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.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Concho>
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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>
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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>
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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>