Sliding into Friday like we are on a muddy NE Colorado dirt road. Last show from Mountain time and I am excited to get caught up on some sleep. Finishing off a pound of GSD Blend to start my Friday right. I tell the story of the last 3 miles of our trip yesterday and give away 10k statoshi. First up The Perfect Cup Question “What’s one thing that bothers you most about the world today?” followed by LOTS of History put together by Pip at Ducktioncups.
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May 21
Yesterday had Colt and Glock’s Birthday, today has a few western nuggets, among a few other items of interest.
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- 1861 – American Civil War: First Battle of Bull Run: At Manassas Junction, Virginia, the first major battle of the war begins and ends in a victory for the Confederate army.
he Union Army was slow in positioning themselves, allowing Confederate reinforcements time to arrive by rail.
Each side had about 18,000 poorly trained and poorly led troops.
The battle was a Confederate victory and was followed by a disorganized post-battle retreat of the Union forces.
Pip’s notes – did they call it the Battle of Bull Run… or the 1st battle of bu… I’ll just stop now..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Battle_of_Bull_Run
- 1865 – In the market square of Springfield, Missouri, Wild Bill Hickok shoots and kills Davis Tutt in what is regarded as the first western showdown.
It is one of the few recorded instances in the Old West of a one-on-one pistol quick-draw duel in a public place, in the manner later made iconic by countless dime novels, radio dramas, and Western films such as High Noon.
The first story of the shootout was detailed in an article in Harper’s Magazine in 1867, making Hickok a household name and folk hero
Pip’s notes – A cut&paste from legends of America website –
Though movies and television would like us to believe otherwise, it was very rare when gunfights occurred with the two gunfighters squarely facing each other from a distance in a dusty street. This romanticized image of the Old West gunfight was born in the dime novels of the late 19th century and perpetuated in the film era to such a point that this fictional version is what our mind’s eye quickly conjures up when we hear the word “gunfight.” In actuality, the “real” gunfights of the Old West were rarely that “civilized.”
https://www.legendsofamerica.com/old-west-gunfights/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hickok%E2%80%93Tutt_shootout
- 1873 – At Adair, Iowa, Jesse James and the James–Younger Gang pull off the first successful train robbery in the American Old West.
the gang carried out what was arguably the first train robbery west of the Mississippi River, derailing a locomotive of the Rock Island Railroad near Adair, Iowa. Engineer John Rafferty died in the crash. The outlaws took $2,337 from the express safe in the baggage car, having narrowly missed a transcontinental express shipment of a large amount of cash.
Pip’s notes – later that year…. – On November 24, John Newman Edwards published a lengthy glorification of the James brothers, Cole and John Younger, and Arthur McCoy, in a twenty-page special supplement to his newspaper the St. Louis Dispatch.
Most of the supplement, entitled “A Terrible Quintet,” was devoted to Jesse James, the gang’s public face, and the article stressed their Confederate loyalties.
Pip’s notes – The value of $2,337 in 1873 would be $59,419.94 in 2023 worth.
https://www.in2013dollars.com/us/inflation/1873?amount=2337
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%E2%80%93Younger_Gang
- 1904 – Louis Rigolly, a Frenchman, becomes the first man to break the 100 mph (161 km/h) barrier on land. He drove a 15-liter Gobron-Brillié in Ostend, Belgium.
He covered a 1 kilometre course in 21.6 seconds, beating Belgian Pierre de Caters mark of 97.25 mph (156.51 km/h), set the previous May over the same 1 kilometre course in Ostend. The record stood for just three months.
Pip’s notes – 15 liter engine for 100mph… When I got out of riding motorcycles, the average new 600cc Sportbike was easily capable of 150mph+
aah, a few years and a few gears ago… anyway
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Rigolly
- 1925 – Malcolm Campbell becomes the first man to exceed 150 mph (241 km/h) on land. At Pendine Sands in Wales, he drives Sunbeam 350HP built by Sunbeam at a two-way average speed of 150.33 mph (242 km/h)
a British racing motorist and motoring journalist. He gained the world speed record on land and on water at various times, using vehicles called Blue Bird, including a 1921 Grand Prix Sunbeam. His son, Donald Campbell, carried on the family tradition by holding both land speed and water speed records.
Pip’s notes – At the outbreak of the First World War, Campbell initially enlisted as a motorcycle dispatch rider and fought at the Battle of Mons in August 1914.
Shortly afterwards he was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the 5th Battalion, Queen’s Own Royal West Kent Regiment, a Territorial Force unit, on 2 September 1914.
He was soon drafted into the Royal Flying Corps, where he served as a ferry pilot, for his instructors believed he was too clumsy to make the grade as a fighter pilot
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_Campbell
- 1969 – Apollo program: At 02:56 UTC, astronaut Neil Armstrong becomes the first person to walk on the Moon, followed 19 minutes later by Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11#Lunar_surface_operations
- 2011 – NASA’s Space Shuttle program ends with the landing of Space Shuttle Atlantis on mission STS-135 at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center
Only four astronauts were assigned to this mission, versus the normal six or seven, because there were no other shuttles available for a rescue following the retirement of Discovery and Endeavour. If the shuttle was seriously damaged in orbit, the crew would have moved into the International Space Station and returned in Russian Soyuz capsules, one at a time, over the course of a year. All STS-135 crew members were custom-fitted for a Russian Sokol space suit and molded Soyuz seat liner for this possibility. The reduced crew size also allowed the mission to maximize the payload carried to the ISS.
a Senate committee passed the 2010 NASA reauthorization bill, authored by Senator Bill Nelson, to direct NASA to fly an extra Space Shuttle mission (STS-135) pending a review of safety concerns
Pip’s notes – On March 19, 2021, ‘Lets Go Brandon’ had announced intention to nominate Nelson to the position of NASA administrator.
Nelson was confirmed by unanimous consent by the Senate on April 29, 2021, and was sworn in by vice president Kamala Harris on May 3, 2021
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-135
- 2012 – Erden Eruç completes the first solo human-powered circumnavigation of the world.
a Turkish-American adventurer who became the first person in history to complete an entirely solo and entirely human-powered circumnavigation of the Earth on 21 July 2012 in Bodega Bay, California, United States.
Pip’s notes – The modes of transport included a rowboat to cross the oceans, a sea kayak for shorelines, a bicycle on the roads and hiking on trails, along with canoes for a few river crossings.
The route he followed was 41,196 mi (66,299km) long, crossed the equator twice and all lines of longitude, and passed over twelve pairs of antipodal points, meeting all the requirements for a true circumnavigation of the globe.
Guinness World Records has officially recognized Eruç for the “First solo circumnavigation of the globe using human power” on a journey that lasted 5 years 11 days 12 hours and 22 minutes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erden_Eru%C3%A7
Pip’s pre notes – for Birthdays & Passings, a dude looks for the commas that follow the name. The more commas, the more curious…
Happy Birthdays
Passings
We’ll call this dude – Andrey… not …. uh….. Mr. d’Entre…caste..eauxxx
- 1793 – Antoine Bruni d’Entrecasteaux, French admiral, explorer, and politician (b. 1739)
a French naval officer, explorer and colonial governor. He is perhaps best known for his exploration of the Australian coast in 1792, while searching for the La Pérouse expedition.
Pip’s notes – I have no idea how to pronounce that name… I think I’ll stick to ‘dude’
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine_Bruni_d%27Entrecasteaux
- 1878 – Sam Bass, American outlaw (b. 1851)
a 19th-century American train robber, outlaw, and outlaw gang leader. Notably, he was a member of a gang of six that robbed a Union Pacific train in Nebraska of $60,000 in newly minted gold from San Francisco, California.
To date, this was the biggest train robbery ever committed in the USA. He died as a result of wounds sustained in a gun battle with law enforcement officers.
Pip’s notes – Did “Breaking Bad’s” train heist beat his? not sure
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Bass_(outlaw)
- 1938 – Owen Wister, American lawyer and author (b. 1860)
an American writer and historian, considered the “father” of western fiction. He is best remembered for writing The Virginian and a biography of Ulysses S. Grant.
In 1904 Wister collaborated with Kirke La Shelle on a successful stage adaptation of The Virginian that featured Dustin Farnum in the title role.
Farnum reprised the role ten years later in Cecil B. DeMille’s film adaptation of the play
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owen_Wister
- 1966 – Philipp Frank, Austrian-American physicist, mathematician, and philosopher, Vienna Circle member (b. 1884)
a physicist, mathematician and philosopher of the early-to-mid 20th century. He was a logical positivist, and a member of the Vienna Circle. He was influenced by Mach and was one of the Machists criticised by Lenin in Materialism and Empirio-criticism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philipp_Frank
- 1968 – Ruth St. Denis, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1878)
an American pioneer of modern dance, introducing eastern ideas into the art and paving the way for other women in dance.
She was inspired by the Delsarte advocate Genevieve Stebbins. St. Denis was the co-founder in 1915 of the American Denishawn School of Dancing and Related Arts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_St._Denis
- 1973 – Ahmed Bouchikhi (b. 1943)
The Lillehammer affair (Hebrew: פרשת לילהאמר, Parshat Lillehammer, Norwegian: Lillehammer-saken) was the killing by Mossad agents of Ahmed Bouchikhi, a Moroccan waiter and brother of the renowned musician Chico Bouchikhi, in Lillehammer, Norway, on 21 July 1973.
The Israeli agents had mistaken their target for Ali Hassan Salameh, the chief of operations for Black September. Six of the Mossad team of fifteen were captured and convicted of complicity in the killing by the Norwegian justice system in a major blow to the intelligence agency’s reputation.
Pip’s notes –
“While two stayed in the car to provide cover, the other two got out and shot Bouchikhi 13 times with a 22 caliber pistol, his wife witnessing the shooting.
Local police were close by, but by the time police and rescue arrived, Bouchikhi was dead”
Pip’s side note – There had not been a murder for 36 years in that town..
(Resets safey first sign)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lillehammer_affair
- 1977 – Lee Miller, American model and photographer (b. 1907)
an American photographer and photojournalist. She was a fashion model in New York City in the 1920s before going to Paris, where she became a fashion and fine art photographer. During the Second World War, she was a war correspondent for Vogue, covering events such as the London Blitz, the liberation of Paris, and the concentration camps at Buchenwald and Dachau
At the outbreak of World War II, Miller was living at Downshire Hill in Hampstead in London with Penrose when the bombing of the city began. Ignoring pleas from friends and family to return to the US, Miller embarked on a new career in photojournalism as the official war photographer for Vogue, documenting the Blitz. She was accredited with the U.S. Army as a war correspondent for Condé Nast Publications from December 1942
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Miller
- 1998 – Alan Shepard, American admiral, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1923)
an American astronaut, naval aviator, test pilot, and businessman.
In 1961, he became the second person and the first American to travel into space and, in 1971, he became the fifth and oldest person to walk on the Moon at age 47.
Pip’s notes – He became a naval aviator in 1946, and a test pilot in 1950.
One of the original NASA Mercury Seven astronauts in 1959, and in May 1961 he made the first crewed Project Mercury flight, Mercury-Redstone 3, in a spacecraft he named Freedom 7.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Shepard
- 2017 – John Heard, American film and television actor (b. 1946)
an American actor. Heard made his debut appearance in film with the ensemble Between the Lines (1977)
Pip’s notes – Kevin’s dad in Home Alone.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Heard_(actor)
Holidays
- Liberation Day in 1944 for Guam
- Belgian National Day (Belgium)
- Racial Harmony Day (Singapore)
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