~~ Dismantling_Czar_Alexander_III

While searching Flickr for a photo to use here, I found a surprising number of photos relating to the Russian Intervention, which is officialese or something for the U.S. Intervention in Russia (on the side of the Czar). Here's an example:

Posted by the Photograph Curator as 111sc34626 it is identified as follows:

111-SC-34626: Russian Intervention, 1918-20. U.S. Ambassador David R. Francis at Archangel, Russia, on 12 October 1918. U.S. Army officers are not identified. U.S. Army photograph, now in the collections of the U.S. National Archives. Copy of print located at NHHC.

During the war, the rise of the Bolshevists in Russia gave the United States concern. Previously, Allies sent ammunition for the Czar’s army by way of Archangel. Over time, a large quantity had accumulated and could be taken and used by the Bolshevists if not guarded. In cooperation with the British, USS Olympia (C 6) anchored at Kola Inlet, Murmansk, Russia, on 24 May 1918 to guard the ammunition and protect refugees. Her sailors later contributed to the Allied expedition on Archangel. Boatswain's Mate Second Class Emil A. Keranen was one of the estimated 54 sailors from USS Olympia who landed and participated in the Archangel mission in Russia with the British from August 1918 to February 1919. During this time, "he commanded a gun action and did good work under extremely trying weather conditions in advanced positions before defenses were made."

On 28 June 1918, a detachment of Marines from USS Brooklyn landed at Vladivostok, Russia, to protect the U.S. Consulate and to assist forces of other Allied nations in bringing order to the city during the early stages of the Russian Revolution. On that same day, Rear Admiral Austin M. Knight, Commander in Chief of the Asiatic Fleet, ordered a detachment of American Marines to guard the American consulate and to act as part of an Allied force, which was composed of British, Japanese, Chinese, and Czech-Slovacs to guard the city.

So, diving deeper and following links, I found this little gem:

Captioned by ye above curator as 111sc34633 with the following most interesting description

111-SC-34633: Russian Intervention, 1918-20. U.S. Army troops guard Bolshevik prisoners of war at Archangel, 16 October 1918. U.S. Army photograph, now in the collections of the U.S. National Archives. Copy of print located at NHHC.

Just how did the US take Bolsheviks prisoners of war and when did we declare war on bolsheviks and bolshevism?

On this day in history:

1665 -- The first publication of the London Gazette

1885 -- Canada completed its first transcontinental railway

1893 -- Women won the right to vote in Colorado

1907 – Jesús García saved the entire town of Nacozari de García by driving a burning train full of dynamite 3.7 miles away before it exploded.

1910 -- The first cargo shipment by air, Dayton, OH to Columbus, OH

1914 -- The first publication of The New Republic

1916 -- Jeannette Rankin became the first female US Congressperson.

1917 -- The Gregorian calendar date of the October Revolution

1919 -- The first of the ill-begotten Palmer Raids

1929 -- NYC's MOMA opened to the public

1940 -- The Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapsed in a wind storm

1944 -- FDR was elected to a fourth term

1956 -- The UN adopted a resolution calling for Israel, France and the UK to get their troops out of Egypt

1967 -- Carl B. Stokes became the first black mayor of a major US city (Cleveland)

1967 – LBJ signed the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, establishing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

1973 -- Congress passed the War Powers Resolution over Nixon's veto. It has yet to be enforced, ever, at all.

1989 -- Douglas Wilder became the first black governor of a US state (Virginia)

1990 -- Mary Robinson became the first female President of the Republic of Ireland

1994 – WXYC, the student radio station of the UNC at Chapel Hill, ran the world's first internet radio broadcast.

1996 – NASA launched the Mars Global Surveyor.

2000 -- Al Gore lost the Presidential election, or didn't, as the case may be

2000 – The DEA discovered one of the US' largest LSD labs inside a converted missile silo in Wamego, Kansas.

2004 – The US Installed government of Iraq called for a state of emergency while U.S. forces stormed Fallujah.

Some people who were born on this day:

“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”

~~ Albert Camus

1728 -- James Cook, captain, navigator, and cartographer
1832 -- Andrew Dickson White, co-founder of Cornell
1867 -- Marie Curie, chemist and physicist,
1878 -- Lise Meitner, physicist and academic who should've shared Otto Hahn's Nobel Prize
1879 -- Leon Trotsky, theorist and politician, founded Red Army, had affair with Frida Kahlo
1886 -- Aron Nimzowitsch, chess player and theoretician
1888 -- C. V. Raman, physicist and academic
1893 -- Margaret Leech, historian and author,
1913 -- Albert Camus, philosopher, journalist, absurdist and author, L'etranger
1915 -- Philip Morrison, astrophysicist and academic, dirty commie
1921 -- Lisa Ben, singer, songwriter and journalist, created Vice-Versa, a seminal lesbian publication
1922 -- Al Hirt, trumpet player and bandleader
1926 -- Joan Sutherland, soprano
1938 -- Dee Clark, singer and songwriter
1942 -- Johnny Rivers, singer, songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1943 -- Joni Mitchell, singer, songwriter and guitarist
1949 -- David S. Ware, saxophonist, composer, and bandleader
Día del Ferrocarrilero

Some people who died on this day:

Truth is born into this world only with pangs and tribulations, and every fresh truth is received unwillingly.

~~ Alfred Russel Wallace

1907 – Jesús García, railroad brakeman
1913 – Alfred Russel Wallace, biologist and geographer
1962 -- Eleanor Roosevelt, humanitarian and politician, a bizarre mixture
1981 -- Will Durant, historian
1990 – Tom Clancy, singer and actor,
1994 -- Shorty Rogers, trumpet player and composer
2016 – Leonard Cohen, singer, songwriter and poet

Some Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such:

October Revolution Day
International Inuit Day
Día del Ferrocarrilero

Today's Tunes

October Revolution Day

International Inuit Day

Jesús García (Día del Ferrocarrilero )

Al Hirt

If you think that was silly -

Joan Sutherland (& friends)

Dee Clark

Johnny Rivers

Joni Mitchell

Davis S Ware

Tom Clancy

Shorty Rogers

Leonard Cohen

Just for grins, two takes on November:

Ok, it's an open thread, so it's up to you folks now. So what's on your mind?