AUGUST 17 - 1955 Eisenhower and CIA work with Britain to overthrow Mosaddegh in Operation: Ajax; 1835 Merrick patents wrench; 1877 Billy the Kid makes first kill; 2014 Franchesca becomes furriest rabbit in the world
AUGUST 17 1943 – The race to Messina ends, Patton wins. ...Even though Montgomery didn’t know they were racing. World War II had some very memorable campaigns, such as Overlord in Normandy, Operation Torch in North Africa, and then there was Operation Huskey in Sicily. As of Janu8ary 1943, President Franklin Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill agreed that upon taking care of French North Africa, that capturing Sicily should be next. What better men to handle the invasion than US General George S. Patton and and British Field Marshal Bernard L. Montgomery.
On July 10, 1943, an allied invasion featuring Patton’s 7th army and Montgomery’s 8th army began ejecting troops up the Sicilian coast. The Italians couldn’t even fight back. By the end of the day the Allies had completely taken the coast. Messing changed the plan since the campaign was going so well for him and decided to go inward Sicily around the base of Mt. Etna. On July 16, Patton and his armor arrived in Agrigento, kept going and reached Palermo on the 22nd, and from there, Messina; the final Sicilian enemy stronghold.
Patton arrived on August 17, mere hours before Montgomery. For those of you who saw the movie Patton and remember George C. Scott mocking Michael Bates as if he reached some kind of finish line first, in reality it didn’t go down like that. First of all Montgomery didn’t even know they were racing, depending on who you ask. Second, the allies had tanks versus the axis 200. In either case, Husky was now over, or Italian dictator Benito Mussolini was finished.
1953 – Operation: Ajax. Eisenhower and the CIA work with British troops to overthrow Mosaddegh.
It was actually the Brits fault; they’re the ones who came up with the idea. Depending on whom you ask, of course, just like the fact that it probably had nothing to do with the Illuminati or Christianity, or communism, until President Eisenhower got involved. The Iranians have never been amused by this story.
After all, newly democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh was simply trying to take back British controlled oil in their own lands. But the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, nowadays BP Oil, controlled it and cared not to give it up. Now, former President Truman had advised against sending the United States Central Intelligence Agency in to control Iran, since that would set a bad precedent for the CIA going into other countries and staging protests, causing riots and assassinating worldly figures.
But British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and current U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower figured that Mosaddegh might get a little too cozy with the USSR, and the fear of the Domino Effect of eastern areas would continue to fall. Kermit Roosevelt, FDR’s grandson, wrote the plans for Ajax, which would overthrow the democratically elected M Masaddegh and put in the last Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, as a monarch to rule the country.
In all, around 200-300 Iranians were killed during the coup, and for 26 years, the Shah remained in power, with help from the United States CIA. In 1979, the Shah would be overthrown, which of course would lead to the Iranian hostage crisis, tensions in the Middle East that exist to this day, and 9/11 itself. The classified documents wouldn’t be released until 2013
1835—Solymon Merrick from Springfield Mass, patents the first wrench. ...Now of course wrenches have been around for centuries, but merrick gets the credit, because he got the patent. Charles Monckeyt by the way patented the monkey wrench, which was actually named after him except he tooko out the C from his name.
1877 – Windy Cahill messes with the wrong kid. ...Billy the Kid, that is, and Billy kills his first man. William Henry McCarty, otherwise known as Billy the Kid, was working as a ranch hand in 1877 in Arizona at the Camp Grant Army Post. Also working there at the time was a big Irish blacksmith named Frank Cahill, aka Windy, who enjoyed picking on a young and scrawny Billy. Legend has it, on August 17 1877 the two men started calling each other names, and went to throw. Cahill easily pushed down Billy and pinned him to the ground, completely overwhelming him.
Billy responded by pulling out his pistol and shooting him. Cahill died the next day of his wounds. Fearing imprisonment and retaliation from Cahill’s friends, Billy the Kid headed back to his former home in New Mexico and got involved in the Lincoln County Wars.
1933 – LNYY first baseman Lou Gehrig lays record 1,308th consecutive game.1957 – Richie Ashburn accidentally hits a fan through his foul balls twice. The fan was Alice Roth and the first time he fouled the ball and it hit her in the nose, breaking it. Then when they were carrying out on a strectcher he it another foul ball which hit her. Oops.
2014 -- Franchesca becomes furriest rabbit in the world.
Talk about having a good HARE day! Nyuch nyuch. My rabbitless top hat goes off to Betty Chu, who tells us that Angoran rabbits can grow their wool quite long, but it takes work maintaining the fur.
She keeps her fluffy furry friend neatly groomed and free from matted fur in her backyard in Morgan Hill, CA, smack dab in the Bay Area. Not only do Betty and Franchesca have about a dozen awards on her living room mantel, it was on this day in 2014 Francesca’s bunnyfluff was measured 1’2.3” and went in the racord books for the fluffiest. Luckily for this hairy hare, a trim job would be in order for her to be able to mate with her boyfriend. You see, according to Betty, his equipment couldn’t find her treasure and that she had to be naked to be sexy. Betty! You’re making me blush! Those were her words, not mine I swear! In all seriousness, Betty just wants Franchesca to be the best English Angora rabbit in the world.
Well you’re on US soil Betty so you can forget the English part. I’m not sorry, and Franchesca is an American Angoran rabbit.
USA! USA! USA!
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