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Joe's Daily U.S. History Lesson -- June 26
Category: Education
Duration: 00:06:06
Publish Date: 2018-06-18 15:48:56
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JUNE 26 -- 1948 Berlin Airlift begins; 1797 Charles Newbold patents iron plow, can't sell it; 1862 Battle of Beaver Dam Creek; 1993 bill Clinton punishes Iraq; 1993 Happy Anniversary Julia Roberts/Lyle Lovett

JUNE 26 1948 – Berlin Airlift begins. …After WWII, Germany was split into three sections: The US, Great Britain and France, and the third part on the east side were the Soviet Union. Same thing with Berlin. In June 1948, the UUR tried controlling all of Berlin by cutting traffic to and from West Berlin. I guess the Soviets figured by starving and freezing the people to death they would just embrace the fun of communism. But Give Em Hell President Harry Truman knew better and began a daily airlift with Britain which brought food, supplies and coal into the city of West Berlin by airlift.

According to ushistory.org, Truman had thrown the gauntlet at Russian leader Josef Stalin’s feet. The USSR had to now choose between war and peace. Stalin refused to give the order to shoot down the American planes.

Over the next eleven months, British and American planes flew over 4000 tons of supplies daily into West Berlin. As the American public cheer Operation Bittles, Stalin began to look bad in the eyes of the world. He was clearly willing to use innocent civilians as pawns to quench his expansionist thirst.

In May 1949, the Soviets ended the blockade, the US and Britain had flown over 250,000 supply missions.

1797 – Charles Newbold patents a cast iron plow. …But he couldn’t sell it to farmers. Why? Because you can’t use iron on soil or the soil will poison. Charles, my man. Next try a little R&D before you patent something.

In Civil War news… 1862 – Battle of Beaver Damn Creek. …According to civilwar.org, the Second of the Seven days battles, Confederate Gen. Robert E Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia initiated his offensive against Union General George B. McClellan’s Army of the Potomac’s right flank north of the Chickhominy River. A.P. Hill threw his division, reinforced by one of D> Hill’s brigades, into a series of futile assaults against Brig. Gen. Fitz John Porter’s V Corps, which was drawn up behind Beaver Dam Creek Confederate attacks were driven back with heavy casualties. Jackson’s Shenandoah Valley divisions, however, were approaching from the northwest, forcing Porter to withdraw the next morning to a positionn behind Boatswain Creek just beyond Gaine’s Mill.

1993 – Clinton orders attack on Iraq … in retaliation for the George HW Bush assassination attempt.

On April 13, 1993, 17 Iraqi nationals were arrested by Kuwaiti officials suspected in a plot to kill Bush a day before Bush was to be honored for ousting Saddam Hussein out of Iraq. The Kuwaitis found about 80 kilograms of plastic explosives inside their Toyota Landcruiser as well as ten cube bombs.

Because the nationals admitted to the FBI the Iraqi Intelligence Service was behind the idea, the fact that the FBI and CIA found the bombs to be linked to the same explosives made in Iraq, and that Saddam had been plotting to kill former President Bush for some time, that was enough for President Slick Willie Clinton, and he used Tomahawk missiles to attack Baghdad. 1993 – Happy anniversary Julia Robert and Lyle Lovett. …They divorced some two years later, I think.
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