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Cincydawg · « **Reply #3822 on:** August 26, 2024, 07:18:41 AM »

1962, around here somewhere. I was musing about how few "independent" small restaurants exist today in the US. The "chain model" obviously is very successful, I imagine they get good rates on food from SYSCO et al. And they have a "System" for each chain to emulate. But an indie looks like it could be more fun.

MrNubbz · « **Reply #3823 on:** August 26, 2024, 08:19:02 AM »

1346 Battle of Crécy: Edward III's English longbows defeat Philip VI's army south of Calais in northern France, cannons are used for the first time in battle

1682 English astronomer Edmond Halley first observes the comet named after him

1691 Charles Perrault's poem "The Marquise of Salusses or the Patience of Griselidis" read aloud at the French Academy, later attached to his "Tales of Mother Goose" (1697)

1748 First Lutheran denomination in North America, the Pennsylvania Ministerium, is founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

1791 John Fitch granted US patent for his working steamboat

1843 American inventor Charles Thurber patents a typewriter

1863 Battle of Rocky Gap, West Virginia (White Sulphur Springs): Colonel George S. Patton's Confederate forces defeat Union brigade advance

1895 Electric generator at Niagara Falls produces first power

1898 - Cleveland plays its final home game of the season and only the fourth at League Park since July ninth. With 83 of its final 87 games on the road, the Spiders have earned nicknames such as the Nomads, Exiles, Misfits and Wanderers

1916 Philadelphia Athletic's Bullet Joe Bush no-hits Cleveland, 5-0

1939 - Ebbets Field is the site of the first telecast of a major league baseball game. The Reds play the Dodgers in a doubleheader. Red Barber handles the broadcasts over W2XBS. The Dodgers take the first game 6-2, and the Reds take the second 5-1.

1942 Japanese troops land on Milne Bay, New Guinea

1942 Soviet counter offensive begins in Moscow

1944 US 12nd Army Corps crosses river Seine East of Paris

1945 Japanese diplomats board USS Missouri to receive instructions on Japan's surrender at the end of WWII

1968 "Hey Jude" single released by the Beatles in US (Billboard Song of the Year 1968, Billboard 10th biggest song of all time 2013)

1972 - Leo Durocher, formerly of the Cubs, replaces Harry Walker as manager of the Astros. It is only the second time someone has managed two National League teams in the same season. The first was in 1948, when Durocher piloted the Dodgers and the Giants.

1973 University of Texas (Arlington) is first accredited school to offer belly dancing

1977 Ian Dury releases the single "Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll"

1985 French government denies knowledge of bombing of the Greenpeace flagship the Rainbow Warrior in Auckland New Zealand

1990 - In his first game after six weeks on the disabled list, Bo Jackson homers in his first at-bat to tie a major league record with four consecutive homers.

1992 - In the first matchup of National League knuckleballers in ten years, Pittsburgh's Tim Wakefield outduels Tom Candiotti of the Dodgers. The last time knuckleballs floated to batters on both teams came when Phil and Joe Niekro squared off in 1982

2023 Longest alligator ever recorded in Mississippi at 14ft, 3in, captured in Sunflower River, weighing 802.5 pounds

2023 Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa "The Crocodile" elected to a second term amid claims of vote-rigging

Cincydawg · « **Reply #3824 on:** August 26, 2024, 08:24:26 AM »

The Soviet counteroffensive was enabled, in part, but the Sorge spy ring they had in Japan. The two countries had a conflict in the late 1930s, and the Soviets feared an attack on that front. Sorge let them know it was not being planned. So, the Russians could move some very good troops from Asia to Moscow, troops equipped for cold weather. The Germans largely were not. The Germans got quite the scare, but dug in under Hitler's orders, and weathered the storm, mostly.

MrNubbz · « **Reply #3825 on:** August 27, 2024, 11:55:16 AM »

1874 Carl Bosch, German chemist (BASF, Nobel 1931), born in Cologne, German Empire (d. 1940)

1776 British defeat Americans in Battle of Long Island

1877 Charles Rolls, British aviator and auto manufacturer who co-founded Rolls Royce, born in Berkeley Square, London

1782 Battle of the Combahee River near Beaufort, South Carolina, American abolitionist John Laurens is killed leading the charge

1798 Battle of Castlebar, Ireland: French army and Irish rebels rout a larger the British force

1813 Battle of Dresden; Napoleon defeats Austrians

1859 First successful oil well drilled near Titusville, Pennsylvania, by Edwin Drake

1883 Krakatoa volcano, located west of Java in Indonesia, erupts with a force of 200 megatons of TNT, killing approximately 40,000 people

1896 Britain defeats Zanzibar in a 38-minute war (9:02 AM-9:40 AM). Shortest recorded war in history.

1908 Lyndon B. Johnson 36th US President (Democrat: 1963-69), born in Stonewall, Texas

1913 Swedish engineer Gideon Sundback of Hoboken applies to patent all-purpose zipper

1917 Cleveland Indians set club record by stealing eight bases in a game

1918 Spanish flu arrives in Boston, beginning of the second wave and deadliest wave in the US

1921 J.E. Clair of Acme Packing Co. of Green Bay is granted an NFL franchise

Ira Levin 1929 - American author (Rosemary Baby, Boys From Brazil, This Perfect Day), born in New York City

1939 Erich Warsitz in a Heinkel He-178 makes the 1st manned jet-propelled flight, with a turbo engine designed by Hans von Ohain

1942 Cuba declares war on Germany, Japan, and Italy

1938 New York Yankees pitcher Monte Pearson no-hits Cleveland Indians, 13-0; Joe DiMaggio hits 3 triples

1948 102°F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in August

1955 "Guinness Book of World Records" is first published

1955 Sandy Koufax fans 14 Reds, both teams combine for record 23 strikeouts

1966 Oakland pitcher Paul Lindblad begins a 385-game consecutive errorless streak

1958 Sergei Krikalev, Russian cosmonaut, stranded in space for 311 days when the Soviet Union fell, born in Leningrad, Soviet Union

1977 Toby Harrah and Bump Wills hit back-to-back inside-the-park-homers off Yankee Ken Clay at Yankee Stadium, Rangers won 8-2

1978 MLB Cincinnati Reds Joe Morgan is 1st to hit 200 HRs & have 500 stolen bases

1982 Rickey Henderson steals 119th base of season breaks Lou Brock's mark

1995 95th US Golf Amateur Championship won by Tiger Woods

2008 US Senator Barack Obama becomes the first African-American to be nominated by a major political party for President of the United States, by the Democratic Party

Gigem · « **Reply #3826 on:** August 27, 2024, 01:02:44 PM »

Quote from: FearlessF on August 19, 2024, 08:31:13 AM

THIS DAY IN HISTORY:
American Outlaw John Wesley Hardin Shot Dead (1895)
Hardin was an American desperado who claimed to have killed 42 men, one of them allegedly for snoring. He became a gambler and a gunman very early in life, but his friends and gunfighting skills helped him evade the authorities until 1877, when he was sentenced to 25 years for killing a sheriff. He studied law in prison and was released after serving 16 years. Pardoned in 1894, he passed the bar exam and began to practice law, but a local constable shot him to death a year later

My wife claims Hardin as distant Kin. Without any evidence, of course.

MrNubbz · « **Reply #3827 on:** August 27, 2024, 01:05:23 PM »

Well just keep the shootin' irons locked up in case

Gigem · « **Reply #3828 on:** August 27, 2024, 01:14:44 PM »

Quote from: Cincydawg on August 26, 2024, 08:24:26 AM

The Soviet counteroffensive was enabled, in part, but the Sorge spy ring they had in Japan. The two countries had a conflict in the late 1930s, and the Soviets feared an attack on that front. Sorge let them know it was not being planned. So, the Russians could move some very good troops from Asia to Moscow, troops equipped for cold weather. The Germans largely were not. The Germans got quite the scare, but dug in under Hitler's orders, and weathered the storm, mostly.

It bewilders me to this day that the Germans were not "equipped for the cold". Looking at any map, Germany is about in line with Canada or the very northern US. Hell, it looks like it's mid-Canada to me. WTF were they equipped for, if not winter?
I mean, I get it that Russia is even further North, but it just boggles my mind.

Gigem · « **Reply #3829 on:** August 27, 2024, 01:20:02 PM »

Size and latitude of Germany:

utee94 · « **Reply #3830 on:** August 27, 2024, 01:30:06 PM »

The Jet Stream and the Gulf Stream keep European countries warmer than their latitude-equivalent counterparts along the east side of the North American continent.

That said, Germany does get cold in the winter and they probably should have known that Russia gets even colder...

I'd guess it's the result of a logistical issue. The army's supply chain wasn't capable of supporting the German Leadership's desired plan of execution, and the Leaders were either not told by their subordinates for fear of reprisal, or they ignored whatever their logistics planning team told them.

FearlessF · « **Reply #3831 on:** August 27, 2024, 03:30:58 PM »

Quote from: MrNubbz on August 26, 2024, 08:19:02 AM

1973 University of Texas (Arlington) is first accredited school to offer belly dancing

I'll ask my brother if it's still offered

Cincydawg · « **Reply #3832 on:** August 27, 2024, 03:40:38 PM »

The Wehrmacht was supposed to win the war before winter hit, so there had been no provisions made for winter gear. It's not an easy thing to come up with coats and boots for millions of troops some thousand miles away from your production facilities. You need lead time. By August, it appeared to many that the Soviet Union was done for, Guderian had pivoted from his offensive east t Moscow to turn south and cut off a major Russian army around Kiev. Then he pivoted back and made an effort to take Moscow which fell a bit short, and then they were counterattacked

Often, they had to build fires under their vehicles to keep the oil from solidifying. Aside from coats, the needed winter oil which was not available. The Russian railroads were a different gauge so that had to be fixed, and then the Ukrainians which had hailed them as savoirs turned against the Germans. So, you had partisan attacks springing up.

Hitler was largely surrounded by sycophants, any who weren't usually didn't last long. They told him what he wanted to hear. The idea of a russian counteroffensive was viewed as impossible. This really bit them the next year in Stalingrad.

FearlessF · « **Reply #3833 on:** August 27, 2024, 03:43:30 PM »

Quote from: Gigem on August 27, 2024, 01:14:44 PM

It bewilders me to this day that the Germans were not "equipped for the cold".

I think they were in a gawl darned hurry
didn't have time to pack the long underwear and wool socks
also a little over confident and thought they'd over run 'em before the real cold stuff hit

Cincydawg · « **Reply #3834 on:** August 27, 2024, 03:46:54 PM »

The Germans overran France basically in two weeks, if you don't count two more weeks to "tidy up the remainder". Poland took longer. They were full of themselves at that point. France had a very strong army, on paper, larger than the German army even without the British component.

It would be as if say Nebraska came out and demolished their first five opponents and then lost to Appy State in a shocker.

FearlessF · « **Reply #3835 on:** August 27, 2024, 04:50:11 PM »

that was Michigan!

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