On this day in history ( Archived) (8)

* 1314: Robert the Bruce of Scotland defeats the English army under Edward II at Bannockburn, near Stirling.


* 1812: Napoleon begins the disastrous French invasion of Russia by crossing the River Niemen with 614,000 men.


* 1948: Soviet forces impose a total land blockade of West Berlin to drive the Western Allies from the city.

and holland beat Cameroon........

1497 The first recorded sighting of North America by a European took place as explorer John Cabot, on a voyage for England, spotted land, probably in present-day Canada.

1509 Henry VIII was crowned king of England.

1793 The first republican constitution in France was adopted.


1940 France signed an armistice with Italy during World War II.

1948 Communist forces cut off all land and water routes between West Germany and West Berlin, prompting the United States to organize a massive airlift.

1975 An Eastern Airlines Boeing 727 crashed while attempting to land during a thunderstorm at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport, killing 113 people.

1987 Actor Jackie Gleason died at age 71.


2004 Federal investigators questioned President George W. Bush for more than an hour in connection with the news leak of a CIA operative's name.

2009 After going AWOL for seven days, South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford admitted that he had secretly flown to Argentina to visit his mistress.

Whats brought all this on Steve?.........

how'd the whole West Berlin blockade thing turn out anyway?

while in army. i served on wall. was depressing. both sides.

World War II - Prisoners of War - Stalag Luft I

Kriegsgefangenenlager Nr. 1 d. Lw.
Barth, 24.6.1944

To: S.B.O and S.A.O.

On the evening of June 19, 1944 two members of Group III, were working under block 13, New Compound. The Ps.o.W. tried to prevent the German soldiers from doing their work by impetuous trampling on the floor and pouring hot water. I state that this interference happened in spite of the S.A.O's and S.B.O's affirmation that any incident proving lack of discipline would be stopped for the time to come. One of the German soldiers then fired two shots to the height which made the Ps.o.W. stop their troubling the German soldiers and return to their rooms.

Afterwards the block leader of block 13 confessed to a member of Group III that this interference was made _ _ rthry, in this connection your attention is drawn to the fact that the Ps.o.W. will risk their lives wantonly if this undisciplined attitude will not be altered.

(Signed)

Oberst und Kommandant

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Bless those POW's for pissing them off.