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27 October 1962
Known as Black Saturday.

On Saturday October 27, 1962, the twelfth day of the Cuban missile crisis, President John F. Kennedy might have been thinking about that famous law's corollary: Murphy was an optimist. ... Khrushchev's letter the day before had conditioned the withdrawal of Soviet missiles solely on a U.S. pledge not to invade Cuba.

Cuban Missile Crisis Summary
Cuba had good diplomatic relations with USA, with President Fulgencio Batista allowing US-based industries to have cheap manufacturing facilities there. But all this changed after the overthrow of President Batista, and led to the revolution and reformation of Cuba by Fidel Castro.

Sensing that Fidel Castro would advocate communism instead of socialism, the US decided to overthrow Castro by a CIA-backed plan, called the Bay of Pigs. The mission involved sending Cuban exiles who received CIA training to enter through a pocket near an island called the Bay of Pigs. The mission backfired, with all the militants being either captured or executed. The Kennedy Administration took responsibility for this failed attempt. The Soviet Union persuaded Cuba to stock nuclear warheads to defend against a preemptive strike from the US. Thus, Cuba joined hands with its communist ally and refused any further negotiations with the US.

The missiles were aimed at Florida, which was 90 miles from Cuba. Various appeals to Cuba to remove the warheads failed. This led to a standoff between the Soviet Union and the US, with both parties refusing to budge, and Cuba stuck in the middle of it all. The upcoming sections summarize the events of the Cuban Missile Crisis, a confrontation which lasted for 13 days, and resolved at the behest of the cool-mindedness of two men - President John F. Kennedy and Premier Nikita Khrushchev.

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● Oct 15, 1962
A U-2 spy plane takes photographic evidence of medium-range missiles placed in Cuba.

● Oct 16, 1962
The Executive Committee of the National Security Council (EXCOMM) was formed to advise the president on matters relating to Cuba.

● Oct 17, 1962
Photographic evidence of the missile sites are produced before EXCOMM.

● Oct 18, 1962
President John F. Kennedy attends a scheduled meeting with Soviet foreign minister Andrei Gromyko to confirm their actions regarding Cuba.

● Oct 19, 1962
EXCOMM suggests quarantining Cuba.

● Oct 20, 1962
Robert Kennedy, the Attorney General at the time gives EXCOMM's recommendation to President John F. Kennedy.

● Oct 22, 1962
President Kennedy gives a televised speech regarding the missiles in Cuba.

● Oct 23, 1962
Soviet ships on the way to Cuba stop 750 miles before the naval blockade of the US.

● Oct 24, 1962
Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev refuses to remove the missiles placed in Cuba. Pope John XXIII tries to avert a war by passing a message to the embassies of both nations.

● Oct 25, 1962
President Kennedy increases the number of flights from two per day to two every hour to patrol Cuban airspace.

● Oct 26, 1962
The US discusses invasion plans to remove the warheads from Cuba. At the same time, Pope John XXIII's pleas to end the war for the sake of peace are published in every national newspaper.

● Oct 27, 1962
President Kennedy agrees to stop the invasion of Cuba.

● Oct 28, 1962
Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev agrees to remove the missiles, and a nuclear war is averted with the resolving of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
 

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One very important detail is cunningly left out whenever is talked about Cuban missile crisis. I'm talking of course about US missiles in Turkey. That was main reason why Russians brought rockets in Cuba. Anyone thinks that Russians would risk nuclear war with US just because they love Fidel Castro so much?
 

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Now it's Russia sending missiles to Turkey

Still largest nuclear US capability out of American soil is in Turkey. Sultan turning ship towards Russia. And then we have Saudi Arabia case. That country is source of biggest evil on planet. Did butchered journalist comes as surprise to someone? I think that is common practice in SA. This is only first one all world heard about
 

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November 1st 1915

On November 1, 1915, Parris Island was officially designated a Marine Corps Recruit Depot and training was continued from then on.
Marines were first assigned to Parris Island on June 26, 1891, in the form of a small security detachment headed by First Sergeant Richard Donovan, two corporals and 10 privates.[2] This unit was attached to the Naval Station, Port Royal, the forerunner of Parris Island. Donovan's unit was highly commended for preserving life and property during hurricanes and storm surgesthat swept over the island in 1891 and 1893.

Military buildings and homes constructed between 1891 and World War I form the nucleus of the Parris Island Historic District. At the district center are the commanding general's home, a 19th-century wooden dry dock and a start of the 20th century gazebo—all of which are on the National Register of Historic Places.[3]
 

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November 1st is also la Fête des morts in several countries Notably Mexico, Cambodia and French Polynesia. In the latter, all the locals dress up in white and go to the graves of their loved ones. They sit on the graves and picnic and sing songs accompanied by ukuleles.
 
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On this day Sunday the 1st of November 1914- The Battle of Coranel.

The Germans issued a crushing victory against the British Royal Navy. It was the Royal Navy's worst defeat for more than a century. More than 1600 British sailors perished.

Off the coast of Chile a German Naval Squadron sank two British Armoured Cruisers.
 

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This year as Marines we celebrate our 243 birthday as Marines. The Marine Corps was founded on 10 Nov. 1775. Every year the Commandant of the Marine Corps releases an official Birthday Message to ALL MARINES FAR AND WIDE. As Marines we pause to honor our birth and our commitment to our beloved Corps.

This year is a very special year for the Corps and for France. We both Mark the 100th anniversary of the Battle for Belleau Wood. Marines went over the top and attacked the western front. In this year's message the Commandant of the Marine Corps and the Sergeant's Major of the Marine Corps walked the fields at Belleau Wood in France. With about 3:45 remaining in the message you see and hear the Commandant and Sergeant Major speaking from that field of honor.

Today, where are we? We are in the Horn of Africa training with and supporting the French Foreign Legion. We are in Norway for Artic Warrior, we are conducting training and fighting along side our Legion Brothers in Arms. From the Birth of this nation and through the 100s of years, we have fought and won many victories at our oldest ally's side.

 
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A few proud men. The special breed.

Semper Fidelis- Per Mare per Terram.
 

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5 November 1605

“Remember, remember the fifth of November,” instructs the old nursery rhyme, and offers a useful summary: “Gunpowder, treason and plot.” But we have never been sure quite what, or how, we should be remembering.

On 5 November 1605 a small gang of Catholics and minor noblemen plotted to blow up the Houses of Parliament, during the State Opening at which King James I would be present. One of the conspirators, Guy Fawkes, was caught with the gunpowder before he set it off. The other plotters were soon caught, and all were executed.



By government decree, the date was soon declared a national day of thanksgiving and remembrance, but this was at first an anti-Catholic festival, and effigies of the Pope were burned. In the eighteenth century it became popularly known as Guy Fawkes night, and children collected pennies for an effigy called the “guy”; and then in the twentieth century, this became Fireworks Night. Fireworks are surely a tasteless way to commemorate an explosion that didn’t happen: if we enjoy the fireworks, surely we are also relishing precisely what Fawkes wished for? However, 5 November has always been an uneasy holiday, and a celebration, perhaps, of misdirected sympathy.



Shakespeare’s play Macbeth, written in late 1605 or early 1606, remembers the fifth of November not with fireworks but as a moment of terror. A copy of a manual of equivocation was found in the possession of one of the plotters: it advised English Catholics to “equivocate,” or to speak in ambiguous double statements under interrogation, thus both avoiding the sin of lying and also preserving their safety. The author of the pamphlet, Henry Garnet, was tried and executed for involvement in the plot, and in the second act of Macbeth the porter at the gate of the castle mocks this Catholic martyr. “Who’s there?” he asks, and continues: “here’s an equivocator that could swear in both the scales against either scale, who committed treason enough for God’s sake, yet could not equivocate to heaven.” This is one of the very few decisive contemporary allusions in Shakespeare’s plays.

The subject was controversial. In 1603, King James of Scotland had inherited the throne of England, and two years later his subjects tried to assassinate him; shortly after, Shakespeare chose to write a play about the successful assassination of a Scottish monarch. He had every reason to tread carefully. Since James’ accession to the throne, Shakespeare’s company of players had been granted royal patronage, and performed under the official name of “The King’s Men”. They relied upon the king’s generosity, particularly when the commercial theatres were closed due to outbreaks of the plague and royal performances were a vital source of income. A modern analogy might be helpful here. Imagine, for example, that in the weeks after 11 September 2001, an American theatre company apply for public funds to stage a new play. They want to stage it in the White House, before the president and his invited guests. And the play will present a sympathetic view of a Muslim who hijacks a plane.

In controversy lies good drama; Shakespeare knew this. In courting danger, and in shocking the audience, his plays achieve their magic. They are never only of one side. But Shakespeare had, too, a more personal interest in the heated religious tensions of this specific moment. Immediately after the discovery of the Gunpowder Plot, new laws were passed which aimed to expose secret Catholics: church attendance was carefully watched, and on 5 May 1606 twenty-one people at Stratford upon Avon were charged with not having received Communion at church. Among them was Susannah, Shakespeare’s oldest daughter. We cannot know, now, if this suggests that she was Catholic, but we can know that she at this moment of political tension resisted going to church; that she felt, for a moment, on the side of those opposed to the king. This much Shakespeare knew, too, as he wrote a play at whose heart is the ambiguous, sympathetic portrayal of a man who kills a king and who is punished for it. 5 November, for us as for Shakespeare, is a reminder of what it might be to find oneself on the wrong side, or to be torn.
 

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November 5 1994

On this day in 1994, George Foreman, age 45, becomes boxing’s oldest heavyweight champion when he defeats 26-year-old Michael Moorer in the 10th round of their WBA fight in Las Vegas. More than 12,000 spectators at the MGM Grand Hotel watched Foreman dethrone Moorer, who went into the fight with a 35-0 record. Foreman dedicated his upset win to “all my buddies in the nursing home and all the guys in jail.”

Born in 1949 in Marshal, Texas, Foreman had a troubled childhood and dropped out of high school. Eventually, he joined President Lyndon Johnson’s Jobs Corps work program and discovered a talent for boxing. “Big George,” as he was nicknamed, took home a gold medal for the U.S. at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City. In 1973 in Kingston, Jamaica, after winning his first 37 professional matches, 34 by knockout, Foreman KO’d “Smokin'” Joe Frazier after two rounds and was crowned heavyweight champ. At 1974’s “Rumble in the Jungle” in Kinshasha, Zaire, the younger, stronger Foreman suffered a surprising loss to underdog Muhammad Ali and was forced to relinquish his championship title. Three years later, Big George morphed from pugilist into preacher, when he had a religious experience in his dressing room after losing a fight. He retired from boxing, became an ordained minister in Houston and founded a youth center.

A decade later, the millions he’d made as a boxer gone, Foreman returned to the ring at age 38 and staged a successful comeback. When he won his second heavyweight title in his 1994 fight against Moorer, becoming the WBA and IBF champ, Foreman was wearing the same red trunks he’d had on the night he lost to Ali.



Foreman didn’t hang onto the heavyweight mantle for long. In March 1995, he was stripped of his WBA title after refusing to fight No. 1 contender Tony Tucker, and he gave up his IBF title in June 1995 rather than fight a rematch with Axel Schulz, whom he’d narrowly beat in a controversial judges’ decision in April of that same year. Foreman’s last fight was in 1997; he lost to Shannon Biggs. He retired with a lifetime record of 76-5.

Outside of the boxing ring, Foreman, who has five sons, all named George, and five daughters, has become enormously wealthy as an entrepreneur and genial TV pitchman for a variety of products, including the hugely popular George Foreman Grill.
 
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Anniversary,

On 8 November, 1895, German physicist Wilhelm Rontgen became the first person to observe X rays. The discovery was accidental in his Wurzgburg laboratory when he was testing whether cathode rays could pass through glass.

I remember in the mid to late 1950s' being given a lecture on nuclear radiation. We were informed that officers would be issued with Rontgen meters. Fortunately that was the last I ever heard on that subject.
 

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November 5 1994

On this day in 1994, George Foreman, age 45, becomes boxing’s oldest heavyweight champion when he defeats 26-year-old Michael Moorer in the 10th round of their WBA fight in Las Vegas. More than 12,000 spectators at the MGM Grand Hotel watched Foreman dethrone Moorer, who went into the fight with a 35-0 record. Foreman dedicated his upset win to “all my buddies in the nursing home and all the guys in jail.”

Born in 1949 in Marshal, Texas, Foreman had a troubled childhood and dropped out of high school. Eventually, he joined President Lyndon Johnson’s Jobs Corps work program and discovered a talent for boxing. “Big George,” as he was nicknamed, took home a gold medal for the U.S. at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City. In 1973 in Kingston, Jamaica, after winning his first 37 professional matches, 34 by knockout, Foreman KO’d “Smokin'” Joe Frazier after two rounds and was crowned heavyweight champ. At 1974’s “Rumble in the Jungle” in Kinshasha, Zaire, the younger, stronger Foreman suffered a surprising loss to underdog Muhammad Ali and was forced to relinquish his championship title. Three years later, Big George morphed from pugilist into preacher, when he had a religious experience in his dressing room after losing a fight. He retired from boxing, became an ordained minister in Houston and founded a youth center.

A decade later, the millions he’d made as a boxer gone, Foreman returned to the ring at age 38 and staged a successful comeback. When he won his second heavyweight title in his 1994 fight against Moorer, becoming the WBA and IBF champ, Foreman was wearing the same red trunks he’d had on the night he lost to Ali.



Foreman didn’t hang onto the heavyweight mantle for long. In March 1995, he was stripped of his WBA title after refusing to fight No. 1 contender Tony Tucker, and he gave up his IBF title in June 1995 rather than fight a rematch with Axel Schulz, whom he’d narrowly beat in a controversial judges’ decision in April of that same year. Foreman’s last fight was in 1997; he lost to Shannon Biggs. He retired with a lifetime record of 76-5.

Outside of the boxing ring, Foreman, who has five sons, all named George, and five daughters, has become enormously wealthy as an entrepreneur and genial TV pitchman for a variety of products, including the hugely popular George Foreman Grill.


A genuinely nice human being!
 
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Congratulations to the magnificent USMC on their anniversary.(y)

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.;););)

Our cousins across the pond are the best of America.(y)

Semper Fidelis/ Per Mare per Terram.:)
 

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10 November 1775,

On this day in 1775 the United States Marine Corps was founded – in one of the most famous taverns in Revolutionary America.
a Philadelphia pub and brewery. :love:

https://www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2017/11/on-this-day-1775founding-of-the-usmc/


On this day, 10 November 1775, by order of the Continental Congress, Two Battalions of Marines were to raised. Captain Samuel Nicolas bean to recruit the Marines from Tun Tavern, Pennsylvania. Since then we have fought in every battle from Sea to shinning Sea, from the Hall of Montezuma to the Shores of Tripoli.

Thank you Joe for this recognition, it shows the bond we all share and our connection as allies and as Veterans whom have fought side by side.

Today, President Trump is in France with President Macron to Celebrate the end of World War 1, the war to end all wars. It was WW1 where Marines distinguished themselves. The Battle of Bellau Wood and many others. In WW1 one of our most famous Generals earned is stripes, General John A. Lejeune. Camp Lejeune is named for John A. Lejeune and today, ALL MARINES FAR AND WIDE, will lift a cup cut a cake and read the General John A. Lejeune's Birthday Message. Reading his message is a tradition and the Commandant will share his own message.
 
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