Stuff I learned from A-Team: 1)Always pity da fool 2)Carry wire cutters (you may need to defuse a bomb or start a car) 3)Never trust a crazy fool 4)Carry grenade launcher/machine guns in the van 5)Know how to weld 6)Love It When A Plan Comes Together

OTD ... 1985 China Airlines Boeing 747-SP Flight 006 departs from Taipei destined for Los Angeles, California with 251 passengers and 23 crew. On the flight deck are three experienced flight crew and a relief Captain and a relief flight engineer. The routine flight is 300nm

OTD ... 1991 At 4:36am, the USS Tripoli, an Iwo Jima-class amphibious assault ship, strikes a LUGM-145 mine at the starboard bow. The blast jars the entire ship's crew awake. The ship goes to general quarters with all hands ordered to report to battle stations. The explosion

A reminder from 5 years ago of what "Fairfax" is when the current Virginia state government tries to "Fairfax" the state. https://t.co/Ot8L5S45rd

A reminder from 5 years ago of what "Fairfax" is when the current Virginia state government tries to "Fairfax" the state. https://t.co/Ot8L5S4DgL

OTD ... 1874 Theodore Roosevelt reaches his New York home. Roosevelt’s not yet 50-year-old mother, Mittie, is downstairs with a fever from typhoid; upstairs, his wife Alice, is dying of undiagnosed kidney failure. Alice dies two days after their daughter is born. His mother

Now 10 years off on that prediction ... (Never future cast if you expect to live longer than your prediction) Happy Valentine's Day

Happy Birthday, 16! Old enough to remember when you had your own Federal Holiday.

It isn't now, since the major players in the event and aftermath are dead now and of little interest for the general public. Had been previously for 30 some years.

Do you remember the Chappaquiddick Affair involving Senator Ted Kennedy driving a car that plunged into a pond in 1969? I feel like this story is never discussed.

OTD... 1992 President Bush lays down the law regarding his dog Ranger....

Five years ago ... Fairfax County Virginia School Board proposal to open schools in response to COVID ... (Memories...) Fairfax County School Board proposes a compromise for Fairfax schools to open up 2 days a week in March 2021 for some kids. Their offer is to fully vaccinate

At this point, three battleships and their destroyers have passed through the area, unaware of what has happened, with some of the destroyers cutting down the survivors of K17 struggling in the water. Only nine of the 56 men originally on board the submarine survives, and one of

OTD ... 1918 In the afternoon, around forty Royal Navy vessels leave Rosyth, Scotland, bound for Scapa Flow in where exercises involving the entire Grand Fleet would take place the following day. The vessels include three battleships with their destroyer escorts, four

The baby is useful as a "prop"

OTD ... 1967 At 1 p.m., Virgil "Gus" Grissom enters the Apollo 1 Command Module and takes his position in the left-hand couch, followed by Roger B. Chaffee who takes the right-hand couch. Edward H. White, follows and takes the center couch for a test that is expected to take

OTD … 1945 “Because they were killing my friends” - answer to why he acted this way. Nineteen-year-old Second Lieutenant Audie Murphy is made commander of Company B in the Colmar area of France in the morning. At about 2pm, German troops and tanks counterattack. Newly

How are those starving Gazans in the snow and floodwaters doing today?

OTD... 1984 Apple Introduces its Macintosh computer with a commercial during the Super Bowl.... It aired on television only that time yet became one of the most famous advertisements of all time https://t.co/0kpqRRpIXS

OTD ... 1968 US Air Force 1st Lieutenant Lance Peter Sijan dies of pneumonia. Two months earlier, on the night of November 9, 1967. he is flying as a combat systems officer out of Da Nang in an F-4C Phantom on his 52nd combat mission . Sijan is a GIB—guy in back, — on a bombing