On July 10, 1940, Nazi Germany began the first in a long and bloody series of bombing raids against England, known as the Battle of Britain, which together with civilian attrition bombing known as The Blitz, lasted from July 10, 1940 until June 1941. …

On May 8, 1945, 77 years ago, pandemonium and celebrations erupted throughout the world from Moscow to Los Angeles upon the formal surrender of Nazi Germany; after six brutal years, WW2 in the European Theater was finally over. In the United States, the victory happened on President Harry Truman’s 61st…

Good Evening to all. Though it may be raining where you are, a few drops are a damn site better than sharply falling Russian ordnance, so a quiet prayer of gratitude for our lot and the protection of Ukraine is truly in order. As the folks who populate my day…

In less than five hours, the Soo Locks, perched at the top of Michigan’s icy Upper Peninsula, will shut down for Winter, marking the end of a safe and successful shipping season on the Great Lakes and Seaway. …

On August 16, 1987, Northwest Flight 255 crashed at Detroit Metropolitan Airport in Romulus, Michigan, killing 156 people. A four-year-old girl was the sole survivor of the disaster caused by pilot error. The flight was bound for California with a stopover in Phoenix when it pulled away from the gate…

On August 5, 1962, 60 years to the date of this piece, film actress Marilyn Monroe was found dead at her Brentwood home in Los Angeles. She was discovered lying nude on her bed, face down, a telephone clutched in one hand. Empty bottles of pills, prescribed to treat her…

On August 1, 1914, some 33 days after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and Duchess Sophie, “The Great War” finally erupted. Many people of Europe greeted the outbreak of war with jubilation as most patriotically assumed their country would be victorious within months. The Anti-Serb protests and riots that…

On July 31, 1975, James Riddle Hoffa, one of the most influential American labor leaders of the 20th century, was reported missing. He had disappeared from lunch at the Machus Red Fox in Bloomfield Township, Michigan the day previous, never to be heard from again. Was he poured into the…

On July 28, 1868, following its ratification by the necessary three-quarters of U.S. states, the 14th Amendment, guaranteeing citizenship and all its privileges to African Americans and all naturalized persons, was officially adopted into the U.S. Constitution. The Amendment specifically states “All persons born or naturalized in the United States…