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Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: TV Commercials: The Classics Vol. 2 DVD, Video Download, USB Drive
Today, May 4, 2024
May 4: National Orange Juice Day: -- A day that recognizes America's most popular breakfast drink. Orange juice holds a large margin over second-place apple juice, too. People have been waking up to a glass of orange juice for many years and enjoying the health benefits it gives them. One 8 ounce serving of orange juice has 124 mg of vitamin C and also supplies potassium, thiamine, and folate. That little bit of sunshine in the morning can add a boost to your day. Get your orange juice fresh squeezed, bottled or in concentrated form in the freezer section. You can also enjoy orange juice blends for delicious combinations. The United States is second only to Brazil in the production of orange juice, and they're second only to Canada in consumption. Another excellent way to add orange juice to your diet if you are watching your sugar intake is to include it as an ingredient in a recipe. Orange juice adds great flavor to smoothies, whole-grain waffles or french toast. To observe National Orange Juice Day: Enjoy a nice cold glass of orange juice with your breakfast; decide which do you prefer - extra pulp or no pulp versions£ Orange juice producers offer both to satisfy all our needs; Share your favorite recipes using orange juice, too; and use #NationalOrangeJuiceDay to post on social media. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/tv-commercials-the-classics-vol-2-dv2.html

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Today, May 4, 2024
May 4: Bird Day: -- Today we honor our feathered friends on several holidays called in the United States. The day celebrates birds of all kinds across North America. With over 2,000 species of birds in North America, birdwatchers and nature lovers alike will appreciate the beauty and variety of these winged friends offer. From songbirds to waterfowl and domesticated birds, they come in every color of plumage and wingspan. During the spring, migrating birds move to their summer nesting grounds. It's an excellent time for those new to birdwatching to learn to identify birds by species. Enthusiasts also know that birds will migrate through backyards and stop for a rest, a bite to eat, and a drink if the right habitat is provided. They stand prepared by their windows with binoculars and watch as new visitors arrive daily. Whether it's an oriole, a tree swallow, the ruby-throated hummingbird, or an American Finch, you'll want to make sure you've prepared food, natural habitat and water sources for your guests. However, it's not just the passersby that get birdists excited. It's the long term residents and those of the greater outdoors. Year after year they watch robins collect their nesting material or chickadees caring for their brood. They wander through nature preserves seeking a glimpse of a varied thrush or a prairie warbler. When they do, they are often graced with a privileged view of a bald eagle soaring above them. So enjoy the pleasure of viewing and listening to the birds in your neighborhood, share your favorite birdwatching experiences, take photos of birds of interest, and as you do, promote habitat conservation and preservation using #BirdDay to post on social media! Charles Almanzo Babcock, Oil City, Pennsylvania Superintendent of Schools, established the first Bird Day in 1894. It was also the first holiday in the United States dedicated to the celebration of birds. Babcock founded the day, observed annually on May 4th, to advance bird conservation as a moral value. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/super-sense--animal-perception-tv-series-dvd-mp4-download-usb-driv4.html

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Today, May 4, 2024
May 4: International Respect For Chickens Day: -- A day to promote compassion and respectful treatment of chickens and other domestic fowl. United Poultry Concerns started on this day in 2005. Karen Davis started United Poultry Concerns not just for chickens, but also for other domestic farm birds like turkeys and ducks. Raising these birds is for food production, experiments, education, and entertainment. The International Respect for Chickens Day aims to reduce the pain and plight of these birds by raising awareness about their condition among the public. The day also emphasizes the importance and benefits of a vegan lifestyle. They say that the chickens are descendants of avian dinosaurs. We can say for sure that these magnificent birds haven't forgotten about their ancestors just by looking at their ferocity. Male chickens are called cocks, and females are called hens. Biddy, rooster, capon, chick, pullet, etc. are a few name variants used for different situations and conditions. Chickens are the most widespread domesticated birds that can be found just about anywhere there is a human population. The wild chickens evolved from wild jungle fowl. They are chicken-like birds that lived in parts of Southeast Asia some 50 million years ago. D.N.A. analysis and mathematical models trace the origin of chickens back to 58,000 years ago. There is an interesting insight into these numbers. The first amniotic eggs appeared approximately 340 million years ago, and the first chicken appeared approximately 58,000 years ago. This settles the age-old question of who came first - the chicken or the egg. Domestication of chicken happened some 8,000 years ago in Southeast Asia and then spread all over the world. Chickens were initially not used as a source of food. They were used for entertainment through cockfighting. It was only between 400 and 200 B.C., during the Hellenistic period, that people in the region of the Southern Levant started using chickens as a source of food. But the condition of these amazing birds has never been good since the day we domesticated them. They suffered due to the living conditions and constant abuse. To make a better world for these domesticated birds and to create a better conscience, United Poultry Concerns started International Respect for Chickens Day, and we are working to raise better compassion towards chickens and other domesticated fowl. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/tv-commercials-the-classics-vol-9-dv9.html

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Today, May 4, 2024
May 4: National Kids Fitness Day: -- It's not only a day for children to focus on physical activity but a day for them to feel empowered to make changes in their lifestyle in order to grow into healthy adults. It's also a time to share fitness journeys with the world and possibly inspire others with their stories. With the help of family and friends, National Kids Fitness Day can show children how physical fitness has the power to change lives. The Greek philosopher Plato was the first P.E., or physical education teacher, in 386 B.C. His school, called 'Akademia' or 'The Academy' taught physical education as he understood the importance of teaching children as young as seven years old about physical fitness. He believed that one could attain perfection by spending time on both education and physical activity. It also helped the students prepare to become athletes or warriors. Boxing, chariot racing, and wrestling were some of the common sports practiced. These classes helped advance Greek society and eventually spread to the rest of the world. Physical Education reached the U.S. shores in the mid-19th century and was used to train soldiers for battle. The majority of military recruits in World War I were unfit for combat. Laws were enacted to include and improve P.E. programs in public schools to prepare future generations to engage in wars and sporting competitions. By World War II, the emphasis shifted from games and sports to physical conditioning. Both men and women used physical education to keep fit for not just the war, but also for manual labor. In 1953, American children were found to be less fit than their European counterparts by the Kraus-Weber study. As a result, P.E. experienced tremendous growth at the elementary level. Today, aside from skill development, many physical education programs emphasize overall fitness or wellness. There are many health risks associated with a sedentary lifestyle. It's clear that physical education plays a vital role in a child's physical, psychological, and cognitive development. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/old-time-kids-films-youth-social-guidance-films-dual-layer-dvd.html

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Today, May 4, 2024
May 4: Anti-Bullying Day: -- A day when the world pledges to end bullying in schools. Bullying is as old as human society. Sometimes, the signs are apparent and wilful. Other times, it is insidious and may exist where we least expect it - family, friends, or others close to the victim. But mostly, children are at higher risk since bullies prey on the most vulnerable. Every child has the right to grow up without experiencing abuse, especially in places of learning designed to be safe spaces. Anti-Bullying Day raises awareness about bullying and how to support children who may be silently suffering from it. The idea for Anti-Bullying Day came from David Shepherd and Travis Price in Nova Scotia, Canada. In 2007, the two bought and distributed 50 pink shirts to show their support for Jadrien Cota. He is a male student who was viciously bullied on the first day of school for wearing a pink shirt. Since then, people have worn pink, purple, or blue shirts to stand up against bullying. Bullying exists wherever there are groups of people. Sometimes presenting itself as 'teasing' or 'jokes,' bullying is rampant since there is always an individual with the need to assert dominance. Bullies belittle people based on their looks, race, gender, sexuality, or religion. Sometimes, they don't need a reason to accept a person's differences. Statistics show that at least 71% of students have been victims of bullying in school. The explosion of the internet makes it extra challenging. No longer confined to schoolyards, bullying today comes directly to people's homes through social media, websites, and devices. On this day, schools everywhere stand up against bullying. The holiday can have varying dates and names depending on the location. But the aim is universal, it is to prevent bullying and support kids who need help. The United Nations has designated May 4 as Anti-Bullying Day. A day that reminds us to defend anyone who faces victimization or harassment regardless of race, gender, or age. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/classic-juvenile-delinquency-films-collection-mp4-video-download-dv4.html

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Today, May 4, 2024
May 4: Relationship Renewal Day: -- Relationships make us human; we experience emotions and connections with people around us, and with some of those people, we form strong and important bonds; however, life has a way of getting in between those bonds. We age, change, grow, move, and the list goes on. Some relationships don't last, but it doesn't have to be that way. If you're willing to reconnect, today is your chance to do so. Read on to see how best you can enrich your relationships. Relationship Renewal Day, also known widely as Renewal Day, was created to give people a push or an opportunity to rekindle relationships. No matter the state of the relationship, this is a time that offers individuals a chance to set aside agendas and egos and come together with one objective £ to renew and rejuvenate their relationship. Historically in the Northern Hemispheres, May has been a time of renewal and rebirth; attached to Spring, May bears significance. The exact origin of the day is unknown; however, with a large following and active participation from individuals annually, it's relevant to many people worldwide. Not to be confused or written off as a couples' day, Relationship Renewal Day gives individuals a chance to reconnect with themselves, old friends, new friends, family, and romantic partners. The idea is never to leave a door shut forever. If we start wondering what could or might have been, then today is the perfect day to seize that opportunity and begin a journey of discovery, looking back while looking forward in the real sense. So, if you know that there is someone, even yourself, that you'd like to reconnect with, make the most of this day. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/classic-marital-guidance-marriage-counseling-films-dvd.html

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Today, May 4, 2024
May 4: 45 Day: -- An annual tribute to the classic vinyl format that helped bring music to the masses. If you are a music enthusiast and tend to dream of eras gone by, 45 Day will speak to your soul. Before mp3 players, walkmans, and Discmans, the world had the 45 R.P.M. vinyl - a revolutionary music format that changed how people listened to music. Although the world has increasingly turned digital, the beloved 7£ record still has a dedicated fan base across borders. Many believe that the 45 R.P.M. is witnessing a renaissance. Vinyl lovers and collectors are growing in number. Artists are releasing singles on the 45 again. 45 Day celebrates the classic record and aims to promote record sales and stores. Created by Christos Christou, the first 45 Day was celebrated in 2020 at the height of the pandemic. The event happened completely online, featuring 52 D.J. mixes and a two-hour live-streamed radio show. Several prominent artists today are releasing singles and albums on vinyl again. The classic 45 still carves its space in a digital world - a testament to its greatness. The origins of the 45-vinyl go back to the late 1940s. Record sales during the time were excellent. But as for the records themselves£ The quality was not stellar. Despite advancements in recording technology, records still rotated at 78 RPM. In addition, records were fragile, thin, and noisy, defeating the purpose of listening to music entirely. Columbia Records decided to do something about it. In 1948, it launched the 33 1/3 R.P.M. - a long-playing record (20 minutes per side) made of thicker, much quieter vinyl. Not to be outdone by its rival, R.C.A. Victor unveiled a new project a year later - the 45 R.P.M. record that forever changed the course of music history. The R.C.A. seven-inch 45 R.P.M. was instantly popular with fans and industry professionals. It was small and cute. Each music genre had its own vinyl color, making the 45 a hit with the younger, hip crowd. This is not to say that the 45 did not have its set of challenges. R.C.A. 45 players could only play 45 R.P.M. records and no other formats. The 45 also came with mid-movement breaks - a long-running problem for classical music fans. Slowly but surely, the 45 replaced the 78 R.P.M. in the '50s, and the vinyl became a part of everyone's lives. You could take your music anywhere with battery-operated phonographs. Kids even traded 45s instead of baseball cards. The records were fun and cheap at less than a dollar each. The era of the 45 lasted about 40 years - before the arrival of cassette tapes, CDs and MP3 players. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/14-disc-classic-tv-music-amp-dance-shows-discount-dvd-megas14.html

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Today, May 4, 2024
May 4: Dave Brubeck Day: -- In the format most commonly used in the U.S., May 4 is written "5/4," recalling the time signature of "Take Five", one of the best known recordings of American jazz pianist and composer Dave Brubeck, considered one of the foremost exponents of cool jazz. Take Five became a jazz standard, and was composed by Brubeck's long-time musical partner, Paul Desmond, who played alto saxophone on this and many other recordings by Brubeck. Appearing on one of the top-selling jazz albums, Time Out, "Take Five" has endured as a jazz classic. Brubeck merged American jazz with classical jazz and epitomized the "West Coast movement," which was a departure from his predecessors' traditional methods of music production. His mother gave him piano lessons at age 4, which inculcated the discipline of musical instruments in him. Throughout his career, Dave championed the cause of racial equality. He led the military's first integrated band and continued to support the Civil Rights Movement during the 1960s. Brubeck performed shows exclusively for integrated audiences while touring South Africa under apartheid with an integrated band. Many accolades graced the great Dave Brubeck, including a "Time Magazine" cover, several Grammy nominations, and the 'National Medal of Arts.' With hits like 'The Duke,' 'Blue Rondo a la Turk,' and 'In Your Own Sweet Way,' under his belt, Brubeck's musical prowess continued with his band's phenomenal success, which consistently stretched the limitations of what it was like to a jazz player in that era. Known as one of "Jazz's first pop stars," Brubeck's immense grip on his craft changed the interpretation of the genre, making him one of the most proficient architects of progressive jazz. Dave Brubeck Day brings jazz lovers together, as they pay tribute to one of the genre's supreme masters. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-history-of-jazz-by-billy-taylor-parts-i-amp-ii-dvd.html

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Today, May 4, 2024
May 4: Star Wars Day (May The Fourth Be With You): -- Star Wars Day celebrates George Lucas' Star Wars. It is observed by fans of the media franchise. Observance of the commemorative day spread quickly through media and grassroots celebrations. The date was chosen for the pun on the catchphrase "May the Force be with you" as "May the Fourth be with you". Even though the holiday was not actually created or declared by Lucasfilm, many Star Wars fans across the world have chosen to celebrate the holiday. It has since been embraced by Lucasfilm as an annual celebration of Star Wars. The first organized Star Wars Day took place in Toronto back in 2011. The event included an Original Trilogy Trivia Game Show, a costume contest, and a showing of fan-made tribute films, mash-ups, parodies, and remixes. In late 2012, Disney purchased Lucasfilm and has officially observed the holiday at Disneyland and Walt Disney World ever since. The "Star Wars" universe is a massive achievement. It is hard to think of a time when "Star Wars" didn't exist, given its extraordinary influence and popularity in pop culture. It all started with the book "Dune" by Frank Herbert. First published in 1965, it is widely regarded as the base inspiration for "Star Wars," given the huge similarities between characters and the storyline of the two. Either way, George Lucas set his story in outer space and took the risk of producing a sci-fi movie in 1977, a time when the genre was pretty much dead in Hollywood. Nobody expected the first "Star Wars" movie to do as well as it did. Backed by a meager 9.5M USD for production, it had a limited theatre release and was expected to bomb at the box office. There was no way that this sci-fi opus would be a hit. On May 25, 1977, "Star Wars" (later renamed to "Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope") was released. Through word of mouth and raving reviews, "Star Wars" enjoyed a meteoric rise to fame and changed the entire landscape of cinema, leaving studios completely bewildered by its success. The world was introduced to the Skywalker-family saga, and beloved characters like Han Solo, Yoda, Chewbacca, and perhaps the darkest villain of all time - Darth Vader. Grossing over 100M USD by the end of the summer, the first installment of "Star Wars" won six Academy Awards and a Special Achievement Award for groundbreaking accomplishments in special effects. For its time, and considering the limited budget, George Lucas pulled off a massive feat by creating advanced effects and filming impressive space sequences using only small-scale figures and setups. The success of the first movie was followed by two sequels, "Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back," in 1980 and "Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi," in 1983. The franchise branched out into different commercial lines as well. 20 years after the debut film, Lucas released the second trilogy of films, the 'prequel trilogy.' With a new cast of popular actors like Natalie Portman and Ewan McGregor, "Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace" was released in 1999, followed by "Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones" in 2002, and "Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith" in 2005. The storyline wasn't as acclaimed as that of the original trilogy, but the digital technology and effects of the movies had significantly improved and, subsequently, they were overall box-office successes. The marketability of the franchise became more extensive, with a book series, animated TV series, action figures, video games, and clothing lines created for the new generation of "Star Wars" lovers. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/from-star-wars-to-jedi-the-making-of-a-saga-dvd.html

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Today, May 4, 2024
May 4: Weather Observers Day: -- A day for the people who enjoy watching and observing the weather. Weather observers often assist the National Weather Service as Storm Spotters. These hobbyists are valuable resources for communities. This day is also an opportunity to get out and learn about a variety of weather phenomena, the history of weather tracking, and find about meteorological instruments. Around the world, weather stations and weather spotters contribute to hundreds of thousands of observations a day. From land, sea, and sky, these observations provide valuable information that helps predict weather and warn of impending storms. They also contribute to historical data that is studied and may help to better understand weather phenomena. To observe Weather Observers Day: While you're exploring the weather, sign up for a weather spotters course; Learn how to identify different types of clouds, shifting weather, and prepare for types of weather in your climate; use #WeatherObserversDay to post on social media. You can also learn how to make your own barometer. It is easy to do with only a few items you likely have at home. We also created this weather chart you can download and print. Will you begin tracking the weather near you£ In 1989, Alan Brue, who was a psychology major at State University of New York, founded National Weather Observers Day on May 4th. The New York college senior created the day for weather enthusiasts and professionals to celebrate their love of weather. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/natural-disasters-dvd-earthquakes-floods-tornados-hurricanes.html

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Today, May 4, 2024
May 4: Greenery Day (Japanese: Midori No Hi): -- A Japanese national holiday that encourages people to commune with nature to express their gratitude and appreciation for its benefits. Initially, the holiday was observed on April 29 to commemorate the birthday of Emperor Showa, the emperor of Japan from 1926 to 1989. But when Emperor Akihito took to the throne, the name of the holiday was changed from Birthday Of The Emperor to Greenery Day in recognition of the wartime emperor's love for greenery. The new holiday name also acquired a new date, May 4, while April 29 became Showa Day. Emperor Showa, born Hirohito, was the 124th emperor of Japan. Born in 1901, Hirohito ascended the throne in 1926 and reigned till his death in 1989. During his reign, he was referred to as "the Emperor" by Japanese citizens and "Emperor Hirohito" by foreigners. He was given the name Emperor Showa posthumously. Hirohito was the reigning monarch during the second Sino-Japanese War, which segued into the Second World War. Japan's role as an Axis Power was demonstrated under Hirohito's reign. Hirohito's role in Japan's alliance with Italy and Germany during WWII remains unclear. The post-war narrative adopted in Japan was that Hirohito was a powerless figurehead forced into the pact. Certain historians later held that he may have had a more direct role than previously thought. Hirohito remained the emperor throughout the postwar rebuilding of Japan. Also a marine biologist, Hirohito was known for his love for nature. When his successor and son, Emperor Akihito, ascended the throne after Hirohito's death in 1989, he decreed that April 29 be celebrated as Greenery Day - to commemorate his father's love for nature and greenery without referring to the controversies in which he was embroiled. In 2007, Akihito moved Greenery Day to May 4, earlier known as the National Day of Rest, and decreed April 29 to be Showa Day instead. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/vietnam-a-country-not-a-war-dvd-wildlife-of-vietnam.html

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Today, May 4, 2024
May 4: Firefighters' Memorial Day (United Kingdom): -- Recognizes the unique contribution and sacrifice that active and retired firefighters have made in the line of duty. At midday at the National Firefighters' Memorial, firefighters across the nation stand outside their stations and observe a minute's silence for their fallen comrades. A wreath-laying service at St. Paul's Cathedral London with representatives from the Fire Brigades Union (F.B.U) and the Firefighters Memorial Trust follows this. Fire has always been a source of awe and fear in human society. The act of fighting fires has been a part of our civilization since prehistoric times. However, the modern fire brigade or department as they're called today took centuries to evolve alongside the technology that makes our firefighters extremely capable and effective at combatting various fires in diverse settings. In ancient Rome, while under the rule of Caesar Augustus, fire fighting became an active duty and discipline. However, it was under the leadership of Marcus Licinius Crassus that the first actual fire brigade was born in the third century A.D. During the middle ages, homes and buildings comprised flammable materials - wood and straw. Many towns and not just individual residences burned to the ground because there was no infrastructure to form the fire brigade. Churches or parishes eventually got involved and organized firefighters to combat fires in their communities. Many recent developments have helped firefighters become what they are today; however, the Great Fire of London in 1666 was the catalyst for regulating and implementing a dedicated fire fighting force. After the fire burnt out, massive reforms took place, the first fire insurance company was established, and the actual evolution of the modern fire brigade began. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/crime-and-fire-prevention-films-dvd.html

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Today, May 4, 2024
May 4: National Self-Employed Day: -- Honors the dedicated individuals that bravely venture out to create their own business to support themselves, their families, and their community. Self-employed business owners are amongst the hardest working individuals you'll ever meet. They continuously strive to meet their goals to be successful. The self-employed business owner never quits and faces every obstacles they encounter head on. In fact, there is very little that can stop a self-employed business owner from succeeding. Being self-employed means a person does not work for a specific employer or business. Instead, they work for themselves and earn their income by doing business directly. Even though self-employment provides more job flexibility and freedom, it also requires a lot of commitment and dedication. A self-employed person must devote valuable time and energy to earn their wages and pay their bills. As a self-employed individual, you are in complete control of your destiny. Your passion to move forward and become an independent employee enables you to take your dream as far as you want. You have creative control over your ideas and how you want to implement them. In fact, you choose your own work environment, which includes whether or not you want or need employees to help you on your journey. Establishing self-employment allows you to grow your knowledge and fine-tune your skill set. Your learning curve never ends because being self-employed gives enough variety in your daily routine to allow constant growth. In fact, self-employment helps you build and create your own network of clients. Network building when you are self-employed is an important piece of your success. By increasing your network, you learn more about business than your realize from your peers. In addition, you learn from their successes and failures, which help you make better decisions for yourself in the long run. A good, strong network brings a group of like-minded people together, yourself included, that encourage, help, and assist each other as your businesses grow. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/thomas-a-edison-the-wizard-of-menlo-park-dvd.html

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Today, May 4, 2024
May 4: Kent State Shootings Remembrance Day: -- The Aftermath Of World War II: The Cold War: The Cold War In Asia: The Indochina Wars: The Vietnam War (The Second Indochina War, The Vietnam Conflict, The Resistance War Against America): Opposition To United States Involvement In The Vietnam War: The Student Strike Of 1970: -- The Kent State Shootings (The May 4 Massacre, The Kent State Massacre): -- #DOTD: #RIP: At Kent State University, four students: Allison Krause, 19; Sandra Lee Scheuer, 20; Jeffrey Glenn Miller, 20; and William K. Schroeder, 19: were killed by National Guardsmen who opened fire on a crowd of 1,000 students protesting President Richard Nixon' decision to invade Cambodia. Eleven others were wounded. The shootings set off tumultuous campus demonstrations across America resulting in the temporary closing of over 450 colleges and universities. On April 29, 1970, United States and South Vietnamese forces invaded Cambodia to hunt Viet Cong. The day prior, April 28, 1970, President Richard Nixon formally authorized American combat troops to attack communist sanctuaries in Cambodia. Amid protests at home demanding an immediate pullout of American forces in Vietnam, Nixon implemented a strategy of replacing American troops with Vietnamese troops, known as "Vietnamization". Nixon formally announced the ground invasion of Cambodia to the American public on April 30, 1970. His responses to protesters included an impromptu, early morning meeting with them at the Lincoln Memorial on May 9, 1970. Nixon's campaign promise to curb the war, contrasted with the escalated bombing, led to claims that Nixon had a "credibility gap" on the issue. It is estimated that between 50,000 and 150,000 people were killed during the bombing of Cambodia between 1970 and 1973. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/dominoes-us-life-during-vietnam-war-set-to-rock-music-video.html

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Today, May 4, 2024
May 4: Rhode Island Independence Day: -- Commemorates when on May 4, 1776, Rhode Island became the first American colony to renounce allegiance to King George III of England, making it the first sovereign and independent state in the western world. Rhode Island was the center of a triage trade between rum, slaves, and molasses in the 1700s. It was a British colony back in those days. Rhode Island did not find British policies matching its expectation. The Sugar Act of 1764 was especially not well received in the area. The state has prosperous ports which made fortunes from trading. Eventually, on May 4, 1776, The General Assembly of the Colony of Rhode Island declared independence from Great Britain. Rhode Island is an American state off the coast of the Atlantic Ocean on the Northeastern borders of the U.S., which is famous for fine jewelry. It is officially known as the State of Rhode Island. Rhode Island is the smallest state in the U.S. by area, but it is also the second-most densely populated state in the nation. The state shares its borders with Connecticut and Massachusetts. Rhode Island is a unique state by many standards. It was the first to declare itself independent from Great Britain in 1776. Narragansett Bay in the Rhode Islands was home to native American people for thousands of years. The early 17th century brought English settlers to the land. Roger Williams bought land from local tribes and established the province in 1636. He was fleeing from religious persecution and dreamed of establishing a secular settlement. Rhode Island is, in a way, the only state that was created by a refugee. The place soon became a haven for social outcasts and people fleeing religious and political persecution. Rhode Island soon got the moniker Rogue's Island. The community that formed in the region favored free thoughts and tolerance. They were the first to call for a Continental Congress. Rhode Island was a key power in the American revolution supplying 25,236 soldiers in response to President Lincon's request. They also utilized their industrial might to support the civil war efforts. Even during the world wars, around 28,817 soldiers were sent from Rhode Island. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-american-adventure-series-us-1st-century-4-dv14.html

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Today, May 4, 2024
May 4: National Day Of Reason: -- An observance originated in response to the perceived unconstitutional National Day of Prayer. According to the organizers of the day, the National Day of Prayer, "violates the First Amendment of The United States Constitution because it asks federal, state and local government entities to set aside tax dollar supported time and space to engage in religious ceremonies. The First Amendment of the United States Constitution reads "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." Accordingly, National Day Of Reason is a secular observance for atheists, humanists, and secularists set to coincide with the National Day of Prayer. It acknowledges that celebration occurs for those who do not recognize God or an established religion or faith. Several organizations host celebrations, food drives, and blood donations in honor of the day. Share your celebration ideas using #NationalDayofReason. The National Day of Reason was created in 2003 by the American Humanist Association and the Washington Area Secular Humanists. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-age-of-enlightenment-5-episodes-tv-college-course-2-dv52.html

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Today, May 4, 2024
May 4: National Remembrance Day In The Netherlands: -- Every year since 1945, the Dutch have observed this day, particularly at 8 pm, when citizens hold a two-minute vigil of a moment of silence to commemorate civilians and soldiers who died within the Kingdom of the Netherlands and worldwide since the advent of World War II. During the day, before the moment of silence, there is a commemorative service held at Dam Square, in Amsterdam, at the National Monument built to honor the fallen. People deliver plenty of speeches, and a wreath-laying ceremony takes place. On September 1, 1939, World War II began, and active military engagement between almost all world powers led to a bloody and destructive war that lasted six years and consumed the lives of 50 million people. The Netherlands sought to remain neutral during the war, hoping that its strategic location - at the borders of the German and British lines £ would mean that it could remain neutral and rely on its neutrality to ensure that it did not become a part of the war. As expected, the allied and axis forces would rather avoid invading a front that posed little-to-no threat. However, the Nazi forces invaded the Netherlands in May 1940; with little resistance, they were able to occupy much of it up until Germany's eventual surrender and defeat in 1945. While military losses were relatively small during the war, with 17,000 soldiers and military personnel dying, the actual loss of lives in the Netherlands was that of its civilian casualties £ almost 300,000 deaths. During World War 2, the Netherlands' population sat at just under nine million; losing over 300,000 of its citizens to the war meant they lost 3% of their entire population in a war they sought to remain neutral. While some argue that the first National Remembrance Day in the Netherlands took place in 1946, Amsterdam held the first Remembrance Day in 1945 after pushing out the German forces from the city. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/great-days-of-the-century-world-war-ii-all-3-episodes-dual-layer-dv3.html

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Today, May 4, 2024
May 4, 1945: The European Civil War: World War II: The Second European War (The European Theater Of World War II): The Western Allied Invasion Of Germany: The German Surrender At Luneburg Heath (The Instrument Of Surrender of Germany; The Instrument Of Surrender Of All German Armed Forces In Holland, In Northwest Germany Including All islands, And In Denmark): -- At 18:30 British Double Summer Time, in a carpeted tent at Montgomery's headquarters on the Timeloberg Hill at Wendisch Evern. a municipality in the district of Luneburg, in Lower Saxony, Germany, at Luneburg Heath (a large area of heath [shrubland], geest [raised plain of sandy and gravelly soils], and woodland south of Hamburg), Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery accepts the unconditional surrender of the German forces in the Netherlands, northwest Germany including all islands, in Denmark and all naval ships in those areas. It was signed, on behalf of the United Kingdom and thereby The Allied Powers, by Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery - commander of the 21st Army Group. It was signed, on behalf of Germany, by Admiral Hans-Georg von Friedeburg - German Commander-in-Chief of the Navy (Kriegsmarine); General Eberhard Kinzel - chief of staff of Army Group Weichsel (Vistula); Rear Admiral Gerhard Wagner - head of the operational department of the Kriegsmarine staff; Colonel Fritz Poleck - Oberkommando der Wehrmacht representative (Wehrmacht); and Major Hans Jochen Friedel - staff officer to General Kinzel (Heer). The surrender was the first of a few which preceded the end of World War II in Europe; Admiral von Friedeburg went on to sign the German Instrument Of Surrender intended to end World War II in Europe on May 7 at Reims in France, but the Soviet Union refused to recognize it because they were not present, and therefore could not be seen in photographs or film as having received the German surrender; therefore, the same Instrument Of Surrender was signed again on May 8, this time with the Supreme High Command Of The Red Army present, as well as French and US representatives in Berlin. Both Admiral von Friedeburg and General Kinzel committed suicide in the weeks following the surrender; von Friedeburg on May 23, 1945, and Kinzel on June 25, 1945. After the war, a monument was erected by the British on what they now called Victory Hill. The monument was dismantled in 1958 and rebuilt at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. Today the spot lies in an out-of-bounds military area and is not accessible to the public. In 1995, another monument was erected on the edge of the Timeloberg, outside the restricted area. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/from-dday-to-victory-in-europe-dvd-complete-2-part-tv-serie2.html

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Today, May 4, 2024
May 4, 1919: China: The History Of China: The Century Of Humiliation (The Hundred Years Of National Humiliation): The European Civil War: World War I: The First European War (The European Theater Of World War I): The Aftermath Of World War I: Opposition To World War I: The Revolutions Of 1917-1923: Anti-Imperialism: The May Fourth Movement: -- Student demonstrations take place in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, protesting the Treaty of Versailles, which transferred Chinese territory to Japan. The May Fourth Movement was an anti-imperialist, cultural, and political movement which grew out of the student demonstrations that took place that day in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China. They protested against the Chinese government's weak responses to the stipulations of the Treaty Of Versailles, especially it allowing Japan to receive territories in Shandong, which had been surrendered by Germany after the Siege of Tsingtao in 1914. China had fallen victim to the expansionist policies of the Empire Of Japan, which had conquered large areas of Chinese-controlled territory with the support of France, the UK, and the US. This was finalized at the Treaty Of Versailles. The demonstrations sparked national protests and marked an upsurge of Chinese nationalism, a shift towards political mobilization and away from cultural activities, and a move towards a populist base rather than intellectual elites. Many of the radical political and social leaders of the next two decades emerged at this time. The term "May Fourth Movement" in a broader sense often refers to the period during 1915-1921 more often called the New Culture Movement. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/china-in-revolution-19111949-dvd-2-part-tv-documenta191119492.html

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Today, May 4, 2024
May 4, 1493: The Age Of Discovery (The Age Of Exploration): The Spanish Colonization Of The Americas: The Portugeuse Colonization Of The Americas: The Treaty Of Tordesillas: -- Pope Alexander VI divides the New World between Spain and Portugal along the "Papal Line of Demarcation" that was to become codified in the June 7, 1494 Treaty Of Tordesillas. The Treaty Of Tordesillas was signed in Tordesillas, Spain and authenticated in Setubal, Portugal. It divided the newly discovered lands outside Europe between the Portuguese Empire and the Spanish Empire (Crown of Castile), along a meridian 370 leagues west of the Cape Verde islands, off the west coast of Africa. That line of demarcation was about halfway between the Cape Verde islands (already Portuguese) and the islands visited by Christopher Columbus on his first voyage (claimed for Castile and Leon), named in the treaty as Cipangu and Antillia (Cuba and Hispaniola). The lands to the east would belong to Portugal and the lands to the west to Castile, modifying an earlier division proposed by Pope Alexander VI. The treaty was signed by Spain, 2 July 1494, and by Portugal, 5 September 1494. The other side of the world was divided a few decades later by the Treaty of Zaragoza, signed on 22 April 1529, which specified the antimeridian to the line of demarcation specified in the Treaty of Tordesillas. Despite considerable lack of information regarding the geography of the New World, Portugal and Spain largely respected the treaty. The other European powers, however, did not sign the treaty and generally ignored it, particularly those that became Protestant after the Reformation. Similarly, the indigenous peoples of the Americas did not acknowledge the treaty, and as the legal foundation for the discovery doctrine, it has been a source of ongoing tension regarding land ownership into modern times. The treaty was included by UNESCO in 2007 in its Memory of the World Programme. Originals of both treaties are kept at the General Archive of the Indies in Spain and at the Torre do Tombo National Archive in Portugal. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/columbus-and-the-age-of-discovery-epic-7-hourlong-episode-tv-serie7.html

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Today, May 4, 2024
May 4, 1961: The American Civil Rights Movement: Anti-Black Racism In The United States: Segregation: Racial Segregation: Civil Rights Protests: Civil Rights Protests In The United States: Transport And Bus Segregation In The United States: The Freedom Riders: -- The first Freedom Ride leaves Washington, D.C., scheduled to arrive in New Orleans on May 17. The Freedom Riders were civil rights activists who rode interstate buses into the segregated southern United States in 1961 and subsequent years to challenge the non-enforcement of the United States Supreme Court decisions Morgan v. Virginia (1946) and Boynton v. Virginia (1960), which ruled that segregated public buses were unconstitutional. The Southern states had ignored the rulings and the federal government did nothing to enforce them. Boynton outlawed racial segregation in the restaurants and waiting rooms in terminals serving buses that crossed state lines. Five years prior to the Boynton ruling, the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) had issued a ruling in Sarah Keys v. Carolina Coach Company (1955) that had explicitly denounced the Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) doctrine of separate but equal in interstate bus travel. The ICC failed to enforce its ruling, and Jim Crow travel laws remained in force throughout the South. The Freedom Riders challenged this status quo by riding interstate buses in the South in mixed racial groups to challenge local laws or customs that enforced segregation in seating. The Freedom Rides, and the violent reactions they provoked, bolstered the credibility of the American Civil Rights Movement. They called national attention to the disregard for the federal law and the local violence used to enforce segregation in the southern United States. Police arrested riders for trespassing, unlawful assembly, violating state and local Jim Crow laws, and other alleged offenses, but often they first let white mobs attack them without intervention. The Congress Of Racial Equality (CORE) sponsored most of the subsequent Freedom Rides, but some were also organized by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). The Freedom Rides followed dramatic sit-ins against segregated lunch counters conducted by students and youth throughout the South, and boycotts of retail establishments that maintained segregated facilities. The Supreme Court's decision in Boynton supported the right of interstate travelers to disregard local segregation ordinances. Southern local and state police considered the actions of the Freedom Riders to be criminal and arrested them in some locations. In some localities, such as Birmingham, Alabama, the police cooperated with Ku Klux Klan chapters and other white people opposing the actions, and allowed mobs to attack the riders. On Wednesday morning, May 24, Freedom Riders boarded buses in Montgomery, Alabama for the journey to Jackson, Mississippi. Surrounded by Highway Patrol and the National Guard, the buses arrived in Jackson without incident, but the riders were immediately arrested when they tried to use the white-only facilities at the Tri-State Trailways depot. The third bus arrived at the Jackson Greyhound station early on May 28th, and its Freedom Riders were arrested. In Montgomery, the next round of Freedom Riders, including the Yale University chaplain William Sloane Coffin, Gaylord Brewster Noyce, and southern ministers Shuttlesworth, Abernathy, Wyatt Tee Walker, and others were similarly arrested for violating local segregation ordinances. This established a pattern followed by subsequent Freedom Rides, most of which traveled to Jackson, where the Riders were arrested and jailed. Their strategy became one of trying to fill the jails. Once the Jackson and Hinds County jails were filled to overflowing, the state transferred the Freedom Riders to the infamous Mississippi State Penitentiary (known as Parchman Farm). Abusive treatment there included placement of Riders in the Maximum Security Unit (Death Row), issuance of only underwear, no exercise, and no mail privileges. When the Freedom Riders refused to stop singing freedom songs, prison officials took away their mattresses, sheets, and toothbrushes. More Freedom Riders arrived from across the country, and at one time, more than 300 were held in Parchman Farm. While in Jackson, Freedom Riders received support from local grassroots civil rights organization Womanpower Unlimited, which raised money and collected toiletries, soap, candy and magazines for the imprisoned protesters. Upon Freedom Riders' release, Womanpower members would provide places for them to bathe while offering them clothes and food. Freedom Rider Joan Trumpauer Mulholland said the Womanpower members "were like angels supplying us with just little simple necessities." The Kennedys called for a "cooling off period" and condemned the Rides as unpatriotic because they embarrassed the nation on the world stage at the height of the Cold War. The Soviet Union criticized the United States for its racism and the attacks on the Riders. Attorney General Robert Kennedy, the chief law-enforcement officer of the land, was quoted as saying that he "does not feel that the Department of Justice can side with one group or the other in disputes over Constitutional rights." His comment angered civil rights supporters, who considered the Justice Department duty-bound to enforce Supreme Court rulings and defend citizens exercising their Constitutional rights from mob violence. Nonetheless, international outrage about the widely covered events and racial violence created pressure on American political leaders. On May 29, 1961, Attorney General Kennedy sent a petition to the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) asking it to comply with the bus-desegregation ruling it had issued in November 1955, in Sarah Keys v. Carolina Coach Company. That ruling had explicitly repudiated the concept of "separate but equal" in the realm of interstate bus travel. Chaired by the South Carolina Democrat J. Monroe Johnson the ICC had failed to implement its own ruling. James Farmer, head of CORE, responded to Kennedy saying, "We have been cooling off for 350 years, and if we cooled off any more, we'd be in a deep freeze." 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Today, May 4, 2024
May 4, 1626: The Colonial History Of The United States: Dutch Colonization Of The Americas: New Netherland (Dutch: Nieuw Nederland, Latin: Novum Belgium): -- Dutch explorer Peter Minuit arrives in New Netherland (present day Manhattan Island) aboard the See Meeuw. Minuit is generally credited with orchestrating the purchase of Manhattan Island (around 24 USD in modern currency) for the Dutch from the Native Americans called the Lenape, which later became the city of New Amsterdam, modern-day New York City, which was the core of the Dutch colony of New Netherland and the later British colony of New York. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/new-york-city-history-videos-3-dvd-se3.html

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Today, May 4, 2024
May 4, 1951: Grand Openings: World's Fair Openings: Grand Finales: World's Fair Openings: The Festival Of Britain: The South Bank Exhibition Of The Festival Of Britain -- The South Bank Exhibition Of The Festival Of Britain opens. The Festival Of Britain was a national exhibition and fair that reached millions of visitors throughout the United Kingdom in the summer of 1951. Labour cabinet member Herbert Morrison was the prime mover; in 1947 he started with the original plan to celebrate the centennial of the Great Exhibition of 1851. However, it was not to be another World Fair, for international themes were absent, as was the British Commonwealth. Instead, the 1951 festival focused entirely on Britain and its achievements; it was funded chiefly by the government, with a budget of _12 million. The Labour government was losing support and so the implicit goal of the festival was to give the people a feeling of successful recovery from the war's devastation, as well as promoting British science, technology, industrial design, architecture and the arts. The Festival's centrepiece was in London on the South Bank of the Thames. Construction of the South Bank site opened up a new public space, including a riverside walkway, where previously there had been warehouses and working-class housing. The layout of the South Bank site was intended to showcase the principles of urban design that would feature in the post-war rebuilding of London and the creation of the new towns. These included multiple levels of buildings, elevated walkways and avoidance of a street grid. Most of the South Bank buildings were International Modernist in style, little seen in Britain before the war. In addition to the South Bank location, there were also many other events throughout Britain: in Poplar (Architecture - Lansbury Estate), Battersea (the Festival Pleasure Gardens), South Kensington (Science) and Glasgow (Industrial Power). Festival celebrations took place in Cardiff, Stratford-upon-Avon, Bath, Perth, Bournemouth, York, Aldeburgh, Inverness, Cheltenham, Oxford, Norwich, Canterbury and elsewhere, and there were touring exhibitions by land and sea. The Festival became a "beacon for change" that proved immensely popular with thousands of elite visitors and millions of popular ones. It helped reshape British arts, crafts, designs and sports for a generation. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/british-public-information-and-propaganda-films-dual-layer-dvd.html

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Today, May 4, 2024
May 4, 1826: #BOTD: #HBD! Augustus Le Plongeon, British-born French-American archeologist, photographer, historian, Mesoamericanist, new age mystic, Mayanist and Freemason who studied the pre-Columbian ruins of America, particularly those of the Maya civilization on the northern Yucatan Peninsula (d. December 13, 1908) is #born Augustus Henry Julian Le Plongeon on the isle of Jersey. His writings contain many notions that were not well received by his contemporaries, much of which was later disproven. Augustus Le Plongeon and his wife Alice Dixon left a lasting legacy in the photographs they toook documenting the ancient ruins. He was one of the earliest proponents of Mayanism. a modern non-codified eclectic collection of New Age beliefs, influenced in part by Pre-Columbian Maya mythology and some folk beliefs of the modern Maya peoples. Le Plongeon insisted that the symbols of Freemasonry could be traced to the ancient Maya and that the ancient knowledge had come to ancient Egypt from the ancient Maya by way of Atlantis. He and Alice constructed an imaginative "history," with the Maya sites in Yucatan being the cradle of civilization, with civilization then traveling east first to Atlantis and later to Ancient Egypt. The Le Plongeons named kings and queens of these dynasties and said that various artworks were portraits of such ancient royalty (such as the famous Chacmool, which the couple excavated at Chichen Itza). The Le Plongeons reconstructed a detailed but fanciful story of Queen Moo and Prince Coh (also known as "Chac Mool") in which Prince Coh's death resulted in the erection of monuments in his honor (similar to the commemoration of Prince Albert by Queen Victoria). While most of Le Plongeon's contemporaries dismissed his theories, individuals such as Ignatius L. Donnelly and Helena Blavatsky drew upon Le Plongeon's research for their own theories. Augustus spent the remainder of his life in Brooklyn, New York, writing about the connections between Maya and Egypt and defending himself against detractors. A collection of the works of the Le Plongeons currently resides at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. The archive contains original records covering their travels from the 1860s through the early 1900s, including diaries, unpublished scholarly manuscripts and notes, correspondence, and extensive photographic documentation of ancient architecture and sculpture, city views, and ethnographic studies. Le Plongeon was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1878. Augustus Le Plongeon died in Brooklyn at the age of eighty-three; his wife Alice Dixon, his collaborator, followed in 1910 at the age of fifty-nine, presumably of a broken heart. His burial place is unknown. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/caracol-the-lost-maya-cityapocalypse-then-fall-of-the-maya-dvd.html

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Today, May 4, 2024
May 4, 1989: Political Scandals Of The United States: The Aftermath Of World War II: The Cold War: The Iran-Iraq War: Iran-United States Relations: The Iran-Contra Affair (The Iran-Contra Scandal): -- Former White House aide Oliver North, who was indicted in March 1988 on 16 felony counts and went to trial in February 1989, is convicted of three crimes - accepting an illegal gratuity, aiding and abetting in the obstruction of a congressional inquiry - and acquitted of nine other charges. On July 20, 1990, with the help of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), North's convictions were vacated, after the appeals court found that witnesses in his trial might have been impermissibly affected by his immunized congressional testimony. The individual members of the prosecution team had isolated themselves from news reports and discussion of North's testimony, and while the defense could show no specific instance in which North's congressional testimony was used in his trial, the Court of Appeals ruled that the trial judge had made an insufficient examination of the issue. Consequently, North's convictions were reversed. After further hearings on the immunity issue, Judge Gesell dismissed all charges against North on September 16, 1991. The Iran-Contra Affair, also referred to as Irangate, Contragate or the Iran-Contra scandal, was a political scandal in the United States that occurred during the second term of the Reagan Administration. Senior administration officials secretly facilitated the sale of arms to Iran, which was the subject of an arms embargo. They hoped, thereby, to fund the Contras in Nicaragua while at the same time negotiating the release of several U.S. hostages. Under the Boland Amendment, further funding of the Contras by the government had been prohibited by Congress. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/high-crimes-and-misdemeanors-the-ironcontra-scandal-dvd.html

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Today, May 4, 2024
May 4, 1953: Literature: The History Of Literature: American Literary Awards: The Pulitzer Prize: The Pulitzer Prize For Fiction: -- Ernest Hemingway wins the Pulitzer Prize For Fiction for The Old Man And The Sea, a short novel written in 1951 in Cuba, and published in 1952. It was the last major work of fiction by Hemingway that was published during his lifetime. One of his most famous works, it tells the story of Santiago, an aging Cuban fisherman who struggles with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Cuba. It was cited by the Nobel Committee as contributing to their awarding of the Nobel Prize in Literature to Hemingway in 1954. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/hemingway-dvd-documentary-series-on-writer-ernest-hemingway.html

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Today, May 4, 2024
May 4, 1938: #DOTD: #RIP: Carl von Ossietzky, German journalist, pacifist and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. October 3, 1889) #dies of tuberculosis in 1938 in a Berlin hospital after enduring years of mistreatment and torture in various Nazi prison camps. He is buried in Friedhof Pankow IV in Niederschonhausen, Pankow, Berlin, Germany. Born in Hamburg, Germany, he was the recipient of the 1935 Nobel Peace Prize for his work in exposing the clandestine German re-armament. As editor-in-chief of the magazine Die Weltbuhne (German: The World Stage), a magazine centered on the "homeless left" who rejected Communism, but found the Social Democrats too inclined to compromise with the old order, Ossietzky published a series of exposes in the late 1920s, detailing German rearmament in violation of the Treaty Of Versailles by rebuilding an air force (the predecessor of the Luftwaffe) and training pilots in the Soviet Union. He was convicted of treason and espionage in 1931 and sentenced to eighteen months in prison, but was granted amnesty in December 1932. Ossietzky continued to be a vocal critic against German militarism after the Nazis' rise to power. Following the 1933 Reichstag fire, Ossietzky was again arrested and sent to the Esterwegen concentration camp near Oldenburg. In 1936, he was awarded the 1935 Nobel Peace Prize, but was forbidden from travelling to Norway and accepting the prize. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-nobel-century-nobel-prize-history-tv-series-dvd-mp4-us4.html

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Today, May 4, 2024
May 4, 1942: World War II: The Pacific War (The Asia-Pacific War, The Pacific Theater Of World War II): The Pacific Ocean Theater Of World War II: South West Pacific Theater Of World War II: Operation Mo (Japanese: Mo Sakusen) (The Port Moresby Operation): The Battle Of The Coral Sea: -- The first action in which aircraft carriers engaged each other, as well as the first time enemy naval fleets engaged each other in combat without sighting nor firing directly upon one another, occurs when aircraft from the United States aircraft carrier USS Yorktown attack Japanese naval forces at Tulagi Island in the Solomon Islands who had invaded Tulagi the day before, beginning The Battle Of The Coral Sea, fought from May 4-8, a major naval battle between the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) and naval and air forces from the United States and Australia. In an attempt to strengthen their defensive position in the South Pacific, the Japanese decided to invade and occupy Port Moresby (in New Guinea) and Tulagi (in the southeastern Solomon Islands). The plan to accomplish this was called Operation Mo, and involved several major units of Japan's Combined Fleet. These included two fleet carriers and a light carrier to provide air cover for the invasion forces. It was under the overall command of Japanese Admiral Shigeyoshi Inoue. The U.S. learned of the Japanese plan through signals intelligence, and sent two United States Navy carrier task forces and a joint Australian-U.S. cruiser force to oppose the offensive. These were under the overall command of U.S. Admiral Frank J. Fletcher. On May 3-4, 1942, Japanese forces successfully invaded and occupied Tulagi, although several of their supporting warships were sunk or damaged in surprise attacks by aircraft from the U.S. fleet carrier Yorktown. Now aware of the presence of U.S. carriers in the area, the Japanese fleet carriers advanced towards the Coral Sea with the intention of locating and destroying the Allied naval forces. On the evening of May 6, the direction chosen for air searches by the opposing commanders brought the two carrier forces to within 70 nmi (81 mi; 130 km) of each other, unbeknownst to both sides. Beginning on May 7, the carrier forces from the two sides engaged in airstrikes over two consecutive days. On the first day, both forces mistakenly believed they were attacking their opponent's fleet carriers, but were actually attacking other units, with the U.S. sinking the Japanese light carrier Shoho while the Japanese sank a U.S. destroyer and heavily damaged a fleet oiler (which was later scuttled). The next day, May 8, the fleet carriers found and engaged each other, with the Japanese fleet carrier Shokaku heavily damaged, the U.S. fleet carrier Lexington critically damaged (and later scuttled), and Yorktown damaged. With both sides having suffered heavy losses in aircraft and carriers damaged or sunk, the two forces disengaged and retired from the battle area. Because of the loss of carrier air cover, Inoue recalled the Port Moresby invasion fleet, intending to try again later. Although a tactical victory for the Japanese in terms of ships sunk, the battle would prove to be a strategic victory for the Allies for several reasons. The battle marked the first time since the start of the war that a major Japanese advance had been checked by the Allies. More importantly, the Japanese fleet carriers Shokaku and Zuikaku - the former damaged and the latter with a depleted aircraft complement - were unable to participate in the Battle of Midway the following month, while Yorktown did participate, ensuring a rough parity in aircraft between the two adversaries and contributing significantly to the U.S. victory in that battle. The severe losses in carriers at Midway prevented the Japanese from reattempting to invade Port Moresby from the ocean and helped prompt their ill-fated land offensive over the Kokoda Track. Two months later, the Allies took advantage of Japan's resulting strategic vulnerability in the South Pacific and launched the Guadalcanal Campaign; this, along with the New Guinea Campaign, eventually broke Japanese defenses in the South Pacific and was a significant contributing factor to Japan's ultimate surrender in World War II. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/carriers-complete-14-part-tv-series-4-dvd-144.html

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Today, May 4, 2024
May 4, 1982: The British Empire: The Falkland Islands (Spanish: Islas Malvinas): The Falkland Islands Sovereignty Dispute: The Falklands War (Spanish: Guerra De Las Malvinas): Naval Warfare Of The Falklands War: The Attack On The HMS Sheffield: -- #DOTD: #RIP: Twenty sailors are killed when the British Type 42 destroyer HMS Sheffield is hit by an Argentinian Exocet (French: "Flying Fish") missile during the Falklands War. HMS Sheffield was the second Royal Navy ship to be named after the city of Sheffield in Yorkshire. She was a Type 42 Sheffield Class guided missile destroyer laid down by Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering at Barrow-in-Furness on 15 January 1970. She was launched by Queen Elizabeth II on 10 June 1971 and commissioned on 16 February 1975. Ironically, an explosion during construction that killed two dockyard workers resulted in the replacing of its damaged hull section was replaced with a section from an identical ship, Hercules, being built for the Argentine Navy. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/operation-falklands-in-the-wake-of-hms-sheffield-dvd-19821982.html

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Today, May 4, 2024
May 4, 1886: Organized Labor: The Labor Union Movement: The Labor History Of The United States: Labor Unions In The United States: The American Federation Of Labor (AFL): The Federation Of Organized Trades And Labor Unions Of The United States And Canada (FOTLU): The Great Upheaval (The Great Railroad Strike Of 1877): The Haymarket Affair (The Haymarket Massacre, The Haymarket Riot, The Haymarket Square Riot, The Haymarket Incident): -- In a single event that influenced the history of labor more than any other in the world, ultimately to become the origin of international May Day observances for workers worldwide, an unknown person throws a single dynamite bomb at police as they acted to disperse a peaceful labor rally at Haymarket Square in Chicago, Illinois, killing eight and wounding 60, causing the police to fire into the crowd. The Haymarket Affair began as a peaceful rally in support of workers striking for an eight-hour day and in reaction to the killing of several workers the previous day. The bomb blast and ensuing gunfire resulted in the deaths of seven police officers and at least four civilians; scores of others were wounded. In the internationally publicized legal proceedings that followed, eight anarchists were convicted of conspiracy. The evidence was that one of the defendants may have built the bomb, but none of those on trial had thrown it. Seven were sentenced to death and one to a term of 15 years in prison. The death sentences of two of the defendants were commuted by Illinois governor Richard J. Oglesby to terms of life in prison, and another committed suicide in jail rather than face the gallows. The other four were hanged on November 11, 1887. In 1893, Illinois's new governor, John Peter Altgeld, pardoned the remaining defendants and criticized the trial. The site of the incident was designated a Chicago Landmark in 1992, and a public sculpture was dedicated there in 2004. In addition, the Haymarket Martyrs' Monument at the defendants' burial site in nearby Forest Park was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1997. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/america-the-second-century-us-2nd-100-years-history-621006.html

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Today, May 4, 2024
May 4, 1814: The Age Of Enlightenment (The Enlightenment, The Age Of Reason): The Age Of Revolution: The Atlantic Revolutions: The French Revolution: The French Revolutionary And Napoleonic Wars (The Great French War) (The French Revolutionary Wars, The Napoleonic Wars): The Napoleonic Wars: Napoleon's Exile To The Principality Of Elba: -- Emperor Napoleon I of France arrives at Portoferraio on the edge of the island of Elba to begin his exile. Portoferraio is a town and comune in the province of Livorno, on the edge of the eponymous harbour of the island of Elba. It is the island's largest city. Because of its terrain, many of its buildings are situated on the slopes of a tiny hill bordered on three sides by the sea. Napoleon escaped from Elba in February 1815, and took control of France once again in March. He resumed the Napoleonic Wars during his infamous Hundred Days of rule, and was defeated once and for all at the Battle of Waterloo on June 18, 1815. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/napoleon-1955-dvd-raymond-pellagrin-orson-welles-2-19552.html

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Today, May 4, 2024
May 4, 1980: #DOTD: #RIP: The Death And State Funeral Of Josip Broz Tito: Josip Broz Tito, Yugoslav communist revolutionary, field marshal and political leader, 1st President Of Yugoslavia (b. May 7, 1892) #dies of gangrene in his left leg at The Medical Centre Of Ljubljana in Ljubljana, the capital city of the SR Slovenia, SFR Yugoslavia (now Slovenia), three days short of his 88th birthday. On January 7 and again on January 12, Tito had ben admitted to Ljubljana's Medical Centre with circulation problems in his legs. Tito's own stubbornness and refusal to allow doctors to follow through with the necessary amputation of his left leg played a part in his eventual death of gangrene-induced infection. His adjutant later testified that Tito threatened to take his own life if his leg was ever to be amputated and that he had to actually hide Tito's pistol in fear that he would follow through on his threats. After a private conversation with his two sons Zarko and Miso Broz, he finally agreed, and his left leg was amputated due to arterial blockages; however, the amputation proved to be too late. The state funeral of Josip Broz Tito of May 8, 1980 drew many world statesmen. It attracted government leaders from 129 states. Based on the number of attending politicians and state delegations, at the time it was the largest state funeral in history; this concentration of dignitaries would be unmatched until the funeral of Pope John Paul II in 2005 and the memorial service of Nelson Mandela in 2013. Those who attended included four kings, 31 presidents, six princes, 22 prime ministers and 47 ministers of foreign affairs. They came from both sides of the Cold War, from 128 countries out of 154 UN members at the time. Reporting on his death, In their May 5, 1980 editoin, The New York Times commented: "Tito sought to improve life. Unlike others who rose to power on the communist wave after WWII, Tito did not long demand that his people suffer for a distant vision of a better life. After an initial Soviet-influenced bleak period, Tito moved toward radical improvement of life in the country. Yugoslavia gradually became a bright spot amid the general grayness of Eastern Europe." Tito was interred in the House of Flowers, a mausoleum in Belgrade which forms part of a memorial complex in the grounds of the Museum of Yugoslav History (formerly called "Museum 25 May" and "Museum Of The Revolution"). Numerous people visit the place as a shrine to "better times". The museum keeps the gifts Tito received during his presidency. The collection includes original prints of Los Caprichos by Francisco Goya, and many others. Josip Broz, commonly known as Tito, served Yugoslavia in various roles from 1943 until his death in 1980. During World War II, he was the leader of the Partisans, often regarded as the most effective resistance movement in occupied Europe. While his presidency has been criticized as authoritarian and concerns about the repression of political opponents have been raised, some historians consider him a benevolent dictator. He was a popular public figure both in Yugoslavia and abroad. Viewed as a unifying symbol, his internal policies maintained the peaceful coexistence of the nations of the Yugoslav federation. He gained further international attention as the chief leader of the Non-Aligned Movement, alongside Jawaharlal Nehru of India, Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt, Sukarno of Indonesia, and Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana. Broz was born to a Croat father and Slovene mother in the village of Kumrovec, Austria-Hungary (now in Croatia). Drafted into military service, he distinguished himself, becoming the youngest sergeant major in the Austro-Hungarian Army of that time. After being seriously wounded and captured by the Imperial Russians during World War I, he was sent to a work camp in the Ural Mountains. He participated in some events of the Russian Revolution in 1917 and subsequent Civil War. Upon his return home, Broz found himself in the newly established Kingdom of Yugoslavia, where he joined the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (KPJ). He was General Secretary (later Chairman of the Presidium) of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia (1939-1980) and went on to lead the World War II Yugoslav guerrilla movement, the Partisans (1941-1945). After the war, he was the Prime Minister (1944-1963), President (later President for Life) (1953-1980) of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY). From 1943 to his death in 1980, he held the rank of Marshal of Yugoslavia, serving as the supreme commander of the Yugoslav military, the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA). With a highly favourable reputation abroad in both Cold War blocs, he received some 98 foreign decorations, including the Legion of Honour and the Order of the Bath. Tito was the chief architect of the second Yugoslavia, a socialist federation that lasted from November 1942 until April 1992. Despite being one of the founders of Cominform, he became the first Cominform member to defy Soviet hegemony in 1948 and the only one in Joseph Stalin's time to manage to leave Cominform and begin with its own socialist program with elements of market socialism. Economists active in the former Yugoslavia, including Czech-born Jaroslav Vanek and Croat-born Branko Horvat, promoted a model of market socialism dubbed the Illyrian model, where firms were socially owned by their employees and structured on workers' self-management and competed with each other in open and free markets. 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May 4, 1979: The History Of The United Kingdom: Governments Of The United Kingdom: Elections And Referendums In The United Kingdom: The 1979 United Kingdom General Election: The Premiership Of Margaret Thatcher: The First Thatcher Ministry: -- Margaret Thatcher becomes the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Following the vote of no confidence against the Labour government and prime minister James Callaghan on March 28 1979, a general election was called for May 3, 1979. Callaghan's Labour government's popularity slumped during the previous four months due to The Winter Of Discontent, the period between November 1978 and February 1979 in the United Kingdom characterised by widespread strikes by private, and later public, sector trade unions demanding pay rises greater than the limits Prime Minister James Callaghan and his Labour Party government had been imposing, against Trades Union Congress (TUC) opposition, to control inflation, and the opinion polls all pointed towards a Conservative victory. The Conservatives won the election with a majority of 44 seats. Thatcher inherited some of the worst economic statistics of postwar Britain. The nation was still feeling the effects of the numerous strikes during the recent Winter of Discontent. Inflation had recently topped twenty per cent, and unemployment was in excess of 1.5 million for the first time since the 1930s. Thatcher's monetarist and deflationary economic policies saw a cut in the inflation rate from a high of 22 per cent in May 1980 to just over 13 per cent by January 1981, and by June 1983 it had fallen to a 15-year low of 4.9 per cent. Decreasing the public sector borrowing requirement as a share of GDP was a part of the medium term financial strategy at the beginning of the first Thatcher ministry. It was brought down from around five per cent during the 1978-1979 period to around half of this figure during the 1982-1983 period. Public expenditure as a share of GDP increased at around 1.5 per cent per year during the 1979-1983 period, despite the target being a reduction of one per cent, per year. This increase in spending was mostly driven by larger expenditures in social security programs such as unemployment benefits, industrial support, and increased lending to nationalized industries; defense spending did not go up considerably during the Falklands War. Long-term unemployment increased considerably during this period: almost one third of the unemployed had been without a job for more than one year. The manufacturing industry was considerably affected during the first Thatcher government: employment in this sector decreased by almost 20 per cent between 1979 and 1982. This decrease drove almost all of the drop in employment for this period. Productivity started seeing considerable growth during the 1979-1982 period in some industries. Total factor productivity growth during these years was 13.9 per cent in the metal manufacture industry, 6.6 per cent in motor vehicle manufacture, 7.1 per cent in ship and aircraft manufacture, and 7.5 per cent in agriculture. Income distribution widened considerably during Thatcher's ministry. During the 1979-1986 period, real income per capita fell for the two lower quintiles by four and 12 per cent respectively; but for the top three quintiles, it went up by 24, 11, and 10 per cent, respectively. Thatcher also oversaw union reforms which saw strikes at their lowest for thirty years by 1983. However, her economic policies also resulted in the loss of much of Britain's heavy industry. Coal pits, steel plants, machine-tools and shipyards were particularly hard hit, most of all in Scotland, Northern Ireland and the north of England. By 1983, unemployment had reached 3.2 million, although economic growth was now re-established following the recession of 1980 and 1981. Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, LG, OM, PC, FRS, FRIC (nee Roberts) was a British stateswoman who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990. She was the longest-serving British prime minister of the 20th century and the first woman to have been appointed. A Soviet journalist dubbed her the "Iron Lady", a nickname that became associated with her uncompromising politics and leadership style. As Prime Minister, she implemented policies that have come to be known as Thatcherism. A research chemist before becoming a barrister, Thatcher was elected Member of Parliament for Finchley in 1959. Edward Heath appointed her Secretary Of State for Education and Science in his Conservative government. In 1975, Thatcher defeated Heath in the Conservative Party leadership election to become Leader of the Opposition and became the first woman to lead a major political party in the United Kingdom. She became Prime Minister after winning the 1979 general election. On moving into 10 Downing Street, Thatcher introduced a series of political and economic initiatives intended to reverse high unemployment and Britain' struggles in the wake of the Winter of Discontent and an ongoing recession. Her political philosophy and economic policies emphasised deregulation (particularly of the financial sector), flexible labour markets, the privatisation of state-owned companies, and reducing the power and influence of trade unions. Thatcher' popularity during her first years in office waned amid recession and increasing unemployment, until victory in the 1982 Falklands War and the recovering economy brought a resurgence of support, resulting in her decisive re-election in 1983. She survived an assassination attempt in 1984. Thatcher was re-elected for a third term in 1987. During this period her support for a Community Charge (referred to as the "poll tax") was widely unpopular, and her opposition to the European Community were not shared by others in her Cabinet. She resigned as Prime Minister and party leader in November 1990, after Michael Heseltine launched a challenge to her leadership. After retiring from the Commons in 1992, she was given a life peerage as Baroness Thatcher (of Kesteven in the County of Lincolnshire) which entitled her to sit in the House of Lords. In 2013 she died of a stroke in London at the age of 87. Always a controversial figure, she has nonetheless been lauded as one of the greatest, most influential and widest-known politicians in British history, even as arguments over Thatcherism persist. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/margaret-thatcher-talking-with-david-frost-dvd.html

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May 4, 1932: Crime: Organized Crime: Organized Crime In The United States: The Chicago Outfit (The Outfit, The Chicago Mafia, The Chicago Mob, The Chicago Crime Family, The South Side Gang, The Organization): -- Al Capone, popularly known by the nickname Scarface, American businessman, mobster and crime boss, begins serving an eleven-year prison sentence in Atlanta, Georgia for tax evasion. Alphonse Gabriel Capone attained fame during the Prohibition era as the co-founder and boss of the Chicago Outfit, also known as the Outfit, the Chicago Mafia, the Chicago Mob, or The Organization, an Italian-American organized crime syndicate based in Chicago, Illinois which dates back to the 1910s. His seven-year reign as crime boss ended when he was 33 years old. He reveled in attention, such as the cheers from spectators when he appeared at ball games. He made donations to various charities and was viewed by many to be a "modern-day Robin Hood". However, the Saint Valentine' Day Massacre of gang rivals, resulting in the killing of seven men in broad daylight, damaged Chicago' image: as well as Capone': leading influential citizens to demand governmental action and newspapers to dub him "Public Enemy No. 1". The federal authorities became intent on jailing Capone, and they prosecuted him for tax evasion in 1931, a federal crime and a novel strategy during the era. During the highly publicized case, the judge admitted as evidence Capone' admissions of his income and unpaid taxes during prior (and ultimately abortive) negotiations to pay the government any back taxes he owed. Capone was convicted and sentenced to 11 years in federal prison. After conviction, he replaced his old defense team with experts in tax law, and his grounds for appeal were strengthened by a Supreme Court ruling, but his appeal ultimately failed. He was already showing signs of syphilitic dementia early in his sentence, and he became increasingly debilitated before being released after eight years. On January 25, 1947, Capone died of cardiac arrest in the hospital of Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary after suffering a stroke. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/al-capone-documentary-biography-mp4-video-download-dv4.html

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Today, May 4, 2024
May 4, 1904: The United States: The History Of The United States: United States Expansionism: American Imperialism: The Banana Wars : The Hay-Herran Treaty: The Panama Canal (Spanish: Canal De Panama): -- The United States begins construction of the Panama Canal. On March 14, 1903, The Hay-Herran Treaty, granting the United States the right to build the Panama Canal, was ratified by the United States Senate. The Colombian Senate would later reject the treaty. The Hay-Herran Treaty was signed on January 22, 1903 between United States Secretary Of State John M. Hay of the United States and Tomas Herran of Colombia. Had it been ratified by the Columbian Senate, it would have allowed the United States a renewable lease of 100 years on a six-mile-wide strip across the isthmus of Panama (then part of Colombia) for 10M USD and an annual payment of 250K USD, both payments being in gold coin. While it was ratified by the United States Senate on March 14, its not being ratified by the Senate of Colombia resulted in the treaty having no effect. It has been considered by later observers that this happened mainly because Herran had negotiated the treaty with little government or legislative oversight. It has also been mentioned that many of the politicians and congressmen found the amount offered to fall short, considering that the United States was willing to pay 40M USD for the New Panama Canal Company and its construction equipment and excavations. The United States government was not willing to renegotiate the treaty with Colombia or alter the amounts involved. President Theodore Roosevelt was informed of a possible revolt by Panamanian rebels who aimed to separate from Colombia, and hoped that the United States would support the rebels with U.S. troops and money. The US thereafter gave its support, both political and military, to the uprising, and on November 6, 1903, the Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty was signed, granting rights to the United States to build and indefinitely administer the Panama Canal Zone and its defenses. This is sometimes misinterpreted as the "99-year lease" because of misleading wording included in article 22 of the agreement. Almost immediately, the treaty was condemned by many Panamanians as an infringement on their country's new national sovereignty. This would later become a contentious diplomatic issue among Colombia, Panama, and the United States. President Roosevelt famously stated, "I took the Isthmus, started the canal and then left Congress not to debate the canal, but to debate me." Several parties in the United States called this an act of war on Colombia: The New York Times called the support given by the United States to Bunau-Varilla an "act of sordid conquest." The New York Evening Post called it a "vulgar and mercenary venture." It is often cited as the classic example of U.S. gunboat diplomacy in Latin America, and the best illustration of what Roosevelt meant by the old African adage, "Speak softly and carry a big stick [and] you will go far.". Ten years later, on August 15, 1914, the Panama Canal first opened to traffic with the transit of the cargo ship SS Ancon. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-indomitable-teddy-roosevelt-george-c-scott-john-philip-sousa-dvd.html

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May 4, 1909: #BOTD: #HBD! Howard Da Silva, American actor, director and musical performer on stage, film, television and radio (d. February 16, 1986) is #born Howard Silverblatt in Cleveland, Ohio, the son of Yiddish-speaking Jewish immigrants from Russia. Before beginning his acting career on the stage, he was employed as a steelworker. He was cast in dozens of productions on the New York stage, appeared in more than two dozen television programs, and acted in more than fifty feature films. Adept at both drama and musicals on the stage, he originated the role of Jud Fry in the original 1943 run of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Oklahoma!, and also portrayed the prosecuting attorney in the 1957 stage production of Compulsion. Da Silva was nominated for a 1960 Tony Award as Best Featured Actor in a Musical for his work in Fiorello!, a musical about New York City mayor LaGuardia. In 1961, Da Silva directed Purlie Victorious, by Ossie Davis. Many of his early feature films were of the noir genre in which he often played villains, such as Eddie Harwood in The Blue Dahlia and the sadistic Captain Francis Thompson in Two Years Before the Mast (both 1946). Da Silva's characterization of historic figures are among some of his most notable work: he was Lincoln's brawling friend Jack Armstrong in both play (1939) and film (1940) versions of Abe Lincoln in Illinois written by Robert Sherwood; Benjamin Franklin in the 1969-1972 stage musical 1776 and a reprisal of the role for the 1972 film version of the production; Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev in The Missiles of October (1974); Franklin D. Roosevelt in The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover (1977); and Louis B. Mayer in Mommie Dearest (1981). Da Silva's American television character work included the defense attorney representing the robot in The Outer Limits episode "I, Robot" (1964), and district attorney Anthony Cleese in For the People (1965). For his performance as Eddie in the Great Performances production of Verna: USO Girl (1978), the actor received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performance by a Supporting Actor in a Comedy or Drama Special. In the 1970s, Da Silva appeared in 26 episodes of the radio series, the CBS Radio Mystery Theater, and he provided linking narration for North American broadcasts of Doctor Who, providing continuity announcements for episodes from season 12 through season 15, announcements so familiar a part of some viewers' experience of Doctor Who that they became a standard extra feature on BBC DVD releases of early Tom Baker serials. Howard Da Silva died of lymphoma, aged 76, in Ossining, New York. His remains were cremated, and the ashes given to his wife Nancy Nutter. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/verna-uso-girl-dvd-sissy-spacek-howard-da-silva-sally-kellerman.html

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May 4, 1937: #BOTD: #HBD: Dick Dale, American rock guitarist known as The King of the Surf Guitar, pioneer of surf music, drawing on Middle Eastern music scales and experimenting with reverb, one of the most influential guitarists of all time and especially of the early 1960s, cited as one of the fathers of heavy metal for pushing the limits of amplification, helping Leo Fender to develop new equipment that was capable of producing thick and previously unheard volumes including the first-ever 100-watt guitar amplifier (d. March 16, 2019) is #born Richard Anthony Monsour in Boston, Massachusetts. Most of the leading bands in surf music, such as The Beach Boys, Jan and Dean and The Trashmen, were influenced by Dale's music, and often included recordings of Dale's songs in their albums. His style and music influenced guitarists such as Jimi Hendrix, Pete Townshend, Eddie Van Halen and Brian May. He has been credited with popularizing alternate picking, also known as tremolo picking or double picking, on electric guitar, a technique that employs alternating downward and upward strokes in a continuous fashion that is now widely used in many musical genres (such as extreme metal, jazz fusion, etc.). alternate picking is a guitar playing technique. If the technique is performed at high speed on a single string or course voicing the same note, it may be referred to as "tremolo picking"[1] or "double picking". His speedy single-note staccato picking technique was unrivaled until guitarists like Eddie Van Halen entered the music scene. The use of his recording of "Misirlou" by Quentin Tarantino in the film Pulp Fiction led to his return in the 1990s, marked by four albums and world tours. He was also nominated for a Grammy in the Best Rock Instrumental Performance category for the song "Pipeline" with Stevie Ray Vaughan. In "Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time", Dale was ranked 31st in 2003 and 74th in the 2011 revision. "The King of the Surf Guitar", which was also the title of his second studio album. Dick Dale died in Loma Linda, California at the age of 81. He was treated for heart failure and kidney failure prior to his death. He is buried at Hollywood Forever cemetary in Hollywood, California. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/rock-amp-roll-an-unruly-history-10-part-tv-series-mp4-video-download-104.html

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Today, May 4, 2024
May 4, 1987: #DOTD: #RIP: Paul Butterfield, American blues singer, harmonica player and bandleader (b. December 17, 1942) #dies at his apartment in the North Hollywood district of Los Angeles. An autopsy by the county coroner concluded that he was the victim of an accidental drug overdose, with "significant levels of morphine (heroin), ... codeine, the tranquilizer Librium and a trace of alcohol." Beginning in 1980, Paul Butterfield underwent several surgical procedures to relieve his peritonitis, a serious and painful inflammation of the intestines. Although he was strongly opposed to heroin as a bandleader, his eventual addiction to it was likely the result of trying to relieve the pain of his disease. The financial strain of supporting his drug habit was bankrupting him, and the accidental overdose death of his friend and one-time musical partner Mike Bloomfield, and the death by heart attack of his manager Albert Grossman, had shaken him. By the time of his death, Paul Butterfield was out of the commercial mainstream. Although for some, he was very much the blues man, Maria Muldaur commented "he had the whole sensibility and musicality and approach down pat ... He just went for it and took it all in, and he embodied the essence of what the blues was all about. Unfortunately, he lived that way a little too much." Paul Butterfield was born Paul Vaughn Butterfield in Chicago and raised in the city's Hyde Park neighborhood. After early training as a classical flautist, he developed an interest in blues harmonica. He explored the blues scene in his native Chicago, where he met Muddy Waters and other blues greats, who provided encouragement and opportunities for him to join in jam sessions. He soon began performing with fellow blues enthusiasts Nick Gravenites and Elvin Bishop. In 1963, he formed the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, which recorded several successful albums and was popular on the late-1960s concert and festival circuit, with performances at the Fillmore West, in San Francisco; the Fillmore East, in New York City; the Monterey Pop Festival; and Woodstock. The band was known for combining electric Chicago blues with a rock urgency and for their pioneering jazz fusion performances and recordings. After the breakup of the group in 1971, Butterfield continued to tour and record with the band Paul Butterfield's Better Days, with his mentor Muddy Waters, and with members of the roots-rock group the Band. While still recording and performing, Butterfield died in 1987 at age 44 of an accidental drug overdose. Music critics have acknowledged his development of an original approach that places him among the best-known blues harp players. In 2006, he was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame. Butterfield and the early members of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2015. Both panels noted his harmonica skills and his contributions to bringing blues music to a younger and broader audience. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/it-was-20-years-ago-today-1967-and-sgt-pepp201967.html

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May 4, 2019: #DOTD: #RIP: J. R. Cobb, American guitarist and songwriter, most notable for co-writing "Spooky", "Stormy" and "Traces", among others, as a member of the Classics IV (b. February 5, 1944) #dies of a heart attack at Piedmont Newton Hospital in Covington, Georgia, aged 75. His burial details are unknown. J. R. Cobb was born James Barney Cobb Jr.. in Birmingham, Alabama. The Classics IV is an American band formed in Jacksonville, Florida, United States, in 1965. The band is often credited for establishing the "soft southern rock" sound. He also wrote "Champagne Jam" and "Do It Or Die", among others, as a member of the Atlanta Rhythm Section. "Stormy" is a hit song by the Classics IV released on their LP Mamas and Papas/Soul Train in 1968. It entered Billboard Magazine October 26, 1968, peaking at #5 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart and #26 Easy Listening. This single release along with the prior release of "Spooky", and soon afterward the release of "Traces", released 1967 to 1969 and which have become cover standards, made great success for the band, and part of the well-known songs from the ensemble. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/wabc-musicradio-shows-mp3-dvd-60s80s-am-360807775.html

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Today, May 4, 2024
May 4, 1941: #BOTD: #HBD! Nick Ashford, African American singer-songwriter and record producer of the husband-and-wife songwriting-production team and recording duo Ashford & Simpson of Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson (b. August 26, 1946) is #born Nickolas Ashford in Fairfield, South Carolina. Afterwards, his family relocated to Ypsilanti, Michigan, where he became a member of Christ Temple Baptist Church. While there, he sang with a group called the Hammond Singers (named after the founding minister, James Hammond). Later, Nickolas attended and graduated from Willow Run High School in Ypsilanti, Michigan, before pursuing his professional career, where he would ultimately meet his wife, Valerie. They met at Harlem's White Rock Baptist Church in 1964. After having recorded unsuccessfully as a duo, they joined an aspiring solo artist and former member of the Ikettes, Joshie Jo Armstead, at the Scepter/Wand label, where their compositions were recorded by Ronnie Milsap ("Never Had It So Good"), Maxine Brown ("One Step at a Time"), as well as the Shirelles and Chuck Jackson. Another of the trio's songs, "Let's Go Get Stoned," gave Ray Charles a number one U.S. R & B hit in 1966. That same year, Ashford & Simpson joined Motown, where their best-known songs included "Ain't No Mountain High Enough," "You're All I Need To Get By," "Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing," and "Reach Out and Touch (Somebody's Hand)." Ashford and Simpson wrote many other hit songs, including Chaka Khan's "I'm Every Woman" (1978) and Teddy Pendergrass's "Is It Still Good to You£" As performers, Ashford & Simpson's best-known duets are "Solid" (1984) and "Found a Cure" (1979). The duo were inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2002. They are also recipients of The Rhythm & Blues Foundation's Pioneer Award, ASCAP Founders Award, and the Grammy Trustee Award. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-golden-age-of-rock-39n39-roll-dvd-complete-tv-series-5-39395.html

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May 4, 1984: #DOTD: #RIP: Diana Dors, English film and television actress, singer, beauty, sex symbol and cultural icon (b. October 23, 1931) #dies at the BMI Princess Margaret Hospital in Windsor, Berkshire, England at the age 52 of ovarian cancer. Her funeral service was held at the Sacred Heart Church in Sunningdale, Berkshire on May 11, 1984, conducted by Father Theodore Fontanari. She was buried in Sunningdale Catholic Cemetery (also known as Kiln Lane Cemetery), Windsor and Maidenhead Royal Borough, Berkshire, England. Born Diana Mary Fluck in Swindon, Wiltshire, England, she first came to public notice as a blonde bombshell in the style of American Marilyn Monroe, as promoted by her first husband, Dennis Hamilton, mostly via sex film-comedies and risque modelling. After it turned out that Hamilton had been defrauding her, she continued to play up to her established image, and she made tabloid headlines with the parties reportedly held at her house. Later, she showed a genuine talent as a performer on TV, in recordings, and in cabaret, and gained new popularity as a regular chat-show guest. She also gave some well-regarded performances in worthwhile films at different points in her career. According to David Thomson, "Dors represented that period between the end of the war and the coming of Lady Chatterley in paperback, a time when sexuality was naughty, repressed and fit to burst." On the cover of the 1967 album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by the Beatles, Dors' wax figure appears in the collage of celebrities, on the right below the tree. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/alternative-sgt-pepper39s-lonely-hearts-club-band-mp3-cd-download-393.html

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May 4, 2022: #DOTD: #RIP: Dorothy Ann Smith Lucas, US air force pilot who served as a WASP pilot during World War II (b. c. 1922) #dies just six months shy of her 100th birthday. "It was a very patriotic time," recounted Lucas of her service during World War II. "I just wanted to do something to help the war effort." In early 1943, her friend Margaret told her about an organization that was looking for female pilots. Lucas recalled "We learned the age limit was from 21 to 35 years and that you had to have thirty-five flight hours to apply for admission to WASP. You also were required to be of good moral character, complete a personal interview with supervisors, and pass the rigorous Army physical for all military pilots...I decided on my own that I wanted to learn to fly... Margaret and I had to drive fifty miles to Frederick, Maryland, to take flying lessons, which were very expensive. We had to make that long drive because no planes were permitted to fly within a fifty-mile radius of the Capitol." Margaret never completed the WASP program, but Dorothy did. "It was my first time in Texas, a very different experience but very interesting for me," she remembered. "But I always enjoyed meeting new people and going to new places. It was pretty amazing." Lucas, one of the youngest pilots in the program, was training in Sweetwater the day before her first solo flight when her brother, an Army Air Corps navigator, was killed overseas. Despite her mother's pleas to return home, she stayed and got her wings. After her graduation, her first assignment was at Moore Field in Mission, TX towing targets for male flying cadets. "Our tow ships were AT-6 Texan advanced two-seat trainers," Lucas explained. "There was a young enlisted man in the back seat operating the cable. On the end of the cable was a large flag, the target. The cadets undergoing gunnery training made passes at the target from their planes. After these sessions, I flew to the auxiliary airfield not far from Moore Field, where I slowed the plane. The young man in back released the target and reeled the cable back up into the plane. I then landed so he could jump out, retrieve the flag, and put it in the back seat. We then took off for the main airfield, and that was the end of a gunnery session, about an hour and a half in all." It was during this time she met her future husband, Capt. A. T. Lucas. "One day I was preparing to land at the auxiliary airfield when I saw his plane on the ground. He was watching his cadets shoot takeoffs and landings. I really wanted to make a smooth landing, but I leveled off too high and bounced in. Was my face red! That was the worst landing I ever made, but you know what£ He married me anyway!" Lucas recounted, "Not only did WASP prove that women could fly military aircraft as well as their male counterparts, but they also established a firm foundation for women in aviation." On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/women-of-courage-the-wasp-aviators-of-wwii-dvd-mp4-download-usb-driv5.html

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May 4, 1929: #BOTD: #HBD! Audrey Hepburn, British actress, model, dancer, humanitarian and beauty icon (d. 1993) is #born Audrey Kathleen Ruston. She was a film and fashion icon active during Hollywood's Golden Age. She was ranked by the American Film Institute as the third-greatest female screen legend in Golden Age Hollywood and was inducted into the International Best Dressed List Hall of Fame. Born in Ixelles, a district of Brussels, Hepburn spent her childhood between Belgium, England and the Netherlands. In Amsterdam, she studied ballet with Sonia Gaskell before moving to London in 1948, continuing her ballet training with Marie Rambert, and then performing as a chorus girl in West End musical theatre productions. Following minor appearances in several films, Hepburn starred in the 1951 Broadway play Gigi after being spotted by French novelist Colette, on whose work the play was based. She shot to stardom for playing the lead role in Roman Holiday (1953), for which she was the first actress to win an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award and a BAFTA Award for a single performance. That same year, Hepburn won a Tony Award for Best Lead Actress in a Play for her performance in Ondine. She went on to star in a number of successful films, such as Sabrina (1954), The Nun's Story (1959), Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961), Charade (1963), My Fair Lady (1964) and Wait Until Dark (1967), for which she received Academy Award, Golden Globe and BAFTA nominations. Hepburn won three BAFTA Awards for Best British Actress in a Leading Role. In recognition of her film career, she was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from BAFTA, the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award, the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award and the Special Tony Award. She remains one of the 12 people who have won Academy, Emmy, Grammy and Tony Awards. Hepburn appeared in fewer films as her life went on, devoting much of her later life to UNICEF. She had contributed to the organisation since 1954, then worked in some of the poorest communities of Africa, South America and Asia between 1988 and 1992. She was awarded the Presidential Medal Of Freedom in recognition of her work as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador in December 1992. A month later, Hepburn died of appendiceal cancer at her home in Switzerland at the age of 63. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/tv-commercials-the-cable-age-classics-ii-dvd.html