On This Day in History

[Ringo]

Jack London - 150 years
Just a date. A writer. Those who know, know. In short, everyone knows.

 

[lg325]

Jack London - 150 years
Just a date. A writer. Those who know, know. In short, everyone knows.

Jack London - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

My favorite Author as a child and Adult. Inspired me greatly. Birthday 1/12

 

[Ringo]

Jack London - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

My favorite Author as a child and Adult. Inspired me greatly. Birthday 1/12

We had a 14-volume collection of London's works, and I think I read all of them as a child.

 

[Ringo]

 

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[Ringo]

90 years ago, on February 6, 1936, the Winter Olympics opened in Nazi Germany.
Do you think the “civilized” countries said No to Hitler?
Everyone came together and gave the nazi salute.
Except for the USSR—it did not participate in that fascist sabbath.

 

[Ringo]

On this day in 1861, Jefferson Davis was chosen as president of the Confederate States of America, a government formed after the southern states broke away from the United States.Within months, the American Civil War erupted....

 

[Ringo]

65 years ago today

 

[rightwinger]

65 years ago today

people forget how the USSR was ahead of us and we freaked out

 

[konradv]

people forget how the USSR was ahead of us and we freaked out

It was bad when Sputnik went up, too. It got educators thinking we were falling behind, so their solution was to shorten our after-lunch recess from half an hour to 15 minutes.

 

[odanny]

On this day in history, April 12th in 1865, in a formal surrender ceremony, the soldiers of Lee's Army of Northern Virginia surrendered their weapons and flags to the federal Army of the Potomac at Appomattox, Virginia. The Union soldiers held their rifles in the "carry" position, indicating a "marching salute," as the Confederates passed by. This ceremonial display of "honor answering honor" evoked great emotion in the soldiers of both armies.

 

[GLASNOST]

65 years ago today

I remember it so well.

 

[Ringo]

I remember it so well.

Unfortunately, I don’t. My earliest memory that I can date with certainty dates back to January 1962, because there are photographs from that time, and I remember the circumstances in which they were taken.
Of the first spaceflights, I remember the flight of the first woman, Valentina Tereshkova, in June 1963.

 

[GLASNOST]

65 years ago today

I remember it so well.

Unfortunately, I don’t.

I was in primary school. The teacher came into the classroom and told us the news. We could hardly believe it. In writing class, the next Wednesday, we had to compose a fantasy story entitled "The First Man On The Moon". Mine turned out to be the best. At such a young age I could only imagine that helium could propel a ship into outer space and that's how I wrote it.

 

[Ringo]

In 1942, French General Henri Giraud escaped from Königstein Castle, the “Saxon Bastille” near Dresden, which served as a prison for high-ranking prisoners of war, by rappelling down a cliff using a rope.

This was his second escape from German captivity—he was first taken prisoner in 1914 when, while leading his Zouave regiment into battle during the Battle of Saint-Quentin on August 30, he was left unconscious on the battlefield.
After escaping from a prisoner-of-war hospital two months later, he managed to reach the Netherlands, from where he crossed into France and continued to participate in World War I.
He was captured a second time on May 19, 1940, in the same commune as during World War I, while commanding the 9th Army. This time, with the help of the British Special Operations Executive, he managed to cross the Swiss border on foot and reach the Vichy zone on April 27.
There, they tried to persuade him to return to German captivity, but he was willing to do so only upon receiving a written order from Pétain, which never arrived.

Nevertheless, the Germans used his escape to halt attempts by other French prisoners to return, and they also interned 18 of his relatives, including infants. Subsequently, on the eve of the North African landings, on November 7, during Operation Kingpin, Giraud was transported from southern France to Gibraltar aboard the British submarine Seraph, but due to the rapid turn of events, it was not he but Admiral Darlan who became the head of the French authorities in North and West Africa.

However, Giraud took over this position following Darlan’s assassination on December 24, and on June 3, 1943, he and de Gaulle jointly headed the newly established French Committee of National Liberation. There, de Gaulle stripped him of his authority and supporters within a few months, and on April 14, 1944, removed him from his post as commander-in-chief of the French forces. He played no significant role thereafter and died in 1949, leaving behind two books of memoirs, one of which he titled My Escapes (Mes évasions).

In 1945, Submarine L-3, under the command of Captain 3rd Rank V. K. Konovalov, attacked a German convoy in Danzig Bay and sank the transport ship Goya, which had a displacement of 5,230 tons.
The ship sank, taking with it, according to various estimates, between 5,000 and 7,000 people.
In terms of the number of victims, the sinking of the “Goya” ranks first among maritime disasters in the entire history of navigation.

In 1961, an unsuccessful landing by anti-Castro forces took place in the Bay of Pigs in Cuba.

 

[GLASNOST]

In 1942, French General Henri Giraud escaped from Königstein Castle, the “Saxon Bastille” near Dresden, which served as a prison for high-ranking prisoners of war, by rappelling down a cliff using a rope.

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Rapunzel would have been proud!

 

[Ringo]

On April 17, 1939, following the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, when Britain and France had effectively handed over the Sudetenland, the Soviet Union proposed an anti-fascist alliance to Britain, the United States, and France, offering 1 million troops to stop Hitler.

The Western imperialists rejected this proposal not because they were irresponsible, but because their plan from the very beginning was precisely to use Hitler as a battering ram against communism in order to overthrow the USSR; they wanted to direct the monster eastward.

This Soviet proposal, which was already the third one made to Britain, the US, and France following those of 1937 and 1938 (and in August 1939 it would be made for the last time)... was presented by War Minister Marshal Kliment Voroshilov and Chief of the General Staff of the Red Army Boris Shaposhnikov, who offered up to 120 infantry divisions (each with approximately 19,000 soldiers), 16 cavalry divisions, 5,000 heavy artillery pieces, 9,500 tanks, and more than 5,500 fighter and bomber aircraft on the borders of Germany.

“If the British, French, and Americans had taken this proposal seriously, together we could have fielded about 300 or more divisions on two fronts against Germany—twice the number Hitler had at the time. This was an opportunity to save the world or, at the very least, to stop the wolf in its tracks,” said Soviet General Sotskov.

After the West rejected this anti-fascist alliance, the Soviet Union realized it could never count on the West; it found itself completely alone against Hitler’s monster and knew that an invasion was only a matter of time, so a few months later, it had to secure its rear by signing a non-aggression pact with Germany to buy time, set up defenses, strengthen its military industry, and prepare for the inevitable war against the Nazis.

 

[Deadstick]

On April 17, 1939, following the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, when Britain and France had effectively handed over the Sudetenland, the Soviet Union proposed an anti-fascist alliance to Britain, the United States, and France, offering 1 million troops to stop Hitler.

The Western imperialists rejected this proposal not because they were irresponsible, but because their plan from the very beginning was precisely to use Hitler as a battering ram against communism in order to overthrow the USSR; they wanted to direct the monster eastward.

This Soviet proposal, which was already the third one made to Britain, the US, and France following those of 1937 and 1938 (and in August 1939 it would be made for the last time)... was presented by War Minister Marshal Kliment Voroshilov and Chief of the General Staff of the Red Army Boris Shaposhnikov, who offered up to 120 infantry divisions (each with approximately 19,000 soldiers), 16 cavalry divisions, 5,000 heavy artillery pieces, 9,500 tanks, and more than 5,500 fighter and bomber aircraft on the borders of Germany.

“If the British, French, and Americans had taken this proposal seriously, together we could have fielded about 300 or more divisions on two fronts against Germany—twice the number Hitler had at the time. This was an opportunity to save the world or, at the very least, to stop the wolf in its tracks,” said Soviet General Sotskov.

After the West rejected this anti-fascist alliance, the Soviet Union realized it could never count on the West; it found itself completely alone against Hitler’s monster and knew that an invasion was only a matter of time, so a few months later, it had to secure its rear by signing a non-aggression pact with Germany to buy time, set up defenses, strengthen its military industry, and prepare for the inevitable war against the Nazis.

Yes and the usual suspects never mention that part of History, fact is they were hoping Hitler would attack the Soviet Union before he attacked Europe, and these Western Countries led by the US have been waging war first on the Soviet Union and now the Russian federation using Ukraine as the spearhead, the CIS worked with Ukrainian Nazis as soon as WW2 ended.

 

[Deadstick]

On April 17, 1939, following the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, when Britain and France had effectively handed over the Sudetenland, the Soviet Union proposed an anti-fascist alliance to Britain, the United States, and France, offering 1 million troops to stop Hitler.

The Western imperialists rejected this proposal not because they were irresponsible, but because their plan from the very beginning was precisely to use Hitler as a battering ram against communism in order to overthrow the USSR; they wanted to direct the monster eastward.

This Soviet proposal, which was already the third one made to Britain, the US, and France following those of 1937 and 1938 (and in August 1939 it would be made for the last time)... was presented by War Minister Marshal Kliment Voroshilov and Chief of the General Staff of the Red Army Boris Shaposhnikov, who offered up to 120 infantry divisions (each with approximately 19,000 soldiers), 16 cavalry divisions, 5,000 heavy artillery pieces, 9,500 tanks, and more than 5,500 fighter and bomber aircraft on the borders of Germany.

“If the British, French, and Americans had taken this proposal seriously, together we could have fielded about 300 or more divisions on two fronts against Germany—twice the number Hitler had at the time. This was an opportunity to save the world or, at the very least, to stop the wolf in its tracks,” said Soviet General Sotskov.

After the West rejected this anti-fascist alliance, the Soviet Union realized it could never count on the West; it found itself completely alone against Hitler’s monster and knew that an invasion was only a matter of time, so a few months later, it had to secure its rear by signing a non-aggression pact with Germany to buy time, set up defenses, strengthen its military industry, and prepare for the inevitable war against the Nazis.

Yes and the usual suspects never mention that part of History, fact is they were hoping Hitler would attack the Soviet Union before he attacked Europe, and these Western Countries led by the US have been waging war first on the Soviet Union and now the Russian federation using Ukraine as the spearhead, the CIA worked with Ukrainian Nazis as soon as WW2 ended.