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Title: Cinco de Mayo
Post by: jerry1939 on May 05, 2015, 08:59:35 pm
I would celebrate Cinco de Mayo, but I don't know when it is!   :D   No hablo espanol.

jerry
Title: Re: Cinco de Mayo
Post by: don in brooklin on on May 05, 2015, 10:42:12 pm



The date is observed to commemorate the Mexican army's unlikely victory over French forces at the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862, under the leadership of General Ignacio Zaragoza Segu?n.

In the United States, Cinco de Mayo is sometimes mistaken to be Mexico's Independence Day?the most important national holiday in Mexico?which is celebrated on September 16

 
Title: Re: Cinco de Mayo
Post by: ChuckD on May 06, 2015, 02:36:05 pm
Really the day is April 12, and is not a day of celebration but a day of morning.  You see, Mexicans had become very fond of Mayonnaise in the early 1900's.   So the whole country got together and ordered 100,000 cases to be shipped to them.  The main factory that could handle such an order was in England and the only ship big enough at the time was the Titanic.  It was such a heartbreak when the catastrophic event occur.  So sad.  :'(  :'(
Title: Re: Cinco de Mayo
Post by: jscott2 on May 06, 2015, 09:46:32 pm
Chuck, that is soooooo baaadd.       ::)
Jim
Title: Re: Cinco de Mayo
Post by: Danny on May 13, 2015, 06:27:13 am
SOMEONE RAN A POST ON FACEBOOK ABOUT WHAT IS CINO DE MAYO?  THE CORRECT ANSWER WAS POSTED, BUT NOTICED THERE WAS ONE POST OF....ITS JUST ANOTHER REASON TO PARTY.  HAD MANY, MANY LIKES.    Danny  :+}