Fort Concho is a former United States Army installation and a National Historic Landmark located in San Angelo, Texas. It was established in 1867 and was an active military base for 22 years. The fort was the base of the 4th Cavalry from 1867 to 1875, and of the "Buffalo Soldiers" of the 10th Cavalry from 1875 to 1882. The fort was abandoned in June 1889 and over the next twenty years was divided into residences and businesses, with the buildings repurposed or recycled for their materials. Efforts to preserve and restore Fort Concho began in the 1900s and the Fort Concho Museum was founded in 1928. Fort Concho was named a National Historic Landmark District on July 4, 1961, and is one of the best-preserved examples of the military installations built by the US Army in Texas.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1855:
The first edition of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass was published, and it went on to become one of the most important collections of American poetry. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaves_of_Grass
1941:
The Holocaust: During the German occupation of Latvia, a number of synagogues in Riga were set on fire, killing many Jews who were confined within. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_of_the_Riga_synagogues
1951:
William Shockley announced the invention of the junction transistor (example pictured), for which he, John Bardeen, and Walter Houser Brattain later won the Nobel Prize in Physics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shockley
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
all-American: 1. Comprising things that are wholly from the United States of America; completely made in the United States. 2. Regarded as embodying the ideal qualities of the United States; (specifically) of a person: courageous, heroic; honest, wholesome, etc. 3. (US, chiefly sports) Of a person or a team, or some other thing: regarded as the best in the United States. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/all-American
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God. These are grounds of hope for others. For ourselves, let the annual return of this day forever refresh our recollections of these rights, and an undiminished devotion to them. --Thomas Jefferson https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson