25, April: ANZAC day

[Mark Sman]

OK, I know this is early, but I have to go get on line for cheap Lightning tickets. The rest of you can flesh today out if you wish. Lotta stuff happened on April 25. Besides it is almost the 25th in some places.

April 25, ANZAC day
http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/Gallery/Anzac/Anzac.htm


25 1503 Cerignola: Gonzalvo de Cordoba defeats the French
1707 Almansa: Franco-Spanish forces defeat Anglo-Portugese
1792 First execution by guillotine 1st used, executes highwayman Nicolas J Pelletier
1861 7th NY arrives to reinforce Washington, DC
1861 Battle of Lavaca, TX
1861 Pvt Samuel Young enlists, will retire Jan 9, 1904, as Lt Gen.
1862 Admiral Farragut occupies New Orleans, La
1864 Battle of Marks' Mill, Arkansas (Camden Expedition)
1881 250,000 Germans petition to bar foreign Jews from entering Germany
1914 The first USN air combat mission, a reconaissance at Veracruz, Mexico.
1915 78,000 ANZAC troops land at Gallipoli
1925 Paul von Hindenburg takes office as president of Germany
1926 Reza Chan crowns himself Shah of Persia
1927 Spain sends 20,000 troops to Morocco
1942 Doolitle Mission: CVs Hornet & Enterprise return to Pearl Harbor
1942 Burma: Chinese unable to halt Japanese before Lashio.
1943 Submarine Dace launched a Groton, Connecticut
1944 New Britain: 1st Marine Div relieved by the 40th Infantry Div
1945 45 countries convene UN Conference in SF
1945 Japanese route Chinese forces at Wuking.
1945 Last Boeing B-17 attack against Nazi Germany
1945 Red army completely surrounds Berlin
1945 US & Soviet forces meet at Torgau on Elbe River
1960 USS Triton completes first submerged circumnavigation of the globe
1962 US resumes above ground nuclear testing, at Christmas Island
1974 Dictator Antonio Salazar overthrown in Portugal
1975 West German embassy in Stockholm, Sweden, blown up
1982 In accordance with Camp David, Israel completes Sinai withdrawl
1993 Boris Yeltsin elected President of Russia

[Ngati Tumatauenga]

LEST WE FORGET

Your not early, its 3.35pm April 25th here.

[Fitzcarraldo]

"For the fallen"

They shall not grow old as we that are left grow old
Age shall not weary them nor the years condemn
At the going down of the sun, and in the morning..
We will remember them

Lest we forget.

May as well use this as the ANZAC day appreciation thread.

1:51 PM 25th April here.

[Oxley]

Lest We Forget

[Mark Sman]

25 April 1962: First flight of the prototype A-12 (#06924) with Lockheed test pilot Lou Schalk.

http://www.sr-71.org/blackbird/a-12/index.htm

http://www.testpilot.ru/usa/lockheed/a/12/images/a12-1stflight.jpg

[Mark Sman]

http://www.dgdclynx.plus.com/bath/anzac.html
William Pettigrew: The ANZAC poem

Now, this is the creed of the ANZAC men,
The men with the hearts of gold,
What we won from the foe, by the steel and the gun,
By the steel and the gun we hold.

From the heights afar, and the sky above,
There may come the hail of death,
But we yield no yard of the ground we won,
Till the last man yields his breath.

We are few --- who should have been many here,
And our ranks are thinning fast,
But, by the Christ who died, for each boy who falls,
We will take toll to the last.

We are fighting now for the folks at home,
For the land from which we came,
And we are hanging on, and fighting hard,
And we are dying hard and game.

There are long quiet nights for gallant mates,
Who have fought, and fighting fell,
But for every one who has dropped his gun,
There's a fresh Hun face in Hell.

Aye, this is the creed of the ANZAC men,
The men with the hearts of gold,
What we won from the foe, by the steel and the gun,
By the steel and the gun we hold.

Pte. William Pettigrew [21.5.1887---21.9.1917]

[Ballistic.]

A few hours late, but nevertheless...

Lest We Forget.

Their name liveth for evermore.