Gary Varvel – Wednesday, February 05, 2020
2020: Possibly the start of COVID-19 Pandemic in Wuhan, China.
20 Mar 2020: President Trump declares a National Emergency
27 Mar 2020: President Trump Signed a nation security and defense order order bringing back one million military reservists for active duty.
15 Apr 2020: President Trump put a hold on funding the WHO.
20 Apr 2020: Crude oil plunged from over $20 a barrel down to -$37 a barrel.
27 May 2020: The Senate voted to delist Chinese stocks.
28 May 2020: President Trump signs an executive order directing federal agencies to develop regulations under an existing law that protects social media from being sued. Source Natural News, The EpochTimes
29 May 2020: Officer Derek Chauvin arrested in the death of Geroge Floyd.
29 May 2020: President Trump announced the U.S. will formally end its relationship with the World Health Organization. (WHO)
2020: President Trump brokered an historic peace agreement between Israel, United Arab Emirates and Bahrain.
Bahrain Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa, Israel Prime Minister Netanyaahu, U.S. President Trump, and UAE Sheikah Mohammed Bin Zayed
15 Sept 2020: The agreement was formalized with a signing at the White House.
Egypt normalized relations in 1979 and Jordan normalized relations in 1994.
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25 Jan 2020: President Trump’s team begins his impeachment defense.
September 2, 1945: Japan surrenders to US General Douglass MacArthur and the Allies.
At 2:41 am on the morning of 7 May 1945, at Allied headquarters in Reims, France, Chief-of-Staff of the German Armed forces High command, General Alfred Jodl, signed the unconditional surrender of all German Forces to the allies. The West awoke to the news the following day, with celebrations being held around the world for the Victory in Europe. VE Day, 8 May. (Colorized and researched by Benjamin Thomas from Australia).
Captain John A. Winslow and his officers aboard the U.S.S. Kersarge 1864. Photo was taken after a huge win for the Union officers in sinking the opposing C.S.S. Alabama during the Battle of Cherbourg.
The Rodman gun was developed by Thomas Jackson Rodman, a Union artillery man. It took about 12 men to operate.
DeForest Kelley, US Army Air Corps.
Burgess Meredith, US Army Air Corps.
Robert Stack, US Navy. Gunnery Officer.
Denver Pyle, US Navy. Wounded in the Battle of Guadalcanal. Medically Discharged.
George Kennedy, US Army. Enlisted after Pearl Harbor; Served sixteen years.
Danny Aiello, US Army. Lied about his age to enlist at 16. Served three years.
Neville Brand, US Army, Europe. Awarded the Silver Star and Purple Heart.
Mickey Spillane, US Army Air Corps, Fighter Pilot and later Instructor Pilot.
Harry Dean Stanton, US Navy. Served aboard an LST in the Battle of Okinawa.
Frank Sutton, US Army. Took part in 14 assault landings, including Leyte, Luzon, Bataan and Corregidor.
Fred Gwynne, US Navy. Radioman.
William Holden, US Army Air Corps.
Fess Parker, US Navy and US Marines. Booted from pilot training for being too tall. Then joined the Marines as a radio operator.
Robert Ryan, US Marines.
Hugh O’Brian, US Marines.
Clark Gable, US Army Air Corps. B-17 gunner over Europe.
Eddie Albert, US Coast Guard. Bronze Star with combat V for saving several Marines under heavy fire as pilot of a landing craft during the invasion of Tarawa.
Peter Graves, US Army Air Corps.
Buddy Hackett, US Army anti-aircraft gunner.
Jack Palance, US Army Air Corps. Severely injured bailing out of a burning B-25 bomber.
Robert Preston, US Army Air Corps. Intelligence Officer.
Cersar Romero, US Coast Guard. Participated in the invasions of Tinian and Saipan on the assault transport USS Cavalier.
Steve Reeves, US Army, Philippines.
Victor Mature, US Coast Guard.
Jason Robards, US Navy. He was aboard the heavy cruiser USS Northampton when it was sunk off Guadalcanal. Also served on the USS Nashville During the invasion of the Philippines, surviving a kamikaze hit that caused 223 casualties.
More to come, so please check back. Deanna
June 6 1944: D-day and the Normandy invasion. Allied forces invade France and push back the Germans.
June 6, 1944: Operation Deadstick was the code name for the operation by the airborne forces of the British Army as part of the Normandy landing.
British Airborne troops admire the graffiti chalked on the side of their glider as they prepare to fly out as part of the Second drop on Normandy on the night of June 6, 1944.
US Paratroopers company E 2nd Battalion
On June 6, 1944, U.S. assault troops landed on Omaha Beach during the invasion of Normandy. What might be different today if they had been turned back?
January 30, 1933: Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany. President Paul von Hindenburg named him Fuhrer of the National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazi Party) or the Third Reich. Immediately he ordered expansion of the state police, (the Gestapo).
Hindenburg appointing Hitler Chancellor of Germany
February 27, 1933: The Reichstag building Burned.
A Dutchman named Marinus van der Lubbe was arrested for the crime. The Nazis blamed the Communists.
February 28, 1933: Under the pretense of controlling the Communists, abolished individual rights and protections.
March 23, 1933: The enabling Act was passed. It sanctioned Hitler’s dictatorial efforts.
May 10, 1933: Hitler appointed Joseph Goebbels to burn over 25,000 books. Several irreplaceable books were destroyed such as those written by Sigmund Freud and Albert Einstein. Magazines, newspapers, radio broadcasts were censored. Goebbels title was the Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda.
September 15, 1935: The Nuremberg Laws were enacted. They formed the legal basis for the Jews’ exclusion from German society. Many Jews attempted to flee Germany.
October 25, 1936: Adolf Hitler for Nazi Germany and Benito Mussoline for Fascist Italy form the Rome-Berlin Axis treaty. It declared they would be Allies and would help each other in times of war.
Hitler and MussoliniJuly 7, 1937: Japan invades China.
Depiction of the Chinese slaughter by Japanese Troops in Nanjing December 1937March 12, 1938: Hitler annexes Austria into Germany.
When the Nazis marched into Austria, Hitler ordered all of Austria to switch to driving on the right side of the road.
Crowds cheer to greet the Nazis in Vienna 1938July 1938: Representatives of 32 countries met in Evian Franch to discuss the refugee immigration problems created by the Nazis in Germany. By the autumn of 1941, Europe was in effect sealed to most legal emigration. The Jews were trapped.
March 1939: Czechoslovakia surrenders to imminent German invasion. Hitler annexes Austria and western Czechoslovakia.
April 1939: Hitler cancels the German-British naval agreement and the German-Polish non-aggression pact. Italy invades Albania.
July 1939: Polish intelligence passes all its knowledge about the German Enigma machine to British and French intelligence.
August 1939: Germany and Russia sign non-aggression pact, secretly agreeing to invade Poland and share it. German U-boats and battleships sale to the Atlantic Ocean for war.
August 31, 1939: Adolf Hitler dressed an unknown prisoner in a Polish military uniform and staged a fake ‘Polish attack” and shot the prisoner. The next morning German troops began their advance into Poland. This was named, Operation Himmler.
Source for the Holocaust data: Jewish Virtual Library.
German prisoners in a French prison camp, during the later part of WW I.
French soldiers making a gas and flame attack on German trenches in Flanders
Women Army recruits from the United Kingdom during drills. May 1917
Often servicemen would keep a hand written will in their uniform.
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Code talking was pioneered by Cherokee and Choctaw Indians during World War I. Does anyone know the names of these people?
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