NOTES from the BIG CHAIR

It's a day of several American anniversaries: Exactly 216-years-ago today (April 30, 1789), George Washington was inaugurated as the first president of the United States. Nine-years-to-the-day later, in 1798, the U.S. Congress established the Navy Department under a secretary of the Navy. Nearly a century-and-a-half later - on April 30, 1945 - as the Allies closed in, Adolph Hitler committed suicide. A quarter century later, in 1970, President Richard Nixon announced that U.S. forces would strike inside Cambodia to destroy enemy bases and supplies. Five-years-later, in 1975, with the last U.S. Marine having been withdrawn from the American Embassy in Saigon, the South Vietnamese capital fell to the Communists.
Oh, I almost forgot, on April 30, 1959 - exactly 170 years to-the-day after President Washington was inuagurated and 14 years to-the-day after Hitler blew his brains out - the guy cranking out this weblog copy was born in Columbia, South Carolina.
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