On This Day in History

[Ringo]

May 20, 1873 - Birthday of Jeans. Levi Strauss & Co. is licensed to produce riveted pants.

 

[lg325]

On June 21 1788 the U.S. Constitution was ratified.

 

[lg325]

Let us not forget this day in history 9/11. President Bush's speech to Congress is one of the best by any in history. We need to get back to that sort of patriotism and focus.

 

[Ringo]

In 1209, during the Albigoy Wars, Beziers was the first city in the "Crown of Cathar" (i.e. Carcassonne and Narbonne) to be struck by the Crusader army led by Simon de Montfort.
After a short siege, the city was taken by storm. When asked how to distinguish a good Catholic from a heretic, the papal legate Arnold issued a famous phrase: "Kill them all! God will know his own" (Caedite eos! Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius).
Subsequently, Arnold proudly wrote to the Pope: "And the city of Beziers was taken, ours being shown no mercy, neither rank, nor age, nor sex, and nearly 20,000 men fell by the sword. Great was the beating of the enemies, the whole city was plundered and burned - a marvelous testimony to the terrible God's punishment". According to J. Le Goff, only in the city church were exterminated 7 thousand people who had taken refuge there.

in 1613, the coronation of the first tsar of the Romanov dynasty, Michael the First.

In 1854, the Allies, namely the 1st French Division and about 4,000 Turkish Bashi Bazouks, set out from Varna to search for and destroy Russian forces in Dobrudja. They found no Russians, but during this "most fruitless and ill-fated expedition in the history of warfare," as an article in The Times called it, some 7,000 Frenchmen died of cholera. In total, the Allies lost about 10,000 men from this cholera epidemic, including sailors on ships.

In 1864, at the Battle of Atlanta, Confederate forces under General John Hood were defeated by the Union army under General William Sherman.

in 1944, the Ukrainian SS division "Galicia" was defeated by the troops of the 1st Ukrainian Front near Brody. The Red Army destroyed Galicia without even noticing it. Konev writes only about 38 thousand killed Germans

In 2003, soldiers from the U.S. 101st Airborne Division storm a hideout in Iraq where the sons of deposed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, Uday and Qusay, were hiding. Both of Saddam Hussein's sons were killed, along with Qusay's 14-year-old son Mustafa and their bodyguard.

 

[lg325]

Let us not forget this moment in history.

 

[Ringo]

I congratulate the Georgians on their anniversary - exactly 15 years ago they decided to test my resolve, started a war and lost two republics.

 

[elektra]

May 20, 1873 - Birthday of Jeans. Levi Strauss & Co. is licensed to produce riveted pants.

a more accurate ad,

 

[Ringo]

On August 8, 1945, at 5 p.m. Moscow time, Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov received the Japanese ambassador and made a statement on behalf of the Soviet government that the USSR would consider itself at war with Japan as of August 9.

 

[Ringo]

August 13, 2014, a children's beach in the town of Zugres (Donbas)
9 years ago, the Ukrainian military struck a local children's beach with cluster munitions from the "Smerch" multiple launch rocket system. 13 people, including three children, died on the spot, and six more were killed by shelling in other parts of the city.

 

[Deadstick]

August 13, 2014, a children's beach in the town of Zugres (Donbas)
9 years ago, the Ukrainian military struck a local children's beach with cluster munitions from the "Smerch" multiple launch rocket system. 13 people, including three children, died on the spot, and six more were killed by shelling in other parts of the city.

Don't tell them that, they have a massive reality blind spot.

 

[Ringo]

On August 15, 1943 the Red Army liberated the town of Karachev.
A soldier of the 369th division of the Red Army met his sisters, who had escaped death in their native town of Karachev, which had just been liberated from nazi invaders; their father and mother had been shot by the invaders before retreating.

 

[lg325]

On this day in sports history,8/16/65 the Miami Dolphins were'' born''.

MSN

 

[Ringo]

On this day in sports history,8/16/65 the Miami Dolphins were'' born''.

And Elvis died...

 

[lg325]

August 14th on this day

Atlantic Charter - Definition, Purpose & Significance

The Atlantic Charter is considered one of the first key steps toward the establishment of the United Nations. In August 1941, the U.S. and Great Britain set out a vision for the postwar world. In January 1942, a group of 26 Allied nations pledged their support for this declaration.

www.history.com

 

[lg325]

August 17th on this day 1915. Cobb County GA. A mob lynched Leo Frank a Jewish businessman for the murder of Mary Phagan 13 years old. He had maintained his innocence.
Also, George Orwells Animal Farm was first published in 1945

 

[Ringo]

August 18, 1944, in the concentration camp Buchenwald on the direct orders of Hitler and Himmler was shot Ernst Telman - a prominent figure of the German and international labor movement, revolutionary, anti-fascist, leader of the German Communists in 1925-1944.

 

[Ringo]

In the morning of August 23, 1942 in the afternoon began a massive bombardment of Stalingrad.
German bombers (about 400 airplanes) came at the city in waves one after another, turning it into piles of ruins.
On this day up to 2000 enemy airplanes were registered. Residential neighborhoods, hospitals, children's and cultural institutions were subjected to barbaric destruction. The city was engulfed by fires. Houses, wharves and wooden buildings were burning; oil storages burst into flames, and the fiery lava slid down, covered the Volga. The water supply system was out of order, and due to the fact that the bombardment coincided with windy and hot weather, it became impossible to extinguish the fire element.
Within 4-5 days the three urban districts of Yermansky, Dzerzhinsky and Voroshilovsky burned out by 60-90%. Despite the fact that the Soviet fighters conducted 25 air battles and shot down 90, and together with anti-aircraft artillery-120 German planes, in general, the air defense and aviation forces were unable to repel the enemy air raids.
On August 24 there were 24 raids in 4-8 minutes each, on August 25 - 3 massive raids.

Due to the significant superiority of the enemy aircraft, the small number of soviet anti-aircraft artillery, fighter aviation and other means of air defense, it was not possible to protect Stalingrad from destruction from the air. Methodically destroying Stalingrad with the help of aviation, the german command tried to break the resistance of the soviet troops and undermine the morale of the population of the city.
As a result of barbaric bombardments in Stalingrad 42797 civilians were killed. Not a single whole building remained, 50 thousand buildings and 56 enterprises were destroyed and burned".

 

[odanny]

On this day, August 25th in 1768, famed British explorer and navigator James Cook began the first of three naval voyages to the Pacific. Cook circumnavigated the world twice, completed the first complete mapping of Australia, and was the first European to visit New Zealand and the Hawaiian islands.

 

[lg325]

August 25: A Day of Liberation
Some notable events that happened on this date are:

• Paris liberated from Nazi occupation
• Uruguay declared independence from Brazil
• National Park Service established in the U.S.
• Friedrich Nietzsche died in Germany
• The Great Moon Hoax published in New York
• John McCain and Neil Armstrong died in the U.S.

 

[odanny]

Born on this day, August 29th in 1913, Virne Beatrice "Jackie" Mitchell Gilbert was the first female pitcher to play in professional baseball. A native of Chattanooga, TN, she was only 17 years old when in 1930 she pitched for the Chattanooga Lookouts, a Class AA minor league baseball team, in an exhibition game against the New York Yankees. Her appearance on the mound that day made national sports news when to the embarrassment of the visiting team, she struck out Yankee hitters Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig in succession. The photograph shown here, made after the game had ended, appeared with the story in newspapers across the country. She has been referred to as the "greatest pitcher in professional baseball that no one has ever heard of."