilometres (39,000 mi) by land during a ten-year journey. 1960 – Hundreds of University of California, Berkeley students congregate for the first day of protest against a visit by the House Committee on Un-American Activities. 1967 – Dr. Zakir Husain becomes the third President of India. He is the first Muslim President of the Indian Union. He holds this position until August 24, 1969. 1969 – May 13 Incident involving sectarian violence in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 1971 – Over 900 unarmed Bengali Hindus are murdered in the Demra massacre. 1972 – Faulty electrical wiring ignites a fire underneath the Playtown Cabaret in Osaka, Japan. Blocked exits and non-functional elevators lead to 118 fatalities, with many victims leaping to their deaths. 1972 – The Troubles: A car bombing outside a crowded pub in Belfast sparks a two-day gun battle involving the Provisional IRA, Ulster Volunteer Force and British Army. Seven people are killed and over 66 injured. 1980 – An F3 tornado hits Kalamazoo County, Michigan. President Jimmy Carter declares it a federal disaster area. 1981 – Mehmet Ali Ağca attempts to assassinate Pope John Paul II in St. Peter's Square in Rome. The Pope is rushed to the Agostino Gemelli University Polyclinic to undergo emergency surgery and survives. 1985 – Police bombed MOVE headquarters in Philadelphia to end a stand-off, killing six adults and five children, and destroying the homes of 250 city residents. 1989 – Large groups of students occupy Tiananmen Square and begin a hunger strike. 1990 – The Dinamo–Red Star riot took place at Maksimir Stadium in Zagreb, Croatia between the Bad Blue Boys (fans of Dinamo Zagreb) and the Delije (fans of Red Star Belgrade). 1992 – Li Hongzhi gives the first public lecture on Falun Gong in Changchun, People's Republic of China. 1995 – Alison Hargreaves, a 33-year-old British mother, becomes the first woman to conquer Everest without oxygen or the help of sherpas. 1996 – Severe thunderstorms and a tornado in Bangladesh kill 600 people. 1998 – Race riots break out in Jakarta, Indonesia, where shops owned by Indonesians of Chinese descent are looted and women raped. 1998 – India carries out two nuclear tests at Pokhran, following the three conducted on May 11. The United States and Japan impose economic sanctions on India. 2005 – Andijan uprising, Uzbekistan; Troops open fire on crowds of protestors after a prison break; at least 187 people were killed according to official estimates. 2006 – São Paulo violence: Rebellions occur in several prisons in Brazil. 2011 – Two bombs explode in the Charsadda District of Pakistan killing 98 people and wounding 140 others. 2012 – Forty-nine dismembered bodies are discovered by Mexican authorities on Mexican Federal Highway 40. 2013 – Kermit Gosnell, a U.S. abortion physician, is found guilty in Pennsylvania of three counts of murder of newborn infants, one count of involuntary manslaughter, and various other charges. In total, more than 100 babies were killed at Gosnell's abortion clinic. 2014 – An explosion at an underground coal mine in southwest Turkey kills 301 miners. 2018 – Nine people die after the suicide bombing of three Indonesian churches in Surabaya, Indonesia.

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Mar 16, 2022-Watchman News-Col 3:12 - China-Eurasia create New Currency, Warm Ups are Over-Kick Off Time, USS Lincoln near China from Trevis Dampier Ministries on Vimeo.

News Feed – liveactioneating.com/

VERSE OF THE DAY Colossians 3:12 (New King James Version) Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, put on tender mercies, kindness, humility, meekness, longsuffering; ________________________________________

Understanding of ARM vs Right Hand of Revelation 13;16-18 – youtu.be/o4nXtcnz0Ls

The Dove Release of Noah symbolism to the 3 End Times Ministry Segments – liveactioneating.com/2021/08/16/the-dove-release-of-noah-to-the-3-part-end-times-ministries/

Jacob ( Jesus) and His Work for the Father to gain Rachel (Bride of Christ),Leah (Israel), the Flocks (Church) and the World (Those that are lost) Timeline – 1988 -2028 – liveactioneating.com/2021/08/20/jacob-jesus-and-his-work-for-the-father-to-gain-rachel-bride-of-christleah-israel-the-flocks-church-and-the-world-those-that-are-lost-timeline-1988-2028/

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Dream of Bill Larkin (7 Years Ago) La Palma Destruction Falling into the Sea – liveactioneating.com/2021/09/17/watch-vision-of-tsunami-in-east-coast-florida-new-jersey-underwater-bill-larkin-on-youtube/

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High Watch Times

Nov 10th – Abomination of Desolation related to Daniel 9 & Jeremiah 52 Study by Leeland Jones – liveactioneating.com/2021/11/02/jeremiah-52-key-to-daniel-9-dont-speak-news-by-leeland-jones/

Nov 14th – Laudato Si (7 Year Covenant with Many to Begin)

Nov 18th-19th (Kislev 15) – when the Blood Moon occurs and the Abomination of Desolation according to the Book of Maccabees in 168 BCE.

Nov 21st – 17 Kislev (1947) – The United Nations General Assembly approves a plan for the partition of Palestine, which eventually led to the creation of the State of Israel.

Nov 23rd – Fibonacci Day (La Palma shown in I PET GOAT with Psalm 23 on the Wall + Math Equation of F = -F on Chalkboard) 11/23 = 1 + 1+ 2 + 3 (Fibonacci Math)

Nov 26th – 7 Day Marker from Nov 19th Eclipse- 1 Kings 8:65

Nov 29th (Kislev 25) – This is 10 days from Nov 19th, brings us to Nov 29th, which is 4 years from the True Birth of Israel. Nov 29th, 1947 and the Parable of the Fig Tree.

Dec 1st (Kislev 27) – Forty days of rain end; begin 150 days of water’s swelling and churning, during which the water reaches a height of 15 cubits above the mountain peaks.

Dec 3rd/4th – 14 Day Marker from Nov 19th Eclipse – 1 Kings 8:65

Dec 5th-6th – 8th Day of Hanukkah related to 1 Kings 8:65-66 and the 14 Days between the Blood Moons of Nov 19th-Dec 5th (Gen 8:5 – Tops of Mountain Seen – Noah Story)

Dec 7th-8th – 8th Day of Hanukkah (Torah Calendar). Ezekiel 1:1 on the 8th/9th – Ezekiel’s Vision of God

Dec 12th/13th (Tevet 8)- Festival of the Septuagint -Septuagint is Completed - Megillat Ta'anit (Daniel’s 70th Week) – 8th Day related to 1 Kings 8:66

Dec 14th – (Tevet 10) – Esther appears before Achashverosh for the first time and is chosen by him to be the Queen, Nebuchadnezzar besieged Jerusalem, Holocaust remembered in Israel

Dec 19th – Full Moon (Original 7th Day of Hanukkah 164 BCE)

Dec 21st – Winter begins in Israel (Midnight) (Original 8th Day of Hanukkah 164 BCE)

Dec 25th – Festival of the Septuagint -Septuagint is Completed - (Daniel’s 70th Week) – 8th Day related to 1 Kings 8:66 (Leeland Jones April 30th, 2018 - 1335 Day Count from Host of Daily Sacrifice

Jan 5, 2022 – 5G Turns On

Jan 8/9, 2022 – 1335 Day Count from Israel’s 70th Bday (911 Backwards)

Jan 11, 2022 – (Sh’Vat 9) or 911 backwards and 11/11

Jan 16/17, 2022 – Tu BiShevat – New Year for Trees & Full Moon

Feb 14-16, 2022 – Purim Katan – Adar I (Minor Purim) – Esther meets with the King, saves God’s People

Feb 20-23rd – 5 BCE Actual Esther Moment from Esther 9 (Real Purim- Quantum Time)

March 15-20, 2022 – Purim - Adar II - Esther meets with the King, saves God’s People (Spring Equinox)

March 31st/April 1st – Swedish Boy’s Dream says we get pulled to Egypt on last day of March. End of 13th Month and beginning of Nisan

May 1st/2nd, 2022 – 150 Days from Kislev 27 (Iyar 0) New Moon – Shabbat Mevarchim Chodesh Iyyar ________________________________________

Parashah #10 Scripture Readings Mi-Ketz (At the End Of) TorahGenesis 41:1-44:17 Haftarahs1 Kings 3:15-4:1 Brit ChadashahActs 7:9-16

Miketz in a Nutshell Genesis 41:1–44:17 Joseph’s imprisonment finally ends when Pharaoh dreams of seven fat cows that are swallowed up by seven lean cows, and of seven fat ears of grain swallowed by seven lean ears. ________________________________________

Prepare for the Coming of the Lord Jesus Christ!

Please repent and accept the free gift of Jesus Christ’s Death on the Cross for payment for your sins.

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"Made In America Week": White House Comments on Foreign-Made Trump Products

http://styleveryday.com/2017/07/17/made-in-america-week-white-house-comments-on-foreign-made-trump-products/

"Made In America Week": White House Comments on Foreign-Made Trump Products

12:45 PM PDT 7/17/2017 by Jill Colvin, Associated Press

Will the Trumps move production of their goods back to the states? Said director of media affairs, “We’ll get back to you on that.”

Plagued by daily revelations related to the escalating Russia investigations, the White House is dubbing the coming week “Made in America week” as it tries to focus on issues that matter to the president’s base.

Speaking to reporters at a hotel near President Donald Trump’s golf course in Bedminster, New Jersey, White House director of media affairs Helen Aguirre Ferre said Sunday that the White House will be hosting a “Made in America” product showcase Monday featuring products from all 50 states.

The president also is expected to issue a proclamation Wednesday on the importance of making goods in America, and will travel to Virginia on Saturday for the commissioning of the USS Gerald R. Ford, a new aircraft carrier.

“For too long our government has forgotten the American worker. Their interests were pushed aside for global projects and their wealth was taken from the communities and shipped overseas,” said Ferre. “Under the leadership of President Donald Trump, not only will the American worker never be forgotten, but they will be championed.”

Trump has pledged to bring back U.S. manufacturing jobs lost to technological innovation and outsourcing by scaling back regulations and renegotiating the country’s trade deals. It’s an issue that resonates with the president’s base, and one that senior aides sought to highlight Sunday as the president spent the weekend attending the U.S. Women’s Open golf championship at a course he owns.

But critics have accused Trump of hypocrisy when he’s pushed “Made in America” in the past because so many of the products he and his family members have sold over the years were manufactured overseas. That includes merchandise sold under his own name and his eldest daughter’s, including clothing items and shoes.

Asked whether the president would use his “Made in America” week to commit the Trump organization and his daughter’s brand to make more of their products in America, rather than overseas, Ferre was non-committal.

“We’ll get back to you on that,” she said.

The president’s financial assets are currently being held in a trust. Ivanka Trump stepped back from day-to-day management of her brand before taking on an official role as a White House adviser.

#America #Comments #ForeignMade #House #Products #Trump #Week #White

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TTT 7.18.2017

This week’s themes are Russia, Health Care, Trip to France, Propaganda, Presidential Nominees, and Presidential Notes.

Theme 1: Russia

The Russia investigation story continues to unfold. Every week a new piece of the puzzle is revealed and every week Trump continues to call it ‘fake news.’ Yet, this past week the latest revelation puts Trump in a hot seat that is harder to dismiss - his son, Donald Jr, has admitted himself to have had a meeting with a Russian businessman regarding the election. Donald Jr was invited to the meeting in order to get opposition research against Hillary Clinton.  Donald Trump Jr. released the emails about the meeting on Twitter, claiming that he did nothing wrong and that it was a short meeting.  Donald Jr wasn’t so transparent though - he had previously denied meeting with any Russian officials, he wasn’t forthcoming about everyone at the meeting, and he was forced to be ‘transparent’ in releasing the emails because The New York Times already had all the information ready to publish.

There were eight people in attendance at the June 2016 meeting: Donald Jr (Trump’s son), Paul Manafort (the then Chair of the Trump campaign), Jared Kushner (Trump’s son-in-law and now Presidential advisor), Rob Goldstone (British publicist who contacted Donald Jr about the meeting), Rinat Akhmetshin (a Russian American lobbyist and counterintelligence officer for the Soviet Union), Natalia Veselnitskaya (a Russian lawyer), and Ike Kaveladze (a real estate and finance executive who was present as a translator).  

Given that Trump’s son, son-in-law and former campaign manager were all present at this meeting it’s going to be difficult for Trump to distance himself from this meeting and claim complete innocence.  Though for now he’s maintaining three lines of defense: it’s fake news, Donald Jr is a patriot, and ‘what about Hillary Clinton’s emails?’ His defense is looking pretty weak.

Donald Trump Jr’s ‘transparency’

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/07/12/the-trumps-claims-about-transparency-are-actually-quite-deceptive/?utm_term=.5f2dfc62be82

Who was at the meeting?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/07/18/robert-mueller-is-now-the-ninth-person-in-donald-trump-jr-s-russia-meeting/?utm_term=.037607d45a31

https://www.vox.com/world/2017/7/18/15990798/trump-jr-russia-meeting-attendees

Theme 2: Health Care

Trump promised that Obamacare would be repealed and replaced as soon as Republicans came into power. Republicans now are a majority in the House, Senate and White House but cannot come to an agreement about repealing or replacing Obamacare.  Some Republicans believe that Trumpcare goes too far in ending Obamacare requirements and others that it doesn’t go far enough. Either way, Trump’s plan to repeal and replace has failed once again.

Now, Trump has called for just a repeal without a replacement program - a strategy that he formerly said he would not employ.  Moreover, it seems that either Trump does not understand or does not care that a repeal of Obamacare without any new plan in place that promises healthcare coverage would be damaging to citizens and the nation.  More than 20 million people would lose insurance under the Senate plan and more than 30 million would lose insurance under the repeal-only plan.

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/07/18/trump-blindsided-by-healthcare-collapse-240657

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/health-bill-care-collapse-leaves-divided-gop-crossroads-48695180

Theme 3: Trip to France

French president Macron, invited Donald Trump to France to celebrate Bastille Day and the 100th anniversary of the US entry into WWI.  With troubling waters in the United States it was a good time for Trump to take a trip and turn news elsewhere.  It seems for Macron that he is looking to develop a better relationship with the US and possibly pull Trump back into the Paris Climate Accord. Macron and Trump also both have interests in increasing the fight against terrorism and possibly building a relationship with Russia (Macron had Russian president Vladimir Putin to France at the end of May).  

On a side note, the relationship between these two presidents and their wives are similarly - let’s just call it, interesting. There is a 24 year age difference between Trump and Melania as well as between Macron and his wife.  During this recent visit, Trump very openly remarked on Mrs. Macron noting that she was ‘beautiful’ and ‘in good shape.’

Visit to France

http://www.politico.eu/article/6-takeaways-from-trumps-paris-trip-emmanuel-macron-donald-trump-europe/

Trump Remarks on First Lady of France

http://www.politico.eu/article/trump-calls-macrons-wife-beautiful-and-in-good-shape/

Theme 4: Propaganda

One of Trump’s main lines of attack is his propaganda Tweets.  In this Twitter field, he can address a range of topics and attach his MAGA propaganda to any issue.  This week he addresses the Women’s US Open golf tournament, the Mexico wall, economy numbers, and terrorism.

This past week the US open golf tournament was held at Trump National Golf Club in New Jersey.  The USGA had agreed to host the tournament at that venue before Trump was president and before his numerous disparaging comments about women - it is said that a contract bound the USGA from moving the site.  Protesters showed up outside and inside the venue; however, it seemed Trump had more supporters than resisters present.  On another note, some are skeptical over the amount of times Trump Tweeted about the tournament considering that his family can benefit from the promotion of his golf club.

Trump also Tweeted that the House Appropriations Committee allocated money for the Mexico wall, a $13.8 billion for customs and border protection  that includes money for the wall, agents, border technology, and sensors.  This budget still has to be approved by Congress.  And, if approved, the money goes against Trump’s campaign promise that Mexico, and not the United States, would pay for building the wall.  

Trump Tweeted about the recent THAAD (Terminal High Altitude Area Defense) missile defense system, which shot down a target over Alaska.  Trump’s Tweets about missiles and terrorism continue to promote his propaganda about increasing US defense and military systems.

One of Trump’s favorite propaganda Tweets every week is about the economy and the stock market as he continues to take credit for it.  Yet, measures of the stock market are very difficult to tie directly to a president unless there is an isolated precipitating variable or the market stays consistently high for years.  In short, Trump needs to stop taking credit for it.

US Open

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2017/jul/17/donald-trump-womens-us-open-golf-course-protestors

Mexico Wall

http://thehill.com/homenews/house/341527-bill-allocates-16-billion-for-trumps-border-wall

Missile

http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/11/politics/us-thaad-missile-defense-test/index.html

Stock Market

http://www.newsweek.com/can-we-thank-trump-stock-market-boom-short-answer-no-637814

Theme 5: Presidential Nominees

Democrats have been making Republicans ‘jump through every hoop’ and follow all protocol in the process of appointing nominees.  Putting Republicans through this process has the consequence of greatly slowly down the rate in which nominees are confirmed.  It’s supposed that Democrats are doing this for a number of reasons: in response to Trump not following other protocols, in response to Trump attacking Obamacare, and to possibly slow down the Trump administration.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/17/us/politics/senate-democrats-art-of-delay-trump-nominees.html

Theme 6: Presidential Notes

Trump remarked a few events this past week including the US Open (see above under “propaganda”), the USS John Finn, the Marine plane crash, and the LA Olympic bid.  

For more information on the US open see the propaganda bid.

The USS John Finn is a new ship added to the Navy fleet.  The ship name honors John Finn who was WWII”s first Medal of Honor recipient.

A Marine plane crashed in Mississippi on Friday the 14th due to a mechanical failure. Sadly, 15 Marines and one Navy sailor died in the accident.

Trump has formally backed Los Angeles’ bid for the 2024 Olympic game.  LA is in competition with Paris to host the game.

USS John Finn

http://www.public.navy.mil/surfor/ddg113/Pages/Navy-to-Commission-New-Guided-Missile-Destroyer-John-Finn-.aspx#.WW6Egojyvcs

Plane crash

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2017/07/14/here-are-the-names-and-photos-of-the-15-marines-and-sailor-who-died-in-mississippi-plane-crash/?utm_term=.7823559c2e84

Olympics

http://www.latimes.com/politics/washington/la-na-essential-washington-updates-trump-backs-l-a-olympic-bid-in-meeting-1498230551-htmlstory.html

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Benjamin Franklin gestured dramatically toward the moldering gravestone of the Revolutionary War soldier. “And then,” he proclaimed, pausing for effect, “He killed ‘im dead!” Twelve adults and a handful of children stared at him wide-eyed as he finished the dramatic account of the Yankee soldier’s death. “Follow me, I will take you to Old North Church and the site of the Boston Massacre.” He whipped Paul Revere’s woodcutting of the Boston Massacre out of a pocket and displayed it with a flourish. A camera flashed. Benjamin Franklin posed for a second photo.

Obviously, our downtown Boston tour guide was not actually Benjamin Franklin. To be honest, he wasn’t even pretending to be—although I thought the tour company was missing out by not taking advantage of the fact that this man was the spitting image of the famous figure. Eleven-year-old me soaked in every aspect of the spooky graveyard tour, trying to pretend I was fending off the October chill with a deerskin coat rather than a windbreaker and imagining what life might have been like long before Boston became characterized by skyscrapers of chrome and glass. Even after a decade and a half, the memory of this adventure in Boston is clear in my mind.

History Road Trips

Boston was the first stop on our family’s history tour of the East Coast, our annual family “field trip.” Instead of the summer vacations to the beach, we took autumn trips to historical or geological sites around the United States. One thing my sister and I loved about the trips is that they counted as school days. This was one of the many perks of being homeschooled, although it didn’t mean we got to skip out on finishing our math workbooks! Just because the trips were considered “school” didn’t mean they were boring. My mom, a teacher, and my dad, a geology aficionado, built up our expectations of the trip through a semester of historical fiction, vivid storytelling, period-accurate toys, movie nights, and projects both recreational and educational. By the time we arrived on the East Coast from Arizona, we felt like we were old friends with George Washington and Paul Revere. We were excited to see everything, and the opportunity to spend money we earned by memorizing geography facts certainly didn’t dampen our enthusiasm.

Statue of Paul Revere in Boston.

There are many benefits to taking an educational East Coast vacation. First, it’s fun! Both my sister and I were voracious readers, and my love of history mixed with her interest in photography set the stage for fun on our East Coast road trip. However, touring the history of the East Coast can be a blast even if you or your kids aren’t particularly enamored with books or dusty artifacts. Creepy graveyard tours will excite Ghostbusters wannabes, art lovers will revel in the many museums, foodies will find Heaven on Earth in fine New England eateries, movie buffs will enjoy the many film settings, and the mischievous among us will get a kick out of trying to make Plimoth Plantation actors break character. There’s so much to see and do!

Secondly, of course, a tour of the United States’ roots provides a rich educational opportunity. Experience this region’s history, government, art, geography, marine life, architecture, music and more in real life, and you’ll never see them the same way again. Take your kids on a trip like this, and they’ll have to try to fail social studies tests in the future. There’s just nothing like reading original documents or seeing historical sites in person.

Points of Interest on an East Coast History Tour

When touring the East Coast, why not start where the Revolutionary War began? Boston is not only the birthplace of the American Revolution, but it’s also a great northerly point to start at so you can work your way south. You can see pretty much all of Boston’s history if you take the Freedom Trail. Squint your eyes a bit, and you can almost block out the rush of traffic to imagine 18th Century crowds moving through the cobbled streets. The urban path leads past nearly twenty historic sites, including Boston Common, Granary Burying Ground, old North Church, and the USS Constitution. Don’t forget to see where the Boston Tea Party took place at Boston Harbor. If you want to enjoy some scientific excursions, the MIT Museum and Boston Aquarium are rather impressive. Of course, you can’t leave Massachusetts without a visit to the settlers and Natives at Plimoth Plantation.

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Heading south from Boston, you can stop in Fort Griswold Battlefield State Park in Connecticut on your way to New York City. Once in NYC, you’ll have to pick your favorite attractions! I recommend bypassing the Statue of Liberty to tour Ellis Island, although if you’re short on time, you can view both from a distance by taking the Statin Island Ferry across the harbor. If your heart is set on seeing a Broadway play while you’re in Manhattan, you can keep with your historic theme by getting tickets to Hamilton. Of course, you can’t miss the chance to get a glimpse of the Chrysler Building, the Flatiron Building, or the Brooklyn Bridge, but don’t forget to have some fun on the century-old Coney Island Cyclone roller coaster.

View of Ellis Island

Philadelphia, Delaware and D.C. Sites

Emerge from the lightning-speed pace of New York City life into the antique air of historic Philadelphia. Thanks to National Treasure, you might already be pretty familiar with the major attractions: The Liberty Bell, Washington Square, Old City Hall, and Independence Hall. Depending on your interests, you might also like Battleship New Jersey or Morris Arboretum.

Delaware, as the nation’s first state, certainly deserves a quick visit, which can be achieved with a visit to Fort Delaware. From there, head to Washington, D.C., where you’ll wish you had more time to explore, no matter how long you stay. Where do you even begin? Well, the National Mall is a good place to start. You can burn a lot of calories walking from the White House to the Lincoln Memorial, the Jefferson Memorial, the Capitol, and the various Smithsonian Museums. You might not have time for all the Smithsonian Museums, but you can pick your favorites. I was a fan of the Air and Space Museum and the National Portrait Gallery. After all that walking, you can try to spot senators while refueling at some of the fancier restaurants, like 1789, a popular institution named for the year the Constitution was adopted and offering an 18th-Century experience. If you can plan ahead, book a tour of the White House or your representative’s office. Finally, end your road trip with a jaunt down to George Washington’s estate, Mount Vernon in Virginia.

When you walk the streets of the historic East Coast, the past comes alive! Next time you open an American history book or watch a documentary, you’ll be able to say that you were there. From the centuries-old brick of Boston to the sprawling countryside of Virginia, there’s no better way to learn about the roots of American culture.

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East Coast History Road Trip Benjamin Franklin gestured dramatically toward the moldering gravestone of the Revolutionary War soldier. “And then,” he proclaimed, pausing for effect, “He killed ‘im dead!” Twelve adults and a handful of children stared at him wide-eyed as he finished the dramatic account of the Yankee soldier’s death.

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COMMEMORATIVE MESSAGE IN HONOR OF THE 72ND ANNIVERSARY OF THE BEGINNING OF THE HISTORIC BATTLE OF IWO JIMA

Ladies and gentlemen, to all the people of the United States of America, to all our living veterans of the Second World War of 1939-1945 and of all conflicts past and present and their families, to our veterans, active servicemen and women and reservists of the United States Navy and Marine Corps, and of the entire United States Armed Forces, to all the immediate families, relatives, children and grandchildren of the deceased veterans, fallen service personnel and wounded personnel of our military services and civil uniformed security and civil defense services, to all our workers, farmers and intellectuals, to our youth and personnel serving in youth uniformed and cadet organizations and all our athletes, coaches, judges, sports trainers and sports officials, and to all our sports fans, to all our workers of culture, music, traditional arts and the theatrical arts, radio, television, digital media and social media, cinema, heavy and light industry, business and the press, and to all our people of the free world:

As the whole world remembers among others the formation of the modern Mexican Army in 1913, the  Russian emancipation reforms of 1861, and the death on this day of the great father of Bulgarian Independence, Vasil Levski, in 1873, as well as the 1879 invention of the phonograph  by Thomas Edison, the Enigma tornado outbreak of 1884, the commencement of the naval segment of the Dardanelles Campaign in 1915, the signing of the controversial Executive Order 9066 and the Bombing of Darwin, Australia, in 1942 the beginning of the Battle of Kasserine Pass in 1943 and on this day in 1985 the national premiere in the UK of the BBC’s premier primetime drama EastEnders, today, just as in past years, and in these changing times in our world of today, as one united people of the United States of America and of our free world, we mark on this very day the seventy second anniversary of the beginning of the historic battle of Iwo Jima, which began on this day in 1945, and which would be one of the biggest battles ever to be fought by the United States Marine Corps in the Pacific Theater of Operations of the Second World War.

It was at around 9am on this very important day in our history  72 years ago when, after months of hard work and preparation by the Allied forces, one of the great Allied battles of the Pacific Theater of Operations began with the landing of V Amphibious Corps under the command of General Holland Smith and composed of the 3rd, 4th and 5th Marine Divisions, United States Marine Corps,  and so began what would be without a doubt one of the bloodiest and biggest battles fought in the Pacific Theater of Operations, the very battle that will forever change the face of the USMC for generations to come. Wave after wave of Marines from that formation, supported by naval gunfire and air attacks, began to pound the Japanese forces garrisoned in the island. An hour after the guns began to fire, just as V Corps was fighting its way towards the island, at around 1030h on that day  the 1st Battalion, 27th Marine Regt., under the wings of the 5th Marine Division, in the midst of the fighting to capture a Japanese built airfield for use by the then US Army Air Forces and in fighting the Japanese soldiers stationed,  saw the unthinkable - the final and ultimate sacrifice of one of the greatest Allied heroes of the Second World War and of the United States Marine Corps, no less than Gunnery Sergeant John Basilone, who was by then assigned as a machine gunner with Charlie Company 1/27 under the 5th Marine Division. It has been over a century since the birth of this man in Raritan, New Jersey, within miles from the Big Apple to a Italian American family, who  served his country with distinction and pride as an Italian American in the 31st Infantry Regiment of the United States Army in Manila, Philippines in the middle of the 1930s and would in 1940 changed his service branch to that of the United States Marine Corps, and later on served as a machine gunner of Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 7th Marines, during the actions of the Battle of Guadalcanal in 1942-43 and therefore committed heroic deeds to his country on October 24-26 of the same year, during the battles for the defense of Henderson Field, the 75th diamond jubilee anniversary of which we will mark this coming October, thus as a result of this heroic action it would be giving him the highest medal of valor of the United States Armed Forces, the Congressional Medal of Honor, because of being a target of Japanese mortar fire on his position near the runway, gave his life for the defense of his country the United States of America, and for the liberation of all the peoples of the Asia-Pacific from the military forces of the Empire of Japan, who suffered heavily from years of Japanese rule and at the cost of so many deaths in Japanese administered areas in the region, in view of his two fellow Marines, machine gunner Private First Class Charles “Chuck” Tatum and Private First Class Steve Evanson from Baker Company 1/27, and as a result of his sacrifice and the American capture of the air base would reward him with a posthumous award of the Navy Cross – becoming in the process the very first time ever in the more than 242 year history of the Corps that an enlisted Marine had earned two of the highest awards of heroism in battle in this service branch of the United States Armed Forces. (This scene was reenacted in episode 8 of the 2010 HBO miniseries The Pacific, with the roles of the men being played by Jon Seda, Ben Esler and Dwight Braswell).

The following events that will be celebrating  as one nation and one united people of the free world this Thursday, February 23, four days after the anniversary of the beginning of this battle, will now be in clear light of the recent revelation of the United States Marine Corps which was made public on June 23 this past year thanks to efforts made by historians and historic experts, ending years of speculation and mystery surrounding the events of this this battle that is, for all generations, part of the history of not just the Corps, but of the entire United States Armed Forces.

Within 4 days after the start of the battle, an historic instruction was given by the then Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal, who was there at the island to oversee the operations,  to GEN Smith that V Amphibious Corps will be charged with the historic responsibility of carrying and later hoisting on the top of Mount Suribachi after its capture by this formation the national flag of the United States of America  to ensure to all Americans and to the people of the free world that a “United States Marine Corps lasting for the next 500 years” will be the defender of the American nation it helped to build and the free world it has always pledged to defend and protect at all costs, and thus upon receiving this historic decision, gave the historic order to the 2nd Battalion, 28th Marine Regiment of the 5th Marine Division, under battalion commanding officer Lieutenant Colonel Chandler Johnson. And thus, on the very morning of February 23, 1945, 72 years to that very important day in the history not just of the Marine Corps and of the Armed Forces, but of the entire United States of America, assigned a company under the battalion to shoulder this historic responsibility of carrying and raising the national colours, and that assignment fell on Easy Company 2/28 and its commander Captain Dave Severance, its 3rd Platoon under the leadership of its company XO and the new platoon commander 1Lt Harold G. Schrier (who took over command of the platoon as its past commander was pulled out due to wounds sustained in the battle) being ordered to form a 40-man team to secure the mountain top which has just been captured and to raise the national standard on that peak.  The 2/28 battalion adjutant 1LT George G. Wells (in other versions it was LTCOL Johnson himself) then went down and towards the battalion’s LST, the USS Missoula, to obtain the small national standard to be used for the historic event. The flag was then given to Schrier with some words of advice from the battalion commander and the order to raise it at once, alongside a medium former Japanese water pipe as a flagpole. And later on that morning, that very 40-man team,  together with Marine combat photographer SSGT Louis R. Lowery, secured the summit perimeter around Suribachi and this would be followed by the raising of that first flag, which was done by Schrier together with SSGT Henry “Hank” Hansen, assisted by PHM2C James Bradley, PSGT Ernest I. Thomas Jr., CPLs Charles Lindberg and Harold Schultz, PFCs James Robertson and Raymond Jacobs and PVT Phil Ward, with Lowery providing the photograph for that event and the rest of the 40-man team eliminating all possible Japanese resistance on the slopes. (Schrier would later be awarded the Navy Cross for this act.) The flag was raised to the cheers of all the Marines present and the naval personnel on board their vessels offshore, which made the Japanese all the more upset. Later on that morning, SECNAV Forrestal, upon seeing that the flag had been hoisted, informed LTCOL Johnson that he would take the flag back home and to his Pentagon office, but  since according the battalion CO it was owned and will be maintained by the battalion, the offer was refused. 

Later on, right that same morning at around 11AM, LTCOL Johnson assigned several Easy Company, 2/28 Marines to lay the telegraph lines on Mt. Suribachi and to get the needed walkie-talkies for the battalion CP on the foothills of Suribachi. These Marines, all from 2nd Platoon of the same company, were SGT Michael Strank, CPL Harlon Block, and PFCs Ira Hayes and Franklin Sousley, who installed the lines, and PFC Rene Gagnon, who obtained the necessary walkie-talkies for the command post. It then dawned on him that one of his men had recommended that a more larger Stars and Stripes would be flown on the top on the mountain instead of the one that was unfurled earlier in the morning, so within minutes the order was given from the battalion command post for a replacement for the small flag that had been hoisted before. 1LT Alfred Turtle, the then battalion assistant commander for operations, was, per the official USMC records, the Marine assigned to obtain the larger national flag that the battalion command needed.  Within minutes he found the said flag, which was sourced from a supply post what is now today Joint Base Pearl Harbor–Hickam (then Navy Station Pearl Harbor), on the US Navy LST, LST 779, which was docked within distance from the beaches, and was given to him by US Navy Ensign Alan Wood who was with the ship’s crew. Upon receiving it, he rushed off to the CP, informing the commander that it was a mission accomplished. After the flag was given to LTCOL Johnson, Gagnon was then handed with the national colors and a longer former Japanese water pipe, informing him of his role in replacing the flag earlier hoisted. However, due to a recent Historian’s Office of the US Coast Guard discovery, per a 1991 New York Times interview by 2LT Wells, Gagnon himself received the replacement order, and with the advice of his CO went down into the beaches to find one among the ships that had docked on the shore. Many ships of the Navy and Coast Guard had indeed been docked on the Iwo Jima shore that day. It was later on when he arrived at one of these ships, the LST USS Duval County that the right flag was found. The said flag, which was woven by Mabel Sauvageau, a Mare Island Naval Shipyard worker, was given to him by no less than USCG Quartermaster Robert Resnick, after he had to permission of the LST CO, LT Frank Molenda, to obtain the needed flag. That very flag received from that ship’s crew was indeed what the commander recommended as the replacement national flag. After obtaining the colors, Gagnon then hurried to the battalion CP and informed LTCOL Johnson that he now had the flag that was requested by the battalion command. With the flag now in his hands, he was granted the longer water pipe and headed off. Right before noon, E Company secured the summit for a second time. A 40 man-platoon, together with Bradley and his fellow corpsmen, ascended the mountain and with no Japanese military presence found, the first flag was later lowered down as a bombing operation against the Japanese was underway in the slopes and around the mountain. That second combat team had photographers Joe Rosenthal and Bob Campbell and cameraman Bill Genaust (the latter two Marine combat photographers) with them climbing the mountain with Hayes, Sousley, Strank, Schultz, Gagnon and Block, which carried both the larger flag and the water pipe, with the platoon guarding the formation. With both items in place and the first flag now removed, the Marine squad of 6 raised the second flag to even more cheers, with Rosenthal taking the picture and Genaust the film of this important moment that would become in due time become part of the 242 year long history of the United States Marine Corps, the 70 year history of the United States Armed Forces and of the 241 year history of the entire United States of America. (This historic event in the history of the Corps was recreated with great detail in the 2006 film Flags of Our Fathers with Adam Beach, John Michael Cross, Barry Pepper, Ryan Philippe, Jesse Bradford and Benjamin Walker playing the flagbearers, and the late Paul Walker, Tom McCarthy and Alessandro Mastrobuono playing the men who raised the first flag, plus Jamie Bell, Neal McDonough and Robert Patrick, and the film Letters from Iwo Jima, made that same year, tells of the heroic Japanese defense of the island that took many Japanese lives in the process as against so many American Marines that had died and injured.) When the victory was declared later that March, only Tatum, Bradley, Schultz, Gagnon and Hayes were among the hundreds who went back to their homeland as victors to the very people they swore to defend at the cost of their very own lives. Many Marines of all ranks had indeed shed their blood in the defense of the homeland during this historic battle that forever changed this service branch of the United States Armed Forces.

As the great FADM Chester Nimitz had put it in his words, “Uncommon valor was a common virtue” among the hundred thousand Marines of V Amphibious Corps who served there in this, one of the bloodiest battles that the United States Marine Corps faced in the Second World War in the Pacific Theater of Operations and one of the biggest victories of the Allies in this part of the world. His words are forever recorded in the Arlington National Cemetery’s Marine Corps War Memorial in Arlington, Virginia, the very monument made on the basis of the historic photograph of the Iwo Jima flag raising that today, after 63 years since its historic inauguration, proudly stands over the Arlington fields and the graves of so many Marines over the centuries who even at the cost of their lives, served faithfully always to their country and people, and honoring the 242 years of long and faithful service of the United States Marine to the people and government of the United States of America and to all the people of the free world. In these changing times, by recalling what has happened 72 years ago on this very day, we never forget to remember the heroic actons done during the days of the Iwo Jima Campaign and most especially the thousands who perished in this tiny island for the sake of the freedoms, dreams and aspirations not just of the people of the United States of America but also of all the people of the free world.

Today, 72 years on to the very day of the beginning of one of the biggest battles of the Second World War in the Pacific Theater of Operations and the day of the ultimate sacrifice of one of the greatest men of the  United States Marine Corps, with profound gratitude, humble respect and our deepest thanks for the efforts made for the victory won in this island and for the sacrifices made by the hundreds of Marines and sailors who died liberating this island from the Japanese and whose heroism and courage made them a part of the long military history of the United States of America, as one united people, we today mark the historic beginning of one of the greatest battles ever fought by United States Marines in the over 242 years since the founding of the Corps, and today remember the heroes, veterans and fallen of the Battle of Iwo Jima, the very battle that changed forever the entire United States Marine Corps, and the entire American people, armed forces, and nation, a battle that will forever be remembered by all generations of Americans and people all over the world. This immortal battle, one of many Allied victories in the Pacific Theater of Operations, shall be remembered as the one very battle that showed the world the bravery, courage and determination of the United States Marine for the defense of the American nation and all the free people of the world, and for the preservation of the values of freedom and liberty on which the United States was formed, thanks in part of the courage and gallantry shown by the US Marines in the early years of the nation that it helped to build thanks to the efforts of the Second Continental Congress 242 years past. Today, the eternal memory of the heroes of this great battle to remains alive in the hearts and minds of the American people and the people of the free world, especially for active and reserve servicemen and women and veterans of the United States Marine Corps who today mark this historic battle that has become part of our history.

For it is by what  they have done 72 years ago in the sands and soils of Iwo Jima that we today enjoy the fruits of freedom, independence and liberty, these very values that are worth defending and fighting for, especially for the sake of our future generations. Their memory will forever remain a part of our history and patrimony and in these changing times shall always be part of the memory of the world’s Greatest Generation – part of the millions of Allied men and women, military, police, EMS and civilian alike, who brought the Second World War into its victorious conclusion, the anniversaries of which we anticpate with profound joy and in deep gratitude for all they have done for the sake of all of us and of the generations to come!

As one united people, may we today and every day honor and remember for all time the eternal memory of all those who fought in the battle of Iwo Jima who made their mark in the history of both the United States Marine Corps and of the entire United States of America!

And may we today uphold the legacy of these brave Marines, Sailors and Coast Guardsmen of Iwo Jima who paved the way towards the future we hope for our generations to come!

ETERNAL GLORY TO THE MEMORY OF ONE OF THE GREAT HEROES OF THE UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS, THE GREAT HERO OF THE BATTLE OF GUADALCANAL, GUNNERY SERGEANT JOHN BASILONE!

ETERNAL GLORY AND MEMORY TO THE HEROES, MARTYRS AND VETERANS OF THE GREAT BATTLE OF IWO JIMA!

ETERNAL GLORY TO THE MEMORY OF ALL THE ALLIED HEROES AND FALLEN OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR IN THE PACIFIC THEATER OF OPERATIONS!

LONG LIVE THE 72ND ANNIVERSARY OF THE BEGINNING OF THE HISTORIC BATTLE OF IWO JIMA!

LONG LIVE THE GLORIOUS, INVINCIBLE AND LEGENDARY UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS, ALWAYS FAITHFUL TILL THE END FOR THE PEOPLE AND THE ENTIRE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND OF THE FREE WORLD!

GLORY TO THE VICTORIOUS PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND HER UNIFORMED SERVICES!

GLORY TO THE ARMED FORCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, DEFENDERS OF OUR FREEDOM AND LIBERTY AND GUARANTEE OF A FUTURE WORTHY OF OUR GENERATIONS TO COME!

Semper Fidelis! Oorah!

1700h, February 19, 2017, the 241st year of the United States of America, the 242nd year of the United States Army, Navy and Marine Corps, the 123rd of the International Olympic Committee, the 121st of the Olympic Games, the 76th since the beginning of the Second World War in the Eastern Front and in the Pacific Theater, the 72nd since the battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa and the victories in Europe and the Pacific, the 5th since the attacks on Benghazi, the 12th of Operation Red Wings, and the 70th of the United States Armed Forces.

Semper Fortis

John Emmanuel Ramos

Makati City, Philippines

Grandson of Philippine Navy veteran PO2 Paterno Cueno, PN (Ret.)

                                     (Honor by Hans Zimmer) (Platoon Swims) (Rendering Honors)

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Events 5.13

1373 – Julian of Norwich has visions of Jesus while suffering from a life-threatening illness, visions which are later described and interpreted in her book Revelations of Divine Love. 1515 – Mary Tudor, Queen of France, and Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk, are officially married at Greenwich. 1568 – Battle of Langside: The forces of Mary, Queen of Scots, are defeated by a confederacy of Scottish Protestants under James Stewart, Earl of Moray, her half-brother. 1619 – Dutch statesman Johan van Oldenbarnevelt is executed in The Hague after being convicted of treason. 1779 – War of the Bavarian Succession: Russian and French mediators at the Congress of Teschen negotiate an end to the war. In the agreement Austria receives the part of its territory that was taken from it (the Innviertel). 1780 – The Cumberland Compact is signed by leaders of the settlers in the Cumberland River area of what would become the U.S. state of Tennessee, providing for democratic government and a formal system of justice. 1787 – Captain Arthur Phillip leaves Portsmouth, England, with eleven ships full of convicts (the "First Fleet") to establish a penal colony in Australia. 1804 – Forces sent by Yusuf Karamanli of Tripoli to retake Derna from the Americans attack the city. 1830 – Ecuador gains its independence from Gran Colombia. 1846 – Mexican–American War: The United States declares war on the Federal Republic of Mexico following a dispute over the American annexation of the Republic of Texas and a Mexican military incursion. 1861 – American Civil War: Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom issues a "proclamation of neutrality" which recognizes the Confederacy as having belligerent rights. 1861 – The Great Comet of 1861 is discovered by John Tebbutt of Windsor, New South Wales, Australia. 1861 – Pakistan's (then a part of British India) first railway line opens, from Karachi to Kotri. 1862 – The USS Planter, a steamer and gunship, steals through Confederate lines and is passed to the Union, by a southern slave, Robert Smalls, who later was officially appointed as captain, becoming the first black man to command a United States ship. 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Resaca: The battle begins with Union General Sherman fighting toward Atlanta. 1865 – American Civil War: Battle of Palmito Ranch: In far south Texas, the last land battle of the Civil War ends with a Confederate victory. 1880 – In Menlo Park, New Jersey, Thomas Edison performs the first test of his electric railway. 1888 – With the passage of the Lei Áurea ("Golden Law"), Empire of Brazil abolishes slavery. 1909 – The first Giro d'Italia starts from Milan. Italian cyclist Luigi Ganna will be the winner. 1912 – The Royal Flying Corps, the forerunner of the Royal Air Force, is established in the United Kingdom. 1917 – Three children report the first apparition of Our Lady of Fátima in Fátima, Portugal. 1940 – World War II: Germany's conquest of France begins as the German army crosses the Meuse. Winston Churchill makes his "blood, toil, tears, and sweat" speech to the House of Commons. 1940 – Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands flees her country to Great Britain after the German invasion. Princess Juliana takes her children to Canada for their safety. 1941 – World War II: Yugoslav royal colonel Dragoljub Mihailović starts fighting against German occupation troops, beginning the Serbian resistance. 1943 – World War II: Operations Vulcan and Strike force the surrender of the last Axis troops in Tunisia. 1948 – Arab–Israeli War: The Kfar Etzion massacre is committed by Arab irregulars, the day before the declaration of independence of the state of Israel on May 14. 1950 – The first round of the Formula One World Championship is held at Silverstone. 1951 – The 400th anniversary of the founding of the National University of San Marcos is commemorated by the opening of the first large-capacity stadium in Peru. 1952 – The Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Parliament of India, holds its first sitting. 1954 – The anti-National Service Riots, by Chinese middle school students in Singapore, take place. 1954 – The original Broadway production of The Pajama Game opens and runs for another 1,063 performances. Later received three Tony Awards for Best Musical, Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical, and Best Choreography. 1958 – During a visit to Caracas, Venezuela, Vice President Richard Nixon's car is attacked by anti-American demonstrators. 1958 – May 1958 crisis: A group of French military officers lead a coup in Algiers demanding that a government of national unity be formed with Charles de Gaulle at its head in order to defend French control of Algeria. 1958 – Ben Carlin becomes the first (and only) person to circumnavigate the world by amphibious vehicle, having travelled over 17,000 kilometres (11,000 mi) by sea and 62,000 kilometres (39,000 mi) by land during a ten-year journey. 1960 – Hundreds of University of California, Berkeley students congregate for the first day of protest against a visit by the House Committee on Un-American Activities. 1967 – Dr. Zakir Husain becomes the third President of India. He is the first Muslim President of the Indian Union. He holds this position until August 24, 1969. 1969 – May 13 Incident involving sectarian violence in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 1971 – Over 900 unarmed Bengali Hindus are murdered in the Demra massacre. 1972 – Faulty electrical wiring ignites a fire underneath the Playtown Cabaret in Osaka, Japan. Blocked exits and non-functional elevators lead to 118 fatalities, with many victims leaping to their deaths. 1972 – The Troubles: A car bombing outside a crowded pub in Belfast sparks a two-day gun battle involving the Provisional IRA, Ulster Volunteer Force and British Army. Seven people are killed and over 66 injured. 1980 – An F3 tornado hits Kalamazoo County, Michigan. President Jimmy Carter declares it a federal disaster area. 1981 – Mehmet Ali Ağca attempts to assassinate Pope John Paul II in St. Peter's Square in Rome. The Pope is rushed to the Agostino Gemelli University Polyclinic to undergo emergency surgery and survives. 1985 – Police bombed MOVE headquarters in Philadelphia to end a stand-off, killing six adults and five children, and destroying the homes of 250 city residents. 1989 – Large groups of students occupy Tiananmen Square and begin a hunger strike. 1990 – The Dinamo–Red Star riot took place at Maksimir Stadium in Zagreb, Croatia between the Bad Blue Boys (fans of Dinamo Zagreb) and the Delije (fans of Red Star Belgrade). 1992 – Li Hongzhi gives the first public lecture on Falun Gong in Changchun, People's Republic of China. 1995 – Alison Hargreaves, a 33-year-old British mother, becomes the first woman to conquer Everest without oxygen or the help of sherpas. 1996 – Severe thunderstorms and a tornado in Bangladesh kill 600 people. 1998 – Race riots break out in Jakarta, Indonesia, where shops owned by Indonesians of Chinese descent are looted and women raped. 1998 – India carries out two nuclear weapon tests at Pokhran, following the three conducted on May 11. The United States and Japan impose economic sanctions on India. 2005 – Andijan uprising, Uzbekistan; Troops open fire on crowds of protestors after a prison break; at least 187 people were killed according to official estimates. 2006 – São Paulo violence: Rebellions occur in several prisons in Brazil. 2011 – Two bombs explode in the Charsadda District of Pakistan killing 98 people and wounding 140 others. 2012 – Forty-nine dismembered bodies are discovered by Mexican authorities on Mexican Federal Highway 40. 2013 – American physician Kermit Gosnell is found guilty in Pennsylvania of murdering three infants born alive during attempted abortions, involuntary manslaughter of a woman during an abortion procedure, and other charges. 2014 – An explosion at an underground coal mine in southwest Turkey kills 301 miners.

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Events 5.13

1373 – Julian of Norwich has visions which are later transcribed in her Revelations of Divine Love. 1515 – Mary Tudor, Queen of France and Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk are officially married at Greenwich. 1568 – Battle of Langside: The forces of Mary, Queen of Scots, are defeated by a confederacy of Scottish Protestants under James Stewart, Earl of Moray, her half-brother. 1619 – Dutch statesman Johan van Oldenbarnevelt is executed in The Hague after being convicted of treason. 1779 – War of the Bavarian Succession: Russian and French mediators at the Congress of Teschen negotiate an end to the war. In the agreement Austria receives the part of its territory that was taken from it (the Innviertel). 1780 – The Cumberland Compact is signed by leaders of the settlers in early Tennessee. 1787 – Captain Arthur Phillip leaves Portsmouth, England, with eleven ships full of convicts (the "First Fleet") to establish a penal colony in Australia. 1804 – Forces sent by Yusuf Karamanli of Tripoli to retake Derna from the Americans attack the city. 1830 – Ecuador gains its independence from Gran Colombia. 1846 – Mexican–American War: The United States declares war on Mexico. 1861 – American Civil War: Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom issues a "proclamation of neutrality" which recognizes the breakaway states as having belligerent rights. 1861 – The Great Comet of 1861 is discovered by John Tebbutt of Windsor, New South Wales, Australia. 1861 – Pakistan's (then a part of British India) first railway line opens, from Karachi to Kotri. 1862 – The USS Planter, a steamer and gunship, steals through Confederate lines and is passed to the Union, by a southern slave, Robert Smalls, who later was officially appointed as captain, becoming the first black man to command a United States ship. 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Resaca: The battle begins with Union General Sherman fighting toward Atlanta. 1865 – American Civil War: Battle of Palmito Ranch: In far south Texas, the last land battle of the Civil War ends with a Confederate victory. 1880 – In Menlo Park, New Jersey, Thomas Edison performs the first test of his electric railway. 1888 – With the passage of the Lei Áurea ("Golden Law"), Empire of Brazil abolishes slavery. 1909 – The first Giro d'Italia starts from Milan. Italian cyclist Luigi Ganna will be the winner. 1912 – The Royal Flying Corps, the forerunner of the Royal Air Force, is established in the United Kingdom. 1917 – Three children report the first apparition of Our Lady of Fátima in Fátima, Portugal. 1939 – The first commercial FM radio station in the United States is launched in Bloomfield, Connecticut. The station later becomes WDRC-FM. 1940 – World War II: Germany's conquest of France begins as the German army crosses the Meuse. Winston Churchill makes his "blood, toil, tears, and sweat" speech to the House of Commons. 1940 – Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands flees her country to Great Britain after the German invasion. Princess Juliana takes her children to Canada for their safety. 1941 – World War II: Yugoslav royal colonel Dragoljub Mihailović starts fighting with German occupation troops, beginning the Serbian resistance. 1943 – World War II: German Afrika Korps and Italian troops in North Africa surrender to Allied forces. 1948 – Arab–Israeli War: The Kfar Etzion massacre is committed by Arab irregulars, the day before the declaration of independence of the state of Israel on May 14. 1950 – The first round of the Formula One World Championship is held at Silverstone. 1951 – The 400th anniversary of the founding of the National University of San Marcos is commemorated by the opening of the first large-capacity stadium in Peru. 1952 – The Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Parliament of India, holds its first sitting. 1954 – The anti-National Service Riots, by Chinese middle school students in Singapore, take place. 1954 – The original Broadway production of The Pajama Game opens and runs for another 1,063 performances. Later received three Tony Awards for Best Musical, Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical, and Best Choreography. 1958 – During a visit to Caracas, Venezuela, Vice President Richard Nixon's car is attacked by anti-American demonstrators. 1958 – May 1958 crisis: A group of French military officers lead a coup in Algiers demanding that a government of national unity be formed with Charles de Gaulle at its head in order to defend French control of Algeria. 1958 – Ben Carlin becomes the first (and only) person to circumnavigate the world by amphibious vehicle, having travelled over 17,000 kilometres (11,000 mi) by sea and 62,000 kilometres (39,000 mi) by land during a ten-year journey. 1960 – Hundreds of University of California, Berkeley students congregate for the first day of protest against a visit by the House Committee on Un-American Activities. 1967 – Dr. Zakir Husain becomes the third President of India. He is the first Muslim President of the Indian Union. He holds this position until August 24, 1969. 1972 – Faulty electrical wiring ignites a fire underneath the Playtown Cabaret in Osaka, Japan. Blocked exits and non-functional elevators lead to 118 fatalities, with many victims leaping to their deaths. 1972 – The Troubles: A car bombing outside a crowded pub in Belfast sparks a two-day gun battle involving the Provisional IRA, Ulster Volunteer Force and British Army. Seven people are killed and over 66 injured. 1980 – An F3 tornado hits Kalamazoo County, Michigan. President Jimmy Carter declares it a federal disaster area. 1981 – Mehmet Ali Ağca attempts to assassinate Pope John Paul II in St. Peter's Square in Rome. The Pope is rushed to the Agostino Gemelli University Polyclinic to undergo emergency surgery and survives. 1985 – Police release a bomb on MOVE headquarters in Philadelphia to end a stand-off, killing 11 MOVE members and destroying the homes of 250 city residents. 1989 – Large groups of students occupy Tiananmen Square and begin a hunger strike. 1990 – The Dinamo–Red Star riot took place at Maksimir Stadium in Zagreb, Croatia between the Bad Blue Boys (fans of Dinamo Zagreb) and the Delije (fans of Red Star Belgrade). 1992 – Li Hongzhi gives the first public lecture on Falun Gong in Changchun, People's Republic of China. 1995 – Alison Hargreaves, a 33-year-old British mother, becomes the first woman to conquer Everest without oxygen or the help of sherpas. 1996 – Severe thunderstorms and a tornado in Bangladesh kill 600 people. 1998 – Race riots break out in Jakarta, Indonesia, where shops owned by Indonesians of Chinese descent are looted and women raped. 1998 – India carries out two nuclear tests at Pokhran, following the three conducted on May 11. The United States and Japan impose economic sanctions on India. 2005 – Andijan massacre: Troops open fire on peaceful protesters in Andijan, Uzbekistan; at least 187 protesters were killed according to official estimates. 2006 – São Paulo violence: Rebellions occurs in several prisons in Brazil. 2011 – Two bombs explode in the Charsadda District of Pakistan killing 98 people and wounding 140 others. 2012 – Forty-nine dismembered bodies are discovered by Mexican authorities on Mexican Federal Highway 40. 2014 – An explosion at an underground coal mine in south-western Turkey kills 301 miners.