Happy Wednesday Nov 11

1930 – Patent number US1781541 is awarded to Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd for their invention, the Einstein refrigerator.

1940 – The German cruiser Atlantis captures top secret British mail, and sends it to Japan.

1940 – Armistice Day Blizzard: An unexpected blizzard kills 144 in U.S. Midwest.

1942 – World War II: Nazi Germany completed their occupation of France.

1960 – A military coup against President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam is crushed.

1962 – Kuwait's National Assembly ratifies the Constitution of Kuwait.

1965 – In Rhodesia (modern-day Zimbabwe), the white-minority government of Ian Smith unilaterally declares independence.

1966 – NASA launches spaceship Gemini 12.

1967 – Vietnam War: In a propaganda ceremony in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, three American prisoners of war are released by the Viet Cong and turned over to "new left" antiwar activist Tom Hayden.

1968 – Vietnam War: Operation Commando Hunt initiated. The goal is to interdict men and supplies on the Ho Chi Minh Trail, through Laos into South Vietnam.

1968 – A second republic is declared in the Maldives.

1972 – Vietnam War: Vietnamization – The United States Army turns over the massive Long Binh military base to South Vietnam.

1992 – The Church of England votes to allow women to become priests.


19?? - Joebert arrived on the scene

Gemini 12 I remember that. It was big time news at the time.

Gee you missed my birthday in there.

Joebert wrote:

Gee you missed my birthday in there.

Happy Birthday Joebert!