For 3 months I did my History Thing" until Miss Mau'i came into our lives last week. I honestly missed not being "Miss Know It All" LOL!! So today, D-Day is a good day to start back again.
1944 D-Day
On this day in 1944, Supreme Allied Commander General Dwight D. Eisenhower gives the go-ahead for largest amphibious military operation in history: Operation Overlord, code-named D-Day, the Allied invasion of northern France.
By daybreak, 18,000 British and American parachutists were already on the ground. At 6:30 a.m., American troops came ashore at Utah and Omaha beaches. At Omaha, the U.S. First Division battled high seas, mist, mines, burning vehicles-and German coastal batteries, including an elite infantry division, which spewed heavy fire. Many wounded Americans ultimately drowned in the high tide. British divisions, which landed at Gold, and Sword beaches, and Canadian troops, landing at Juno beach, also met with heavy German fire, but by the end of the day they were able to push inland.
Despite the German resistance, Allied casualties overall were relatively light. The United States and Britain each lost about 1,000 men, and Canada 355. Before the day was over, 155,000 Allied troops would be in Normandy. However, the United States managed to get only half of the 14,000 vehicles and a quarter of the 14,500 tons of supplies they intended on shore.
1816 Ten inches of Wonderful Wet, White Snow Fell In New England
It was one of the latest snowfalls ever (or maybe one of the earliest!)
1932 First Gas Tax Enacted
1933 First "Drive-In" Opens
Richard Hollingshead opened the first drive-in movie theater in Camden, New Jersey. Hollingshead was the sales manager for Whiz Auto Products in Camden when he came up with the idea for the drive-in. He acted on the notion that few Americans at that time would give up the pleasure of going to the movies, had they the chance. In 1933, though, moviegoing wasn't a family event, as few couples felt comfortable bringing their kids to the theater. Going to the movies involved getting dressed up, finding a babysitter, and driving down to a crowded Main Street to look for parking. Hollingshead believed that the drive-in would solve these problems: moviegoers didn't have to park their cars or dress up, and the kids could join their parents.
1981 Train Avoids Cow, Kills 600
More than 500 passengers are killed when their train plunges into the Baghmati River in India on this day in 1981. The rail accident—the worst in India to that date--was caused by an engineer who was reverential of cows.
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Laughing at the gas tax of 1932 , they were paying 18 cents a gallon back then!
The night Bob gave me my engagement ring we went to a drive-in and watched a beach party movie marathon and I was way late getting home(we both fell asleep) my mom wouldn't speak to me for days when I showed her my engagement ring.Funny-now she is moving in with us 42 years later,LOL
Yes I quite missed this feature Beth ,and to think the D-Day landings were in my life time (I was three )....love Jan xx
Enjoy your weekend!
Missie
Hi Bethe....
Sorry it has taken me this long to get over here. Thanks for stopping by my journal. Have a great weekend!
Hugs,
D
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Nice entry. I love reading what happened on this day in history.
Hugs, Joyce
500 lives omg. did he die to did he get locked up?
D-Day came and then the bomb. After the war, the best things you could own or buy were called "pre-war." On the Merritt Parkway strip you could buy cheap gas and food. A dollar would get you a burger with "everything" and "frappe." You could drive all day on 50 cents worth of gas. "Drive in" movies were where you "made out" with your girl friend, or somebody else's girl friend. Then came Mccarthy. After that came Korea, and some of us were drafted.
Thank you for memories. DB
Glad your back I enjoy your History series, and I must remember to send you some stuff on European history.
Take care
Yasmin
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That is amazing so many people were killed by the train wreck ~ isn't the cow a sacred animal in India, ranking right up there with the rat? I saw the rat temples on The Amazing Race and never forgot it. I like your history entries, I must have slept through history in school since I know very little of what you write about.
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Lisa
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