On this date in 2003, 2BDE, 3ID made their first Thunder Run into Baghdad.
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Siege of Constantinople begins, 1453
Mormon Church founded, 1830
Battle of Shiloh, 1862
Battle of Sayler's Creek, 1865
Mormon Church founded, 1830
Battle of Shiloh, 1862
Battle of Sayler's Creek, 1865
On this date in 2003, 2BDE, 3ID conducted their 2nd Thunder Run into Baghdad. TF2-7 Inf, 1BDE, 3ID served as the QRF for 2BDE.
1904 The French Third Republic and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland sign the Entente Cordiale…which wouldn't hold up long.
1985 Bhopal disaster: India files suit against Union Carbide for the disaster which killed an estimated 2,000 and injured another 200,000.
2013 The Islamic State of Iraq enters the Syrian Civil War and begins by declaring a merger with the Al-Nusra Front under the name Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham ISIS. A product of thinking we could 'fix the Middle East with 'Arab Spring.' That little song and dance eventually ended when we put ISIS-HTS in charge of Syria in December 2024.
1985 Bhopal disaster: India files suit against Union Carbide for the disaster which killed an estimated 2,000 and injured another 200,000.
2013 The Islamic State of Iraq enters the Syrian Civil War and begins by declaring a merger with the Al-Nusra Front under the name Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham ISIS. A product of thinking we could 'fix the Middle East with 'Arab Spring.' That little song and dance eventually ended when we put ISIS-HTS in charge of Syria in December 2024.
Anniversary: On April 9, 1947, a violent outbreak of tornadoes struck the Texas Panhandle and Oklahoma. The most significant of these tornadoes devastated the towns of Glazier and Higgins, Texas. In Glazier, only a single home and the jail remained standing after the destruction. Today, part of the jail can still be seen as a relic of what once was.
In total, 68 people lost their lives in Texas, making this one of the worst tornado disasters in our state's history. Additionally, the tornado went on to strike the city of Woodward, Oklahoma, where it killed 116 people. This F5 tornado became Oklahoma's deadliest tornado in history.
This also isn't the only significant tornado event on April 9th for Texas. On April 9, 1919 a tornado outbreak struck portions of North and East Texas. In total 92 people lost their lives.
In total, 68 people lost their lives in Texas, making this one of the worst tornado disasters in our state's history. Additionally, the tornado went on to strike the city of Woodward, Oklahoma, where it killed 116 people. This F5 tornado became Oklahoma's deadliest tornado in history.
This also isn't the only significant tornado event on April 9th for Texas. On April 9, 1919 a tornado outbreak struck portions of North and East Texas. In total 92 people lost their lives.
Lee surrendered to Grant, 1865
April 9, 1945, just weeks before Nazi Germany collapsed, Lutheran pastor and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer was executed at Flossenbrg concentration camp.
April 10, 1979, one of the most infamous Texas tornadoes would descend on Wichita Falls, TX. This massive F4 tornado would heavily damage or destroy multiple areas within the city leading to 42 deaths and 1700 injuries. At times the tornado would swell to be 1.5 miles wide and was on the ground for 47 miles. This storm was another tragic reminder that vehicles are poor places to be in tornadoes. Of the 42 deaths, 25 of those were in automobiles.
Another notable tornado during this event was another F4 that struck near Thalia and Vernon, TX. This tornado would cause 11 fatalities.
In total the Red River Outbreak of April 10th would spawn 22 tornadoes across Texas and Oklahoma and cause 56 fatalities. This day has become known as "Terrible Tuesday" by those who survived.
Another notable tornado during this event was another F4 that struck near Thalia and Vernon, TX. This tornado would cause 11 fatalities.
In total the Red River Outbreak of April 10th would spawn 22 tornadoes across Texas and Oklahoma and cause 56 fatalities. This day has become known as "Terrible Tuesday" by those who survived.
I know who is my go to guy is for Texas tornado history.
I wanted to study meteorology, but calculus, physics, and trigonometry would have been the end of meBQ78 said:
I know who is my go to guy is for Texas tornado history.
Since you are the guy, any recommendations on a Flaco Jimenez biography?
BQ78 said:
Since you are the guy, any recommendations on a Flaco Jimenez biography?
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- 1917 World War I: Canadian forces successfully complete the taking of Vimy Ridge from the Germans. Three days of battle, the Canadians lost 3500 dead and 7,000 wounded.
- 1927 April 12 Incident: Chiang Kai-shek orders the Communist Party of China members executed in Shanghai, ending the First United Front. Chiang correctly grasped the concept of proper negotiations with Communists.
- 1934 The strongest surface wind gust in the world at 231 mph, is measured on the summit of Mount Washington, New Hampshire.
- 1945 US President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies while in office; Vice-President Harry Truman is sworn in as the 33rd President.
- 1945 The U.S. Ninth Army under General William H. Simpson crosses the Elbe River astride Magdeburg, and reached Tangermndeonly 50 miles from Berlin.
- 1955 The polio vaccine developed by Dr. Jonas Salk is declared safe and effective.
- 1961 Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to travel into outer space in Vostok 3KA-2 (Vostok 1).
- 1981 The first launch of a Space Shuttle: Columbia launches on the STS-1 mission.
In CASINO ROYALE, Bond’s passport lists April 13 as his date of birth, a nod to the original novel’s publication date. pic.twitter.com/7P7c1Oql2h
— James Bond (@007) April 13, 2025
Fictional, sure, but still kind of cool. Happy Palm Sunday:
1742 George Frideric Handel's oratorio Messiah makes its world-premiere in Dublin, Ireland.
On April 14, after four days of uneventful sailing, the Titanic received sporadic ice reports from other ships, but she was sailing on calm seas under a moonless, clear sky.
At about 11:30 p.m., a lookout saw an iceberg coming out of a slight haze dead ahead, then rang the warning bell and telephoned the bridge. The engines were quickly reversed, and the ship was turned sharplyinstead of making direct impact, the Titanic seemed to graze along the side of the berg, sprinkling ice fragments on the forward deck.
At about 11:30 p.m., a lookout saw an iceberg coming out of a slight haze dead ahead, then rang the warning bell and telephoned the bridge. The engines were quickly reversed, and the ship was turned sharplyinstead of making direct impact, the Titanic seemed to graze along the side of the berg, sprinkling ice fragments on the forward deck.
Lincoln shot in Ford's Theater
Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys recorded "Time Changes Everything" during an April 15, 1940, recording session in Saginaw, Texas.
On April 18, 1945, just six days after President Franklin Roosevelt succumbed to a fatal stroke, a bullet from a Japanese machine gun prematurely ended the 44-year-old journalist's life. In less than a week, Americans everywhere found themselves collectively mourningand publicly commemoratingthe loss of two national heroes.
"The death of Ernie Pyle this week was a real loss to every soldier everywhere. He understood the soldier and presented his case to the public as nobody else had done during the war."
Given Pyle's immense popularity with both citizens and troops, it is unsurprising that news of his sudden death sparked a global outpouring of love and spurred numerous plans to memorialize his life. Incredulous callers flooded newsroom switchboards and correspondence deluged mail rooms. One wounded vet suggested changing the name of Ie Shima to Ernie Pyle Island, and a Captain in the Army proposed renaming Okinawa itself in Pyle's honor. Though these grandiose plans never materialized, memorials soon sprang up from Japan to Germany.
The Battalion April 19, 1945
"The death of Ernie Pyle this week was a real loss to every soldier everywhere. He understood the soldier and presented his case to the public as nobody else had done during the war."
Given Pyle's immense popularity with both citizens and troops, it is unsurprising that news of his sudden death sparked a global outpouring of love and spurred numerous plans to memorialize his life. Incredulous callers flooded newsroom switchboards and correspondence deluged mail rooms. One wounded vet suggested changing the name of Ie Shima to Ernie Pyle Island, and a Captain in the Army proposed renaming Okinawa itself in Pyle's honor. Though these grandiose plans never materialized, memorials soon sprang up from Japan to Germany.
The Battalion April 19, 1945
18-April-1942 - Colonel Jimmy Doolittle led a flight of 16 B-25B Mitchell bombers off the deck of the USS Hornet to attack targets in Japan. They were forced to launch earlier than planned due to the task force being possibly spotted by a Japanese picket boat. The launching point meant that they would not have the fuel to make it to planned destinations in China. They would be aided by a tailwind that helped 15 of the bombers to actually make it to China.
The 16th Mitchell landed in the Soviet Union, where the crew was interned until 1943, when the Soviets used spy craft techniques to get that crew to into British hands (had to be done since the Soviet Union was not at war with Japan at the time of the raid, and were vulnerable in their eastern territories to Japanese aggression).
The movies depict this raid incorrectly, showing all of the bombers attacking Tokyo. While Tokyo was attacked, so was Yokohama, Yokosuka, Nagoya, Kobe, and Osaka. And no, Ben Affleck was not piloting one of the bombers. The bombers faced minimal opposition, with some light anti-aircraft fire and a handful of Ki-45 and Ki-61 fighters attacking (although in a detail that the movie Pearl Harbor got right, the addition of broom sticks for tail guns did work, as no Japanese fighter attacked any of the bombers from the rear).
Eighty heroes launched from the Hornet on this morning in 1942. Two crews were captured by the Japanese, with three of them being executed; the other 5 had their sentences of death commuted by the Japanese and were later liberated by US forces. Three were KIA. Two drowned when their B-25 landed in the South China Sea. Sixty-nine eventually made it back to the US.
Chinese citizens and in fact entire cities suffered greatly at the hands of the Japanese in reprisals for giving aid and assistance to the American bombers.
This group met annually after the war and would toast their fallen comrade(s) and turn over a silver goblet in remembrance of those of their group that had passed over the previous year. The last passed away 9-April-2019.
I've always thought there could be an interesting story chronicling the Japanese hunt for the men who had bombed their cities, with all the reprisals and the certain cat-and-mouse game between the Americans and Japanese.
18-April-1943 - also on this date, one year later, Operation Vengeance, where our signals intelligence had uncovered the flight plan of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto to a destination in Bougainville. A flight of P-38G Lightnings intercepted the Japanese squadron, a couple of Mitsubishi G4M1 Betty bombers and an escort to Mitsubishi A6M Zeroes (probably the 3 variant but I stand to be corrected on this point). Lights out for the man who had planned Pearl Harbor, he was hit by bullet fire ripping through his Betty bomber from one (or more) of the P-38s. The wreckage of that Betty bomber has been found in the jungle where it crashed.
Also on this date, of a more personal nature, my son married my daughter-in-law in 2015.
The 16th Mitchell landed in the Soviet Union, where the crew was interned until 1943, when the Soviets used spy craft techniques to get that crew to into British hands (had to be done since the Soviet Union was not at war with Japan at the time of the raid, and were vulnerable in their eastern territories to Japanese aggression).
The movies depict this raid incorrectly, showing all of the bombers attacking Tokyo. While Tokyo was attacked, so was Yokohama, Yokosuka, Nagoya, Kobe, and Osaka. And no, Ben Affleck was not piloting one of the bombers. The bombers faced minimal opposition, with some light anti-aircraft fire and a handful of Ki-45 and Ki-61 fighters attacking (although in a detail that the movie Pearl Harbor got right, the addition of broom sticks for tail guns did work, as no Japanese fighter attacked any of the bombers from the rear).
Eighty heroes launched from the Hornet on this morning in 1942. Two crews were captured by the Japanese, with three of them being executed; the other 5 had their sentences of death commuted by the Japanese and were later liberated by US forces. Three were KIA. Two drowned when their B-25 landed in the South China Sea. Sixty-nine eventually made it back to the US.
Chinese citizens and in fact entire cities suffered greatly at the hands of the Japanese in reprisals for giving aid and assistance to the American bombers.
This group met annually after the war and would toast their fallen comrade(s) and turn over a silver goblet in remembrance of those of their group that had passed over the previous year. The last passed away 9-April-2019.
I've always thought there could be an interesting story chronicling the Japanese hunt for the men who had bombed their cities, with all the reprisals and the certain cat-and-mouse game between the Americans and Japanese.
18-April-1943 - also on this date, one year later, Operation Vengeance, where our signals intelligence had uncovered the flight plan of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto to a destination in Bougainville. A flight of P-38G Lightnings intercepted the Japanese squadron, a couple of Mitsubishi G4M1 Betty bombers and an escort to Mitsubishi A6M Zeroes (probably the 3 variant but I stand to be corrected on this point). Lights out for the man who had planned Pearl Harbor, he was hit by bullet fire ripping through his Betty bomber from one (or more) of the P-38s. The wreckage of that Betty bomber has been found in the jungle where it crashed.
Also on this date, of a more personal nature, my son married my daughter-in-law in 2015.
Cinco Ranch Aggie said:
18-April-1943 - also on this date, one year later, Operation Vengeance, where our signals intelligence had uncovered the flight plan of Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto to a destination in Bougainville. A flight of P-38G Lightnings intercepted the Japanese squadron, a couple of Mitsubishi G4M1 Betty bombers and an escort to Mitsubishi A6M Zeroes (probably the 3 variant but I stand to be corrected on this point). Lights out for the man who had planned Pearl Harbor, he was hit by bullet fire ripping through his Betty bomber from one (or more) of the P-38s. The wreckage of that Betty bomber has been found in the jungle where it crashed.
Lanphier. His nephew was one of my favorite high school teachers.
Who's Lanphier?BQ78 said:
Lanphier. His nephew was one of my favorite high school teachers.
ABATTBQ87 said:Who's Lanphier?BQ78 said:
Lanphier. His nephew was one of my favorite high school teachers.
Credited orginally with the shoot down. There has been some later controversy over that.
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Right, Lanphier led the attack flight but based on the trajectory of the fatal rounds it probably was Barber. When they changed it to a joint kill, Lanphier lost his ace status as he ended the war with 4.5 kills.
- 1775 American Revolution: The British advancement by sea begins; Paul Revere and other riders warn the countryside of the troop movements.
- 1783 Fighting ceases in the American Revolution, eight years to the day since it began.
- 1783 Three-Fifths Compromise: The first instance of black slaves in the United States of America being counted as three fifths of persons (for the purpose of taxation), in a resolution of the Congress of the Confederation. This was later adopted in the 1787 Constitution.
- 1861 Colonel Robert E. Lee turns down promotion offer to command Union army.
- 1912 The Cunard liner RMS Carpathia brings 705 survivors from the RMS Titanic to New York City.
1918 / Manfred Von Richthofen, the famed pilot known as the Red Baron, is shot down near Bertangles, France.
1836 San Jacinto
Does anybody have some interesting facts about the Battle of San Jacinto (fought today in 1836)?
One woman with the Mexican Army was killed by a Texian officer. He was court martialed but exonerated. But that was not the end, her family sued in the Texas courts but the lawsuit died without being resolved.
Heard this history tidbit from Steven Hardin.13 - 0 said:
Does anybody have some interesting facts about the Battle of San Jacinto (fought today in 1836)?
The Mexican Army had initially crossed Vince's Bridge before arriving at their campsite on the San Jacinto battlefield. During the battle on the 21st, Santa Anna realized there was no stopping the Texians so he decided to make his escape from the battlefield via horseback. Thinking if he could re-cross Vince's Bridge, he could link up with the 1500 troops at Thompson's Crossing near Richmond, Tx. He discovered that the bridge had been destroyed (burned) by the Texans to prevent reinforcements and escape. All of the surrounding bayous were swollen from rains..,Vince's, Sims, Buffalo, etc, and Santa Anna could not swim. Had he been able to swim, he might have been able to cross the bayou and make his way to safety. Instead he spent the night hiding in a marsh and was captured the next day by Texians approx 1/2 mile from the burned bridge.
Vince's Bridge was located near present day North Richey Street and a half mile north of West Shaw Ave in Pasadena, Tx.
I just looked that spot up on Google Earth. The piping surrounding the marker has been replaced, or repaired, to give it a fresher look than in Jim Evans' photo. The area looks like it might be on plant property?
When I was stationed in Okinawa, we took a trip to Ie Shima Island. You could still find shell casings in the sand and surf.ABATTBQ87 said:
On April 18, 1945, just six days after President Franklin Roosevelt succumbed to a fatal stroke, a bullet from a Japanese machine gun prematurely ended the 44-year-old journalist's life. In less than a week, Americans everywhere found themselves collectively mourningand publicly commemoratingthe loss of two national heroes.
"The death of Ernie Pyle this week was a real loss to every soldier everywhere. He understood the soldier and presented his case to the public as nobody else had done during the war."
Given Pyle's immense popularity with both citizens and troops, it is unsurprising that news of his sudden death sparked a global outpouring of love and spurred numerous plans to memorialize his life. Incredulous callers flooded newsroom switchboards and correspondence deluged mail rooms. One wounded vet suggested changing the name of Ie Shima to Ernie Pyle Island, and a Captain in the Army proposed renaming Okinawa itself in Pyle's honor. Though these grandiose plans never materialized, memorials soon sprang up from Japan to Germany.
The Battalion April 19, 1945
After the battle, dead Mexican solders remained on the ground where they had fallen. Visitors to the battlefield would even pick up skulls as souvenirs. Famed artist-ornithologist, John James Audubon visited San Jacinto in 1837 and collected 6 skulls. He sent the 6 skulls to Philadelphia doctor Samuel Morton that became part of his collection totaling 867 crania.13 - 0 said:
Does anybody have some interesting facts about the Battle of San Jacinto (fought today in 1836)?
Forensic studies were performed on the skulls by Dr Morton and again by a forensic anthropology team from the Smithsonian, University ofTennessee and Univ of Penn. The link below is their presentation to the San Jacinto Symphony in 2010.
https://sjba1836.org/cranial-injuries-in-six-mexican-soldiers-killed-at-san-jacinto-san-jacinto-symposium-secrets-of-the-texas-revolution/
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