Friday, February 01, 2013
TIH: various
On this date in:
1861 Texas voted to secede from the Union. (Texas hero Gov. Sam Houston opposed the move, refused to take an oath of loyalty to the Confederacy, and was removed.)
1862 "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," a poem by Julia Ward Howe, was published in the Atlantic Monthly.
1896 Puccini's opera "La Boheme" premiered in Turin, Italy.
1920 The Royal Canadian Mounted Police was established.
1960 Four black college students began a sit-in protest at a lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C., where they'd been refused service.
1968 During the Vietnam War, Saigon's police chief, Nguyen Ngoc Loan, executed a Viet Cong officer with a pistol shot to the head. The photo was published and cause public outrage.
Sources: Dallas Morning News and Wikipedia
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I agree with Sam Houston, RIP. Texan-Americans should of stayed with the union while fighting for their individual freedoms and state's domestic rights. Sing along (as borrowed from the Bonnie Blue Flag);
ReplyDeleteWe are a band of freeman and native to the soil - Fighting for our Liberty, With treasure, blood and toil - And when our rights are threatened, the cry goes near and far - Hurrah for the Republic's Flag that bears a single star!
Chorus:
Hurrah! Hurra! - For Texan rights, hurrah! - Hurrah for the Republic's Flag that bears a single star.
As long as the Union was faithful to her trust - Like friends and like brethren, kind were we, and just - But now, when Federal overreach attempts our rights to mar - We hoist on high the Republic's Flag that bears a single star
Chorus
Never had really thought about it, but I always had thought that the RCMP had been in existence prior to 1920.
ReplyDeleteMy great-grandfather wound up with a silver plate in his skull as a result of a Yankee bullet. Twenty-five years after the war, the family went by wagon train from Waxahachie to La Plata before moving south to help develop Hereford. Three month trip. Still some Witherspoons up in that area.