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October 28, 1944 Mascot

John William “Wild Bill” Crump was born in 1924 in the village of Opportunity, Washington. From the age of 5 he seemed destined for the air, his first flight with his father at the stick.

The world was at war in 1944, and badly in need of pilots. Wild Bill Crump arrived at Harding Field, Nebraska at the age of 20 to complete pilot training.

He came upon th...

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October 27, 1962 Archipov

Come join me for a moment, in a thought experiment.  A theater of the mind.

Imagine. Two nuclear superpowers, diametrically opposed, armed to the teeth and each deeply distrustful of the other. We’re talking here, about October 1962. The Cuban Missile Crisis. Now imagine at the height of the standoff, a misunderstanding leads some fool to push the button. The n...

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September 22, 1776 Nathan Hale

The nine Hale brothers of Coventry, Connecticut supported the Patriot side from the earliest days of the American Revolution. Five of them participated in the battles at Lexington and Concord. Nathan was the youngest and destined to be the most famous of ...

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September 21, 1780 André

In an age before radio or television, John André was an interesting man to be around. A gifted storyteller with a great sense of humor he could draw, paint and cut silhouettes. He was an excellent writer, he could sing, and he could write verse. John André was a British Major at the time of the American Revolution, who took part in his army’s occupations of Philadelphia and N...

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August 29, 1893  Need to Know

During the summer of 1921, 39-year-old Franklin Delano Roosevelt was enjoying family vacation time at Campobello Island off the Atlantic coast. On August 10, he complained of fever and chills and took to bed. The condition persisted for weeks. Four physicians attended the future president of the United States. The diagnosis, poliomyelitis.
Roosevelt spent the rest of his l...

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