This Day in History

[Speaker to Animals]

Question: in the Aztec calendar, is 2019 going to be 1 Reed, or does it not repeat exactly like that?

If it repeats every 500 years according to the solar cycle, then 1 Reed will be during the month of Mar 2019, right? 500 years after Cortez?

No one cares. The Aztecs lost.

Well, you'd care is somebody wrote a kick-ass novel about an alien space invasion on 1 Reed that mirrored Cortez' conquest of Mexico.

[Hastur]

Today in 1926 the first edition of Winnie-the-Pooh was published.

[Speaker to Animals]

Today in 1926 the first edition of Winnie-the-Pooh was published.

Nobody cares about your faggot bear cartoon.

[Hastur]

Today in 1926 the first edition of Winnie-the-Pooh was published.

Nobody cares about your faggot bear cartoon.

[Okeefenokee]

[Fife]

October 20, 2016.

[C-Mag]

October 20, 2016.

Inevitable

[C-Mag]

74 Years Ago, Operation Overlord

The Operation Order
https://history.army.mil/documents/WWII/g4-OL/g4-ol.htm

3. ALLIED FORCES AVAILABLE�On the target date it is estimated that there will be available in United Kingdom:
Land Forces�2l U.S. divisions (13 Infantry, 6 Armored, and 2 Airborne), 17 British divisions (l0 Infantry, 5 Armored, and 2 Airborne) and supporting troops of both Forces.
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Air Forces�331 U.S. Squadrons (214 in Eighth [Strategic] Air Force, and 117 in Ninth [Tactical] Air Force) and 220 British Squadrons. Figures for each Air Force include squadrons of all types.*

[Montegriffo]

76 years ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Midway

The Battle of Midway was a decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II which occurred between 4 and 7 June 1942, only six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea. The United States Navy under Admirals Chester Nimitz, Frank Jack Fletcher, and Raymond A. Spruance defeated an attacking fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy under Admirals Isoroku Yamamoto, Chuichi Nagumo, and Nobutake Kondo near Midway Atoll, inflicting devastating damage on the Japanese fleet that proved irreparable. Military historian John Keegan called it "the most stunning and decisive blow in the history of naval warfare."

[C-Mag]

Both were huge battles, both required commitment to war changing decisions.

If the Germans throw back the Allies and capture allied troops in Normandy; if the Japanese destroy 3 carriers instead of losing them, both theaters are dramatically different.