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September 15, 1944: USS Shangri-La (CV-38) was commissioned. One of the few U.S. Navy ships honoring a fictional location, the name was chosen after FDR slyly told reporters that the Doolittle Raid had been launched from "Shangri-La"—the secret paradise in the novel LOST HORIZON by James Hilton.




September 15, 1949: The 1st episode of the Western drama series, The Lone Ranger, was broadcast on ABC TV. It ran for 221 episodes until 1957. Clayton Moore took the starring role, supported by Jay Silverheels, who played his Native Indian companion, Tonto. Hi-Yo, Silver, Away!




September 15, 1959: Khrushchev Goes to Washington. Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev arrived at Andrews Air Force Base, Washington DC, to begin a 13 day state visit. It was the 1st state visit of a Soviet leader to the USA. His visit attracted extensive media coverage.

Unfortunately, the Disneyland visit was canceled due to security concerns among city leaders and State Department planners. The Americans seemed to hope that tours of 20th Century Fox Studios and a lunch event filled with movie stars would keep the premier from complaining about Disneyland.

But the 20th Century Fox President Spyros P. Skouras put the Soviet leader in a bad mood. Skouras made jokes about an old quote of Khrushchev’s that said that communism would bury capitalism.

Khrushchev was enraged by the Fox president’s comments and said, “If you want to go on with the arms race, very well. We accept that challenge. As for the output of rockets –well, they are on the assembly line. This is a most serious question. It is one of life or death, ladies and gentlemen. One of war and peace.”

And then the enraged Khrushchev was told he wouldn’t be able to visit the happiest place on earth. Instead of enjoying his time with Hollywood icons like Marilyn Monroe and Shirley MacLaine, he gave an angry speech asking why he couldn’t go to Disneyland.



“What is it?” Khrushchev asked. “Do you have rocket launching pads there? I don’t know. What is it? Is there an epidemic of Cholera there or something? Or have gangsters taken hold of the place that can destroy me? And I say, ‘I would very much like to go and see Disneyland.’ For me, such a situation is inconceivable.”

Despite the rocky events in Los Angeles, Khrushchev’s visit was a success. By the end of the trip, Americans’ perception of the leader had improved and journalists were reporting positively on his interactions with U.S. citizens.

World War III nearly started when the Soviet premier was banned from Disneyland

September 15, 1971: The first Greenpeace ship departs from Vancouver to to Amchitka island off the coast of Alaska to try and stop a US nuclear weapons test.

The Cannikin test was too large to be conducted safely at Nevada Test Site. Cannikin was detonated on November 6, 1971 as the thirteenth test of the Operation Grommet (1971–1972) underground nuclear test series. The announced yield was 5 megatons (21 PJ) – the largest underground nuclear test in U.S. history. The explosion caused a seismic shock of 6.8 on the Richter scale, causing rockfalls and turf slides of a total of 35,000 square feet.

Though earthquakes and tsunamis predicted by environmentalists did not occur, a number of small tectonic events did occur in the following weeks, (some registering as high as 4.0 on the richter scale) thought to be due to the interaction of the explosion with local tectonic stresses.

The detonation of this nuke was the main motivating factor in the creation of the Greenpeace organization.


Largest Underground Nuclear Test in U.S. History

Terrifying Cannikin test:



Amchitka, one of a string of the Aleutian Islands in the southwest region of Alaska was selected by the US Atomic Energy Commission to be the site for 3 underground detonations of nuclear weapons. The tests were: Long Shot, an 80-kiloton blast in 1965; Milrow, a 1-megaton blast in 1969; and Cannikin in 1971, at 5 Mt, was the largest underground test ever conducted by the United States. The tests were highly controversial, with environmental groups fearing that the Cannikin explosion, in particular, would cause severe earthquakes and tsunamis.

Vid sequence of Cannikin test is from the film "Atomic Journeys - Welcome To Ground Zero" with Peter Merlin and narrated by William Shatner. Full docu: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fzsk6it-ns


The Greenpeace story (1991)


September 15, 2000: Sydney 2000, and also known as the Games of the New Millennium, opening ceremony of the Olympic Games took place in Sydney, Australia. The ceremony was described by IOC President Juan Antonio Samaranch as the most beautiful ceremony the world had ever seen. It covered highlights of Australian culture and history.

Athletes: 10,647 (6,579 men, 4,068 women) / Australia had 617; USA: 586.
Featured 300 events in 28 sports.


In Tom Clancy's thriller Rainbow Six and its video game adaptation, the 2000 Olympic Games are the setting of a plot by eco-terrorists who plan to spread a deadly biological agent through Stadium Australia's cooling system.


Funny how his eyes lit up in this exact moment...


https://x.com/deaidua/status/1834887652027314378


Kamala getting that neocon Enterprise endorsement, but I still do not know who Oliver North is voting for...


"After a haircut I met briefly with 3 leaders of the Contras—Cruz, Robelo & Carello. All these men were leaders against Somoza & helped overthrow him. Then the Sandinistas double crossed them & stole the revolution for Cuba & the Soviets. They were here to be briefed on our peace proposal. Tip O’Neill & his cohorts are already bad mouthing the idea. Indeed Tip sounds irrational. Tomorrow on to Calif."
Ronald Reagan, White House Diary for April 4, 1985.


The crazy nuts are coming out of the bushes...



Snowden’s grandpa, Admiral Edward J. Barrett was in the Pentagon on 9/11 as a senior FBI official after a long career in the coast guard. The family has been in America since before the revolution, and he was born near the North Carolina base where the CIA trains covert operators in creative bomb-making... do some math on that.


Harvey Point Defense Testing Activity