This Day in History......

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Feb. 23,1945
During the bloody Battle for Iwo Jima, U.S. Marines from the 3rd Platoon, E Company, 2nd Battalion, 28th Regiment of the 5th Division take the crest of Mount Suribachi, the island’s highest peak and most strategic position, and raise the U.S. flag. Marine photographer Louis Lowery was with them and recorded the event. Americans fighting for control of Suribachi’s slopes cheered the raising of the flag, and several hours later more Marines headed up to the crest with a larger flag. Joe Rosenthal, a photographer with the Associated Press, met them along the way and recorded the raising of the second flag along with a Marine still photographer and a motion-picture cameraman.

Great story one 9f the original guys who raised flag was from my neighborhood he wen to riverside Brookfield high school. I learned that in San Diego when I went to family day at my brother in law graduation at camp pendleton. Wow I recommend going amazing standing to the side of deck. Then you hear 500 warriors chant. You couldn't see them but could hear them first. Then from a distance then are coming from far. Made me cry. My brother in laws was most decorated platoon out of the 5 he graduated with gulf company. A kid from mt caramel hs gave up a full ride scholarship from Marquette for lacrosse to be a marine he was promoted before basic training best solider out of 500 from all over country in his class. We happened to be sitting right next to his parents. The whole experience family day and graduation day was one of the best vacation I ever had. Small museum and movies to show history of marines. They also had a naturalization ceremony many young men from other countries joining our military and fighting for our freedom. Some jerks walked out but I stood up and clapped louder. Hoorahh

 

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March 21, 1961 The Beatles' first appearance at the Cavern Club in Liverpool.

 

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March 22
1963 Beatles release 1st album, "Please Please Me".

 

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March 23,
On March 23, 1839, the initials “O.K.” are first published in The Boston Morning Post.

 

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March 24 1939 "Wuthering Heights" based on the novel by Emily Brontë, directed by William Wyler and starring Merle Oberon and Laurence Olivier, premieres in Los Angeles.

 

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March 25
In one of the darkest moments of America’s industrial history, the Triangle Shirtwaist Company factory in New York City burns down, killing 146 workers, on this day in 1911. The tragedy led to the development of a series of laws and regulations that better protected the safety of factory workers.

 

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March 26 , 1812 Earthquake measuring 7.7 on the Richter scale destroys 90% of Caracas, Venezuela and kills an estimated 15,000–20,000 people.

 

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March 27
On March 27, 1998, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approves use of the drug Viagra, an oral medication that treats impotence.

 

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At 4 a.m. on March 28, 1979, the worst accident in the history of the U.S. nuclear power industry begins when a pressure valve in the Unit-2 reactor at Three Mile Island fails to close. Cooling water, contaminated with radiation, drained from the open valve into adjoining buildings, and the core began to dangerously overheat.

 

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March 29
1999 The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes at 10006.78 - above the 10,000 mark for the first time ever.

 

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On March 30, 1981, President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest outside a Washington, D.C. hotel by a deranged drifter named John Hinckley Jr.

 

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On March 31, 1889, the Eiffel Tower is dedicated in Paris in a ceremony presided over by Gustave Eiffel, the tower’s designer, and attended by French Prime Minister Pierre Tirard, a handful of other dignitaries, and 200 construction workers.

 

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On April 1, 1700, English pranksters begin popularizing the annual tradition of April Fools’ Day by playing practical jokes on each other.

 

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April 2,
1977 Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours" album goes #1 & stays #1 for 31 weeks.

 

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April 3
1922 Joseph Stalin is appointed General Secretary of the Russian Communist Party by an ailing Vladimir Lenin.

 

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April 4, 1968

• Martin Luther King, Jr. is fatally shot while standing on the balcony outside his second-story room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.

 

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Modern rock icon Kurt Cobain dies by suicide on April 5, 1994. His body was discovered inside his home in Seattle, Washington, three days later by Gary Smith, an electrician, who was installing a security system in the suburban house. Despite indications that Cobain, the lead singer of Nirvana, killed himself, several skeptics questioned the circumstances of his death and pinned responsibility on his wife, Courtney Love.

 

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April 6
1830: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is organized by Joseph Smith in Fayette, N.Y.

 

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On April 7, 1994, violence fuels the launch of what would become the worst episode of genocide since World War II: the massacre of an estimated 500,000 to 1 million innocent civilian Tutsis and moderate Hutus. Following the first wave of massacres, Rwandan forces manage to discourage international intervention with the murder of 10 Belgian peacekeeping officers. The Tutsis, a minority group that made up about 10 percent of Rwanda’s population, received no assistance from the international community, although the United Nations later conceded that a mere 5,000 soldiers deployed at the outset would have stopped the wholesale slaughter.

Bill Clinton later called America’s failure to do anything to stop the genocide “the biggest regret” of his administration.

 

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April 8,
On April 8, 1974, Hank Aaron of the Atlanta Braves hits his 715th career home run, breaking Babe Ruth’s legendary record of 714 homers.