This day in history

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On August 6, 1991, the very first website appeared in the world
On this day, Tim Berners-Lee launched the world's first website on the world's first web server available at info.cern.ch The resource defined the concept of the "World Wide Web", contained instructions for installing a web server, using a browser, etc. This site was also the first Internet directory in the world, because later Tim Berners-Lee posted and maintained a list of links to other sites there. It was a landmark beginning that made the Internet the way we know it now.

 

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the interwebs has made this here little slice of it a quite interesting place for sure.

 

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This Day In History: 08/06/1945 - Atomic Bomb Hits Hiroshima​

 

[Ringo]

in 1815, a British ship carrying the abdicated Napoleon Bonaparte sails to the island of St. Helena, where the former emperor will spend the rest of his life

In 1942, six German spies who landed in America for the purpose of carrying out acts of sabotage were executed in Washington. Two more were sentenced to life imprisonment

In 1942, Gandhi, in his speech "Get out of India!" (Quit India, Bhārat Choro) in one of the parks of Bombay, called for a broad campaign of civil disobedience: "Do or Die". The arrest of both leaders of the Indian independence movement, Mahatma Gandhi and Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, followed. Riots broke out in the country.

In 2008, on the night of August 8 (approx. 00.15 Moscow time), Georgian troops shelled Tskhinval with Grad rocket launchers, and at about 03.30 Moscow time they began storming the city. The locations of Russian peacekeepers were also attacked.
In response, at 5:30, the 58th Army began entering the territory of South Ossetia.
The 3-day war of 8.8.8 began

 

[Ringo]

In 778, in the Roncesvalles Gorge of the Pyrenees Mountains, the army of Charlemagne, returning from a Spanish campaign and greatly stretched on the march, was attacked by the Basques. The Frankish rearguard was completely destroyed, the wagon train was looted. Among the dead were the staff of the Breton Brand Count Roland (Hruotland), Majordomo Egilhard, Palatine Anselm, etc. The events formed the basis of a folk epic, including one of the most significant works of the Middle Ages - the Song of Roland.

In 1057, at the Battle of Lumphanan, Malcolm III, the son of the Scottish king Duncan, with the support of the English, defeated the usurper of the throne Macbeth, who fell in battle. The events that formed the basis of the tragedy "Macbeth" by William Shakespeare.

In 1261, the Nicene Emperor Michael the Eighth Palaiologos solemnly enters Constantinople, recaptured on July 25 from the emperor of the Latin Empire Baldwin, and restores the Romaic ("Byzantine") Empire

In 1281, the "Divine Wind" ("kamikaze") sank the Mongol-Chinese invasion fleet off the coast of Japan

In 1649, the troops of the English Parliament under the command of Oliver Cromwell landed in Ireland in order to suppress the Catholic uprising and destroy the Royalist base. Before 1649, according to the accounting books, there were one and a half million inhabitants in Ireland. Cromwell's actions caused the death of a third. And a huge number of people were forced to flee overseas to the colonies. As a result, when the campaign came to an end, only 700 thousand remained in the region – less than half. It is not surprising that in Ireland Cromwell is still nicknamed the Damned.

In 1769 Napoleon Bonopart was born

In 1846, American troops occupied the city of Santa Fe. This episode, known as the "Battle of Santa Fe" passed without a single shot being fired. At the news that a detachment of General Stephen Kearney in 1700 people was moving towards the city, the commander of the Mexican garrison, Manuel Armijo, wanted to retreat, but he was persuaded to take up the defense and the Mexicans (their number is unknown for sure, but one of the sources indicated that about 4 thousand people) occupied a small canyon to the South of the city. However, on the 14th, Armijo still left the position and went to Mexico. Kirby declared the territory of New Mexico part of the United States, and himself-its military governor.

In 1944, US and Free French troops landed in the south of France.

In 1945, the last B-29 group combat operation in World War II:
Mission No. 331 - night mine laying as part of Operation Starvation - in the areas of Shimonoseki, Nanko, Miyazi and Hamada. 39 B-29s from 313BW were lifted into the air, 35 of them successfully completed the task. The staging was carried out from medium altitudes, with a cloud density of 0/10 to 6/10. The average replacement load on the aircraft is about 5,876 tons (12,955 pounds), a total of 345 1000-pound and 2000-pound mines with a total weight of 223.5 tons were exposed. 42 Japanese interceptors were spotted in the air, which were able to make 8 attacks and damage 2 B-29s. Anti-aircraft artillery was manifested, 10 to 20 searchlight beams were marked. American aviation suffered no losses. 1 B-29 landed on Iwo Jima.

In 1947, India became independent from British rule, Jawaharlal Nehru headed the first government of India. Pakistan declared its independence the day before

In 2021, the Taliban occupied Kabul without a fight. Ashraf Ghani's puppet government has fled Afghanistan.

 

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in 79 the eruption of Mount Vesuvius buried the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum under the ashes. Having landed on the shore in order to study the phenomenon and rescue the survivors, a well-known scientist and historian, at that time commander of the Misenum (based on the opposite shore of the Bay of Naples) fleet of the Roman Empire, prefect Gaius Pliny Secundus (aka Pliny the Elder), dies (according to various sources - from suffocation or from a heart attack). Since then, such catastrophic eruptions have been called Plinian.

In 410, after a long and extremely difficult siege for the townspeople, the Visigoths led by Alaric I broke into Rome. Legends offer different versions of this event, but they agree on one thing: slaves opened the gate. The city was subjected to devastating looting, after which Alaric moved south.

in 1572, or rather, on the night of 08/24/1957 (St. Bartholomew's Day) in Paris, Catholics staged a massacre of Protestant Huguenots (the so-called Bartholomew's Night). On St. Bartholomew's Night and in the following days, from 3 to 10 thousand people were killed in Paris.
After St. Bartholomew's Night, about 200 thousand Huguenots fled to neighboring states

In 1814, the English detachment of Robert Ross and the marines of James Cockburn entered the American capital - Washington.
On the evening of August 24, the first companies of the British showed up at Capitol Hill. Ross sent parliamentarians to the city under a white flag to discuss the terms of surrender, but at the intersection of Maryland Avenue and Constitution Avenue, the British were shot at point-blank range by American militiamen. After that, all sentiment was discarded, the marines and infantry stormed into the city and set it on fire.
While British troops were arriving from the east in orderly columns, in the south of the city, its residents and the country's leadership were leaving the capital in panic. Before fleeing, officials plundered the treasury of the National Bank, as well as part of the bonds of the Federal Treasury. Only Dolly Madison, the president's wife, was able to bring out some of the important documents and valuables.
On the morning of the 25th, Cockburn's ships approached the pier on the Potomac. The sailors who landed on the Arlington Bridge joined their fellow infantrymen at Capitol Hill, and began to decide what to do next. The officers conducted a tour of the still unfinished White House. In the hall of the House of Representatives, Cockburn sat down in the speaker's chair, closed his eyes a little, and then asked a simple question: "Shall this harbor of Yankee democracy be burned?" The British Marines with him yelled «Aye!».
At 22.30 pm on August 25, against the backdrop of the burning Capitol and the building of the Ministry of Finance, infantry and Marines paraded in the drizzling rain. The shipyards on the Potomac were also burned down along with the ships (the 44-gun super-frigate Columbia and the 16-gun brig Argus were just being completed there, and the 28-gun Boston and 36-gun New York were also being repaired, although for almost 10 years now). On the morning of the 26th, a raid was made on Alexandria (Virginia), where the richest stocks of provisions and ammunition were looted and burned. On the same day, the soldiers and sailors boarded the ships and sailed to the mouth of the Potomac.

In 1938, during the Second Sino-Japanese War, the 1st attack on a civilian airline aircraft took place in history, when a DC-2 "Kweilin" of the Chinese national airline CNAC (together with Pan American) with 18 passengers on board was attacked by Japanese fighters. It is believed that this was an attempt on the life of Sun Fo, the only son of Sun Yat-sen. After the DC-2 made an emergency landing on the water near Hong Kong, it was fired at by fighter jets and sank. Three escaped, including pilot Hugh Woods.
The aircraft was later raised, restored, renamed Chunkin, and flew until it was shot by the Japanese a second time on October 29, 1940 immediately after landing in Yunan, killing 9 people, including pilot Walter Kent.

 

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On this day in 1914 in the USA Mary Phelps Jacob received a patent for the invention of a bra called "Caresse Crosby".

 

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On September 27, 1781, 241 years ago, by the decree of Empress Catherine II, the Kiev, Chernigоv, Novgorod-Seversk viceroyships were formed as part of Russia.
In 1796, these three governorates formed the Little Russian (also known as Ukraine) province.

 

[Baron Von Murderpaws]

On September 28, 1941, the last day of Major League Baseball's regular season, the Boston Red Sox’s Ted Williams gets six hits in eight at-bats during a doubleheader in Philadelphia, boosting his average to .406. He becomes the first player since 1930 to hit .400. "I guess I'll be satisfied with that thrill out there today," he tells the Boston Globe about hitting .400. "... I never wanted anything harder in my life."

In addition to his .406 batting average—no major league player since Williams has hit .400—the left fielder led the big leagues with 37 homers, 135 runs and a slugging average of .735.

 

[Ringo]

On September 29, 1897, tango was performed for the first time at the premiere of the play "Creole Court" in Buenos Aires at the Olimpo Theater.

 

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On this day in 1889, the Moulin Rouge night cabaret opened in Paris. Life has become more fun.

 

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Damn, I thought Al Gore invented the Web.

 

[Ringo]

On this day in 1964 Leonid Brezhnev became the general secretary of the CPSU and the head of the USSR, replacing Nikita Khrushchev.

 

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October 14, 1912 an assassin tried to kill Teddy Roosevelt. The bullet was deflected by T.R.'s steel eyeglass case and a book but penetrated into TR's chest but he continued his speech. They don't make 'em like that anymore.

 

[Pellinore]

October 14, 1912 an assassin tried to kill Teddy Roosevelt. The bullet was deflected by T.R.'s steel eyeglass case and a book but penetrated into TR's chest but he continued his speech. They don't make 'em like that anymore.

The shirt, eyeglass case, and the now-unfolded speech are all on display at his birthplace museum, on 20th Street in Manhattan. The bullet hole is visible in all three.

 

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On October 17, 1957, the premiere of the film "Jailhouse Rock" with Elvis Presley took place.

 

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On October 28, 1944, the Ukrainian SSR was completely liberated by the Red Army. The operation began on December 18, 1942 in Donbass. Between 1941-1945, an estimated 3 million Soviet soldiers died on the territory of Ukraine. My grandfather went all this way as part of the Second Ukrainian Front and ended the war in Prague.

Grandpa in 1945

 

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Exactly 60 years ago, on October 28, 1962, the Caribbean crisis was suddenly successfully resolved – a chain of events related to the deployment of American nuclear missiles near the borders of the USSR and the retaliatory deployment of Soviet missiles in Cuba. There was an element of a miracle in this, because on October 27 the world was close to nuclear war. The Government of the USSR considered it reasonable to agree with the US demand for the withdrawal of Soviet missiles from Cuba in exchange for assurances from the US government about the observance of the territorial integrity of the island and guarantees of non-interference in the internal affairs of this country. The withdrawal of American missiles from the territory of Turkey and Italy was also announced confidentially.

 

[Ringo]

On this day in 1942, in the evening in the dark, the German submarine U-518 (Commander Friedrich Wissmann) She attacked transports at the ship's anchorage off Bell Island near Newfoundland (Canada) and sank the ships Rose Castle (28 dead) and PLM-27 belonging to the "free French" (12 dead). But the very first German torpedo fired at the Anna T transport missed its target and hit the pier, damaging it.

The attack caused the Canadians to suspect that a spy was helping the Germans. The captain of the ill-fated PLM-27 was ideally suited for the role of a spy, because he was not on the ship that night; on the eve of the 2nd he sold his piano to a local resident; and on the 3rd he was a foreigner. However, he was acquitted. As for U-518, she left the Canadian corvette Drumheller chasing her and went to the mouth of the St. Lawrence River, where on the Quebec side on November 9 she landed a real spy, Werner von Janowski, who was arrested within 24 hours, which aroused suspicion by the presence of Belgian matches and old banknotes. It was the 1st patrol of U-518, which went to sea 9 more times, until on April 22, 1945, she and her entire crew were sunk by American destroyers near the Azores Islands. By that time, she had 9 sunk and 3 damaged transports on her account.

So, it is claimed that this accidental torpedo hit the Bell Island Pier was the only case during the entire war when the Germans attacked the territory of Canada or the United States.

 

[Litwin]

On this day in 1964 Leonid Brezhnev became the general secretary of the CPSU and the head of the USSR, replacing Nikita Khrushchev.

the real face of your ugly, barbarian, despotic ULUS !