On this day in history

[caseyjo]

Post something from history you remember from each day of the month...Each new day has something from history to reflect upon. It can be something you remember from your own past if you choose......Just have fun with it.

Discussions on subjects welcome. There may be only one subject or there could be many in one day...depends on how many people respond, but subjects will be changing as the days change, so try not to let any discussions lead into the next days discussions. Hope we can keep it going..should be interesting seeing what people come up with.Today is Jan 26th so I am posting this to start us off:

On This Day: Prague Police Suppress March Honoring Czech Martyr Jan Palach

January 26, 2011 06:00 AM

by findingDulcinea Staff

On Jan. 26, 1969, Prague police broke up a peaceful march honoring Jan Palach, who 10 days earlier had set himself on fire to protest the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia.

[caseyjo]

I never had much money to travel..If only......Well, there are books, movies, & the imagination & of course people who can share their experiences with you....Where there is a will there is a way....

[caseyjo]

Reminds me why I love to walk Florid'a natural lands trails so much....What secrets lay there in wait which have not been uncoverd yet, my mind wide with wonder like a child. I think the mind stays young by taking those roads less traveled...The excitement of new things, change, progressive thinking...Whoo hoo.

[Quinn]

On Jan. 29, 1963, poet Robert Frost died in Boston.

The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

[caseyjo]

1861Jan 29th Kansas becomes 34th state

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1839	Jan 29th....Charles Darwin marries Emma Wedgwood

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Jan. 28 1967 Rolling Stones release "Let's Spend the Night Together"

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At 11:38 a.m. EST, on January 28, 1986, the space shuttle Challenger lifts off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, and Christa McAuliffe is on her way to becoming the first ordinary U.S. civilian to travel into space. McAuliffe, a 37-year-old high school social studies teacher from New Hampshire, won a competition that earned her a place among the seven-member crew of the Challenger. She underwent months of shuttle training but then, beginning January 23, was forced to wait six long days as the Challenger's launch countdown was repeatedly delayed because of weather and technical problems. Finally, on January 28, the shuttle lifted off.

Seventy-three seconds later, hundreds on the ground, including Christa's family, stared in disbelief as the shuttle exploded in a forking plume of smoke and fire. Millions more watched the wrenching tragedy unfold on live television. There were no survivors.

[caseyjo]

The film version sounds good....I might look into picking it up myself.

[caseyjo]

On the best seller list for 64 weeks.....Have you read it?

[caseyjo]

1984	John and Yoko release "Milk and Honey" album