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.

 

[Ringo]

 

[Deadstick]

This is quite a common theme among the Children of the Nazis who reject their parents Nazi generation, Ulrike Meinhof one of the founders of the RAF rejected her parents who had been Nazis.

 

[Soupnazi630]

She was a terrorist not an avenger

Guevera was a monster and righteously executed

 

[Ringo]

Nobel Laureate in Literature, the Portuguese writer José Saramago said about Che Guevara:
“Che Guevara, if it can be said, existed before he was born; Che Guevara, if it can be affirmed, continued to exist after his death. Because Che Guevara is just another name for what is most just and worthy in the human spirit.
What so often lives dormant within us. What we should wake up to know and to know ourselves, to add the humble step of each to the path of all.”

 

[odanny]

May 17, 1942 – USS Triton (SS-201) sinks Japanese submarine I-164.

On 15 March, 1943, Triton reported she had attacked a convoy and had been depth charged. Even though attacks on her ceased, she could still hear distant depth charging for about an hour. No further messages from Triton were ever received. Post-war examination of Japanese records revealed on 15 March, three Japanese destroyers attacked a submarine a little northwest of Triton's assigned area and subsequently observed an oil slick, debris, and items with American markings. On 10 April 1943, Triton was reported overdue from patrol and presumed lost, one of three lost in a month.

 

[Ringo]

On May 19, 1890, the legendary Vietnamese communist and anti-colonial leader Ho Chi Minh was born—an invincible giant who defeated three empires and brought Western powers to their knees.

In 1940, he fought a guerrilla war for five years and defeated the Japanese Empire; in 1945, he organized the expulsion of French colonialism from Vietnam; and in 1975, he completed the defeat of the U.S. aggressor in its attack on Vietnam... a unique anti-imperialist warrior.

Ho Chi Minh was one of the founders of the French Communist Party, as well as the Communist Party of Vietnam; in the USSR, he served as the Comintern’s advisor on Southeast Asia; furthermore, he participated in the global socialist movement in New York, London, and Paris.

“If two stones collide, both will shatter. This means we must employ strategies based on the enemy’s capabilities. France has tanks and artillery; we will destroy their roads. France uses airplanes; we will dig trenches for them. France wants a quick victory, so we will wage a protracted war. Thinking this way, we will surely win. The enemy’s position is like fire, our position is like water, and water will always prevail over fire.”

 

[Soupnazi630]

On May 19, 1890, the legendary Vietnamese communist and anti-colonial leader Ho Chi Minh was born—an invincible giant who defeated three empires and brought Western powers to their knees.

In 1940, he fought a guerrilla war for five years and defeated the Japanese Empire; in 1945, he organized the expulsion of French colonialism from Vietnam; and in 1975, he completed the defeat of the U.S. aggressor in its attack on Vietnam... a unique anti-imperialist warrior.

Ho Chi Minh was one of the founders of the French Communist Party, as well as the Communist Party of Vietnam; in the USSR, he served as the Comintern’s advisor on Southeast Asia; furthermore, he participated in the global socialist movement in New York, London, and Paris.

“If two stones collide, both will shatter. This means we must employ strategies based on the enemy’s capabilities. France has tanks and artillery; we will destroy their roads. France uses airplanes; we will dig trenches for them. France wants a quick victory, so we will wage a protracted war. Thinking this way, we will surely win. The enemy’s position is like fire, our position is like water, and water will always prevail over fire.”

Sorry wrong

The US did winthe war but it was a war Minh started not the US

Being a communist is worthy of condemnation not adolation

 

[Deadstick]

Sorry wrong

The US did winthe war but it was a war Minh started not the US

Being a communist is worthy of condemnation not adolation

Still at it i see denying facts and reality, you sound like Trump.
This is what winning looks like they don't seem to be US Marines.

 

[Soupnazi630]

Still at it i see denying facts and reality, you sound like Trump.
This is what winning looks like they don't seem to be US Marines.

Yes i did mistype and meant to say we lost the war

But Minh was the aggressor that part is fact

 

[my2¢]

May 22, 1849: Patent issued to Abraham Lincoln for a boat lifting device. It remains the only patent ever held by a U.S. President.

 

[odanny]

On this day in history, May 29th in 1453, the Byzantine or Eastern Roman Empire was conquered and ceased to exist when its capital city Constantinople fell to the Ottomans.

The fall was the result of a siege of the Byzantine capital, whose Emperor was Constantine XI Paleologos, by the Ottoman army, led by Sultan Mohammed II. This siege lasted from April 6 to Tuesday, May 29, 1453 (Julian calendar). This fall of Constantinople also marked the end of the over a thousand-year Byzantine Empire.

Byzantium was already weakened and divided for the last two centuries, a shadow of the old Empire. The Fall of 1204 by the Crusaders and later, after its recapture in 1261, political and religious strife, the inability to help from the West, the poor economic situation and the flight of manpower, led to its gradual weakening and shrinking. The capture of Gallipoli in 1354 by the Ottomans, which brought hordes of fanatical Muslim warriors to Europe, gradually surrounded Byzantium territorially, which in 1373 became vassal to the Ottoman sultan. Thus, the Conquest came as a natural result of the continuous expansion of the Ottoman Empire in the wider region. The conflicts were particularly unequal in favor of the Turks, to the point that the sources mention the fait accompli of the outcome of the siege. Special mention is also made of the heroism of the besieged and especially of the Emperor. The fact of the fall of the "theophylactus City" left deep traces in the sources of the time.

The consequence of the Fall was the merciless continuation of the territorial advance of the Turks in North Africa and Central Europe. During the late 17th century the Ottoman Empire reached its height, threatening Vienna. Many times the Fall of Constantinople is used by historians as an event that marks the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Renaissance and the Age of Discovery. Many of them even agree that the mass movement of many Greeks from Constantinople to Italy due to the Fall played a decisive role in shaping the content and philosophy followed by the figures of the Renaissance.