NOVEMBER 5 — 2005 Operation Steel Curtain; 1940 FDR elected to unprecedented 3rd term, other election news; 1955 Back to the Future’s Marty McFly travels back and forward in time; 2009 Ft. Hood Massacre; 1971 Elvis Has Left the Building announced by Al Dvorin
NOVEMBER 5
2005 – Operation Steel Curtain.
…American Col’s. Alfred and Davis v al Queda insurgents. The result: US tactical victory. It was an attempt to stop the flow of foreign insurgents spilling over to Iraq to join the insurgency. It was also the first large scale deployment of the Iraqi Army. 10 US troops died compared to the 139 insurgents, plus 225 taken hostage. 60 Civilians were killed, including 10 children.
1940 – FDR is elected to unprecedented third term.
…His distant cousin, Teddy Roosevelt tried that too but didn’t get elected. Same with Ulysses Grant. But Delano did so by promising to keep the US out of WWII, but again, this was 1940. Nazi Germany overtook France, and war entry was inevitable. Several years later, he 22nd amendment would be passed for keeping presidents from running for a third term. In other election news: 1872 – Getting back to Grant, he had an easy victory over Liberal Republican Horace Greeley, who actually is the only presidential candidate to die before all the votes were counted on November 29. 1912 – AZ, KS, and Wisconsin vote for female suffrage. Also that same day, Woodrow Wilson defeated Progressive Teddy Roosevelt and Republican President Taft. 1968 Republican Richard Nixon beats Democrat VP Hubert Humphrey and George C. Wallace. Nixon won on a platform to restore law and order to America’s cities, suffering from riots and crime at the time. It would also mark the end of the New Deal. 1974 Walter Washington became the first elected mayor of Washington DC.
1955 – November 5th was the day that Marty McFly traveled back in time in he 1985 Spielberg movie, Back to the Future. Great Scott!
2009 – Ft. Hood massacre.
…On November 9, 2009, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, an army psychiatrist, committed the deadliest attack at a US military installation while shouting Alluha Akbar. President Barack Obama was under fire, although he did give a heartfelt speech, he failed to mention the word Islamic terrorist attacks, and the Department of Defense will only call it an incident of workplace violence. CAIR, or the Council of American Islamic Relations, condemned the shootings, asking Americans to treat it as an isolated incident of a deranged man.
Yet on Anwar Al-Awlaki’s website, he praised Hasad, stating, and I quote. “That fighting against the US army is an Islamic duty that cannot be disputed.” So. Which is it, CAIR? In 2014 he wrote a letter Abu Bakr Baghdadi, the head of an Islamic terrorist group in Syria, in which Hasad requested to be a citizen of the Islamic State as a soldier of Allah. The fact that Hassad was not brought up on terrorism charges remains to be very controversial.
1971 — Announcer Al Dvorin utters what would become a well known phrase: “Elvis has left the building” at the end of a Minneapolis concert by the King. He was asked to make the announcement in an effort to quiet the fans who continued to call for an encore. Ironically, Dvorin was killed in an automobile accident following a concert by an Elvis impersonator in August, 2004. Finally 1970, happy birthday Louis Freeze, aka B-Real of Cypress Hill.