Museum - Strategic Air Command & Aerospace Museum in Ashland, Nebraska

Thanks to @AshlandNE @OrientalTrading and @magicalmomentsentertainmentllc for being a part of our upcoming MONSTER MASH "Trunk or Treat." We've got a fun and safe party planned for you and the family, Saturday, October 31, 10am-2pm at the Museum! Learn more: https://buff.ly/2RvFqIV #HappyHalloween2020

#OnThisDay: The Sobibor death camp was one of three death camps, constructed in 1942, purpose built for the sole purpose of murdering Jews. After victims were stripped of their belongings they were sent to the gas chambers, and their bodies burned in giant burial pits. Unbeknownst to the Germans, a Sobibor underground had been established made up of Jewish labor prisoners and Soviet POWs and, on October 14, 1943, they launched their long planned uprising. 12 SS guards were covertly killed, telegraph and telephone lines were cut, and with hidden guns shot and charged their way out of the camp. 300 prisoners escaped, but only 50 survived the war. On October 19, Heinrich Himmler ordered Sobibor to be liquidated. United States Holocasut Memorial Museum

Planning a trip to the Museum? Forgot to grab breakfast? A couple of things: 1) Slow down! We're here all day 2) WE HAVE BREAKFAST! That's right! Breakfast is served, Tuesday - Thursday from 9:00am to 10:30am. And yes, the coffee will be on, too! #TheBestPartOfWakingUp

#OnThisDay: 1775, meeting in Philadelphia, the Continental Congress voted to fit out two sailing vessels, armed with ten carriage guns, as well as swivel guns, and manned by crews of eighty, and to send them out on a cruise of three months to intercept transports carrying munitions and stores to the British army in America. This was the original legislation out of which the Continental Navy grew and as such constitutes the birth certificate of the Navy. #HappyBirthday

#OnThisDay: Before the Incredible Hulk, there was The Amazing Colossal Man. Released on October 13, 1957, The Amazing Colossal Man follows Army Lt. Colonel Glenn Manning who survives a plutonium bomb explosion in Nevada. Glenn’s cells mutate, causing Glenn to grow to over 60 feet tall. Much like other films of the time, The Amazing Colossal Man was inspired by events in the Cold War, mainly the fear of atomic bombs and what they were capable of. People were uncertain of these powerful weapons and Hollywood took advantage of those fears. Other popular films based on atomic radiation include Them! (1954), featuring mutated giant ants, and The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms (1953) about a dinosaur thawed out of ice by atomic bombs in the Arctic. #ColdWarCulture Internet Movie Database

LOVE IS IN THE AIR, Sunday, November 15 at the Museum! Join us for our wedding expo featuring among others @TaraGrellDesigns @DEbyRayna @elegantedgeomaha @AckermanEvents @CompleteWeDo and more! Come experience and learn from product and service industry leaders, enjoy a cash bar and see how you can give your wedding wings! Admission for BRIDES and 3 friends is FREE! Details: https://buff.ly/2HzBMvW #OMA #LNK #Wedding #WeddingPlanning

There is a LOT going on at the Museum in the next month - checks notes - October 24: Meet Nebraska's Astronaut, Clayton Anderson October 31: Monster Mash "Trunk or Treat" November 7: Flight Night f/Josh Hoyer & Soul Colossal November 15: Love Is In The Air - Museum Wedding Expo... Details for all: https://buff.ly/2ZPbn1e #LNK #OMA See more

#ColumbusDay has been a federal holiday since 1934. In 1990, the state of South Dakota officially renamed Columbus Day to Native Americans' Day to shift the holiday to one honoring the various Indigenous peoples of South Dakota. More cities/states celebrating Indigenous Peoples Day: https://buff.ly/3jT4Dd5 Jeremy Hogan/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images

Did you know? Contrary to popular belief, most educated Europeans in Columbus' day understood that the world was round, but they did not yet know that the Pacific Ocean existed. As a result, Columbus and his contemporaries assumed that only the Atlantic lay between Europe and the riches of the East Indies. #ColumbusDay The Metropolitan Museum of Art

#OnThisDay: At the 902nd meeting of the United Nations, in New York City, on October 12, 1960, Lorenzo Sumulong of the Philippines spoke that the people of Eastern Europe had been deprived of the free exercise of their civil and political rights by the Soviet Union. Nikita Khrushchev, leader of the Soviet Union, rushed to the speaking podium and began verbally attacking Sumulong, calling him a jerk and a toady of American imperialism while banging his fists on the podium. Assembly President Fredrick Boland cautioned Sumulong over his comments and Khruschev returned to his seat. Eye witnesses claim Khrushchev took off one of his shoes and banged the podium, but no photo or video exists of this happening. Russia Beyond

#OnThisDay: The USS Kitty Hawk had been deployed to Vietnam, providing air support for U.S. troops, for eight months. However, racial tensions had risen among the 302 black sailors on the crew, who were assigned to menial and miserable positions. On October 11, 1972, a verbal disagreement between a black sailor and a white mess cook led to several fights, wounding 50 sailors, and a standoff between white and black sailors. Hostilities were deescalated by executive commander Ben Cloud, who was half-African American and half-Native American. The black sailors saw Commander Cloud as an ally, and his rank forced the white sailors to listen to him. The next day, air combat sorties resumed as scheduled and continued for 28 more days: a record 177 days of combat. Navsource.org

#OnThisDay: 1967, the international Outer Space Treaty was enacted and formed the basis of legal international space law among the signatories. In the wake of the Cuban Missile Crisis, in 1962, the Outer Space Treaty represented a moment of unified diplomacy and negotiation for peaceful means between the United States and the Soviet Union. Among the many laws in the treaty, it bans the use of nuclear weapons in space and on the Moon while establishing free exploration for all nations. However, the treaty does not ban the use of non-nuclear weapons in space, such as the kinetic orbital strike. The Space Review

#OnThisDay: 1967, Infamous revolutionary Che Guevra, after helping Fidel Castro take power in Cuba, left in 1965 and resurfaced in Bolivia in 1957. Guevara hoped to start a revolution in Bolivia, but did not expect the Bolivian army to be aided by the United States CIA and a battalion of U.S. Army Rangers. Guevera was captured on October 8, 1967, thanks in part to CIA operative Félix Rodríguez. Rodríguez told Guevera he was going to die, shook his hand, and ordered Guevera to be shot per the orders of the Bolivian government. Che Guevera was executed on October 9, 1967, shot three times to make it look like he died in combat. The New Yorker