Events in history
United States of America: The American Bald Eagle the national bird on the Great Seal of the United States
- Columbus sighted land. Oct 12th 1492. Uranus /Tarazed, - Pluto/Deneb Okab
- May 13th 1607, the English colony at Jamestown, Virginia, was settled. - Saturn/Deneb Okab
- May 4th 1776, Rhode Island declared its freedom from England, two months before the Declaration of Independence was adopted. - Pluto/Altair
- On July fourth, 1776, the Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence. - Pluto/Tarazed
- Jan 3rd 1777, General George Washington's army routed the British in the Battle of Princeton, New Jersey. - Pluto and SNode/Tarazed, Altair
- Jan 14th 1784, the United States ratified a peace treaty with England ending the Revolutionary War. - Saturn/Dheneb
- April 15th 1850, the city of San Francisco was incorporated. - Saturn/Deneb Okab
- Firing on Fort Sumter beginning U.S. Civil War, April 12 1861 - NNode/Dheneb
- May 1st 1931, New York's 102-story Empire State Building was dedicated. Saturn/Deneb Okab
- Feb 2nd 1861, delegates from six southern states met in Montgomery, Alabama, to form the Confederate States of America. - NNode/Deneb Okab
- April eleventh, 1898, President McKinley asked Congress for a declaration of war against Spain. - NNode/Deneb Okab
- April 19th, 1898, Congress passed a resolution recognizing Cuban independence and demanding that Spain relinquish its authority over Cuba. President McKinley was also authorized to use military force to put the resolution into effect. - NNode/Deneb Okab
- 28th 1 1909, the United States ended direct control over Cuba. - Uranus/Dheneb
- May 11th 1944, Allied forces launched a major offensive in central Italy. - SNode/Tarazed
- April 17th, 1961, about 1500 CIA-trained Cuban exiles launched the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in a failed attempt to overthrow the government of Fidel Castro. - Saturn/Tarazed
- Jan 23 1973, President Nixon announced an accord had been reached to end the Vietnam War. - Jupiter/Deneb Okab
- Feb 26th 1991, Iraqi President Saddham Hussein announced on Baghdad Radio that he had ordered his forces to withdraw from Kuwait. - Saturn/Alshain
- Jan 20th 1993 Bill Clinton was sworn in as the 42nd president of the United States. Uranus and - Neptune/Dheneb
- May 19th 1994, former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis died in New York at age 64. - Mars and Uranus/Deneb Okab
Space exploration (the eagle flies highest of all birds and disappears into the heavens)
- Gagarin is first man in space, Apr 12 1961 - Saturn/Altair
- May fifth, 1961, astronaut Alan B. Shepard Junior became America's first space traveler as he made a 15-minute sub-orbital flight in a capsule launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida. - Saturn/Tarazed
- April 21 1972, "Apollo 16" astronauts John Young and Charles Duke explored the surface of the moon. - NNode/Tarazed
- July 1st 1993 The space shuttle "Endeavor" returned from a ten-day mission. Neptune and - Uranus/Dheneb
Kidnapping (in myth an eagle kidnapped or abducted Ganymedes who is identified with Aquarius)
- Mar 1 1932, the infant son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh was kidnapped from the family home near Hopewell, New Jersey. (Remains identified as those of the baby were found the following May) Saturn/Altair
Bombs, missiles (Jupiter's thunderbolts).
- 1st Zeppelin bombing raids on Britain Jan 19 1915 - Jupiter/Tarazed
- Jan 21 1954, the first atomic submarine, the USS "Nautilus," was launched at Groton, Connecticut. - Chiron and NNode/Deneb Okab
- May 1st 1960, the Soviet Union shot down an American U-2 reconnaissance plane near Sverdlovsk and captured its pilot, Francis Gary Powers. - Saturn/Dheneb
- April 10th 1972, the United States and the Soviet Union joined in Rome with 70 nations in signing an agreement banning biological warfare. - NNode/Alshain
- Jan 13th 1993 American and allied warplanes raided southern Iraq. Neptune and Uranus/Dheneb
- Feb 10th 1993 The Clinton administration said U-S troops could be sent to enforce peace in former Yugoslavia provided warring factions there negotiated a settlement. - Uranus and Neptune/Dheneb
- Jan 17th 1993 The United States,
accusing Iraq of a series of military provocations, unleashed Tomahawk missiles against a
military complex eight miles from downtown Baghdad. - Neptune/Dheneb
Jan 21 1993 Two US warplanes fired on and bombed an Iraqi air defense radar site in northern Iraq.. - Uranus and Neptune/Dheneb - Feb 26th 1993 A bomb built by a group of Islamic extremists exploded in the parking garage of New York's World Trade Center, killing six people and injuring more than one-thousand others. - Neptune/Dheneb
- Feb 24th 1996, Cuba downed two small American planes that it claimed were violating Cuban airspace. - Uranus/Alshain
- August 7, 1998. Bomb explosions that blew up the American embassies Nairobi, Dar es Salaam, - Neptune/Tarazed