This day in history - October 3
Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2009 10:23 pm
1789 - President Washington proclaimed an official national Thanksgiving Day.
1863 - President Abraham Lincoln declared the last Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day, which it remained until 1939. (In 1941, Congress made the holiday officially the fourth Thursday of November.)
1941 - Hitler declared in a speech that Russia had been "broken" and would "never rise again."
Memo for files: (1) Do not depend upon megalomaniac dictators for accurate predictions of the future. (2) Do not invade Russia. It never works out well.
1990 - East and West Germany merged in a lopsided negotiation, ending 45 years of separation.
- Jim
1863 - President Abraham Lincoln declared the last Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day, which it remained until 1939. (In 1941, Congress made the holiday officially the fourth Thursday of November.)
1941 - Hitler declared in a speech that Russia had been "broken" and would "never rise again."
Memo for files: (1) Do not depend upon megalomaniac dictators for accurate predictions of the future. (2) Do not invade Russia. It never works out well.
1990 - East and West Germany merged in a lopsided negotiation, ending 45 years of separation.
- Jim