This Day in History July 22

July 22

1587 2nd English colony established on Roanoke Island off NC
1686 City of Albany, NY chartered
1775 George Washington takes command of the troops
1796 Cleveland, Ohio, founded by Gen Moses Cleaveland
1812 Duke of Wellington defeats French at Battle of Salamanca, Spain
1864 Battle of Atlanta-Hood attacks Sherman & suffers terrible losses
1898 Belgica crew see 1st sunrise in 1600 hrs-1st to endure Antarct winter
1917 Alexander Kerensky becomes Russian PM
1918 Lightning kills 504 sheep in Utah's Wasatch National Park
1933 Wiley Post completes 1st round-the-world solo flight
1935 Lester Walton appointed minister to Liberia
1937 Senate rejects FDR proposal to enlarge Supreme Court
1942 Gasoline rationing begins in US during WW II
1943 Allied forces captured Palermo, Sicily
1944 Soviets set up Polish Committee of National Liberation
1952 Polish constitution adopted (National Day)
1955 1st VP to preside over cabinet meeting-R Nixon
1962 1st US Venus probe, Mariner 1, fails at lift-off
1969 USSR launches Sputnik 50 & Molniya 1-12 communications satellite
1972 Venera 8 makes soft landing on Venus
1975 House of Reps votes to restore citizenship to Gen Robert E Lee
1982 Academic Text Processing Service established in Seattle
1983 Dick Smith makes 1st solo helicopter flight around the world
1983 Poland's PM Januzelski lifts martial law
1986 House of Reps impeaches Judge Harry E Claiborne on tax evasion
1987 Soyuz TM-3 launched with 3 cosmonauts
1987 US began escorting re-flagged Kuwaiti tankers in Persian Gulf
1988 500 US scientists pledge to boycott Pentagon germ-warfare research
1991 Jeffrey Dahmer confesses to killing 17 males in 1978
Robert E Lee citizenship vote

he was always a citizen of Virginia and that's the State he fought for and loved . It's hard to lose a revolution gracefully and he did it .

(quoted from post at 06:23:38 07/22/15) he was always a citizen of Virginia and that's the State he fought for and loved . It's hard to lose a revolution gracefully and he did it .

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Every once in awhile politicians show some sense snd right a wrong that their predecessors did. Here's a quote from the attached URL:

[i:dc70fb7dd0]........... Nonetheless, neither was Lee pardoned, nor was his citizenship restored. After receiving it, Secretary of State William Seward gave Lee’s application to a friend as a souvenir. Meanwhile, State Department officials, apparently with Seward’s approval, pigeonholed the oath. .............[/i:dc70fb7dd0] :shock:

It took a long time but I'm glad that they 'got it done'! 8)