Boise City, Oklahoma was the only US city to be bombed in World War II. A disoriented B17 crew accidentaly dropped practice bombs on the town on July 5, 1943.
The floor of Lake Michigan and others of the Great Lakes still contain many B17s and other aircraft crashed during flight and carrier training during World War II; there was once an active salvage market until the U.S. decided to assert its right to ownership of all recovered wrecked aircraft.
The *Edmund Fitzgerald *sank in Lake Superior in 1975.
Edmund fitz Thomas of the FitzGerald family became the 14th Black Knight (or Knight of Glin) when his grandfather, the 13th Knight, died in 1572. The first Black Knight was Sean Mor na Sursainge, a bastard son of the 13th-century Baron of Desmond.
The hereditary Irish title of Knight of Glin became extinct in 2011 when Desmond FitzGerald, the 29th Knight, died without male issue.
Not quite: http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~keller/news/work/p3.html
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Edward FitzGerald, County Executive of Cuyahoga County, Ohio (the greater Cleveland area) is the only announced Democratic candidate for Governor of Ohio in next year’s election.
Genealogists announced today that Paul Mulcair, Leader of the Official Opposition in the Canadian House Commons by virtue of being leader of the New Democratic Party, is a 9th cousin of Justin Trudeau, candidate for the leadership of the third party in the Commons, the Liberals. Both are descended from a husband and wife couple who lived in New France in the 17th century.
Harry Truman won election to the U.S. Presidency in his own right in 1948, defeating Republican nominee George Dewey, despite the Democratic Party being split three ways. He had the nomination of the largest faction, but Henry Wallace (Progressive Party) and Strom Thurmond (States’ Rights “Dixiecrat” Party) were also on the ballot in November that year.
Geroge Dewey, who won the Battle of Manila Bay, was promoted to Admiral of the Navy and was the only U.S. officer ever to hold this rank. It is considered a “six-star” rank, though Dewey’s insignia had 4 stars and two anchors. He was 4th cousin 1x removed of the Governor [del]George[/del]Thomas Dewey who ran for President.
General of the Armies of the United States,(a six star rank) or more commonly referred to as General of the Armies, is the highest possible officer rank of the United States Army, serving directly under the president and holding nearly complete control over armed forces and uniformed services branches.
Only two men have held the rank of General of the Armies:
John J. Pershing in 1919 to honor his service in World War I
George Washington in 1976, as part of the American bicentennial celebrations, to commemorate his leadership and involvement in the founding of the United States.
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USS George Washington (SSBN-598) was the US Navy’s first ballistic missile submarine, having been built to handle the Polaris ICBM. She was converted while under construction from an attack submarine that would have been named USS Scorpion, a name reassigned to another boat that “went on eternal patrol” in the Atlantic a few years later. George Washington’s sail was removed when she was scrapped and now is on exhibit at the Submarine Force Library and Museum at New London, Connecticut.
George Washington, a notoriously terse diarist, actually recorded all the barbecues he attended or hosted. For example, the entire entry for August 4, 1769, reads: “Dined at the Barbicue with a great deal of other Company and stayd there till Sunset.” And another one-liner: “Went in to Alexandria to a Barbecue and stayed all Night.” As our first president, he was also responsible for our first presidential barbecue.
George Washington Plunkitt, a leader of New York City’s corrupt Tammany Hall Democratic party machine, is remembered best for his quote, “I seen my opportunities, and I Took 'em.”
The Tammany Hall organization ran New York from before the Civil War until after World War II. Though William Marcy Tweed is the best-known of its leaders, it survived Tweed easily under “Honest John” Kelly, Richard Croker, and Charles Murphy. Tammany Hall was an actual building, and one of the few venues in NYC where political meetings could be held. Since the organization controlled the hall, they could control other organizations, who had no place to organize.
Political cartoonist Thomas Nast is famous for a series of withering portraits of Tweed and his cronies. When the law was finally in the process of catching up with the gang, Tweed tried to escape overseas, first taking a ship to Spain, with whom the US had an extradition agreement. Spanish authorities, using Nast’s portraits as a guide, were able to recognize and arrest Tweed the moment he got off the ship.
Erik Larson’s Thunderstruck describes not only the broad history of Guglielmo Marconi’s pioneering of wireless telegraphy, but the murder by Dr. Hawley Crippen of his wife in London and his attempted escape to Canada. Although anyone in the English-speaking world with an interest in lurid reporting knew he was on the Canadian Pacific liner SS Montrose, thanks to wireless, its passengers, including Crippen’s girlfriend, were not informed until he was arrested upon docking in Quebec City.
Between 1973 and 1975, Sammy Hagar was lead singer for the hard rock band Montrose. He worked as a solo artist for a decade after that, before replacing David Lee Roth in Van Halen.
Eddie and Alex Van Halen’s father, Jan Van Halen, was a musician as well . He played the clarinet on the Van Halen song “Big Bad Bill (Is Sweet William Now)”
In the TV show The Courtship of Eddie’s Father, Brandon Cruz played Eddie.
In 1973, the St. Louis Cardinals fielded an outfield of three brothers: Tommy, Hector, and Jose Cruz. This was the second and last time it happened in MLB.
When Hector Boiardi began canning his own line of pastas and sauces, he feared that Americans would not be able to pronounce his name correctly, so he spelled it phonetically on the label: Chef Boy-ar-dee."