Good Melancholy Monday Yonkers, arise, get ready for work as you struggle to reach the weekend again. Currently Yonkers is partly cloudy and 46-47 degrees with north winds at 2 mph, 76% humidity, the dew point is 39 degrees , the barometer is inches and rising, and the visibility is miles. Plenty of sunshine overhead today, a high of 69 degrees with south winds at 10 to 20 mph. Tonight will be clear to partly cloudy, a low around 60 degrees with south winds at 10 to 15 mph. Sun-up occurs at 6:58 AM and descends gracefully beyond the Palisades at 6:28 PM. You’ll have 11 hours and 30 minutes of available daylight. Bogart, Oconee and Clarke Counties, Georgia, Population: 1,034. At 4:51 AM EDT Bogart is clear and 45 to 48 degrees. Bogart will be partly cloudy today, a high of 77 degrees with south/south-west winds at 5 to 10 mph. Some clouds tonight, a slight chance of a rain shower, a low of 57 degrees with light and variable winds. Aguascalientes, Estato Aguascalientes, Mexico, Population: 722,250. At 3:58 CDT Aguascalientes is raining and 60 degrees. Thunderstorms overnight, a low of 57 degrees with light and variable winds. There is an 80% chance of rain. Scattered thunderstorms Monday morning, then partly cloudy late, a high of 77 degrees with light and variable winds. The chance of rain is 50%. A few clouds for Monday night, a low of 54 degrees with light and variable winds. Dothan, Houston County, Alabama. At 5:01 AM CDT Dothan is clear and 48 to 52 degrees. Dothan will be sunny today, a high of 81 degrees with south/south-east winds at 5 to 10 mph. Mostly clear tonight, a low of 57 degrees with light and variable winds. Today 10/06 In HISTORY: 1 - 1777 - American Revolution - Sailing up the Hudson River to come to the aid of General Charles Cornwallis and the besieged British army at the Battle of Saratoga, General Henry Clinton and 3,000 British troops stop to launch an attack on Forts Clinton and Montgomery, in what is now Orange County, New York, in the early morning hours of October 6, 1777. Under the cover of a heavy fog, General Clinton divided his troops into two separate divisions to launch simultaneous assaults on the American forts. The division leading the assault on Fort Montgomery was commanded by British Lieutenant Colonel Mungo Campbell while General John Vaughn led the assault on Fort Clinton. American Brigadier General George Clinton and his brother, Brigadier General James Clinton, were faced with defending Fort Montgomery and Fort Clinton with a combined military force of approximately 700 men. Outnumbered by the British 3-1, the American force put up a courageous defense of both forts. Besides facing an onslaught of thousands of advancing British ground forces, both forts were bombarded throughout the day by British ships anchored on the banks of the Hudson River. Around sunset, Campbell offered the Americans a chance to surrender. When they refused, he ordered an all-out assault on both forts. In the ensuing attack, Campbell was killed, but both Fort Montgomery and Fort Clinton were captured and subsequently burned to the ground by the British. The Americans lost nearly 300 men killed, injured or captured. The British lost 200 men killed out of a force of 3,000. Despite the loss of both forts and an overwhelming number of troops, though, the Americans were able to delay the British long enough that they were unable to aid Cornwallis at the Battle of Saratoga. The decisive American victory at Saratoga persuaded King Louis XVI of France that the Patriots were worthy of his support—assistance that eventually helped the Americans win the war. 2 - 1863 - Civil War - Sailing up the Hudson River to come to the aid of General Charles Cornwallis and the besieged British army at the Battle of Saratoga, General Henry Clinton and 3,000 British troops stop to launch an attack on Forts Clinton and Montgomery, in what is now Orange County, New York, in the early morning hours of October 6, 1777. Under the cover of a heavy fog, General Clinton divided his troops into two separate divisions to launch simultaneous assaults on the American forts. The division leading the assault on Fort Montgomery was commanded by British Lieutenant Colonel Mungo Campbell while General John Vaughn led the assault on Fort Clinton. American Brigadier General George Clinton and his brother, Brigadier General James Clinton, were faced with defending Fort Montgomery and Fort Clinton with a combined military force of approximately 700 men. Outnumbered by the British 3-1, the American force put up a courageous defense of both forts. Besides facing an onslaught of thousands of advancing British ground forces, both forts were bombarded throughout the day by British ships anchored on the banks of the Hudson River. Around sunset, Campbell offered the Americans a chance to surrender. When they refused, he ordered an all-out assault on both forts. In the ensuing attack, Campbell was killed, but both Fort Montgomery and Fort Clinton were captured and subsequently burned to the ground by the British. The Americans lost nearly 300 men killed, injured or captured. The British lost 200 men killed out of a force of 3,000. Despite the loss of both forts and an overwhelming number of troops, though, the Americans were able to delay the British long enough that they were unable to aid Cornwallis at the Battle of Saratoga. The decisive American victory at Saratoga persuaded King Louis XVI of France that the Patriots were worthy of his support—assistance that eventually helped the Americans win the war. 2 - 1863 - Civil War - Confederate guerilla leader William Clarke Quantrill continues his bloody rampage through Kansas when he attacks Baxter Springs. Although he failed to capture the Union stronghold, his men massacred a Federal detachment that happened to be traveling nearby. Some of the bloodiest chapters of the Civil War were written in Kansas and Missouri, where irregular combatants fought. In August 1863, Quantrill and 450 Confederate partisans sacked the abolitionist town of Lawrence, Kansas. They murdered 150 men and set the town on fire before escaping the pursuing Union cavalry. After destroying Lawrence, Quantrill and his men noticed that the area around northwestern Missouri and northeastern Kansas was becoming more crowded with Yankee troops. Quantrill started to drift south, intent on wintering within the friendly confines of Confederate Texas. On October 6, Quantrill and his men happened upon a Federal post at Baxter Springs, near the Missouri and Indiana Territory borders. Defending the post were parts of the 3rd Wisconsin Cavalry and the 2nd Kansas Colored Infantry. Quantrill attacked suddenly, surprising the Yankees, who suffered heavy casualties before barricading themselves inside the earth-and-timber fortress. While Quantrills men debated the merits of another attack on the post, a Union force appeared from the north. It was General James G. Blunt, commander of the forces in Kansas, who was in the process of moving his headquarters from Fort Scott, Kansas, to Fort Smith, Arkansas. Blunt spotted Quantrills men but mistook them for Union troops because many were dressed in captured Yankee uniforms. A large portion of Blunts 100 men were clerks and office staffers. Quantrill attacked, and the scene turned into a massacre. The Yankees quickly scattered, and Quantrills partisans hunted them down. Seventy Union troops were killed, but Blunt escaped to the safety of Fort Smith. He was removed from command shortly thereafter. Quantrill and his men continued south to Texas, raiding homesteads and attacking Native American communities along the way. 3 - 1981 - Cold War - The surprise attack by Egyptian and Syrian forces on Israel in October 1973 throws the Middle East into turmoil and threatens to bring the United States and the Soviet Union into direct conflict for the first time since the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. Though actual combat did not break out between the two nations, the events surrounding the Yom Kippur War seriously damaged U.S.-Soviet relations and all but destroyed President Richard Nixons much publicized policy of detente. Initially, it appeared that Egypt and Syria would emerge victorious from the conflict. Armed with up-to-date Soviet weaponry, the two nations hoped to avenge their humiliating defeat in the Six-Day War of 1967. Israel, caught off guard, initially reeled under the two-front attack, but Israeli counterattacks turned the tide, aided by massive amounts of U.S. military assistance, as well as disorganization among the Syrian and Egyptian forces. The Syrians were driven back, with Israeli troops seizing the strategically important Golan Heights. Egyptian forces fared even worse: retreating back through the Sinai Desert, thousands of their troops were surrounded and cut off by the Israeli army. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, together with his Soviet counterparts, eventually arranged a shaky cease-fire. When it became clear that Israel would not give up its siege of the Egyptian troops (low on food and medicine by this time), the Soviets threatened to take unilateral action to rescue them. Tempers flared both in Washington and Moscow; U.S. military forces went to a Stage 3 alert (Stage 5 is the launch of nuclear attacks). The Soviets backed down on their threat but the damage to relations between the two nations was serious and long lasting. Kissinger worked furiously to bring about a peace settlement between Israel and Syria and Egypt. In what came to be known as shuttle diplomacy, the secretary of state flew from nation to nation hammering out the details of the peace accord. Eventually, Israeli troops withdrew from some of their positions in both the Sinai and Syrian territory, while Egypt promised to forego the use of force in its dealings with Israel. Syria grudgingly accepted the peace plan, but remained adamantly opposed to the existence of the Israeli state. 4 - 1972 - A train carrying religious pilgrims derails near Saltillo, Mexico, killing more than 200 people and injuring hundreds of others. 5 - 1961 - President John F. Kennedy, speaking on civil defense, advises American families to build bomb shelters to protect them from atomic fallout in the event of a nuclear exchange with the Soviet Union. Kennedy also assured the public that the U.S. civil defense program would soon begin providing such protection for every American. Only one year later, true to Kennedys fears, the world hovered on the brink of full-scale nuclear war when the Cuban Missile Crisis erupted over the USSRs placement of nuclear missiles in Cuba. During the tense 13-day crisis, some Americans prepared for nuclear war by buying up canned goods and completing last-minute work on their backyard bomb shelters. 6 - 1967 - Vietnam War - U.S. Navy pilots fly 34 missions as they again strike the Chien Chiang and Lang Son bridges near the Chinese border, another bridge 39 miles northeast of Hanoi, a railroad yard near Mo Trang, and two anti-aircraft sites south of Dong Hoi. Other jets attacked the Nam Dinh power plant that lay 45 miles southwest of Haiphong; a railway and highway bridge 24 miles southeast of Hanoi; and eight buildings in the Yen Bac military storage area. These raids were all part of Operation Rolling Thunder, which had been initiated in March 1965 and became the longest bombing campaign ever conducted by the United States Air Force. It was designed to destroy North Vietnams industrial base and war-making capability. During the protracted campaign, more than 643,000 tons of bombs fell on North Vietnam, destroying 65 percent of North Vietnams petroleum storage capacity and an estimated 60 percent of its power-generating capability. Despite these results, Rolling Thunder has generally been assessed as a failure. For a number of reasons, conventional airpower used on North Vietnam did not have the desired impact on the unconventional war being fought in South Vietnam. First, North Vietnam was primarily a pre-industrial, agricultural society without major industrial targets. Second, the overall effectiveness of the bombing campaign was hampered by political constraints that limited targeting and other operational planning factors. Third, and perhaps most important, the North Vietnamese were a determined people who were prepared to continue fighting as long as it took to achieve their war aims. In essence, the United States was fighting a limited war, but the North Vietnamese were fighting a total war to the finish. 7 - 1970 - Vietnam War - South Vietnamese military officials announce the end of a three-month operation in southeastern Cambodia and the withdrawal of the 12,000-man task force involved. During the operation, which was designed to eliminate Communist base camps and supply areas along the Ho Chi Minh Trail, 453 enemy soldiers were reported killed. South Vietnamese losses were 93 killed and 642 wounded. 8 - 1908 - World War One - The Dual Monarchy of Austria-Hungary announces its annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, dual provinces in the Balkan region of Europe formerly under the control of the Ottoman Empire. Though Bosnia and Herzegovina were still nominally under the control of the Ottoman Sultan in 1908, Austria-Hungary had administered the provinces since the Congress of Berlin in 1878, when the great powers of Europe awarded the Dual Monarchy the right to occupy the two provinces, with the legal title to remain with Turkey. As the provinces were coveted by many—in fact, both Austria and Hungary wanted Bosnia and Herzegovina for themselves—the decision was more or less a stopgap to preserve the delicate balance of power in Europe. To make matters more complicated, the largely Slavic population of the two provinces had nationalist ambitions of their own, while their fellow Slavs in nearby Serbia yearned to annex them to further their pan-Slavic ambitions. When rebellion by the Committee of Union and Progress—the so-called Young Turks—took the Ottoman government by storm in 1908, Baron Aloys von Aerenthal, foreign minister of Austria-Hungary, saw his empire’s chance to assert its dominance in the Balkans. Aside from the sultan’s weakness, Russia, the Dual Monarchy’s great rival for power in the Balkans, was also reeling, after a defeat in the Russo-Japanese War and internal revolution in 1905. The announcement in October 1908 of Austria-Hungary’s annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina upset the fragile balance of power in the Balkans, enraging Serbia and pan-Slavic nationalists throughout Europe. Though weakened Russia was forced to submit, to its humiliation, its foreign office still viewed Austria-Hungary’s actions as overly aggressive and threatening, despite Aerenthal’s assurances that he did not plan to take Macedonia, another disputed former Ottoman province, next. Russia’s response was to encourage pro-Russian, anti-Austrian sentiment in Serbia and other Balkan provinces, provoking Austrian fears of Slavic expansionism in the region. In January 1909, at the height of the Bosnia-Herzogovina crisis, Franz Conrad von Hotzendorff, the chief of staff of the Austrian army, approached Helmuth von Moltke, his German counterpart, to ask what Germany would do if Austria invaded Serbia and thus provoked Russia to intervene on the latter’s behalf. Significantly, Moltke replied that—despite the purely defensive nature of their earlier alliance, concluded in 1879—Germany would back Austria-Hungary, even if it was the aggressor in such a conflict, and would not only go to war against Russia, but also against France, Russia’s powerful ally in the west. In the summer of 1914, it would do just that, as the struggle for power in the tumultuous Balkans morphed into the devastating international conflict that would become known as the First World War. 9 - 1945 - World War Two - Former French premier and Vichy collaborator Pierre Laval tries to kill himself on the day he is to be executed for treason. He fails. Laval served as premier of France twice, the second time from June 1935 to January 1936, but fell from power primarily because of his appeasement of Italy after the invasion and occupation of Ethiopio by Mussolini and his fascist regime in 1935. Upon the German invasion of France in 1940, Laval, ever the opportunist, saw a chance to re-establish himself in office by supporting a puppet government headed by Henri Philippe Petain, who, when he acceded to the position of premier in June 1940, rewarded Laval by making him deputy head of state and foreign minister. Laval was always more slavish in his devotion to his German masters than was Petain; for example, Laval began secret negotiations for a formal collaboration with Germany, convinced that the future lay in the hands of the Axis power. Petain finally fired him in December 1940. But the Germans questioned Petains double loyalty and pressured him to reinstate Laval. Petain fell further from German favor, and when Hitlers forces occupied France in 1942, Laval, wanting to reassure Germany of his loyalty, began sending French workers to Germany and stripping French Jews of their rights. He also helped the Nazis capture and deport non-French Jews. He openly announced that he wished for a German victory. An American victory would mean victory for the Jews and the communists. As the end for Hitler grew near, Laval fled first to Germany, then to Spain, then to Austria, where he was arrested and sent back to France and was tried, along with Petain, on the charge of treason. Laval defended his actions, believing he had done nothing wrong. He was sentenced to be shot by firing squad on October 6, 1945, but swallowed cyanide before they could come for him. A physician saved his life--just in time for Laval to be executed a little less than two weeks later. Your four day Extended Yonkers Weather Forecast is: Tuesday, AM clouds/PM sun, 20% chance of rain, 68/62; Wednesday, AM thunderstorms, 40% chance of rain, 71/49; Thursday, sunny, 0% chance of rain, 64/52; and Friday, showers, 70% chance of rain, 61/49. Last night in sports, in the NFL the Giants topped the Falcons 30-20, Dal 20-Hou 17 OT, Buf 17-Det 14, Ind 20-Bal 13, Pit 17-Jax 9, NO 37-TB 31 OT, Phi 34-StL 28, Cle 29-Ten 28, Den 41-Ari 20, SF 22-KC 17, NE 43-Cin 17, Car 31-Chi 24 and tonight the Redskins host the Seahawks. In MLB ALDS action, KC 8-LAA 3 KC takes the series 3-0; Bal 2-Det 1, the Orioles sweep the Tigers 3-0. Tonight in the NLDS , the Giants host the Nationals, Giants lead the series 2-0, and the Cardinals host the Dodgers, the best of three series is even at 1 game apiece. In Pre-Season NHL hockey, the Capitals beat the Hurricanes 5-2. No games scheduled until Wednesday when the regular season begins. GO RANGERS! Enjoy your Monday, show the world that Americans can still outproduce the rest of the world by being productive, encourage your friends and neighbors, and in general as always keep safe, PUSH, and keep smiling!
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