Not so notable Holidays

[Trinity]

TODAY I woke up...

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Feb 3

Born- 1807 Joseph Eggleston Johnston General (Confederate Army), died in 1891
1817 Samuel Ryan Curtis Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1866
1824 George Thomas "Tige" Anderson Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
1824 Nathan George "Shanks" Evans Brigadier General (Confederacy), died in 1868
1831 Cyrus Ballou Comstock Brevet Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1910
1907 James A Michener New York NY, writer (Tales of the South Pacific, Centennial, Chesapeake, Hawaii, Space)
1920 Dr Henry Heimlich doctor/inventor (Heimlich maneuver)
1940 Fran Tarkenton Richmond VA, NFL quarterback (New York Giants, Minnesota Vikings)
1945 Bob Griese NFL quarterback (Miami Dolphins, 1971 Player of Year)

Died
1889 Belle Starr US female gangster, murdered at 40
1924 Woodrow Wilson 28th President (1913-21), dies at his home in Washington at 67
1959 The Big Bopper [Jiles Perry Richardson] rocker (Chantilly Lace), dies in a planein Iowa crash at 28
1959 Buddy Holly rocker (That'll be the Day), dies in a plane crashi Iowa at 22
1959 Richie Valens rock vocalist (Donna, La Bamba), killed in plane crash in Iowa at 17

1855 Wisconsin Supreme Court declares US Fugitive Slave Law unconstitutional
1860 Thomas Clemson takes office as 1st US superintendent of agriculture
1864 Sherman's march through Georgia
1865 Hampton Roads Peace Conference, Lincoln & Stephens reach an impasse 
1869 Booth theater at 23rd & 6th opens in New York NY (Romeo & Juliet)
1870 15th Amendment (Black suffrage) passed
1876 Albert Spalding with $800 starts sporting goods company, manufacturing 1st official baseball, tennis ball, basketball, golf ball, & football
1882 Circus owner PT Barnum buys his world famous elephant Jumbo
1887 To avoid disputed national elections, Congress creates Electoral Count Act

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Feb 4

Born- 1747 Tadeusz Kosciusko Poland, patriot, (New York Bridge)


1861 Confederate constitutional convention meets for 1st time, Montgomery AL, Georgia, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi & South Carolina elect Jefferson Davis President of Confederacy
1864 Skirmish at Big Black River Bridge, Mississippi

Official US Holiday
US : Kosciuszko Day

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Official US Holiday
US : Kosciuszko Day

Banks schools and the Post Office will be closed today.............


Who the #3** is Kosciouszko?



1887 To avoid disputed national elections, Congress creates Electoral Count Act


and further disrupted the elections

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1959 The Big Bopper [Jiles Perry Richardson] rocker (Chantilly Lace), dies in a planein Iowa crash at 28
1959 Buddy Holly rocker (That'll be the Day), dies in a plane crashi Iowa at 22
1959 Richie Valens rock vocalist (Donna, La Bamba), killed in plane crash in Iowa at 17




"the day the music died"....................American Pie

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Official US Holiday
US : Kosciuszko Day

Banks schools and the Post Office will be closed today.............


Who the #3** is Kosciouszko?

1746 – 1817) was a Polish, Belarusian and Lithuanian national hero, general and a leader of 1794 uprising (which bears his name) against the Russian Empire. He fought in the American Revolutionary War as a colonel in the Continental Army on the side of Washington. In recognition of his dedicated and faithful service he was brevetted by the Continental Congress to the rank of Brigadier General in 1783, and became a naturalized citizen of the United States that same year.

Kościuszko was recruited in France by Silas Deane and Benjamin Franklin and in August 1776 he arrived in America. He initially served as a volunteer but Congress later commissioned him a Colonel of Engineers in the Continental Army on October 18, 1776. Due to the recommendation of Prince Adam Kazimierz Czartoryski and General Charles Lee, Kościuszko was named head engineer of the Continental Army.

He was sent to Pennsylvania for his work with the Continental Army. Shortly after arriving, he read the Declaration of Independence. Kościuszko was moved by the document because it encompassed everything in which he believed; he was so moved, in fact, that he decided to meet Thomas Jefferson, the author of the Declaration. The two met in Virginia a few months later. After spending the day discussing philosophy, and other things they shared in common, they became very close friends. Kościuszko was a guest at Monticello, on many occasions, and spent prolonged visits there.

Kościuszko's first task in America was the fortification of Philadelphia. On September 24, 1776, Kościuszko was ordered to fortify the banks of the Delaware River against a possible British crossing. In the spring of 1777 he was attached to the Northern Army under General Horatio Gates. As the chief engineer of the army he commanded the construction of several forts and fortified military camps along the Canadian border. His work made significant contributions to the American successful retreat from the battle of Ticonderoga and victory at Saratoga in 1777.

After the battle, Kościuszko, then regarded as one of the best engineers in American service, was put in charge by George Washington of military engineering works at the stronghold in West Point on the Hudson River. Then he asked to be transferred to the Southern Army, where he also made significant contributions to the American victories.

After seven years of service, on October 13, 1783, Kościuszko was promoted by the Congress to the rank of Brigadier General. He was also granted American citizenship, 2.5 square kilometres of land in America, and a large sum of money. He used the money to help some black slaves gain their freedom. He was also admitted to the prestigious Society of the Cincinnati, one of only three foreigners allowed to join, and to the American Philosophical Society.

As a national hero of both Poland and the USA, Kościuszko became the namesake of numerous places in the world. The Polish explorer Count Paweł Edmund Strzelecki named the highest mountain in Australia, Mount Kosciuszko, for him. Nowadays the mountain is the central point of the Kosciuszko National Park.

He is also the namesake of Kosciusko, Mississippi, Kosciusko County in Indiana, the two Kosciuszko Bridges in New York State (one just north of Albany, the other on the Brooklyn Queens Expressway), Kosciuszko Street (BMT Jamaica Line), the Kosciuszko Bridge that crosses the Naugatuck river in Naugatuck, Connecticut, Kosciuszko Park across from the Polish Basilica of St. Josaphat in Milwaukee, Wisconsin contains an equestrian statue honoring him, and Thaddeus Kosciusko Way in downtown Los Angeles. There is a statue of him in Detroit, one in Boston Public Garden, one in Scranton, Pennsylvania, one in Museum Campus in Chicago, one in Lafayette Park in Washington, D.C., and, as of 2006, one in the Red Bud Springs Memorial Park in Kosciusko, Mississippi. His home in Philadelphia is preserved as Thaddeus Kosciuszko National Memorial.

"As pure a son of liberty as I have ever known," said Thomas Jefferson about Kościuszko.

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   Well hell he did more than some Preseedints  did..............

[Silver Creek Slim]

Some Presidents weren't worth their salt. 

Slim

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Some Presidents weren't worth their salt. 

Slim

Being a cani date meownself, I didn't want to get in to name calling yet

[Silver Creek Slim]

Feb 3
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1882 Circus owner PT Barnum buys his world famous elephant Jumbo
...

My girls read this. Now, they are getting ready to do a circus performance.

Slim

[Four-Eyed Buck]

Just be careful with the trapieze, Slim..................Buck

[Silver Creek Slim]

No trapeze just acrobats. 

Slim

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Good thing they ain't reinacting the Civil War what with all the General's birthdays lately, that could be a big mess Slim,
BP smoke ever'where in tha house 

[Silver Creek Slim]

Good thing they ain't reinacting the Civil War what with all the General's birthdays lately, that could be a big mess Slim,
BP smoke ever'where in tha house 

Thats fer sure. I'm a bit impartial to smoke in da haus.

It's intermission time. The cast is during a wardrobe change.

Slim

[Four-Eyed Buck]

We had a cast overnight, Slim. Them wardrobe changes is a mess, girls can be real messy.........Buck

[Trinity]

No trapeze just acrobats. 

Slim

No monkeys?

The B&B Ringling bros. circus is in town here this weekend.

[Silver Creek Slim]

I have 5 monkeys. They're called children. 

Slim

[Delmonico]

My ex hated BP smoke in the house.  Years ago on a bullfrog shoot my brother loaded a ball and no powder in my Remmie, didn't have the nipple wrench with us.  Got home and took off the nipple filled the chamber, took it to the dirt cellar under the house you had to go through an outside door to get to.  touched er off inta the floor.  Smoke went up through the furnace vents.

[Trinity]

I have 5 monkeys. They're called children. 

Slim

That's what I thought.

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Feb 5
Born- 1918 Charles John "Tim" Holt Beverly Hills CA, actor (Treasure of Sierra Madre, Stagecoach, Hitler's Children)

1736 Methodists John & Charles Wesley arrive in Savannah GA
1777 Georgia becomes 1st US state to abolish both entail & primogeniture
1778 Articles of Confederation ratified by 1st state, South Carolina
1861 Louisiana delegation except Mr Bouligny withdraws from Congress
1861 1st moving picture peep show machine is patented by Samuel Goodale of Cincinnati
1864 Federals occupy Jackson MS
1865 Battle of Hatcher's Run, VA (Armstrong's Mill, Dabney's Mill)
1870 1st motion picture shown to a theater audience, Philadelphia
1887 Snow falls on San Francisco

Holiday
World wide : Boy Scouts Day (1910)