This day in history:
Minutes before giving a speech on a campaign stop in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Theodore Roosevelt is shot in an assassination attempt.
The would-be assassin’s bullet is slowed down after travelling through a steel eyeglass case and the folded, fifty page speech he intended to give, stopping in his chest. Realizing that he wasn’t coughing up blood, Roosevelt figured he was well enough to go ahead and deliver his speech rather than rush to the hospital.
He spoke for the next 90 minutes, opening with the words:
“Ladies and gentlemen, I don’t know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot; but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose.”
Doctors deemed it too risky to remove the bullet, and Roosevelt carried it with him inside his body for the rest of his life.
October 14, 1912 - 100 years ago today
“Prime Minister Winston Churchill chalks the message ‘A Present for Hitler’ onto a shell which he then fired from a 9.2mm gun at the eastern edge of Goch, Germany, on 5 March 1945.”
This day in history:
Surrounded by a much larger German force during the Siege of Bastogne, the 101st Airborne received a message from a German general demanding surrender, stating in part:
“If this proposal should be rejected one German Artillery Corps and six heavy A. A. Battalions are ready to annihilate the U.S.A. troops in and near Bastogne. The order for firing will be given immediately after this two hours term.”
The German general soon received a one word reply from acting general Anthony McAuliffe:
To the German Commander:
NUTS!
The American Commander
Four days later the 101st Airborne was relieved by Patton’s Third Army, eventually leading to an American victory.
December 22, 1944 - 67 years ago today.
Video of former President Theodore Roosevelt becoming the first American President to fly in an airplane, during a four minute flight.
St. Louis, Missouri - October 11, 1910.
Theodore Roosevelt at the age of four.
Theodore Roosevelt riding a moose.
Circa 1900.
This day in history:
Minutes before giving a speech on a campaign stop in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Theodore Roosevelt is shot in an assassination attempt.
The would-be assassin’s bullet is slowed down after travelling through a steel eyeglass case and the folded, fifty page speech he intended to give, stopping in his chest. Realizing that he wasn’t coughing up blood, Roosevelt figured he was well enough to go ahead and deliver his speech rather than rush to the hospital.
He spoke for the next 90 minutes, opening with the words:
“Ladies and gentlemen, I don’t know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot; but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose.”
Doctors deemed it too risky to remove the bullet, and Roosevelt carried it with him inside his body for the rest of his life.
October 14, 1912
A Libyan woman firing her AK-47 into the air in support of Libyan rebels upon hearing the news that rebel forces took control of the city of Benghazi from Gadhafi-Loyalist troops.
Libya - March 19, 2011
