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- 2341: Benjamin Franklin's Albany Plan of Union
- ... in Albany. Also called to Albany were Isaac Norris, at fifty-three, served as Speaker of the House and leader of the Quaker party, Richard Peters, private secretary to the Penn family in England, and John Penn, who did not have much experience in politics. The slogan "JOIN OR DIE" was printed in the Pennsylvania Gazette. Franklin is also credited with the first American newspaper cartoon. It was a drawing of ... one of the colonies, and had the caption, "JOIN OR DIE." Everyone had his own agenda in Albany. For Franklin, it was, of course, his plan of union. He also actively opposed the Penn interests. John Penn wanted to purchase for the Proprietors an enormous tract of Indian land. Even though political moods can change very rapidly, Franklin became friends with Richard Peters. Franklin and Peters had worked together in the ...
- 2342: The Battle of Gettysburg
- ... R.E. Lee's only out-right defeat from the history books. Day 1, July 1, 1863 saw the start of some of the finest three days of the Union Army's life. Brigadier General John Buford, Sam Elliot in the film, Gettysburg, recognized the importance of holding the high ground south of Gettysburg. The possessor would control the battlefields so long as their was a steady fire coming from this ... 500 Confederates for one crucial hour. Colonel Thomas Devin's and Colonel William Gamble's cavalry brigades fought ferociously under mounting pressure, and held on long enough for infantry reinforcements to arrive from Major General John Reynolds' I Corps. Reynolds became the ranking Union commander when he arrived on the field, and he never gave retreat a thought. Like Buford, he recognized the importance of holding the high ground south and ...
- 2343: The Boston Massacre
- ... the spot, by two balls entering his back. Mr. Samuel Maverick, a 17 year old, mortally wounded, he died the next morning. Mr. Patrick Carr mortally wounded; he died the 14th instant. Chris Monk and John Clark, youths about 17, dangerously wounded. Apprehended they would die. Mr. Edward Payne, merchant, standing at his door, wounded. Messrs. John Green, Robert Paterson, and David Parker; all dangerously wounded.2 There were depositions in this affair which mention that several guns were fired at the same time from the Custom House: Benjamin Frizell, on the ...
- 2344: Terrorism in the US
- ... that domestic terrorism is the greater threat at this time. The Unabomber, a fellow American, terrorized the country by mailing bombs and delivering other means of destruction across the country. One of the many victims, John Hauser, tells of how he was working in the engineering lab at Cal-Berkeley when he saw something that looked similar to a container which one of his colleagues frequently used to carry personal items ... the government work or not, the fact is it has got to stop. Bibliography “Combating Terrorism.” CQ Researcher. July 21, 1995: 635. Greene, Melissa Fay. “The Fire Last Time.” Newsweek. June 24, 1996: 34. Hauser, John. “What the Unabomber Did to Me.” Newsweek. April 15, 1996: 40. Morganthau, Tom. “A Shadow Over the Olympics.” Newsweek. May 6, 1996: 34. Stanglin, Douglas; and others. “Terrorism Watch.” US News and World Report. October ...
- 2345: The Iran-Contra Affair
- ... of persons involved in the arms sale or contra aid or both, including marine Lt. Col. Oliver North of the National Security Council (NSC) staff. Reagan appointed a review board headed by former Republican senator John Tower. The Tower commission's report in February 1987 criticized the president's passive management style. In a nationaly televised address on March 4, Reagan accepted the reports judgement without serious disagreement. Select committees of ... few members of the NSC staff set Iran and Nicaragua policies and carried them out with secret private operatives and that the contras received only a small part of the money. Former national security advisor John Poindexter stated that he personally authorized the diversion of money and withheld that information from the president. William J. Casey, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency, who died in May 1989, was implicated in ...
- 2346: The Townshend Act
- ... Acts. Revenue raised by the new tariffs would be used to free royal officials from financial dependence on colonial assemblies, thus further encroaching on colonial autonomy. Once again the colonists protested vigorously. In December 1767, John Dickinson, a Philadelphia lawyer, published 12 popular essays that reiterated the colonists' denial of Parliament's right to tax them and warned of a conspiracy by a corrupt British ministry to enslave Americans. The Sons ... protest. The Board of Customs Commissioners extorted money from colonial merchants and usedflimsy excuses to justify seizing American vessels. These actions heightened tensions, which exploded on June 21, 1768, when customs officials seized Boston merchant John Hancock's sloop Liberty. Thousands of Bostonians rioted, threatening the customs commissioners' lives and forcing them to flee the city. When news of the Liberty riot reached London, four regiments of British army troops-some ...
- 2347: Rock Music
- ... the power of repetitiveness, loud volume, and electronic distortion. One famous group of Heavy Metal was Led Zeppelin, a British group that was formed in 1968 by Jimmy Page (lead guitar), Robert Plant (lead singer), John Paul Jones (pianist and bassist) and John Bonham (drummer). Most music of this decade was intended to be listened to, but not to be danced. But this intention wasn't kept by Disco music that arose in 1977 and was especially for ...
- 2348: The Great Inflation
- ... for her moment to come. When that moment came, the ætwenty year truceÆ was ended by Adolf Hitler. That isperhaps the most damning indictment of both Republican mismanagement and world indecision that can be made. John Maynard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace, (London: 1920), p.64. William R. Keylor, The Twentieth Century World, (Oxford: 1984)., pp. 84- -85. William Gutteman and Patricia Meehan, The Great Inflation: Germany 1918 - 1923 ... the imperial government had financed the war, the German mark in 1919 was worth less than 20 per cent of its pre-war value. After the formation of the Republic in 1919that can be made. John Maynard Keynes, The Economic Consequences of the Peace, (London: 1920), p.64. William R. Keylor, The Twentieth Century World, (Oxford: 1984)., pp. 84-85. William Gutteman and Patricia Meehan, The Great Inflation: Germany 1918 - 1923 ...
- 2349: The Watergate Affair
- ... first resignation of an American president. The history of the events at hand is as follows. The Nixon Administration financed a White House Special Investigative Unit called the plumbers. This unit was initially established under John Erlichmann a top White House aide, to “plug” leaks from the White House to the press and consisted of former FBI and CIA operatives. It comes to fact that these plumbers were involved in illegal ... break in and plant listening devices into the phone lines at the Democratic National Headquarters. One man, although implicated, was not charged. His name was Alfred Baldwin, an FBI agent who was a bodyguard for John Mitchell, the campaign manager, and his wife. Mr. Baldwin had admitted to being assigned by James McCord to monitor and transcribe the transmissions from the illegal bugs. These transcriptions were then given to McCord who ...
- 2350: Witches
- ... mere "superstition." (P.10) The first person that was executed, as a witch, in America was Margaret Jones, in 1648. Jones was a midwife and lay healer, who was accused of several different practices. Minister John Hale, who witnessed Jones's hanging in Boston when he was a boy, later said that she "was suspected partly because that after some angry words passing between her and her Neighbors, some mischief befell ... Jones was believed to possess psychic powers: "some things which she foretold came to pass accordingly; other things she could tell of ... she had no ordinary means to come to the knowledge of."(P.20) John Hale pointed out that several of Jones's neighbors tried to get her to confess and repent. One of them, he said, "prayed her to consider if God did not bring this punishment upon her ...
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