Ohio River Report #276, Today is Saturday, July 19, 2014, there are 165 days left in the year. 🌟 In 1553, After only nine days as the monarch of England, Lady Jane Grey is deposed in favor of her cousin Mary. The 15-year-old Lady Jane, beautiful and intelligent, had only reluctantly agreed to be put on the throne. The decision would result in her execution. Lady Jane Grey was the great-granddaughter of King Henry VII and the cousin of King Edward VI. Lady Jane and Edward were the same age, and they had almost been married in 1549. In May 1553 she was married to Lord Guildford Dudley, the son of John Dudley, the duke of Northumberland. When King Edward fell deathly ill with tuberculosis soon after, Janes father-in-law, John Dudley persuaded the dying king that Jane, a Protestant, should be chosen the royal successor over Edwards half-sister Mary, a Catholic. On July 6, 1553, Edward died, and four days later Lady Jane Grey was proclaimed queen of England. Lady Janes ascendance was supported by the Royal Council, but the populace supported Mary, the rightful heir. Two days into Lady Janes reign, Dudley departed London with an army to suppress Marys forces, and in his absence the Council declared him a traitor and Mary the queen, ending Janes nine-day reign. By July 20, most of Dudleys army had deserted him, and he was arrested. The same day, Jane was imprisoned in the Tower of London. Her father-in-law was condemned for high treason, and on August 23 he was executed. On November 13, Jane and her husband, Guildford Dudley, were likewise found guilty of treason and sentenced to death, but because of their youth and relative innocence Mary did not carry out the death sentences. However, in early 1554, Janes father, Henry Grey, joined Sir Thomas Wyatt in an insurrection against Mary that broke out after her announcement of her intention to marry Philip II of Spain. While suppressing the revolt, Mary decided it was also necessary to eliminate all her political opponents, and on February 7 she signed the death warrants of Jane and her husband. On the morning of February 12, Jane watched her husband being carried away to execution from the window of her cell in the Tower of London, and two hours later she was also executed. As British tradition tells the story, after the 16-year-old girl was beheaded, her executioner held Janes head aloft and recited the words: So perish all the queens enemies! Behold, the head of a traitor! 🌟 On this day in 1799, during Napoleon Bonapartes Egyptian campaign, a French soldier discovers a black basalt slab inscribed with ancient writing near the town of Rosetta, about 35 miles north of Alexandria. The irregularly shaped stone contained fragments of passages written in three different scripts: Greek, Egyptian hieroglyphics and Egyptian demotic. The ancient Greek on the Rosetta Stone told archaeologists that it was inscribed by priests honoring the king of Egypt, Ptolemy V, in the second century B.C. More startlingly, the Greek passage announced that the three scripts were all of identical meaning. The artifact thus held the key to solving the riddle of hieroglyphics, a written language that had been dead for nearly 2,000 years. 🌟 In 1972, Washington and Hanoi announce that the private Paris peace talks have resumed. Henry Kissinger and North Vietnamese negotiator Le Duc Tho conferred for over six hours and, by mutual agreement, neither side revealed details of the meetings. The talks had been suspended when the North Vietnamese had launched their Nguyen Hue Offensive earlier in the year. Though the peace talks resumed, heavy fighting continued in South Vietnam. A force of 8,000 to 10,000 South Vietnamese troops moved north toward the district capital at Hoi An in the communist-controlled Binh Dinh province. The troop movement marked the beginning of a counteroffensive in the coastal province to retake territory lost to the communists in the early days of the Nguyen Hue Offensive. Saigons forces succeeded in taking Hoi An two days later, but lost the western half of the city one week after that. The time is 9:17 AM our temperature right now is 64° heading to a high of 73°. Winds are registering in at 5-6 mph from the ESE. Humidity is 96% with visibility of 3 miles and a barometer reading of 30.16. Pollen count is .60 out of 12.00. Its a good day to sleep in, no pesky sun shining in the windows this morning. 😴-with Roy Clouston
Posted on: Sat, 19 Jul 2014 13:26:51 +0000
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