Friday! Happy Mother's Day! History, Remembrance, Quotes, and More!

On This Date In 1622 The Battle of Wimpfen, a battle in the Bohemian Revolt period of the Thirty Years' War near Wimpfen, was fought. The forces of the Holy Roman Empire and Catholic League under Marshal Tilly and Gonzalo de Córdoba defeated the Protestant forces of General Ernst von Mansfeld and Georg Friedrich, Margrave of Baden-Durlach. On This Date In 1775 In a candid report to William Legge, 2nd earl of Dartmouth and the British secretary of state for the colonies, Benjamin Franklin's illegitimate son, New Jersey Royal Governor William Franklin, wrote that the violence at Lexington and Concord greatly diminished the chances of reconciliation between Britain and her North American colonies. On This Date In 1780 The Battle of Lenud's Ferry, during the American Revolutionary War, was fought in present-day Berkeley County, South Carolina. The Loyalist British Legion, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Banastre Tarleton, surprised and scattered a company of Patriot militia at Lenud's Ferry, a crossing point on the Santee River. On This Date In 1833 The first attempt to do bodily harm to a President was against Andrew Jackson. Jackson ordered the dismissal of Robert B. Randolph from the Navy for embezzlement. On May 6, 1833, Jackson sailed on USS Cygnet to Fredericksburg, Virginia, where he was to lay the cornerstone on a monument near the grave of Mary Ball Washington, George Washington's mother. During a stopover near Alexandria, Virginia, Randolph appeared and struck the President. He then fled the scene with several members of Jackson's party chasing him, including the well known writer Washington Irving. Jackson decided not to press charges. On This Date In 1856 Robert Edwin Peary, an American explorer who claimed to have been the first person, on April 6, 1909, to reach the geographic North Pole, was born. Peary's claim was widely credited for most of the 20th century, though it was criticized even in its own day and is today widely doubted. On This Date In 1856 Sigmund Freud was born to Jewish Galician parents in the Moravian town of PÅ™íbor, Austrian Empire, now the Czech Republic. On This Date In 1864 Confederate General James E. Longstreet was seriously wounded, caught in the fire of his own troops during the second day of fighting at the Battle of the Wilderness, eighteen miles west of Fredericksburg, Virginia. On This Date In 1895 Theodore Roosevelt became president of the board of New York City Police Commissioners, and served until April 19, 1897. On This Date In 1898 Upon the 1898 Declaration of War launching the Spanish-American War, Theodore Roosevelt resigned from the Navy Department. With the aid of U.S. Army Colonel Leonard Wood, Roosevelt found volunteers from cowboys from the Western territories to Ivy League friends from New York, forming the First U.S. Volunteer Cavalry Regiment. The newspapers called them the "Rough Riders." On This Date In 1911 George Maledon, the man who executed at least 60 men for "Hanging Judge" Isaac Parker, died from natural causes in Tennessee. On This Date In 1915 Left handed pitcher (later switching to the outfield) Babe Ruth hit his first home run. On This Date In 1915 After a first attempt to capture the village of Krithia, on the Gallipoli Peninsula of the Ottoman Empire, failed on April 28, 1915, a second is initiated on May 6 by Allied troops under the British commander Sir Aylmer Hunter-Weston. A subsequent attempt was made in June, with all three campaigns - an Allied attempt to break the stalemate on the Western Front by achieving a decisive victory elsewhere - ending in failure. On This Date In 1919 The Third Anglo-Afghan War (also referred to as the Third Afghan War) began, and ended with an armistice on August 8, 1919. Though essentially a minor tactical victory for the British as they were able to repel the regular Afghan forces, in many ways it was a strategic victory for the Afghans: for the British, the Durand Line was reaffirmed as the political boundary between Afghanistan and British India and the Afghans agreed not to foment trouble on the British side. The Afghans finally won the right to conduct their own foreign affairs as a fully independent state. On This Date In 1933 President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an executive order creating the Works Progress Administration (WPA). The WPA was just one of many Great Depression relief programs created under the auspices of the Emergency Relief Appropriations Act, which Roosevelt had signed the month before. The WPA, the Public Works Administration (PWA) and other federal assistance programs put unemployed Americans to work in return for temporary financial assistance. Out of the 10 million jobless men in the United States in 1935, 3 million were helped by WPA jobs alone. On This Date In 1937 The Hindenburg disaster took place as the German rigid airship Hindenburg caught fire and was destroyed within one minute while attempting to dock with its mooring mast at the Lakehurst Naval Air Station, located adjacent to the Borough of Lakehurst in Manchester Township, New Jersey. Of the 97 people on board, 35 people died in addition to one fatality on the ground. The video: Hindenburg Disaster http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F54rqDh2mWA&feature=player_embedded#at=49 On This Date In 1940 John Steinbeck was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Grapes of Wrath. On This Date In 1942 U.S. Lieutenant General Jonathan Wainwright surrenders all U.S. troops in the Philippines to the Japanese unconditionally. See more: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/all-american-forces-in-the-philippines-surrender-unconditionally On This Date In 1954 In Oxford, England, 25-year-old medical student Roger Bannister cracked track and field's most notorious barrier: the four-minute mile. Bannister, who was running for the Amateur Athletic Association against his alma mater, Oxford University, won the mile race with a time of 3 minutes and 59.4 seconds. On This Date In 1960 More than 20 million viewers tuned in to watch the first ever televised royal wedding service between Princess Margaret and Anthony Armstrong Jones at Westminster Abbey. On This Date In 1970 Hundreds of colleges and universities across the nation shut down, as thousands of students join a nationwide campus protesting the shooting of four students at Kent State University by National Guardsmen during a campus demonstration about President Nixon's decision to send U.S. and South Vietnamese troops into Cambodia. On This Date In 1987 President PW Botha's national party increased it's majority in parliament; meanwhile 1 million blacks joined a nationwide strike protesting against the white only elections. On This Date In 1991 51-year-old race car driver Harry Gant racked up his 12th National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) Winston Cup career victory in the Winston 500 in Talladega, Alabama. In doing so, Gant bettered his own record as the oldest man ever to win a NASCAR event. On This Date In 1992 In an event steeped in symbolism, former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev reviewed the Cold War in a speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri - the site of Winston Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech 46 years before. Gorbachev mixed praise for the end of the Cold War with some pointed criticisms of U.S. policy. On This Date In 1994 In a ceremony presided over by England's Queen Elizabeth II and French President Francois Mitterand, a rail tunnel under the English Channel was officially opened, connecting Britain and the European mainland for the first time since the Ice Age. On This Date In 2004 At 9:00 p.m. Eastern and Pacific times, that familiar theme song (“I’ll Be There For You” by the Rembrandts) announced the beginning of the end, as an estimated 51.1 million people tuned in for the final original episode of NBC’s long-running comedy series Friends. On This Date In 2010 In a Move to cap the BP spill fraught with unknowns, crews prepared a containment dome to be lowered over the Gulf of Mexico oil leak Meanwhile, oil from the massive oil slick had begun washing ashore in a wildlife preserve off the coast of Louisiana. Officials said there was "oiling all over" the uninhabited Chandeleur islands. The island chain is home to large numbers of endangered birds. Pelicans and gannets had been found covered in oil. http://www.newser.com/story/88038/gulf-slick-hits-wildlife-refuge.html On This Date In 2010 The May 6, 2010 Flash Crash, also referred to as The Crash of 2:45, the 2010 Flash Crash or just simply, the Flash Crash, was a stock market crash involving U.S. corporate stocks, followed by an almost immediate rebound. It was the second largest point swing, 1,010.14 points, and the biggest one-day point decline, 998.5 points, on an intraday basis in Dow Jones Industrial Average history.
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Happy Birthday Willie Mays (1931), Bob Seger (1945), Merrill Cook (1946), Ben Masters (1947), Lynn Whitfield (1953), Tony Blair (1953), Tom Bergeron (1955), Roma Downey (1960), Alessandra Ferri (1963), Leslie Hope (1965), MC Serch (1967), Martin Brodeur (1972), Brittany Brower (1982), and Chris Paul (1985).
RIP John Rolfe (1585 – 1622), Rabindranath Tagore (1861 – 1941), Rudolph Valentino (1895 – 1926), Harry Martinson (1904 – 1978), Stewart Granger (1913 – 1993), Orson Welles (1915 – 1985), Ross Hunter (1920 – 1996), and Dana Hill (1964 – 1996).

Quotes:
A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts. Washington Irving
A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest. Irish Proverb
A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories. Honore de Balzac
In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. Albert Schweitzer
The mother loves her child most divinely, not when she surrounds him with comfort and anticipates his wants, but when she resolutely holds him to the highest standards and is content with nothing less than his best. Hamilton Wright Mabie
No matter how old a mother is she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement. Florida Scott Maxwell

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This song came straight from my heart one night as I prayed over my sleeping daughter. As I stared at her beautiful frame I was just moved to tears by what an amazing gift from God she really is. Read much more at the link.
 
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This videolet is for all mothers and all those who take care of homeless children and orphans around the world. I stumbled in one masterpiece created by Japanese music genius Kitaro - "The Island of Life" and was moved by its message and the amazing music and beautiful sound that came out.
    May your weekend shine bright for you and your loved ones, your celebrations be many, and may your times together and apart be blessed!