Very Important Day In History

[Leo Tanner]

On this day in history I married a hot blonde chick who likes ta shoot guns


Leo

[Lucky Irish Tom]

Nobody's gonna top that one for the day Leo! 

[Four-Eyed Buck]

I can't think of anything
Congratulations, Leo and Miz Lily

[Steel Horse Bailey]

I can't think of anything
Congratulations, Leo and Miz Lily

I'll drink to that!

[Leo Tanner]

Thanks guys
     Ain't a whole lot that went on taday other than the coining of this little quote...

"I know of no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution." — Ulysses S. Grant, U.S. President.
     
     I see the wisdom in this but hopefully we won't have ta go there with the 2nd ammendment.

     Other than that, the Library of Congress was established taday--always wanted ta go there.


Leo

[Texas Lawdog]

OT, This one's for you.   On April 25, 1864 CSA Forces under General James Fagan capture a Union wagontrain trying to supply Union forces in Camden, Arkansas.Union General Fredrick Steele is forced to retreat back to Little Rock.

[Texas Lawdog]

Also on the 25th of April, 1945,  US and Soviet forces meet at the Elbe, River in Germany.

[Leo Tanner]

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/apr28.html

This stuff may interest some.


Leo

[Texas Lawdog]

My Great Grandmother on my Dad's side of the family made the Kand Run to the Oklahoma Panhandle and settled in Texhoma, Oklahoma.  I got to meet "Tex" Hill several years ago on a SW flight to Midland from Love Field in Dallas. Tex was one of the "Flying Tigers".  One of my wife's teacher friend's father was one of Pappy Boyington's "Black Sheep". He broke one of Pappy's legs in a wrestling match. I have be fortunate to be a member of the Commenrative Air Force.  I got meet Paul Tibbits who flew the "enola Gay".  Capt Bob Morgan who flew the "Memphis Belle", and George Gay who was the only survivor of Torpedo Squadron 8 in the Battle of Midway.

[Leo Tanner]

Wow!
     They are all special men.  That's quite a list to have had personel contact with.
My lucky lighter...

[Four-Eyed Buck]

TLD, There's several names in that list that I've read about since I was a kid. I would've loved to have met them in person.........Buck

[Leo Tanner]

MAY DAY MAY DAY.

Here's an interestin tid-bit
In 1942... Squadron No. 588 of the Soviet Air Force, an all-woman night-bombing unit equipped with Polikarpov Po-2 biplanes, is formed in the USSR. (AYY)


Leo

[Delmonico]

MAY DAY MAY DAY.

Here's an interestin tid-bit
In 1942... Squadron No. 588 of the Soviet Air Force, an all-woman night-bombing unit equipped with Polikarpov Po-2 biplanes, is formed in the USSR. (AYY)


Leo

The night witches the Germans called them,they'ed find camps by the fires, cut the engines, glide over and straf the camp with MG's.

[Texas Lawdog]

On this Day in 1945, the German  troops inItaly surrender to the Allies and the Germans surrender Berlin to the Russians.

[Arcey]

Born this day 1885 – Gabby Hayes.

[Silver Creek Slim]

He was a good one.

Slim

[litl rooster]

I'd have to agree with you Slim, some them movies wouldn't have been right with out Gabby or Jingles or Slim and the other sidekicks

[Texas Lawdog]

What about Smiley Burnett and Dub Taylor?

[Ozark Tracker]

On this day in History, Judge Isaac Parker held his first court in Ft. Smith, Ark.


During his 21 years on the bench at Fort Smith, Judge Parker sentenced 160 men to die and hanged 79 of them. It didn't take Parker long to get going. On May 10, 1875 -- only 8 days after he arrived at Fort Smith -- he opened his first term of court. Eighteen persons came before him charged with murder and 15 were convicted. Eight of them were sentenced to die on the gallows on September 3, 1875. One was killed trying to escape and a second had his sentence commuted to life in prison because of his youth.

The hanging of the remaining 6 became an extraordinary media event for its times. Newspapermen came from Little Rock, St. Louis and Kansas City. Many of the large Eastern and Northern daily newspapers sent reporters to cover the event. Even strangers from abroad filtered into the city a week before the execution. More than 5,000 persons saw the condemned men marched from jail to the gallows. There were 3 Whites, 2 Indians, and one Negro. The 6 felons were seated on a bench along the back of the gallows and their death warrants were read to them. Each was asked if he had any last words. The preliminaries over, the 6 were lined up on the scaffold while executioner George Maledon adjusted the nooses around their necks. The trap was sprung and the 6 died all at once at the end of the ropes.

[Texas Lawdog]

That kinda sounds like "Hang Em High".