What is going on with the East Alton Rotary Club? We will cover it here, along with all sorts of other interesting and off-kilter stuff that will inform, enlighten and amuse you.
Tuesday, August 07, 2012
TODAY IN HISTORY
AUGUST 7
1942:The U.S. Marines launch the first American offensive of World War II against Japan, landing on Japanese-occupied Guadalcanal, one of the Solomon Islands. By February 1943, the U.S. will be victorious in the offensive, code-named Operation Watchtower.
1882: The legendary West Virginia-Kentucky feud between the Hatfield and McCoy families claims its first casualties when Ellison Hatfield is mortally wounded by three McCoy brothers during a drunken dispute on election day. Tolbert, Pharmer and Randolph McCoy would all end up dead by Hatfield hands two days later.
1998: The U.S. embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, are bombed within minutes of each other, killing over 200 people, mostly native East Africans, and injuring thousands. The attacks would place Osama bin Laden, accused of financing and planning the attacks, on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list.
1959:The U.S penny design changes from Sheaves of Wheat to the Lincoln Memorial
1955:The First transistor radios by Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering are sold
1819:In the Battle of Boyaca Spain is defeated by Simon Bolivar
1420:Filippo Brunelleschi begins construction on Florence Cathedral Dome
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