Maybe you can start with Grenada and work your way up.

On this day in history, General Black Jack Pershing and one battalion of Scottish Highlanders met Sitting Bull and 2000 Arapaho warriors in battle at Bull Run.

For his gallantry in action, Black Jack was given command of the Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor.

LMAO

I can assure you that theres nothing funny about one of the seminal moments in American history.

Not only was Black Jacks advance scouting party, led by Bloody Bill Anderson, completely wiped out, but our victory over the Arapahos led directly to the Treaty of Versailles... and the importance of that cannot be understated.

Especially when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor.

1983 – George Brett batting for the Kansas City Royals against the New York Yankees, has a game-winning home run nullified in the "Pine Tar Incident".

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August 21, 1863. Quantrill's Raiders burn Lawrence to the ground.

I've always felt this should be an annual event.....

Hey, and Chiefsplanet is twelve years old, yesterday I think.

It'll be a hoot when we reach puberty all at once...

...a day which will live in infamy...

Bah. Forgot about that.

Thanks for the reminder.

You could hire an Asian guy to sneak up on you and throw lit matches at the back of your neck once a year. I bet you wouldn't forget if you did that.

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On the 71st anniversary, this happened:

http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/07/world/...html?hpt=hp_t3

Too bad our govt didn't alert the Pearl Harbor base.... (yes they did know attacks were going to happen)

But then again...there were private interests and money to be made in WW2.

That's all ya got ?

Just think, it was you guys that pushed the Civil War !;)

12-11-81

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Muhammad Ali vs. Trevor Berbick

On this day in 1981, the Jamaican boxer Trevor Berbick beat former heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali in a unanimous 10-round decision, before a crowd of 10,000 at the Queen Elizabeth Sports Centre in Nassau, the Bahamas.

At the age of 39, Ali (born Cassius Clay) was attempting his second comeback from retirement. Crowned as the World Boxing Council (WBC) heavyweight champ in 1964 after beating Sonny Liston, he had successfully defended the title eight times before he was convicted of draft evasion in 1967, stripped of his boxing license and title and sentenced to five years in prison. Though the conviction was later overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court, Ali was inactive for two years and announced his retirement in 1970. He returned to the ring after only a short time, however, and regained his heavyweight title in 1974 after a win against George Foreman in Zaire.

After losing and regaining the crown again in 1978, Ali announced his retirement for the second time. He reemerged in October 1980 to fight a championship bout against Larry Holmes, who knocked him out in the 11th round in a one-sided battle. Ali refused to accept the result, however, and pushed to set up the fight with Berbick in the Bahamas in order to prove himself.

Immensely popular with the fans, Ali put in his best performance in the middle of the Berbick fight, seeming to win the fifth and sixth rounds with his combinations and aggressive punches. From the seventh round on, however, control belonged to the 27-year-old Berbick, whose speed and power allowed him to inflict a series of damaging punches, batter Ali in the corner, land a punch to the head in the ninth, and get him on the ropes in the tenth. In the end, all three judges gave the match to Berbick.


Ali retired for good after the fight, finishing his career with an overall record of 56-5 and earning a lasting reputation as one of the 20th century’s most influential sportsmen. For his part, Berbick won the WBC heavyweight title in 1986 but was beaten in his first defense by the 20-year-old Mike Tyson. Berbick continued boxing for another 14 years but was plagued by issues in his personal life, including various arrests and a conviction for sexual assault. His boxing license was revoked in 2000 after a post-fight CAT scan found a blood clot in his brain. In October 2006, Berbick was found dead, with massive wounds to the head, in a church courtyard in his native town, Norwich, near Kingston, Jamaica. His 20-year-old nephew and a friend were charged in the killing.

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One fight too many for the Champ...

51 years ago today. Watched this with my dad, mom, brother, sister & grandparents.
It's just my brother & me now so watching this always makes me smile because it was such a fun day. I remember my dad had made a $100 bet on the Chiefs with one of his friends. He was so happy that day. We all went out to eat at some "fancy" restaurant in Raytown just to celebrate. Fun times!

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53 years ago today, I was living in Kansas watching the Super Bowl with my whole family.

Now my mom and dad are dead but the memory lives on.

Hopefully, we only have to wait 5 weeks for the next one! Great memories!