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September 22, 2025

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https://www.history.uscg.mil/research/chronology/

1986 — Coast Guard units evacuated flood victims from the St. Louis area using punts, helicopters and trucks after the Mississippi and Missouri rivers flooded. In all, 150 Coast Guardsmen participated in the emergency flood relief efforts. Coast ...

Uniforms of the U.S. Navy 1862-1863

If there are bees in the area, you'd best not (-u, +d)

dawdle

If such an offer

emerges

in my email, I will take your advice and ignore it.

Yes.
In truth, is is a bit of a duplication with the information in the spreadsheet topic here in the forum, but it is helpful when there are multiple transcribers.

NASA Earth Observatory

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Arctic Sea Ice Shrinks to Its 2026 Minimum 8

Arctic sea ice reaches its annual minimum extent on September 12, 2026 ...

https://www.history.uscg.mil/research/chronology/

1986 — An HC-130 from Air Station Elizabeth City located the disabled 44-foot Polish sailing vessel Gaudeamus with six Polish citizens aboard about 400 miles east of New York. A motor vessel was on scene with Gaudeamus when it was found by the HC ...

https://www.history.navy.mil/today-in-history/october-7.html

1864 — The screw sloop Wachusett , after scouring the sea lanes for months in search of the Confederate commerce raider Florida , anchors near the enemy ship after it puts in to Bahia Harbor, Brazil. Fearing it might escape, Wachusett’s ...

I had missed one of Stuart's entries, so your choice of O14 across is not actually available.
I put OGEE in E12.

Sorry!!!

NASA Earth Observatory

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The Beaver Brown Waters of Rupert Bay 8 September 27, 2026

The Cree word pahtaaunaakun seems particularly apt ...

https://www.history.uscg.mil/research/chronology/

1990 — NASA astronaut and Coast Guard CDR Bruce Melnick made his first space flight when he served as a Mission Specialist aboard the space shuttle Discovery on Space Shuttle Mission STS-41, which flew from October 6-10, 1990. Discovery deployed the ...

https://www.history.navy.mil/today-in-history/october-6.html

1884 — By order of the Secretary of the Navy, the Naval War College is established at Newport, Rhode Island. Commodore Stephen B. Luce, who during the Civil War envisioned a professional curriculum for the training of naval officers in ...

Reading the news just now, I was reminded of the comment of an old friend...

"When I start feeling sorry for myself, I watch the news."