Frontlines of Freedom 04-22-2017 Show # 487 Hour 1

Sept 28 - Gold Star Mother’s Day
Oct 13 - U.S. Navy's 241st Birthday
Oct 26 - Day of the Deployed
November - Military Family Month
Nov 10 - U.S. Marine Corps 242nd Birthday
Nov 11 - Veterans Day
Dec 1 - Civil Air Patrol (USAF Auxiliary) Birthday
Dec 7 - Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day
Dec 13 - U.S. National Guard Birthday

September 22
1711 - The Tuscarora Indian War begins with a massacre of settlers in N. Carolina, following white encroachment that included the enslaving of Indian children
1776 - American Captain Nathan Hale is hanged as a spy by the British in NYC; his last words are reputed to have been, "I only regret that I have but one life to give for my country."
1789 - Russian forces under Aleksandr Suvorov drive the Turkish army under Yusuf Pasha from the Rymnik River, upsetting the Turkish invasion of Russia
1864 - Union General Philip Sheridan defeats Confederate General Jubal Early‘s troops at the Battle of Fisher’s Hill in Virginia
1918 - General Allenby leads the British army against the Turks, taking Haifa & Nazareth, Palestine
1945 - President Harry Truman accepts U.S. Secretary of War Stimson’s recommendation to designate the war World War II
1980 - The Iran-Iraq War begins as Iraq invades Iran; lasting until August 1988, it was the longest conventional war of the 20th century

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