Random News and Notes 7 August

On this date:

• 1782 – General George Washington authorizes the award of the Purple Heart to soldiers for “any singularly meritorious action”. Washington’s “Purple Heart” was awarded to only three known soldiers during the Revolutionary War: Elijah Churchill, William Brown and Daniel Bissell, Jr. On February 22, 1932, Washington’s 200th birthday, the U.S. War Department announced the creation of the “Order of the Purple Heart.” awarded for wounds suffered in combat.
• 1864 – Union troops capture part of Confederate General Jubal Early‘s army at Moorefield, West Virginia.
• 1888 – Theophilus Van Kannel of Philadelphia receives a patent for the revolving door.
• 1912 – Theodore Roosevelt is nominated for the presidency by the Progressive Party, a group of Republicans dissatisfied with the renomination of President William Howard Taft. Also known as the Bull Moose Party, the Progressive platform called for the direct election of U.S. senators, woman suffrage, reduction of the tariff and many social reforms.
• 1922 – A faction of the Irish Republican Army cuts the cable link between the United States and Europe at Waterville landing station.
• 1934 – The U.S. Court of Appeals rules that the government can neither confiscate nor ban James Joyce’s novel Ulysses.
• 1936 – The United States declares non-intervention in the Spanish Civil War.
• 1942 – The U.S. 1st Marine Division under General A. A. Vandegrift lands on the islands of Guadalcanal and Tulagi in the Solomon islands. This is the first American amphibious landing of the war.
• 1964 – Congress overwhelmingly passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, allowing the president to use unlimited military force to prevent attacks on U.S. forces.
• 1971 – Apollo 15 returns to Earth. The mission to the moon had marked the first use of the Lunar Roving Vehicle.
• 1976 – The US Viking 2 spacecraft goes into orbit around Mars.

We start the news in Charlotte NC where officials seem to have not learned a GD thing from the Irina Zaretskaya thing. Di-Quan Schafar Hunt, 32, was arrested Thursday evening by Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police after posting footage of the random attacks in the Dilworth neighborhood on East Boulevard near Euclid Avenue. The victim from one assault suffered serious but non-life-threatening injuries. The videos are hard to watch.

Of course Diquan dindu nuffin. Except he has 14 prior convictions for nice things like domestic abuse and previous random assaults on women. To borrow from Steve Inman, he needs a dose of leadacillin.

Tennessee held its primary yesterday and there was an upset. Incumbent Andy Ogles lost his race to former Agriculture Commissioner Charlie Hatcher. Ogles had a Trump endorsement. Hatcher was endorsed by extremely popular governor Bill Lee.

The district was one that was redrawn for the midterms and is a safe Republican seat.

The Senate version of Weekend at Bernie’s continues. According to a written statement, Mitch McConnell has left the rehab facility he was at and is now at home.

I have to wonder why there has not been a video statement. Or a proof of life photo with him holding a recent newspaper.

Divers exploring a shipwreck off England’s Dover coast recovered a 162-year-old bottle of Guinness Extra Stout. The Mindora sunk in a 1864 collision en route from London to Vancouver.

The find, part of ‘Project Jurassic Beer,’ has researchers analyzing it for yeast traces to recreate the Victorian-era recipe.