100 years ago today

[ASUHATER!]

Panama canal opened for business. At only the cost of 5600 lives and $8,600,000,000 and putting American troops into several neighboring countries for 20+ years!

[scumdevils86]

PROUD MURRICANS WON 13 MEDALS OF HONOR DEFENDING OUR FREEDOMS IN CENTRAL AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN COUNTRIES YA KNOW

[Merkin]

Also 100 years ago today:

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-hist ... to-germany

On this day in 1914, the government of Japan sends an ultimatum to Germany, demanding the removal of all German ships from Japanese and Chinese waters and the surrender of control of Tsingtao—the location of Germany’s largest overseas naval bases, located on China’s Shantung Peninsula—to Japan by noon on August 23.

45 years ago this opened up:

[ASUHATER!]

100 years ago today, the war to end all wars ended. Where we are with Trump can directly be traced to 100 years ago.

[Merkin]

100 years ago today, the war to end all wars ended. Where we are with Trump can directly be traced to 100 years ago.

[RichardCranium]

And the Don can't even brave a little rain to attend a ceremony honoring the American dead.

I thought he was big on supporting the military.

[Merkin]

[ASUHATER!]

I swear we had a today in history thread but I can't find it. But 47 years ago today the US government sponsored and let happen a right wing military coup against a democratically elected government in Chile simply because they were slightly left leaning. This of course ushered in a couple decades of basically military dictatorship where thousands of people were disappeared.

[UAEebs86]

http://www.beardownwildcats.com/viewtop ... =11&t=3707" target="_blank