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Originally posted on irregularhistory: Super Bowl Sunday! The Superbowl is the highest level of professional American football, a championship help by the NFL. The first Super Bowl was played January 15th 1967. The first Super Bowl was played as part of a merging agreement between the NFL and the AFL. The first Super Bowl was…
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The Immigration Act of 1917 (also known as the Literacy Act and less often as the Asiatic Barred Zone Act) was the most sweeping immigration act the United States had passed until that time. It was the first bill aimed at restricting, as opposed to regulating, immigrants and marked a turn toward nativism. The law…
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The Four Chaplains, also sometimes referred to as the “Immortal Chaplains” or the “Dorchester Chaplains”, were four United States Army chaplains who gave their lives to save other civilian and military personnel as the troop ship SS Dorchester sank on February 3, 1943, during World War II. They helped other soldiers board lifeboats and gave up…
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When we think of stealth bombers we think of reasonably recent bombers like the F-117-Nighthawk (1981) or B2-Spirit (1989) bombers. But in fact it was the Horten brothers who designed the first stealth fighters/bombers in 1942. The Horten Ho 229 is generally known by a few unique names. The plane was called the H.IX,…
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Ten weeks after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs Executive Order 9066, authorizing the removal of any or all people from military areas “as deemed necessary or desirable.” The military in turn defined the entire West Coast, home to the majority of Americans of Japanese ancestry or citizenship, as a…
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Today marks the 47th anniversary of Bloody Sunday sometimes also referred to as the Bogside Massacre. Sunday January 30th 1972 started as any other Sunday in Derry but would end with tragedy and a population thrown into a dark backlash of opinion towards the British. British soldiers shot 26 unarmed civilians during a peaceful protest…
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AFC Ajax is one of the most well-known football clubs in Europe, if not the world. In addition to dozens of national trophies, it has also won 12 international trophies, a feat repeated by only a few other clubs. Historically, Ajax was popularly seen as having “Jewish roots.” Although not an official Jewish club like…
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“The silicon chip inside her head got switched to overload” is the opening line from the Irish new wave/punk band Boomtown Rats song “I don’t like Mondays” The song was based on true events. On January 29, 1979 ago 16 year old Brenda Spencer went on a killing spree she killed two men and wounded…
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It’s amazing to think that the allies possibly won the war by a dead homeless man. Glyndwr Michael (4 January 1909 – 24 January 1943) was a semi-literate homeless man whose body was used in Operation Mincemeat, the successful World War II deception plan that lured German forces to Greece prior to the Allied invasion…
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