that one time we decided to try Camels for the Cavalry, to tame the far West...

https://armyhistory.org/the-u-s-armys-camel-corps-experiment/

1903 U.S. forces under General Nelson A. Miles invaded Puerto Rico supporting it's "claim" of independence from Columbia; a manufactured nonsense propagated by the French Panama Canal company and US industrialists to take the isthmus by force specifically to build the canal.   Just one of many unsavory American actions during the "bananna wars".

This morning we did some rearranging/repacking of the rentastowage...  My back is now screeching, so I'm drinking some icy coffeecola and starting an old film on youtube;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAwX4QaDxdw

It's a Sam Fuller film, so ought to be good.  It's a French Foreign Legion movie set in the second Indochina War (right before the vietnam war) and has Nat King Cole and Lee Van Cleef among others...

1936 Fascist Nationalists  rebel  against the Spanish Republic; launching the curtain riser to world war II.

1955 saw Disneyland  open

1945 Potsdam  Conference saw Stalin split from his allies.

1918 the Bolsheviks assassinated  the Romanovs

1683 The great Siege of Vienna opened, leading to Europe's rise and the decline of the Ottomans.

1453's Battle of Castillon closes the 100 year's war.

first detonation of an atomic bomb; the trinity test. 

1969 saw Apollo 11 launch for the moon!