Thanks to Keith Kron's newsletter "What Really Matters" May 11, 2025
On this date...
...In 1934, Black Sunday begins the Dust Bowl as winds sweep from the Great Plains and leave dust as far away as Chicago and New York
· In 1942, the United States begins rationing sugar
· In 1944, Mahatma Gandhi is freed from prison
· In 1945, Mathausen concentration camp in Austria is liberated
· In 1945, Denmark and the Netherlands are liberated from Germany
· In 1948, the first squadron of jets is put on an aircraft carrier
· In 1955, Germany was granted sovereignty by the United States, Great Britian, and France
· In 1961, Alan Shepard becomes the first American in space
· In 1962, the soundtrack for West Side Story hits #1 and stays at #1 for 54 weeks
· In 1963, the first large scale ground units from the United States arrived in Vietnam
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