History for May 12

History for May 12 - On-This-Day.com:
Florence Nightingale 1820 - Nurse, contributed to modern nursing procedures, author, Mildred McAfee 1900 - Captain Mildred McAfee (Horton), first director of U.S. Navy WAVES (Women Accepted for Voluntary Emergency Service), Katherine Hepburn 1907 - Actress ("Morning Glory", "On Golden Pond [1981]", "The Rainmaker")


Yogi Berra 1925 - Baseball player, manager, Tom Snyder 1936 - Journalist, television host, George Carlin 1937 - Comedian, actor


1847 - William Clayton invented the odometer.


1885 - In the Battle of Batoche, French Canadians rebelled against the Canadian government.


1888 - Charles Sherrill of the Yale track team became the first runner to use the crouching start for a fast break in a foot race.


1926 - The airship Norge became the first vessel to fly over the North Pole.


1950 - The American Bowling Congress abolished its white males-only membership restriction after 34 years.


1957 - A.J. Foyt won his first auto racing victory in Kansas City, MO.


1975 - U.S. merchant ship Mayaguez was seized by Cambodian forces in international waters.


1978 - The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced that they would no longer exclusively name hurricanes after women. 

Obama’s Former Defense Secretary: Yeah, We Lied To The Israelis That We’d Stop Iran From Going Nuclear | Daily Wire

Obama’s Former Defense Secretary: Yeah, We Lied To The Israelis That We’d Stop Iran From Going Nuclear | Daily Wire:

"Rhodes himself admits, “We created an echo chamber. They were saying things that validated what we had given them to say … In the absence of rational discourse, we are going to discourse the [expletive] out of this. We had test drives to know who was going to be able to carry our message effectively, and how to use outside groups like Ploughshares, the Iran Project and whomever else. So we knew the tactics that worked.”

Worse, Rhodes admits it didn’t really matter whether the “moderates” are moderate at all,

Millennials claim to want socialism, but do they even know what it is? Here are the facts – TheBlaze

Millennials claim to want socialism, but do they even know what it is? Here are the facts – TheBlaze:

"According to Gallup, 69% of millennials say that they’d be willing to vote for a socialist for president. Do millennials understand that socialism is anathema to the values of independence, entrepreneurship and ambition they so proudly tout? Allie Stuckey explains why socialism is NOT the route millennials want to go down."

The way we were-----Flying Legends 2014 - Men of Honor.