On This Day in History

[odanny]

Did you write that article? Political/patriotic exaggeration only serves to diminish the loss of those boys and perpetuate the bull shitia that makes people think Joan Wayne was a hero ….. not an actor.

If you disregard the text from FB and only focus on the description located under the photos of the fallen Marines you would not have anything to dispute, so I will recognize you have an ulterior motive that is driving your criticism and not speculate (publicly) on what that is.

 

[GLASNOST]

..... I will recognize you have an ulterior motive that is driving your criticism .

I already told you.

My motive is called "truth".

In addition to that I don't like political propaganda. It looks like you have a problem with my input but I don't understand what it is. Claimng it was their "last stand" is a lie. There are a couple more lies in that post but I don't think it is necessary to discuss it further. If you think lying is OK it's up to you. That's your business. It seems to bother you that I don't agree or maybe you just don't really understand what "ulterior motive" means.

 

[odanny]

On this day, April 26th in 1865, in North Carolina, General Joseph E. Johnston surrendered what was left of the Army of Tennessee to General William T. Sherman. The Army of Tennessee was the name given to the principal Confederate force in the western theater of the Civil War. This surrender included more men and equipment than when Lee had surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia to Grant earlier in the same month. Johnston's surrender effectively ended the Civil War. Not long afterward, Johnston and Sherman developed a close and lasting friendship based on mutual respect. In his old age, Johnston died from pneumonia, which he contracted from standing in a cold rain while serving as a pallbearer at Sherman's funeral.

 

[Deadstick]

No, this is about honoring their sacrifice. Did they teach you to read when you were young?

A sacrifice that should never have been asked of them, don't you get it?

 

[odanny]

On this day, April 28th in 1869, a railroad world record was set, which has never been broken. The Chinese and the Irish workers of the Central Pacific Railroad laid 10 miles of track in a single day during the construction of America's original transcontinental railway.

 

[odanny]

The courtyard where the hangings took place is now an alley between the former courthouse and a Chicago Fire Department building to the north.


The eight-hour workday has a historic – and tragic – link to Chicago history.

In 1886, workers were toiling 10 to 12 hours a day in the stockyards, rail yards, and factories of Chicago. A series of strikes and protests throughout the city in early May of that year made the eight-hour workday their focus and central demand.

On May 4, 1886, in the Haymarket on Randolph Street near Halsted Street, someone threw a dynamite bomb after an otherwise peaceful labor rally. In the resulting riot, seven policemen and an unknown number of demonstrators lost their lives.

Police arrested hundreds of labor activists, and ultimately charged eight men. Even though most of the defendants hadn’t even attended the rally, with urging from Chicago’s business leaders and newspapers, all eight “anarchists” were convicted, without legal precedent, of a conspiracy. Seven were sentenced to death.

Four of the men were later hanged in the alley behind what was then the Cook County Courthouse at 54 West Hubbard Street. The case is considered one of the most notorious miscarriages of justice in American history.

 

[Soupnazi630]

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The eight-hour workday has a historic – and tragic – link to Chicago history.

In 1886, workers were toiling 10 to 12 hours a day in the stockyards, rail yards, and factories of Chicago. A series of strikes and protests throughout the city in early May of that year made the eight-hour workday their focus and central demand.

On May 4, 1886, in the Haymarket on Randolph Street near Halsted Street, someone threw a dynamite bomb after an otherwise peaceful labor rally. In the resulting riot, seven policemen and an unknown number of demonstrators lost their lives.

Police arrested hundreds of labor activists, and ultimately charged eight men. Even though most of the defendants hadn’t even attended the rally, with urging from Chicago’s business leaders and newspapers, all eight “anarchists” were convicted, without legal precedent, of a conspiracy. Seven were sentenced to death.

Four of the men were later hanged in the alley behind what was then the Cook County Courthouse at 54 West Hubbard Street. The case is considered one of the most notorious miscarriages of justice in American history.

Interesting.

This must be where the communist front/propaganda business " Haymarket Books " took their name from.

 

[Ringo]

In 1794, Antoine Lavoisier—one of the founders of modern chemistry—was guillotined in Paris (along with 27 other former tax farmers).

In 1902, shortly before 8 a.m., the town of Saint-Pierre in Martinique was destroyed in a matter of minutes by a torrent of scorching rocks, ash, and volcanic gases from Mount Pelée, which had begun erupting on April 23. Of the 28,000 residents, only two managed to escape, and of the nearly two dozen ships in the harbor, only one survived.


In 1973, members of the American Indian Movement, who had seized the village of Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge Reservation (South Dakota) on February 28 and held it for 71 days, surrendered to authorities after signing an agreement. The White House pledged to investigate allegations of corruption and civil rights violations against the tribal council, as well as to review the 1868 treaty with the Sioux tribes. During the standoff, two Native Americans were killed and 14 wounded, and two police officers were seriously injured.

In 1980, the World Health Organization officially declared smallpox eradicated (the last case of natural infection was recorded in 1977 in Somalia, and the last laboratory-confirmed case in 1978). It is believed that the smallpox virus currently exists in only two laboratories in the world: the State Research Center “Vector” (Russia) and the CDC (United States).

 

[Ringo]

In 1857, on a Sunday, in the town of Meerut (now Meerath), 60 km northeast of Delhi, sepoys of the 3rd Bengal Light Cavalry Regiment forcibly freed (along with eight hundred other prisoners) 85 of their comrades, who had been sentenced the day before by a court-martial to hard labor (mostly for 10 years) for refusing to accept cartridges during firing exercises on April 24.
The refusal was linked to spreading rumors that a mixture of pork and beef fat was used to grease the ammunition packaging, which the soldiers were required to open with their teeth, violating the religious prohibitions of both Muslims and Hindus.
At the same time, a crowd in the market began attacking off-duty British soldiers; fires broke out in the city, and their homes were ransacked (some of the British, accompanied by Sepoys who had not joined the mutiny, managed to flee to the protection of the Raja of Rampur, 130 km to the east). By evening, the rebellious garrison soldiers decided to march on Delhi, reaching it the following morning—the Sepoy Mutiny had begun. Prophecies that British rule in India would last a hundred years (counting from the Battle of Plassey in 1757) also played a certain role in its outbreak.

In 1869, the “golden spike” was ceremoniously driven into the First Transcontinental Railroad in Utah. Through train service to California began.

In 1915, the first raid by a German airship (the newest Army LZ38, commanded by Hauptmann Erich Linnartz) on London was scheduled for the night of May 9–10, but just before takeoff, the airship was redirected to Southend-on-Sea (a coastal town near London).
As a result of the bombing, one person was killed and two were wounded; property damage amounted to 5,301 pounds sterling.

In 1940, Winston Churchill became Prime Minister of England.

In 1941, Rudolf Hess, Hitler’s deputy in the Nazi Party, took off from Haunstedt at 5:45 p.m. local time in his Me 110 and headed for England to Lord Hamilton’s estate, where everything was ready for a meeting between the fascist leader and members of the English establishment sympathetic to Germany. However, before reaching his destination, he was forced to parachute out. As a result, after landing, he was discovered and detained by civilian self-defense forces.