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On the eve of tomorrow...no kidding:rolleyes:
What major event happened on November 10th ???? in the United States of America? I will be given out more clues as you ask for them. I will also not be suprised if someone gets the answer very quickly.
So the first and second clues are:
1) November 10th, ????
2) United Staes of America
God Bless
weatherall86
11-09-2007, 17:01
The US stood up a naval infantry unit on November 10th, 1775, known as the Continental Marines. They were disbanded at the end of the American Revolutionary War in 1783 but are the antecedents to the present-day USMC.
If this is what you were after, let's take it one step further: What's the history behind the quatrefoil and where does the term "leatherneck" come from?
weatherall86,
Nope that is not what I am looking for. Does anybody else besides weatherall86 want another hint?
KiloNovember
11-09-2007, 18:00
President Bush gave his first address to the United Nations General Assembly in 2001, nearly a month after 9/11.
Bush speaks before the UN outlineing our policy in the war on terror
question is event and year I did not post a year
resctech
11-09-2007, 18:51
November 10th, 1775 at Tun Tavern, Philadelphia, Captain Samuel Nichols stood up a battalion of Marines. Basically, the birth of the United States Marine Corps. The quatrefoil, sewn on the top of an officers cover, was used to distinguish American officers from the enemy, to prevent the sharpshooters in the ships rigging from committing fratricide. The term "Leatherneck" comes from the high leather collars Marines wore to protect themselves from sword slashes. Semper Fi.
Well, in 1980, dan rather refused to pay a $12.55 cab fare. :D
Pat
bricklayer
11-09-2007, 19:17
On the eve of tomorrow...no kidding:rolleyes:
What major event happened on November 10th ???? in the United States of America? I will be given out more clues as you ask for them. I will also not be suprised if someone gets the answer very quickly.
So the first and second clues are:
1) November 10th, ????
2) United Staes of America
God Bless
If your taliking abouth the Eve of tommorow wich would be the night of November 9th it was JFK being elected as the youngest President! 1960
If November 10th it is the birth of the USMC. 1775
Go For Broke
11-09-2007, 19:32
1982 - The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is opened in Washington D.C.
Could it be this?
NOW, THEREFORE, I, HARRY S. TRUMAN, President of the United States of America, having in mind the joint congressional resolution of December 26, 1941, which made the fourth Thursday in November a legal holiday, do hereby proclaim Thursday, November 24, 1949, as Thanksgiving Day, and I urge all citizens to observe the day with reverence. Let us, on the appointed day, in our homes and in our accustomed places of worship, give thanks to Almighty God for the blessings which have signalized our lot as a Nation, and let us ask for the gift of wisdom in our striving for a better world.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States of America to be affixed.
DONE at the City of Washington this 10th day of November in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and forty-nine, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and seventy-fourth.
Jack Moroney (RIP)
11-09-2007, 19:52
Why don't you concentrate on what happened today. This is the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
OK, another hint:
1) It did happen on November 10th ????
2) It was a disaster
3) It happened on the northern portion of the US
112thSOLCA
11-09-2007, 20:23
Edmund Fitzgerald sank?
bricklayer
11-09-2007, 20:25
On November 10, 1975 the SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior. All 29 crew members died. At the time, it was the worst shipping disaster on the Great Lakes in 11 years. Other shipping disasters on the Great Lakes, in which weather played a role include:
Nov. 11, 1913: eighteen ships were lost killing 254 people.
Nov. 11-13, 1940: 57 men died when three freighters sank in Lake Michigan.
rubberneck
11-09-2007, 20:27
OK, another hint:
1) It did happen on November 10th ????
2) It was a disaster
3) It happened on the northern portion of the US
The first episode of Seasame Street aired it's first episode on Nov 10th 1969.;)
112thSOLCA and bricklayer you are both correct. Congatulations!:lifter
Uh, the rest of us were right, also. You didn't specify "maritime history". ;)
Pat
Yeh, I know I didn't mention that but jee wilikers Batman, I wanted to feel at least "smarter" than the rest of you for just a little while!:D
By the way, if you ever get a chance to buy the Discovery channel movie about the big Fitz buy it. Well worth the money. She not only went down with 29 crewmembers but killed one older gentlemen when she was Chrisondened (sp?). When she was released from the dock she went in the water so fast that she almost capsized, bobbed upwards and ran almost into the wall next to her producing a 15-20 foot wave and she did this three times. The gentlemen was so terrified by this he died right there on the dock. The other maritime sailors were heard saying that it was almost like she didn't want to go into the lake and kept trying to get back on dry land. Know that would of scared me a little to knowing she was the largest ship ever built up till that time on the Great Lakes. There were many named causes of her demise. The Coast Guard had a theory as did the Great Lakes Maritime Authority, on down to the Captain's of the various ships.
But when it all comes down to it it was an act of God or God allowed act that swept her below the waves to a deph of some 500+ feet. You also have to remember that the Captain that went out to search for her was a salty dog with allot of years fighting hurricanes in the western hemispheres and typhoon's in the Eastern. He stated for the record that he had never in his entire life seen so bad of weather as was the case that day when he was the only one that went out to search for her and that the weather was worse than any typhoon/hurricane he'd ever been in. He also stated that he was really scared that he wasn't going to live as he kept seeing his excec officer standing on the sidewalls of the bridge.
dmgedgoods
11-10-2007, 14:11
Kristallnacht, Night of Broken Glass, in Germany. 10 November 1938. Just didn't happen in the US.
Shawn
112thSOLCA
11-10-2007, 14:43
MAB32 quote: 3) It happened on the northern portion of the US
Based on your hint..... Bricklayer and I should be wrong too.
From NTSB - Report No. NTSB-MAR-78-3
Wreckage identified as that of the FITZGERALD was located in position 46 59.91 N’, 85 06.6’ W in 530 feet of water in eastern Lake Superior just north of the International Boundary in Canadian waters.
:D
We are splitting hairs here my friends.:rolleyes:
CosaNostraUSMC
11-10-2007, 15:42
Happy Birthday to us.
Remington Raidr
11-10-2007, 19:10
MAB32 quote:
Based on your hint..... Bricklayer and I are should be wrong too.
From NTSB - Report No. NTSB-MAR-78-3
:D
And the legend lives on from the song done by a Canuck. Not SO smart, after all, eh?:D