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Sept 20, 1944: Battle of Arnhem in the Netherlands, part of Allied Operation Market Garden, the last pockets of tenacious British troops holding the north end of this bridge in Arnhem were killed or captured.

Their last radio signal: "Out of ammunition. God Save the King."


Although the bridge survived the battle, it was bombed and destroyed by B-26 Marauders of the 344th Bomb Group on 7 October 1944. It was done to prevent the Germans from using it.

John Frost Bridge (John Frostbrug in Dutch) is the road bridge over the Lower Rhine at Arnhem, in the Netherlands. The bridge was inaugurated after the end of World War II, and is named after Major-General John Dutton Frost (1912–1993), who commanded the British forces that reached and temporarily defended the pre-existing Rijnbrug ("Rhine Bridge") at the same location during the Battle of Arnhem in September 1944. This was the bridge referenced in the 1977 Anglo-American film A Bridge Too Far, although the IJssel bridge in Deventer was used for the actual shooting of the film.

Major General John Frost was an advisor on A Bridge Too Far. Advising Anthony Hopkins that he ran too fast under enemy fire:

Two soldiers killed during Operation Market Garden laid to rest after DNA identification

Two British soldiers who were killed 80 years ago during the Battle of Arnhem have finally been laid to rest with full military honours.

Private Henry Moon and Lieutenant Dermod Green Anderson died fighting in Operation Market Garden, the major airborne offensive aimed at securing strategically important crossings in the Netherlands.

They were buried in the Commonwealth War Graves Commission's Arnhem Oosterbeek War Cemetery, which is the final resting place of more than 1,700 Second World War service personnel.

Sept 20, 1954: John Backus & team at IBM run the first FORTRAN program, which was developed to aid use of the IBM 704 computer.

In Nov 1954, the team will release spec for prospective customers which states that FORTRAN stood for "FORmula TRANslating system".

Sept 20, 1983: RSA Algorithm Patent Is Awarded


Computer History Museum | EDN - Voice of the Engineer

Computer History 1954 - IBM 704 vacuum tube based computer (floating point, scientific, mainframe)




A reprint of the New York Times 1956 piece on "Snark infested waters of the Amazon"— a hilarious sidenote in the saga of the Northrop SM-62 Snark missile.

Because “For the Snark was a Boojum, you see.”


Air Force Magazine Jan 1957: Vol 40 Issue 1



Los Angeles Examiner Negatives Collection, 1950-1961

The Northrop SM-62 Snark is an early-model intercontinental range ground-launched cruise missile that could carry a W39 thermonuclear warhead (yield: 3.8 megatons).

The Snark was the only surface-to-surface cruise missile with such a long range (6,300 miles) that was ever deployed by the U.S. Air Force. Following the deployment of ICBMs, the Snark was rendered obsolete, and it was removed from deployment in 1961.

Northrop was selected to study two concepts, the sub-sonic MX-775A Snark, and the super-sonic MX775B Boojum. The defense budget cuts of what was called the Black Christmas of 1946 drastically reduced the number of Army missile programs.


September 20, 1963: US President John F. Kennedy proposed a joint US-Soviet expedition to the Moon.


JFK Speech Sept 20, 1963



Sept 20, 1965: Barry McGuire performed "Eve of Destruction" on "Hullabaloo." Dig the apocalyptic set and mutated dancers.



Barry McGuire - Eve Of Destruction (1965)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdARD9Qi8w0


Sept 20, 1973: Billy Jean King defeated the former US Open champion Bobby Riggs, 6-4, 6-3, 6-3, in what was billed as the Battle of the Sexes Tennis match in Houston, Texas. Riggs had confidently predicted that he would win easily beforehand.




October Surprise: BORN AGAIN (Oct, 1978). "A reason to go the movies AGAIN!" And, yes, there was a comic book adaptation of Chuck Colson's book published by Spire Christian Comics.


Born Again comic - Issue # Full (The story you are about to read really happened!)

Charles Wendell Colson (October 16, 1931 – April 21, 2012), generally referred to as Chuck Colson, was an American attorney and political advisor who served as Special Counsel to President Richard Nixon from 1969 to 1970. Once known as President Nixon's "hatchet man", Colson gained notoriety at the height of the Watergate scandal, for being named as one of the Watergate Seven and also for pleading guilty to obstruction of justice for attempting to defame Pentagon Papers defendant Daniel Ellsberg. In 1974, Colson served seven months in the federal Maxwell Prison in Alabama, as the first member of the Nixon administration to be incarcerated for Watergate-related charges.

Colson received 15 honorary doctorates and in 1993 was awarded the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion, the world's largest annual award (over US$1 million) in the field of religion, given to a person who "has made an exceptional contribution to affirming life's spiritual dimension". He donated the prize to further the work of Prison Fellowship, as he did all his speaking fees and royalties. In 2008, he was awarded the Presidential Citizens Medal by President George W. Bush.

Colson served in the United States Marine Corps from 1953 to 1955, reaching the rank of captain. From 1955 to 1956, he was the assistant to the Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Material).

While in prison, Colson had become increasingly aware of what he saw as injustices done to prisoners and incarcerates and shortcomings in their rehabilitation; he also had the opportunity, during a three-day furlough to attend his father's funeral, to pore over his father's papers and discover the two shared an interest in prison reform. He became convinced that he was being called by God to develop a ministry to prisoners with an emphasis in promoting changes in the justice system.

After his release from prison, Colson founded Prison Fellowship in 1976, which today is "the nation's largest outreach to prisoners, ex-prisoners, and their families".

In 2000, Florida Governor Jeb Bush reinstated the rights [of course] which were taken away by Colson's felony conviction, including the right to vote.

On March 31, 2012, Colson underwent surgery to remove a blood clot from his brain after he fell ill while speaking at a Christian worldview conference. CBN erroneously reported on April 18, 2012, that he died with his family at his side but Prison Fellowship later (12:30 am on April 19 and again at 7:02 am) pointed out that he was still alive as of that moment.

On April 21, 2012, Colson died in the hospital "from complications resulting from a brain hemorrhage". [Falls Church, VA]

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I guess God decided Chuck had done enough, time for judgement.



Chuck Colson and the Power of the Gospel - Emily Colson (CultureWatch)


HERBIE GOES TO PRISON. Dean Jones '77/'78.