Meme Scholar with Madness (PhD)

[EndtheMadnessNow]

Three years and eight months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the appropriately-named USS Revenge (AM-110) became one of the first U.S. Navy ships to enter Tokyo Bay August 28, 1945. The Auk-class minesweeper led efforts to clear the bay for the incoming occupation fleet.




August 28, 1957: A staunch opponent of civil rights legislation in the 1950s and 1960s, US Senator James Strom Thurmond Sr. (December 5, 1902 – June 26, 2003) conducted the longest speaking filibuster ever by a lone senator, at 24 hours and 18 minutes in length, in opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1957. He was a senator for South Carolina from 1954 to Jan 2003. He retired in 2003 as the only member of either chamber of Congress to reach the age of 100 while still in office and the oldest-serving senator. He died 6 months later and was succeeded by Lindsey Graham. Senator Joe Biden of Delaware delivered a eulogy.




August 28, 1963: Crowd at Lincoln Memorial as Martin Luther King, says, "I have a dream."




"Kimble Is Innocent." London bumper sticker story from 1965.




Time magazine, August 28, 1972. Note the similarity to the Coca-Cola logo introduced three years earlier.




August 28, 1981: the Australian war film GALLIPOLI starring Mel Gibson was released in the US. The Navy Motion Picture Service declined to distribute GALLIPOLI to USN ships and bases because it believed the film's negative portrayal of officers was bad for sailors' morale. Oh, we can't have that! On one of my tours my collateral duty was to broadcast movies from 5pm to 10pm. Per Captain's guidelines I was in charge of censoring movies/TV shows if I 'felt' any would demoralize the crew or violate Navy rules. I was the only enlisted sailor that could disobey an officer and deny the movie to be shown. There were only a few that I did not air.




August 28, 1987: If the Fourth Protocol is ever breached, there would be no warning, just a nuclear explosion from a bedsitter...The unthinkable has just begun...
On August 28, the Fourth Protocol will be broken in a deadly game of seduction, conspiracy, sabotage...and beyond. The countdown to terror has begun...




Day before the deluge, The Hurricane Hunters took this image inside the eye of Hurricane KATRINA 19 years ago today. At this time, KATRINA was near peak intensity, with winds of 175 mph.







I believe The Daily Show has the definitive history..on Tan-Gate.




Mid-week words...



In UK and Irish folklore, curlews have often been seen as a bird of 'bad omen'. Their distinctive sound - a rising, haunting call that echoes the eeriness of estuaries or moors - has no doubt contributed to associations with the otherworld.