Ulysses S. Grant (April 27, 1822 – July 23, 1885)

Ulysses S. Grant, Civil War leader and 18th president of the United 
States, was born on April 27, 1822.

The son of a tanner, Grant showed little enthusiasm for joining his 
father’s business, so the elder Grant enrolled his son at West Point
in 1839. Though Grant later admitted in his memoirs the he had no interest in the military apart from honing his equestrian skills, he
graduated in 1843 and went on to serve in the Mexican-American
War, though he opposed it on moral grounds. He then left his 
beloved wife and children again to fulfill a tour of duty in California
and Oregon.

Members of the Irish Citizen Army outside Liberty Hall..

Assisted by militant Irish socialists under James Connolly,
Pearse and his fellow Republicans rioted and attacked British
provincial government headquarters across Dublin and seized
the Irish capital’s General Post Office.

Following these successes, they proclaimed the independence
of Ireland, which had been under the repressive thumb of the
United Kingdom for centuries, and by the next morning were in
control of much of the city. Later that day, however, British
authorities launched a counteroffensive, and by April 29 the
uprising had been crushed.

Patrick Henry Pearse 
(10 November 1879 – 3 May 1916)

Art Bell died at age 72 at his home in Pahrump, Nevada. An autopsy 
determined the cause of his death. He had suffered from health
problems  in the previous years and posted on his website in July
2016 that he was hospitalized for pneumonia and revealed at the
time that he suffered from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.   
        
      
          
       

     
     
  

Bell served in the U.S. Air Force as a medic during the Vietnam
War and after leaving military service, he remained in Asia, where he 
lived lived on the Japanese island of Okinawa. He worked as a disc  
jockey for KSBK, which was the only non-military English-language  
station in Japan at he time.  

This blogger had the privilege of working with Art during the time
I was stationed at Naha Air Force Base. He was a great co-worker
and friend! (B.B.)

Blogger Bob doing his DJ thing at KSBK during the 
late 60’s.

TIM MAGUIRE

The Saturn V SA-508 rocket carrying the Apollo 13
mission really did blast off at 14:13 (military time
for 2:13 p.m., ET) from the Kennedy Space Center
in Florida—and in Houston (CT),

MIKE GRACIA

Woodrow Wilson before Congress in 1917.

Thomas Woodrow Wilson
(December 28, 1856 – February 3, 1924)