April 24- Operation "Eagle Claw"

April 24 is the 114th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (115th in leap years). There are 251 days remaining.

From:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_24

4 Ordibehesht,  Shahrivar = Strong & Progressive Leadership

1980: Operation Eagle Claw (in Iran, Majaraie Tabas) failed.

Operation Eagle Claw (or Operation Evening Light) was a United States military operation to rescue the 53 hostages from the U.S. embassy in Tehran, Iran on April 24, 1980. The operation was a failure, and had a severe impact on US President Jimmy Carter's re-election prospects; on a military level, it led to the creation of the United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) and the U.S. Army 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (the Night Stalkers).

The hostages were released via diplomatic negotiations after 444 days of captivity.

Planned as Operation Rice Bowl, the operation was designed as a complex two-night mission. The first stage of the mission involved establishing a small staging site inside Iran itself, near the Tabas in the Yazd Province (formerly in the south of the Khorasan province) of Iran. The site, known as Desert One, was to be used as a temporary airstrip for the C-130 Hercules transport planes and RH-53 Sea Stallion minesweeper helicopters which would undertake the actual rescue operation. After refueling the helicopters the plan was for the ground troops to board the helicopter and fly to Desert Two near Tehran. After locating and extracting the hostages from Tehran, the rescuers and rescuees would be transported by helicopter to Manzariyeh Air Base outside of Tehran, where C-130 transports would take them out of the country under the protection of fighter aircraft.

A combination of equipment failure and unforeseen low-level sandstorms caused the mission to be aborted, but only after men and equipment had been assembled at Desert One. After the helicopters had refueled, one drifted into a C-130 while lifting off. In the ensuing explosion and fire, eight servicemen lost their lives; five USAF aircrew in the C-130, and three USMC aircrew in the MH-53. During the evacuation, five MH-53 helicopters were left behind, intact, containing plans which identified CIA agents within Iran. Wounded personnel, mostly with heavy burns, arrived at Incirlik Air Base at Adana in Turkey by C-130, straight from Desert One.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Eagle_Claw
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_hostage_crisis

858    

St. Nicholas I begins his reign as Catholic Pope.

He is remembered as a consolidator of Papal authority and power, exerting decisive influence upon the historical development of the papacy and its position among the Christian nations of western Europe, and is considered a saint.

He refused to grant an annulment to Lothar II from Theutberga so that Lothar could marry his mistress Waldrada; when a Council pronounced in favor of annulment, Nicholas I declared the Council to be deposed, its messengers excommunicated, and its decisions void. Despite pressure from the Carolingians, who laid siege to Rome, his decision held. During his reign, relations with the Byzantine Empire soured over his support for Ignatius as Patriarch of Constantinople, who had been removed and Photius appointed to replace him.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Nicholas_I

1519    Envoys of Montezuma II attend the first Easter mass in Central America.

1547    Charles V's troops defeat the Protestant League of Schmalkalden at the battle of Muhlburg.

1558    Mary, Queen of Scotland, marries the French dauphin, Francis.

1792    Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle composes "La Marseilles". It will become France's national anthem.

1800    The Library of Congress is established in Washington, D.C. with a $5,000 allocation.

1805    U.S. Marines attack and capture the town of Derna in Tripoli from the Barbary pirates.

1833    A patent is granted for first soda fountain.

1877    Russia declares war on the Ottoman Empire.

1884    Otto von Bismarck cables Cape Town, South Africa that it is now a German colony.

1898    Spain declares war on United States, rejecting an ultimatum to withdraw from Cuba.

1915    Turks of the Ottoman Empire begin massacring the Armenian minority in their country.

1916    Irish nationalists launch the Easter Uprising against British occupation.

1944    The first B-29 arrives in China, over the Hump of the Himalayas.

1948    The Berlin airlift begins to relieve surrounded city.

1953    Winston Churchill is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.

1961    President John Kennedy accepts "sole responsibility" for the failed invasion of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs.

1968    Leftist students take over Columbia University in protest over the Vietnam War.

1980    A rescue attempt of the U.S. hostages held in Iran fails when a plane collides with a helicopter in the Iranian desert.

1981    The IBM Personal Computer is introduced.

1989    Thousands of Chinese students strike in Beijing for more democratic reforms.

Born on April 24

1620    John Graunt, statistician, founder of demography.
1743    Edmund Cartwright, English parson who invented the power loom.
1766    Robert Bailey Thomas, founder of the Farmer's Almanac.
1769    Arthur Wellesley, general during the Napoleonic Wars, Duke of Wellington.
1815    Anthony Trollope, British novelist.
1856    Henri Philippe P�tain, French Marshall, WWI hero, Nazi collaborator.
1900    Elizabeth Goudge, English author.
1904    Willem de Kooning, abstract impressionist painter.
1905    Robert Penn Warren, novelist, America's first poet laureate.
1906    William Joyce, 'Lord Haw-Haw,' British traitor, Nazi propagandist.

http://www.historynet.com/tih/tih0424/

The Armenian Genocide 1915, 

you keep thinking that...

I dont know how many times this has been said before, but when you occupy a country, expect rebels...but then again I dont want to discuss the Genocide...you have your facts, and I have mine...

These lands were already Ottoman lands,ottoman empire did not invade during WWII but was invaded by Russia...anyway before mods close the thread I stop here

April 24, 2006 in

Tehran:



Yerevan:



Beirut:

 

etc...

common cause...does it hurt to see those rallies in muslim countries? (except Yerevan, Armenia)

Edited by mamikon

 first Iran denies the Holocaust, now they want the world to acknowledge a so-called Armenian genocide??