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August 14th: National Navajo Code Talkers Day.
Cha-dzeh-ah-jad-dibeh-yazzie-a-kha! That translates to "Hello" using the Navajo code talkers dictionary.


The Marine Corps initiated its employment of the Navajo code talkers with its first cohort of 29 recruits in May 1942. They served in all of the marine divisions and took part in their major campaigns. By the end of the war, the Marine Corps had employed 540 Navajos for service, 375 to 420 of whom were trained as code talkers.

National Navajo Code Talkers Day

Code talker - United States history


August 14, 1866: in The Evening Star, Interesting European News...

Queen Victoria speech mentions the Fenian movement, cattle plague & cholera in the UK and the Atlantic telegraph.




August 14, 1935: President Roosevelt signs Social Security Act into law.




August 14, 1945: the Japanese accepted the terms of the Potsdam Declaration and agreed to surrender. Known as V-J Day, or Victory over Japan Day, marks the end of World War II, one of the deadliest and most destructive wars in human history.



WAR 48689, the Top Secret radiogram that launched the last mission and inadvertently ended the war. Transmitted on August 13, 1945, Washington date (August 14, 1945, in the Pacific), this message from Army Chief of Staff General George C. Marshall to Generals Douglas MacArthur and Carl Spaatz ordered the resumption of 'very heavy bomber activities'...'The President directs that we go ahead with everything we've got.'





A Message for the Day of Victory
Tape No: 31-010
Air Date: August 14, 1945
CBS Radio Network
Written by Norman Corwin
Artist: Orson Welles
He warns against expecting a "shiny, ready-made millennium" in our time.



Celebrating 80 years VJ Day in London (15 August 1945-2025) with stunning A.I. enhanced footage.





Our Country, Right or Wrong by Technocracy Inc. (1946)




August 14, 1965: Local station KABC-TV provides continuing coverage of the Watts riots in Los Angeles, now in their fourth day. The broadcast reports on the latest damage, police actions, and the arrival of National Guard troops amid growing calls for calm across Los Angeles.

KABC-TV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDAv2XcGo6s


"Governor Reagan stepped to a podium ... below were 500 military and civilian officials ... Reagan joked that if his political enemies could see him now, they'd think he 'was planning a military takeover' ... Reagan was addressing a session for 'Operation Garden Plot.'"


Source is by Jeff Stein, archived by the CIA from a Oct 7, 1981 New Republic article about Ed Meese.

Reagan already did what Trump is proposing to do, creating a standing army out of the California National Guard, as part of Operation Cable Splicer, the California component of the larger Operation Garden Plot. And if you're curious the DoD Garden Plot Files.


CounterSpy's Winter 1976 issue has the best straight coverage of both operations I've seen.


Obama called Mamdani for a long conversation after his primary win.


Some Democrats Panicked Over Mamdani. Obama Called Him


The two leaders met officially six times during Trump’s first term. The August 2025 summit in Alaska will mark their first encounter during Trump’s second term as president.

In an October 2013 interview with David Letterman, Trump casually mentioned that he met Putin once, noting that he had “done a lot of business with the Russians,” whom he called “smart” and “tough,”and described Putin as a “tough guy.” However, Trump never clarified when or where this first encounter took place.