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I was today years old when I learned that several of my relatives (grandfather and great grandfather) were named for a martyr of the Revolutionary War. Crazy.

I've been trying to research something that I think is similar in my ancestry.  One of my ancestors from NW PA was born in the 1820s and named "Perry".  Given that the family had lived in NW PA for quite some time my best guess is that his father served in the US Navy on the Great Lakes under Commodore Perry and named his kid for the Commodore but I can't actually find anything to support that theory other than the circumstances.  

In the meantime I'll have a beer at Put-In-Bay in celebration of Commodore Perry's and (probably) my ancestor's victory over the British at the Battle of Lake Erie!  

1682 English Quaker William Penn founds Philadelphia, in the Pennsylvania Colony

1812 War of 1812 begins when the US declares war against Britain

1864 Siege of Petersburg: Ulysses S. Grant ends four days of assaults and begins a nine month siege

1911 Detroit Tigers trail Chicago White Sox, 13-1 at Bennett Park, Detroit; recover to win, 16-15 for the biggest comeback in Major League Baseball history

1928 American aviator Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean (as a passenger), landing at Burry Port, Wales

1940 Winston Churchill gives his "This was their finest hour" speech to the House of Commons, urging perseverance in the war after the Dunkirk evacuation and the fall of France

1947 Gene Roddenberry survives plane crash in the Syrian Desert while working for Pan American World Airways

1950 Cleveland Indians score an American League record 14 runs in 1st inning; beat Philadelphia A's, 21-2 at Cleveland Stadium

1967 Closing day of the Monterey International Pop Festival, Southern California, featuring first major US appearances of Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, The Who, and Otis Redding

1967 Jimi Hendrix and Pete Townsend wage a battle of guitars at the Monetery Pop Festival

1977 Billy Martin and Reggie Jackson get into a dugout altercation

THIS DAY IN HISTORY:

Garfield Debuts (1978)
When Garfield debuted in 1978, the comic strip appeared in just 41 newspapers. Today, Jim Davis's strip about a lazy, sarcastic cat and his lonely owner, Jon Arbuckle, is syndicated in more than 2,500 papers with a readership of more than 200 million people. The feline who loves lasagna and hates Mondays has spawned books, movies, and merchandise, which are sold in more than 100 countries and earn nearly $1 billion each year.

The cold, star-forming molecular cloud TMC-1 using the Green Bank Telescope as part of the GOTHAM project. Cyanocoronene is a type of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH), a class of molecules believed to play a crucial role in cosmic chemistry and the origins of life.
Researchers first synthesized the molecule in the lab to obtain its spectral fingerprint, then matched it to radio emissions from TMC-1. Its detection—with a confidence level of 17.3 sigma—is not only significant in size but also in abundance, rivaling smaller PAHs already known in space. This challenges assumptions that larger molecules are rare in the interstellar medium.
The finding supports the PAH hypothesis, linking these stable carbon-rich compounds to mysterious infrared emissions across the galaxy, and potentially to the raw materials that seeded planets and life. It also suggests that complex organic chemistry can occur even before stars are born, opening new doors in our search for life's cosmic origins. The discovery was published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.

THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 
Japanese Submarine Attacks US Mainland (1942)
With the exception of the attack on Pearl Harbor, the US was able to largely avoid fighting WWII on home soil, mainly because of its relative geographical isolation. However, Japan attacked the West Coast of the US several times. In 1942, a Japanese submarine fired at Fort Stevens in Oregon in the first and only attack on a mainland US military installation during the war. The shells damaged phone cables and a baseball backstop, but the fort's gunners were ordered not to return fire.

1879 Frank Winfield Woolworth opens his first successful "Woolworth's Great Five Cent Store" on North Queen Street, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

1893 First Ferris wheel opens at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois

1894 Workers in Pittsburgh strike Pullman sleeping car company

1915 Anti-British revolt in South Africa ends with arrest of General De Law

1916 Mexican troops defeat US expeditionary force under General Pershing

1919 The German Navy, feeling betrayed by the terms of the Versailles Treaty, scuttles most of its ships interned at Great Britain's Scapa Flow Naval base in the Orkney Islands

1939 NY Yankees announce Lou Gehrig's retirement after doctors reveal he has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

1942 Germany's Panzer Army led by Erwin Rommel takes Tobruk in Libya, North Africa

1945 US defeat Japanese forces on Okinawa

1946 Bill Veeck buys MLB baseball team Cleveland Indians for $2.2 million


1950 Joe DiMaggio gets his 2,000th hit, a 7th-inning single off Chick Pieretti, in a 8-2 victory over Cleveland

1956 Oriole Connie Johnson beats WS Jack Harshman (1-0) in dual 1 hitters

1978 The British Army shoots dead 3 Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers and a passing Ulster Volunteer Force member at a postal depot on Ballysillan Road, Belfast; it is claimed that the PIRA volunteers were about to launch a bomb attack

1982 John Hinckley, Jr is found not guilty by reason of insanity of 1981 attempted assassination of US President Ronald Reagan

THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 

College Board Administers the First SAT Exam (1926)
The SAT is a standardized test used in college admissions in the US. Developed by Carl Brigham, a Princeton psychologist who worked on the US Army's IQ test, the first Scholastic Aptitude Test was administered in 1926 to over 8,000 test-takers—60% of whom were male. Criticized as being biased toward whites, males, and the middle class, the exam has been modified over the years to improve fairness. Still, its value as a predictor of success in college is debated.