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Dec 10, 1541: Thomas Culpeper and Francis Dereham are sentenced to a traitor's death for "allegedly" having affairs with Catherine Howard, Queen of England and 5th wife of Henry VIII. Culpepper was beheaded, but Dereham then suffered the full horror of being hanged, castrated, disembowelled, beheaded and quartered. Both heads were set up on pikes above London Bridge. Catherine and Lady Rochford were beheaded at the Tower of London on 13 February 1542. Brutal times.






Dec 10, 1941: a PBY Catalina scored the U.S. Navy's first credited air-to-air kill of WWII when the bow gunner armed with twin .30-caliber machine guns shot down one of three Mitsubishi Zeros that were attacking the flying boat during a Japanese raid on the Cavite Navy Yard in the Philippines.


The Consolidated Model 28 was flown by the U.S. Navy as the PBY Catalina. “PB” stood for Patrol Bomber while “Y” was the Navy’s manufacturer code for the Consolidated Aircraft Corporation. The Navy first took delivery of the Catalina in 1936. By end of WWII, the PBY was the most numerous aircraft of its type with 3,300 built.
The Navy’s first air-to-air kill of WWII wasn’t scored by a fighter


Dec 10, 1952: INVASION, U.S.A. had its world premiere on this day at the RKO Pan theater in Minneapolis.


Low B-grade film, but not without its entertaining moments...


Mr. Ohman: I think America wants new leadership.
Vince Potter: What kind of leadership do you suggest?
Mr. Ohman: I suggest a wizard.
Vince Potter: A what?
Mr. Ohman: A wizard, like Merlin, who could kill his enemies by wishing them dead. That's the way we like to beat Communism now, by wishing it dead.

General: Do you remember what Senator Baker said when the military appropriations bill came up for vote?
Secretary of Defense: He said we could safely reduce our armed forces by half.
General: He wasn't only wrong, he's dead.

Newscaster: A steel plant, built at a cost of $50 million, burns to the ground. Part of the terrible balance sheet of war. Billions of dollars of property lost to the American people forever because we did not provide a strong enough army to protect ourselves.

President: For every atom bomb dropped on our country, we have taken three to the enemy's heartland and we have huge stocks of atomic weapons in reserve.



December 10, 1953: Hugh Hefner published the 1st edition of Playboy magazine, with Marilyn Monroe on the cover, and as the 1st centrefold pin up. Readers were warned: “This is not a family magazine.”

"If we are able to give the American male a few extra laughs and a little diversion from the anxieties of the Atomic Age, we'll feel we've justified our existence."




Dec 10, 1954: Admiral the Earl Mountbatten of Burma relinquished command of Allied Forces in the Mediterranean. As a sign of respect, British, American, Greek, French, Italian and Turkish admirals from the NATO Headquarters at Malta manned oars and rowed him out to HMS Surprise.


MOUNTBATTEN LEAVES MALTA - Newsreel footage - identifies the rowing admirals.

A few decades later, the Irish also showed their feelings toward Lord Mountbatten with a boat called shadow rigged for surprise.


Assassination of Lord Mountbatten


In November of 1961, Fortune Magazine told its readers "The Economy Can Survive a Nuclear Attack."


I wonder how many readers back then believed that BS.


"Don't Wait for This..." FOX HOLE Fallout Shelters ad, 1961. Take out a second mortgage and get one now!
Not a home owner? No problem.
"Renters: The only shelter that can be re-located when you move."




Run, Dig or Stay by Dean Brelis (1962)




The infamous NSSM 200 memo on Global Population Reduction Strategy


Here's a PDF copy from our friends over at US AID: THE KISSINGER REPORT


Perfect Christmas gift for family...