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Your idea doesn’t have to be big.
It just has to be yours alone.
The more the idea is yours alone, the more freedom you have to do something really amazing.
The more amazing, the more people will click with your idea.
The more people click with your idea, the more it will change the world. – Hugh Macleod
Blessed are the merciful, for they will receive mercy. – Jesus in the Gospel of Matthew
On this date in 1903, Americans Orville and Wilbur Wright made the first sustained flight of a heavier-than-air craft, over Kill Devil Hills, near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. The New York Times tells us that it was “the first successful man-powered airplane flight.” However, it was not a man-powered airplane. And internal-combustion engine powered the Wright Flyer.
On this date in 1950, U.S. President Truman proclaimed a national state of emergency to fight “Communist imperialism.”
On this date in 1941, the United States entered World War Two as Congress declared war against Japan one day after it had attacked the U.S. Navy in Hawaii.
On this date in 1941, Japanese airplanes attacked the U.S. Navy fleet at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, killing more than 2,300 Americans. This attack drew the United States into World War Two.
On this date in 1923, a presidential address in the U.S. was broadcast on radio for the first time as President Calvin Coolidge spoke to a joint session of Congress.
On this date in 1947, the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution calling for Palestine to be partitioned between Arabs and Jews.
On this date in 1943, during World War Two, United States forces took from the Japanese control of the Makin and Tarawa atolls in the Pacific Ocean. My eleventh grade American History teacher, Mr. Frank Wrinn, had been a U.S. Marine who fought on Tarawa.
On this date in 1963, U.S. President John Kennedy was assassinated.
On this date in 1863, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address to dedicate a national cemetery on the site of a Civil War battlefield in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
On this date in 1973, U.S. President Richard Nixon said,
“People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook.’‘
Today I am in Arlington National Cemetery and Washington, D.C. visiting war memorials and museums.
I attended ceremonies to commemorate Veterans Day in Arlington National Cemetery
On this date in 1965 was the great Northeast blackout in several U.S. states and some of Canada which lacked electricity for up to 13 1/2 hours.
On this date in 1976, former Georgia Governor James Carter was elected President of the United States to succeed Republican Gerald Ford. Mr. Carter became the first U.S. President from the Deep South since the Civil War.