--- 1775: Paul Revere and William Dawes rode from Boston to alert colonial revolutionaries that British troops were on their way to Lexington and Concord to seize weapons and to arrest John Hancock and Samuel Adams.

--- 1942: Doolittle Raid. Sixteen B-25 Mitchell bombers were launched from the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Hornet to bomb Tokyo and other cities in Japan.

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Marshal Jean Lannes.

When he was dying Lannes said to Napoleon:

It is not to concern you of my wife and children that I talk to you thus. In dying for you, I do not need to commend them to you, your glory makes it your duty to protect them, and in addressing you these final criticisms I do not fear that I shall change your disposition towards them. You have just committed a grave error, one which has deprived you of your best friend, but it will not change you. Your insatiable ambition will finish you. You sacrifice, without need, without attention, without regret, the men who serve you best. Your ingratitude pushes away those very people who admire you; those that are left around you are nothing but fawners. I see not one friend who would dare to tell you the truth. You will be betrayed, you will be abandonned. Hasten to bring this war to an end: it is the wish of your generals, and it is the wish of your people. You will never be more powerful, but you can certainly be more loved! Forgive a dying man these truths, for he cherishes you so…

Upon his death Napoleon said:

“The Marshal died this morning of wounds that he received on the field of honor. My pain equals yours. I lose the most distinguished General of my armies, my companion in arms for sixteen years, him whom I considered my best friend.”

This man was an absolute fucking badass and someone who I wish I could have met.

--- 1961: Bay of Pigs invasion. U.S. backed guerrillas invaded Cuba in an attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro. The invasion failed miserably.

--- 1861: Virginia was the eighth state to secede from the Union.

--- 1790: Benjamin Franklin died in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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--- 1961: Bay of Pigs invasion. U.S. backed guerrillas invaded Cuba in an attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro. The invasion failed miserably.

--- 1975: The Khmer Rouge captured Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia, essentially ending the Cambodian Civil War. The horrors of the Khmer Rouge regime began.

--- 1861: Virginia was the eighth state to secede from the Union.

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I am trying to reproduce this shadow box commemorating my grandfather and can’t figure out what the silver star is for on the national defense medal, every rack builder I go to only allows bronze stars, is this just a mistake in the original shadow box?

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