On This Day in History

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On this day 14.08.1908 in Folkestone (England) held the first international beauty contest.

 

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On August 23, 1962, The Beatles' leader and vocalist John Lennon married Cynthia Powell.

 

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On August 25, 1912, in the city of Neunkirchen, the Great Erich Honecker was born into a miner's family.
Why the Great? He never betrayed his communist convictions... neither in Hitler's dungeons, nor after the extradition by the Russian authorities to bourgeois partners, already suffering from oncology, nor in a new prison

 

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On August 27 , 1939, Hitler said in a speech that Danzig must return to Germany ; 5 days later, the Nazis invaded Poland .

Prior to this, the Soviet Union had offered to send 1 million troops to defend Poland against a German invasion. Stalin had also offered to form a coalition with Britain and France to defend Poland against the Nazis, but the Poles rejected all these offers and took their chances with Hitler

 

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20 years of the tragedy in Beslan, Russia
Wahhabis and Basayev's terrorists seized the school, took hostages, shot children in the backs.
334 people died, including 186 children.

 

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In 1781, a decisive naval battle in the American War of Independence took place at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay between the British fleet under Graves and the French fleet under de Grasse. The British sustained more damage (1 ship subsequently had to be sunk) and did not dare to continue the battle in the following days. This made the surrender of Cornwallis, besieged at Yorktown, almost inevitable.

in 1793, the rapporteur of the Committee of Public Salvation in the National Convention, Bertrand Barrère, said in his speech: “The royalists want blood. Good for them! ... Let's put terror on the agenda” Often (e.g., Britannica) cited as the date of the beginning of the ‘age of terror’ (la Terreur) during the Jacobin dictatorship, although earlier dates are usually accepted.

In 1914, on the approaches to Firth of Forth Bay, the German submarine U-21, commanded by Otto Hersing, sank the British scout cruiser "Pathfinder" with a single torpedo, thus becoming the first ship to be sunk by a torpedo from a submarine.

In 1918 the Council of People's Commissars of the RSFSR, after the assassination attempt on Lenin and a number of other acts of White terror, adopts a decree “On Red Terror”.

in 1972 in Munich during the Olympics, 8 militants of the Palestinian organization “Black September” attacked sleeping members of the Israeli Olympic team, killing two of them and taking 9 hostages. The next night at the airport, as the terrorists attempted to fly out with the hostages on a Boeing 727 provided, a battle ensued in which all hostages, 5 terrorists (survivors captured) and 1 West German police officer were killed.
The West German authorities and police showed outstanding incompetence. The arrested terrorists were released and sent to Libya on October 29 of the same year, following the terrorist hijacking of Lufthansa Flight 615 from Damascus to Frankfurt (the exchange took place at Zagreb Airport).

in 1977, the American space probe Voyager 1 launched from Cape Canaveral, becoming the first man-made object to leave the solar system.

 

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On September 15, 1973, after a fascist coup in Santiago Stadium, Chilean singer and communist Victor Jara is murdered by Chilean “patriots” after being tortured, with his hands broken and his face mutilated, in response to an officer's mocking suggestion, “Well, now sing if you can...”, Jara sang “El pueblo unido".....

 

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On September 15, 1973, after a fascist coup in Santiago Stadium, Chilean singer and communist Victor Jara is murdered by Chilean “patriots” after being tortured, with his hands broken and his face mutilated, in response to an officer's mocking suggestion, “Well, now sing if you can...”, Jara sang “El pueblo unido".....

“Jara sang, his song a weapon…”

 

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The FDR Depression, the longest in American history, starts to turn the corner when America reinstates the draft, making Americas entry into WWII a virtual certainty

 

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in 1787, 39 (out of 42 at the time) members of the Philadelphia Constitutional Convention signed the U.S. Constitution they adopted, which consisted of 7 articles and is still in force (with 21 one amendment) today.

in 1788 Battle of the Austro-Turkish War, fought on September 17, 1788 near the modern Romanian town of Caransebes. The Austrian army, awaiting the arrival of Turkish troops, was virtually annihilated after a few drunken soldiers got into a brawl, which was soon joined by the rest of the army; casualties increased due to false reports of the Turks' arrival, leading to a mass panic flight of Austrian soldiers from the battlefield. 10,000 killed and wounded (the wounded were finished off by the approaching Turks). The battle is one of the ridiculous examples of “friendly fire”.

in 1862 Entiatem/Sharpsburg Battle between General Robert E. Lee's Confederate army invading Maryland and General George C. McClellan's Federal army.
Using intercepts of Secret Order No. 9, McClellan located the scattered units of the North Virginia Army and decided to destroy them piece by piece.
But, insufficiently energetic implementation of his plan led to the fact that by September 17 at the position between the Potomac River and its left tributary - the Entiethem Creek, in the suburbs of the town of Sharpsberg, General Lee, instead of the 20-thousandth corps, which he had the day before, was able to gather already 35 thousand (almost all the free parts of the North Virginian Army). Although the Federal army was more than twice (75,000) superior in numbers, it failed to break through the Confederate positions and overturn them into the Potomac, and two days later, General Lee's army left for the Potomac in good order.
Each side lost about 12,000 killed and wounded. Although the tactical victory was on the side of the Southerners who held their ground, the strategic victory (repulsing the Confederate army's invasion of Union territory) belonged to the Northerners.

In 1908, during a demonstration flight of the Wright brothers' airplane (“Flyer”), a passenger, American Army Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge, was killed, becoming the first victim of an airplane crash. The pilot, Orville Wright, suffered a fractured hip and several broken ribs.

in 1939, southwest of Ireland, the British aircraft carrier "Courages" was sunk by two torpedoes from the German submarine U-29, becoming the Kriegsmarine's first victory over Royal Navy.

in 1944 began Operation Market Garden, the largest airborne operation in World War II and the most significant Allied defeat on the Western Front.

In 1948, the UN mediator in Palestine, Count Folke Bernadotte, was shot dead near Jerusalem along with his escort, Colonel André Serot, on the pretext of checking his documents at a checkpoint. 30 years later, it was recognized that the assassination attempt was carried out by members of the Lehi organization ( Zionist paramilitary militant group) disguised as Israeli army soldiers.

in 1978, negotiations at U.S. President Jimmy Carter's country residence at Camp David between Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin culminated in the signing of a peace treaty.

in 1980 in Asunción, 7 Argentine fighters (3 of them women) from the “Revolutionary Army of the People”, under the sentence of the Nicaraguan leadership, shot up the armored limousine of former dictator Anastasio Somoza, who was killed in an assassination attempt, using grenade launchers and automatic rifles. Paraguayan police managed to capture and, after torture, kill a member of the group.

in 2008, al-Qaeda in Yemen made an unsuccessful attempt to infiltrate the U.S. embassy in Sanaa. During the battle, 6 militants armed with assault rifles and rocket-propelled grenades disguised as policemen were killed (a booby-trapped car bombing was also used), 6 policemen from embassy security, and 6 random civilians.

 

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On this day in 1881, American President James Garfield died after 11 weeks in the hospital.
He had been shot on July 2 by Charles Guiteau, making him the second US president to be assassinated while in office, following Lincoln, who was the first.

 

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On the third of March 1845 Florida adopted it's first constitution barring bankers ,clergy or duelist from holding state wide office or being a member of the state assembly.

Interesting

 

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Should have been but doesn't seem to have bothered some Ukrainian supporters and NATO countries, like when Bozo the clown Johnson had a meeting in the House of Commons with some Azov criminals, this is how depraved they have become, the meeting was facilitated by the Conservative friends of Ukraine, not satisfied with being the friends of those other fascist war criminals the Israelis, the scumbag on the right was the one posing at Auschwitz.

 

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On this day in 1941, the Babi Yar massacre took place in Ukraine, where the Germans executed 33.771 Jews over the course of two days. Jewish residents of Kiev, responding to an announcement about relocation, were instead taken to the Babi Yar ravine and killed one by one... Germans and Ukrainians took part in this massacre.

 

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20 years of the tragedy in Beslan, Russia
Wahhabis and Basayev's terrorists seized the school, took hostages, shot children in the backs.
334 people died, including 186 children.

Yes Western backed terrorists they called Rebels.

 

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09/29/1954 Willie Mays makes “The Catch”!

 

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in 1661, a diplomatic scandal broke out in London between the French and Spanish ambassadors. Following the instructions of their monarchs, each claimed the first position of his carriage in the ceremonial cortege on the occasion of the arrival of the new Swedish ambassador. The French had the foresight to arm themselves to the teeth, but in the ensuing battle the Spaniards won, supported by pre-bribed “spectators”. Since the French horses were killed, they were able to arrive after everyone else.
Louis XIV gave the Spaniards an ultimatum with demands to publicly apologize for the incident, and in the future in all diplomatic protocol events to yield the ranking to France. Otherwise he threatened military invasion and annexation of the Spanish Netherlands. As the Spanish finances and army were in a deplorable condition, these demands had to be met.
British public opinion was entirely on the side of the Spanish.

In 1800, France and the North American United States signed a treaty in Morfonton, France, ending a long maritime standoff between the two powers. The treaty provided for the return of captured ships, mutual renunciation of claims, and guaranteed the inviolability of cargoes carried on neutral-flagged ships.

in 1938 At 1 a.m. Chamberlain, Daladier, Mussolini and Hitler signed the Munich Agreement. Representatives of Czechoslovakia were not allowed to discuss the future agreement.
According to the document, Czechoslovakia in the period from October 1 to October 10 undertook to transfer to Germany areas with a predominantly German population. The agreement provided for the possibility of population exchange between the two countries. In a number of disputed areas, plebiscites were to be held within six months under the supervision of an international commission consisting of representatives of Germany, Great Britain, France and Italy.

in 1966, an accident at the Urta-Bulak gas field, USSR, was eliminated using an underground nuclear explosion. The fire lasted for 1,064 days. All attempts to plug the leak, including artillery shelling, were unsuccessful, then a mine was dug in parallel, where a nuclear charge was laid, the explosion of which plugged the gas leak.