History for May 6

History for May 6 - On-This-Day.com

No Diet Day

No Homework Day

National Nurses Week begins (May 6-12).

Birth anniversaries of Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), Robert E. Peary (1856-1920), Orson Welles (1915-85) 

Happy Birthday! Tom Bergeron, Tony Blair, Willie Mays

1527 - Sacking of Rome, bringing about the end of the Renaissance. 

1851 - The mechanical refrigerator was patented by Dr. John Gorrie. 


1851 - Linus Yale patented the clock-type lock. 


1877 - Chief Crazy Horse surrendered to U.S. troops in Nebraska. 


1882 - The U.S. Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion Act. The act barred Chinese immigrants from the U.S. for 10 years. 


1889 - The Universal Exposition opened in Paris, France, marking the dedication of the Eiffel Tower. Also at the exposition was the first automobile in Paris, the Mercedes-Benz. 


1937 - The German airship Hindenburg crashed and burned in Lakehurst, NJ. Thirty-six people (of the 97 on board) were killed. 


1941 - Joseph Stalin assumed the Soviet premiership. 


1941 - Bob Hope gave his first USO show at California's March Field. 


1942 - During World War II, the Japanese seized control of the Philippines. About 15,000 Americans and Filipinos on Corregidor surrendered to the Japanese. 


1954 - British runner Roger Banister broke the four minute mile. 


1957 - U.S. Senator John Fitzgerald Kennedy was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his book "Profiles in Courage". 


1960 - Republican U.S. President Eisenhower signed the Civil Rights Act of 1960. 


1994 - The Chunnel officially opened. The tunnel under the English Channel links England and France. 


1994 - Former Arkansas state worker Paula Jones filed suit against U.S. President Clinton. The case alleged that he had sexually harassed her in 1991. 


1999 - A parole board in New York voted to release Amy Fisher. She had been in jail for 7 years for shooting her lover's wife, Mary Jo Buttafuoco, in the face. 


2001 - Chandra Levy's parents reported her missing to police in Washington, DC. Levy's body was found on May 22, 2002 in Rock Creek Park. 

What?! Mexican Army Invades America Through Arizona!

What?! Mexican Army Invades America Through Arizona!:
"It is hardly news anymore that Mexican citizens, emboldened by the left’s embrace of amnesty, are crossing America’s southern border with increasingly brazenness. This week, however, authorities in Arizona confirmed the U.S. was actually invaded by a number of soldiers with the Mexican Army earlier this year.
The apparently rogue unit of armed forces was tasked with patrolling the Mexican side of the Arizona border, reports indicate. According to a letter to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Oklahoma Sen. Tom Coburn alleges that soldiers within the unit crossed into Arizona and pointed their weapons at agents with the U.S. Border Patrol."

Judge Jeanine BLASTS Obama on Benghazi: ‘You Condemn Anyone Who Says Something Negative About Islam’

Judge Jeanine BLASTS Obama on Benghazi: ‘You Condemn Anyone Who Says Something Negative About Islam’:

 "Mr. President, none of us want to believe that our president would let Americans die, but the arrogance, the failure to act, the lies, the cover-up make it clear that you, Mr. President, have defrauded the American people. You, Mr. President, have violated your constitutional oath. You have not faithfully executed your duties in the Office of the President. "

Trey Gowdy: ‘I Have Evidence’ of a ‘Systematic, Intentional’ Benghazi Cover-Up

Trey Gowdy: ‘I Have Evidence’ of a ‘Systematic, Intentional’ Benghazi Cover-Up:
“I have evidence that, not only are they hiding it, there’s an intent to hide it,” said Gowdy, who will head the new Select Committee to investigate the Benghazi terrorist attacks. Gowdy said that 20 months is too long of a time to wait to get to the truth and that he’s glad the decision was finally made to start the committee. "

Obama lied. Americans died------Don't tune out the newest Benghazi developments

Don't tune out the newest Benghazi developments - chicagotribune.com:
"Remember that the attack in Benghazi took place on Sept. 11, 2012, just as President Barack Obama was beginning his final push toward re-election.
The Democratic National Convention had just ended, and the message was: Obama had killed Osama bin Laden, and terrorism had been caged.
The terrorist attack in Benghazi was immediately characterized by the White House as spontaneous protests, prompted by a crude anti-Islamic video on the Internet.
That wasn't the case.
There was nothing impromptu or spontaneous about the attack that killed Ambassador Stevens and the three others.
It was a planned terrorist strike.
And still, even though this was known, the White House sent then-U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice out on the Sunday talk shows to sell the video story and set that false version in the public's mind.
Why?
My take is because to talk about a planned terrorist strike — rather than a spontaneous uprising over a ridiculous video — would have directly undercut the president's politics and his message that al-Qaida was dead.
 And getting re-elected was more important to the Obama White House than telling the truth about four dead Americans."
...By not releasing the Rhodes emails fully to Congress, the Obama White House clearly showed its contempt for the House.
And depending on your politics, you might agree with the strategy.
It got Obama through his roughest debates and helped confuse the issue enough that he was re-elected.
But if we allow our nation's leaders to let politics obscure how our government works, we are making a fatal mistake.
That's how fools lose the Republic.
And those four in Benghazi weren't fools.
They died for our country, and years of political cover-up can't obscure that.
Again, their names were Stevens, Smith, Doherty and Woods.
They didn't die for politics.

6 Environmental Truths the Left Conveniently Ignores

6 Environmental Truths the Left Conveniently Ignores:

What Obama Did on September 11, 2012

Articles: What Obama Did on September 11, 2012
In fact, it was not until May 19, 2013, eight months after the attack, that a newsman asked a White House spokesman what Obama did that night.
The newsman was Chris Wallace of Fox News.
“The ambassador goes missing, ends up the first ambassador in more than thirty years is killed.
Four Americans, including the ambassador, are killed. Dozens of Americans are in jeopardy,” asked Wallace of Dan Pfeiffer, a senior adviser to the president.
“Where was he?
What did he do?
How did he respond?”
The crafty Pfeiffer would not even acknowledge whether Obama was in the situation room.
As Wallace knew, Obama and his advisers planned military strategy in the situation room. 
They planned political strategy upstairs in the family quarters. 
If Pfeiffer was savvy enough to duck that question, Vietor apparently was not. 
His answer confirms my own suspicions about where Obama was and what he did that evening. 
As the evidence attests, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton played a critical role in this dumb show.

Brit Hume, Former Democratic Rep. Get Into Heated Exchange Over Benghazi | Video | TheBlaze.com

Brit Hume, Former Democratic Rep. Get Into Heated Exchange Over Benghazi | Video | TheBlaze.com: "Political analyst Brit Hume tangled with former Democratic Rep. Jane Harman over whether the White House deliberately misled the American people following the deadly 2012 terror attacks in Benghazi.
Harman, appearing on “Fox News Sunday,” said that the misinformation that was initially spread after the attacks was an “intelligence failure.”

Shhhh! Don't tell Moochelle!-------Slush a treat! Vernors now a Slurpee drink

Slush a treat! Vernors now a Slurpee drink | Crain's Detroit Business:
"Metro Detroit consumes more Slurpees from 7-Eleven than any other U.S. market, so that's why the convenience store chain now is selling a Vernors Slurpee at more than 200 of its Michigan locations.
News of the slushed ginger ale drink broke last week to the delight of Vernors fans."

National suicide------Follow Your Tax Dollars from the Export-Import Bank on This Map

Follow Your Tax Dollars from the Export-Import Bank on This Map:
"What’s worse than using taxpayer money for special interests and cronyism? 
Maybe sending taxpayer money to nations that aren’t the best friends of the United States. 
The Export-Import Bank does both.
It loans money to foreign companies and governments to buy products from politically favored American companies.
Hard-working Americans are backing these loans.
This map shows just a few of the countries where your money is going."

Hope? Change?-------Muskegon Heights Police Department to host Community Safety Day

Muskegon Heights Police Department to host Community Safety Day | MLive.com

MUSKEGON HEIGHTS, MI -- The Muskegon Heights Police Department is hosting its first annual Community Safety Day at the end of May.

The event will feature many events and guest speakers. It's slated for 1-4 p.m. on May 31 at Rowen Park in Muskegon Heights.

Here’s the lineup and details of the event:

• Face painting
• Arts and crafts
• Bicycle registration
• Car seat safety inspection
• 103.7 The Beat -- live broadcast
• Child safety kit fingerprinting
• West Michigan Lake Hawks basketball clinic
• Horse rides
• Bouncy tents
• Police/Fire/Emergency Responder Units

What's free:

• Entrance to event
• Goody bags
• Refreshments
• Arts and crafts

"Hope is not a strategy"------Barra gives advice on professional success to UM graduates

Barra gives advice on professional success to UM graduates | Crain's Detroit Business:
"'Hope is not a strategy'
“Remember that hope is not a strategy,” she said.
“Problems don’t go away when you ignore them -- they tend to get bigger.”"

Congress Is Voting on Efficiency Legislation Next Week

Congress Is Voting on Efficiency Legislation Next Week:
"The Senate is expected to vote on the Energy Savings and Industrial and Competitiveness Act, sponsored by Sens. Jeanne Shaheen (D–N.H.) and Rob Portman (R–Ohio). Here are six reasons why it should concern you."

Citycide----------Seattle might raise its minimum wage to $15. This is not a good idea.

Seattle might raise its minimum wage to $15. This is not a good idea.:
"Yesterday, Murray announced a plan that would gradually raise Seattle’s minimum wage to $15 an hour and tie it to inflation, which won approval from a large committee of business and labor leaders, as well as some city council members.
Today, Washington state’s minimum is a comparatively piddly $9.32.
The full council still has to consider Murray’s proposal, but should it pass, Seattle might not just have a far higher minimum wage than its surrounding suburbs, where businesses can easily move; it might well have the highest minimum wage in the world."

Detroit police say resources deployed to prevent retaliation after Cinco de Mayo parade shooting

Video: Detroit police say resources deployed to prevent retaliation after Cinco de Mayo parade shooting | MLive.com:

"DETROIT, MI - Detroit police deputy chief Darryl Brown said Sunday a 24-year-old is in custody after he allegedly shot to death a 19-year-old at the 50th annual Cinco de Mayo parade in Southwest Detroit. 

The victim has been identified by relatives as Andreas "Noodles" DeJesus, of Southwest Detroit."

"Hide your pride" day"----Students, It's Illegal To Wear An American Flag Shirt On Cinco De Mayo

Students, It's Illegal To Wear An American Flag Shirt On Cinco De Mayo | The Daily Caller:
"Students in a California school district will not be allowed to wear American flag T-shirts on Cinco de Mayo, due to concerns that such displays of patriotism would inflame racial tensions by offending Mexican students on their holiday.
The district’s policy concerned many free speech advocates, but was upheld by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals."

The next NSA? Police departments under scrutiny for phone, license plate surveillance | Fox News

The next NSA? Police departments under scrutiny for phone, license plate surveillance | Fox News:
"The NSA isn’t the only government agency raising concerns about electronic privacy. Local police departments are coming under similar scrutiny – not only for using spying technology, but for hiding their use from the public.
At least 25 police departments now use what is known as "Stingray," a briefcase-sized box that swallows up cell phone data within a mile radius."

National suicide------California quietly passes law allowing Illegal Immigrants to become cops.

California quietly passes law allowing Illegal Immigrants to become cops. | Call the Cops:
"The California Senate held an impromptu special session this weekend to vote on a bill few people knew was in the pipeline. 
The bill, which was approved, will allow illegal immigrants to be hired as police officers."

Spy Plane Fries Air Traffic Control Computers, Shuts Down LAX

Spy Plane Fries Air Traffic Control Computers, Shuts Down LAX - NBC News.com:
"A relic from the Cold War appears to have triggered a software glitch at a major air traffic control center in California Wednesday that led to delays and cancellations of hundreds of flights across the country, sources familiar with the incident told NBC News.
On Wednesday at about 2 p.m., according to sources, a U-2 spy plane, the same type of aircraft that flew high-altitude spy missions over Russia 50 years ago, passed through the airspace monitored by the L.A. Air Route Traffic Control Center in Palmdale, Calif.
The L.A. Center handles landings and departures at the region’s major airports, including Los Angeles International (LAX), San Diego and Las Vegas.
The computers at the L.A. Center are programmed to keep commercial airliners and other aircraft from colliding with each other.
The U-2 was flying at 60,000 feet, but the computers were attempting to keep it from colliding with planes that were actually miles beneath it.
Though the exact technical causes are not known, the spy plane’s altitude and route apparently overloaded a computer system called ERAM, which generates display data for air-traffic controllers. Back-up computer systems also failed."

History for May 5

History for May 5 - On-This-Day.com:

Birth anniversary of philosopher Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855).

Birth anniversary of Karl Marx (1818-83).

100th birth anniversary of actor Tyrone Power (1914-58).

Happy Birthday! Adele, Lance Henriksen, Michael Palin

1809 - Mary Kies was awarded the first patent to go to a woman. It was for technique for weaving straw with silk and thread. 


1821 - Napoleon Bonaparte died on the island of St. Helena, where he had been in exile. 


1862 - The Battle of Puebla took place. It is celebrated as Cinco de Mayo Day. 


1865 - The Thirteenth Amendment was ratified, abolishing slavery in the U.S. 


1912 - Soviet Communist Party newspaper Pravda began publishing. 


1917 - Eugene Jacques Bullard becomes the first African-American aviator when he earned his flying certificate with the French Air Service. 


1925 - John T. Scopes, a biology teacher in Dayton, TN, was arrested for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution. 


1936 - Edward Ravenscroft received a patent for the screw-on bottle cap with a pour lip. 


1945 - A Japanese balloon bomb exploded on Gearhart Mountain in Oregon. A pregnant woman and five children were killed. 


1955 - The Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) became a sovereign state. 


1961 - Alan Shepard became the first American in space when he made a 15 minute suborbital flight. 


1994 - Michael Fay was caned in Singapore for vandalism. He received four lashes. 

Father of Navy SEAL Killed in Benghazi Has Some Select Words for the Obama Administration After Latest Revelations | Video | TheBlaze.com

Father of Navy SEAL Killed in Benghazi Has Some Select Words for the Obama Administration After Latest Revelations | Video | TheBlaze.com:
"In an exclusive interview with Sean Hannity on Friday, Charles Woods, the father of Benghazi hero and former Navy SEAL Ty Woods, hit back at the Obama administration and those who claim there are no more unanswered questions regarding the 2012 terrorist attack in Libya."

Obama Explains What He Will Do if ‘Republicans in Congress Refuse to Act’ to ‘Grow Our Economy From the Middle Out’ | Video | TheBlaze.com

Obama Explains What He Will Do if ‘Republicans in Congress Refuse to Act’ to ‘Grow Our Economy From the Middle Out’ | Video | TheBlaze.com:
"President Barack Obama said in his weekly address Saturday that he will act on his own to “create more jobs and opportunity for hardworking families,” if Republicans in Congress refuse to take the action he would like to see."

George Will: Obamacare Doomed Under Constitution's Origination Clause

George Will: Obamacare Doomed Under Constitution's Origination Clause:
Two years ago, when the Supreme Court declared Obamacare's penalty to be a tax, it "doomed" the healthcare reform act as an "unconstitutional violation of the origination clause," columnist George Will says.
This Thursday, the Washington, D.C., Court of Appeals, the nation's second-most important court, will hear arguments on whether the Affordable Care Act adheres to the Constitution's "origination clause," which declares that "all bills for raising revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with amendments as on other bills," Will writes in his column in The Washington Post Saturday.
Will points out that the Democrat-controlled Senate passed Obamacare on a party-line vote "without a Democratic vote to spare, after a series of unsavory transactions that purchased the assent of several shrewdly extortionate Democrats.
Thursday's arguments, said Will, will show that the act was "indisputably a revenue measure" that did not originate in the House, which later passed the House on yet another party-line vote.

Union Monopoly Protects Pennsylvania Children from DRUNKEN SLAUGHTER!

Union Monopoly Protects Pennsylvania Children from DRUNKEN SLAUGHTER! | National Review Online:
"Pennsylvania has made attempts to drain this swamp in the past, with alcohol “kiosks” and other innovations; but then as now, state apparatchiks and unionized liquor store employees have united in a modern baptist/bootlegger-style coalition to defeat reform plans.

The “Greed Kills” spot boldly defies contemporary production value by mounting a “Babs’ Uvula” -style PSA in which two women recite talking points, but with worse acting — though to be fair to the thesps, Barbara Stanwyck herself would have had a hard time breathing life into dialogue like, “And I heard wine and spirits stores generate hundreds of millions in profit and taxes. It saves us money!”

Those hefty profits are of course what the union is actually trying to protect, but “Greed Kills” makes a pitch that keeping the liquor monopoly prevents a slaughter of the innocents.
“I read the same kind of law in North Carolina is killing one child every week,” says one woman. “It only takes a little bit of greed to kill a child.”"

Final Obamacare Headcount Lacks Details

Final Obamacare Headcount Lacks Details:
"Although the 45-page enrollment report gives more insight into the gender, age, and financial assistance status of the new “enrollees,” it does not say how many had paid their first month’s premium. The Obama administration also did not disclose how many of the enrollees previously were uninsured."

What Happens To The Unemp. Rate If You Add Back Labor Force Dropouts?

What Happens To The Unemp. Rate If You Add Back Labor Force Dropouts?

Column: What the Papers Won't Tell You About the 'Central Park Five'

Column: What the Papers Won't Tell You About the 'Central Park Five' | NewsBusters:

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio is demanding a quick settlement of the lawsuit brought by the five men convicted of one of the most sickening crimes in the city's history: the attack on the Central Park jogger in 1989.

The plaintiffs are demanding $50 million apiece -- for going to prison for a rape that they committed, as detailed in Chapter 13 of "Demonic: How the Liberal Mob Is Destroying America." Abner Louima got $5.8 million for a shockingly brutal police assault on him, and he was just an innocent bystander.

The "Central Park Five," as PBS documentarian Ken Burns has dubbed them, aren't exactly Emmett Till (as Burns would have you believe). Even if they were innocent of the Central Park rape, which they aren't, the reason they were originally arrested was that they were rampaging through the park, assaulting people.

Even after they began denying the rape, the defendants continued to admit committing these other attacks. How'd you like to be one of the people badly beaten in the park that night watching your tax dollars go to pay your assailants millions of dollars?

All those convictions -- on the rape as well as the assaults -- have been vacated because an aging district attorney wanted a glowing obituary in The New York Times.

Michigan Loses ‘Right To Farm’ This Week: A Farewell To Backyard Chickens and Beekeepers

Michigan Loses ‘Right To Farm’ This Week: A Farewell To Backyard Chickens and Beekeepers

Michigan residents lost their “right to farm” this week thanks to a new ruling by the Michigan Commission of Agriculture and Rural Development. 
Gail Philburn of the Michigan Sierra Club told Michigan Live, the new changes “effectively remove Right to Farm Act protection for many urban and suburban backyard farmers raising small numbers of animals.” 
Backyard and urban farming were previously protected by Michigan’s Right to Farm Act. The Commission ruled that the Right to Farm Act protections no longer apply to many homeowners who keep small numbers of livestock.

Biden: ‘Journalists Can Tell People the Truth’ or ‘Tell People What is Not the Truth’ | CNS News

Biden: ‘Journalists Can Tell People the Truth’ or ‘Tell People What is Not the Truth’ | CNS News:
"Vice President Joe Biden told people at a conference on Friday that freedom of the press includes allowing journalists to “tell people the truth, and even tell people what is not the truth.”

Muslim Brotherhood Launches Own Political Party In America

Muslim Brotherhood Launches Own Political Party In America - Investors.com:
"Islamofascism:
With an eye toward the 2016 election, the radical Muslim Brotherhood has built the framework for a political party in America that seeks to turn Muslims into an Islamist voting bloc.
'Muslim voters have the potential to be swing voters in 2016," said Nihad Awad in launching the benign-sounding U.S. Council of Muslim Organizations, whose membership reads like a Who's Who of Brotherhood front groups.
"We are aiming to bring more participation from the Muslim community."
USCMO also aims to elect Islamists in Washington, with the ultimate objective of "institutionalizing policies" favorable to Islamists — that is, Shariah law.
This development bears careful monitoring in light of the U.S. Brotherhood's recently exposed goal to wage a "civilization jihad" against America that explicitly calls for infiltrating the U.S. political system and "destroying (it) from within." 
 The subversive plan was spelled out in hundreds of pages of founding archives that the FBI confiscated from a Brotherhood leader's home in the Washington suburbs after 9/11."

Benghazi Made Simple

Benghazi Made Simple | National Review Online:

"As I said on Fox yesterday, Jay Carney is a very strange creature for Washington.

He’s an extremely confident liar — we’ve got a lot of those! — but he’s not very convincing. 

Usually, confidence = convincing."

Feds Announce Lowest Unemployment Rate Under President Obama | TheBlaze.com

Feds Announce Lowest Unemployment Rate Under President Obama | TheBlaze.com:
“These individuals were not in the labor force, wanted and were available for work, and had looked for a job sometime in the prior 12 months,” the report reads. “They were not counted as unemployed because they had not searched for work in the 4 weeks preceding the survey.”

It continues:
Among the marginally attached, there were 783,000 discouraged workers in April, little changed from a year earlier. (The data are not seasonally adjusted.) Discouraged workers are persons not currently looking for work because they believe no jobs are available for them. "