On This Day in History

[odanny]

On this day, September 2nd in 31 B.C., Octavian (later Augustus Caesar) won a decisive victory at sea over the combined forces of Mark Antony and Cleopatra of Egypt in the Battle of Actium.

 

[Ringo]

50 years ago, on September 11, 1973, there was a fascist coup in Chile.
As a result of the coup, the legally elected President Salvador Allende and the Popular Unity government were overthrown. The coup was a carefully planned military operation, prepared and carried out under the direction and direct involvement of the US CIA.

Forty men from Allende's guard bravely defended the presidential palace for seven hours. The President of Chile died on the battlefield as a hero, with a gun in his hands. In the factories and plants of the capital fought all day. Today it is already known about the atrocities of the putschists: having occupied the enterprises, soldiers killed communists, socialists and trade union leaders without trial. The militants of the far-right organization "Patria et Libertad" behaved with impunity.

In violation of all international rules, the Cuban Embassy was attacked. The second victim was the diplomatic mission of the Soviet Union.

A fascist military junta led by General Pinochet seized power in Chile. After September 11, mass repression began in Chile. For years of dictatorship of Pinochet more than 60 thousand people died or disappeared. The whole world became aware of the atrocities of the junta at the National Stadium in Santiago, which turned into a prison and a place of shootings. Among those who died there was the legendary singer, a member of the Central Committee of the Komsomol of Chile, Victor Jara. In the first days of the coup, Chilean Communist leader Luis Corvalan was thrown behind bars.
Thus was established one of the most heinous regimes of the second half of the twentieth century, the Pinochet regime.

Eternal gloryto Salvador Allende, Victor Jara and the thousands of Chileans who died at the hands of Pinochet's executioners!

 

[Deadstick]

50 years ago, on September 11, 1973, there was a fascist coup in Chile.
As a result of the coup, the legally elected President Salvador Allende and the Popular Unity government were overthrown. The coup was a carefully planned military operation, prepared and carried out under the direction and direct involvement of the US CIA.

Forty men from Allende's guard bravely defended the presidential palace for seven hours. The President of Chile died on the battlefield as a hero, with a gun in his hands. In the factories and plants of the capital fought all day. Today it is already known about the atrocities of the putschists: having occupied the enterprises, soldiers killed communists, socialists and trade union leaders without trial. The militants of the far-right organization "Patria et Libertad" behaved with impunity.

In violation of all international rules, the Cuban Embassy was attacked. The second victim was the diplomatic mission of the Soviet Union.

A fascist military junta led by General Pinochet seized power in Chile. After September 11, mass repression began in Chile. For years of dictatorship of Pinochet more than 60 thousand people died or disappeared. The whole world became aware of the atrocities of the junta at the National Stadium in Santiago, which turned into a prison and a place of shootings. Among those who died there was the legendary singer, a member of the Central Committee of the Komsomol of Chile, Victor Jara. In the first days of the coup, Chilean Communist leader Luis Corvalan was thrown behind bars.
Thus was established one of the most heinous regimes of the second half of the twentieth century, the Pinochet regime.

Eternal gloryto Salvador Allende, Victor Jara and the thousands of Chileans who died at the hands of Pinochet's executioners!

Yes but there are those who now support the fascists in Ukraine who don't have a damn thing to say about the elected Government under Allende being overthrown in a violent coup, a British Doctor Sheila Cassidy was arrested and tortured by Dina the Chilean gestapo tied to a metal bed naked and electric shocked, the British Government under that fascist Thatcher didn't have a problem with it, then there was Orlando Letelier blown up in a Dina terror car bomb in Washington DC of all places, amazing what fascists can get away with in the West, Santiago football stadium was turned into a concentration camp, thousands were held there some tortured others murdered.

another terrible anniversary on Friday is the Sabra and Shatila massacre when Lebanese Phalange fascists murderd Palestinian civilians, men Women and children, Sharon the Butcher was in control of the camp, he allowed the killers in even providing flares at night so the scum could go about their evil business.

 

[odanny]

On this day in history, September 11, 2001, at 8:45 a.m. on a clear Tuesday morning, an American Airlines Boeing 767 loaded with 20,000 gallons of jet fuel crashed into the north tower of the World Trade Center in New York City. It was the beginning of a series of terrorist attacks which would take place that day, the worst and most costly such actions the United States ever experienced.

 

[Ringo]

On this day in 490 BC, the Battle of Marathon was won by the Greek army over the much larger Persian army.
A messenger ran to Athens with the news of the Greek victory and died.
The birth of the marathon.....

 

[odanny]

On this day, September 15 in 1916, tanks were used in warfare for the first time at the Battle of the Somme during World War I. 36 tanks went into action that day, terrorizing the German troops as they lumbered across the trenches. Weighing in at over 30 tons each, those tanks had a top speed of only 4mph.

 

[Deadstick]

Tomorrow marks the start of operation market garden the allied airborne attack to take the Bridges over the lower Rhine, i am in Osterbeek at the moment on vacation and for the commemorations, this evening there was a huge convoy through the town of WW2 military vehicles.

 

[odanny]

On this day in history, September 16th in 1620, the Mayflower sailed from Plymouth, England, bound for North America with 102 passengers. The ship was headed for Virginia, where the colonists—half religious dissenters and half entrepreneurs—had been authorized to settle by the British crown. However, stormy weather and navigational errors forced the Mayflower off course, and on November 21 the “Pilgrims” reached Massachusetts, where they founded the first permanent European settlement in New England in late December.

Thirty-five of the Pilgrims were members of the radical English Separatist Church, who traveled to America to escape the jurisdiction of the Church of England, which they found corrupt. Ten years earlier, English persecution had led a group of Separatists to flee to Holland in search of religious freedom. However, many were dissatisfied with economic opportunities in the Netherlands, and under the direction of William Bradford they decided to immigrate to Virginia, where an English colony had been founded at Jamestown in 1607.

The Separatists won financial backing from a group of investors called the London Adventurers, who were promised a sizable share of the colony’s profits. Three dozen church members made their way back to England, where they were joined by about 70 entrepreneurs–enlisted by the London stock company to ensure the success of the enterprise. In August 1620, the Mayflower left Southampton with a smaller vessel–the Speedwell–but the latter proved unseaworthy and twice was forced to return to port. On September 16, the Mayflower left for America alone from Plymouth.

In a difficult Atlantic crossing, the 90-foot Mayflower encountered rough seas and storms and was blown more than 500 miles off course. Along the way, the settlers formulated and signed the Mayflower Compact, an agreement that bound the signatories into a “civil body politic.” Because it established constitutional law and the rule of the majority, the compact is regarded as an important precursor to American democracy. After a 66-day voyage, the ship landed on November 21 on the tip of Cape Cod at what is now Provincetown, Massachusetts.

After coming to anchor in Provincetown harbor, a party of armed men under the command of Captain Myles Standish was sent out to explore the area and find a location suitable for settlement. While they were gone, Susanna White gave birth to a son, Peregrine, aboard the Mayflower. He was the first English child born in New England. In mid-December, the explorers went ashore at a location across Cape Cod Bay where they found cleared fields and plentiful running water and named the site Plymouth.

The expedition returned to Provincetown, and on December 21 the Mayflower came to anchor in Plymouth harbor. Just after Christmas, the pilgrims began work on dwellings that would shelter them through their difficult first winter in America.

In the first year of settlement, half the colonists died of disease. In 1621, the health and economic condition of the colonists improved, and that autumn Governor William Bradford invited neighboring Indians to Plymouth to celebrate the bounty of that year’s harvest season. Plymouth soon secured treaties with most local Indian tribes, and the economy steadily grew, and more colonists were attracted to the settlement. By the mid 1640s, Plymouth’s population numbered 3,000 people, but by then the settlement had been overshadowed by the larger Massachusetts Bay Colony to the north, settled by Puritans in 1629.

The term “Pilgrim” was not used to describe the Plymouth colonists until the early 19th century and was derived from a manuscript in which Governor Bradford spoke of the “saints” who left Holland as “pilgrims.” The orator Daniel Webster spoke of “Pilgrim Fathers” at a bicentennial celebration of Plymouth’s founding in 1820, and thereafter the term entered common usage.

 

[odanny]

September 17th, 1862 was the bloodiest day in US military history. The Battle of Antietam resulted in over 22,000 total casualties among both Union and Confederate troops. The battle is considered to have been a draw by most military historians. However, following the battle, Lee's Army of Northern Virginia withdrew from Maryland.

 

[odanny]

On this day, September 18th in 1634, Anne Hutchinson arrived in the New World with her family. She was an Englishwoman who would become an outspoken religious thinker in the American colonies.

She settled in Cambridge in the Massachusetts Bay Colony and began organizing meetings of Boston women in her home, leading them in discussions of recent sermons and religious issues. Soon ministers and magistrates began attending her sessions as well. Hutchinson preached that faith alone was sufficient for salvation, and therefore individuals had no need for the church or church law. By 1637, her influence had become so great that she was brought to trial and found guilty of heresy against Puritan orthodoxy. Banished from Massachusetts, she led a group of 70 followers to Rhode Island—Roger Williams’ colony based on religious freedom—and established a settlement on the island of Aquidneck.

After the death of her husband in 1642, she settled near present-day Pelham Bay, New York, on the Long Island Sound. In 1643, she and all but one of her children were massacred in a Native American attack. She is recognized as the first notable woman religious leader in the American colonies.

 

[odanny]

On this day, September 19th in 1991, Ötzi the Iceman was found by two German tourists, at an elevation of 3.210 m on the east ridge of the Fineilspitze in the Ötztal Alps on the Austrian–Italian border, near Similaun mountain and the Tisenjoch pass.⁣
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The age and significance of the discovery were not immediately understood. A number of people visited the site to see the body before it was recovered. They stepped on the fragile objects and removed artifacts before their locations were noted. This was very unfortunate and led to the destruction of important evidence on the site. When the Austrian archaeologist Konrad Spindler saw the copper ax found with Ötzi, he immediately understood that this was not a recent glacier body, but that it had to be at least 5.000 years old. Radiocarbon-dated to 3.300 BC, the body is that of a man aged 40 to 45 who had been about 1.6 meters tall and had weighed about 50 kg.⁣
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Who killed Ötzi the Iceman, and why? The Copper Age cold case that can’t be closed. Based on the fact that the victim was shot in the back by a bow and arrow, We think it’s true to assume that he was shot by another hunter from his tribe. Also, since the killer took their own arrow from the scene of the crime, but left all of Ötzi’s valuables, it seems likely that he was shot by someone he knew. Thus, the culprit couldn’t afford to be seen in the village with any of Ötzi’s personal possessions⁣.

 

[Ringo]

On this day in 1973, Henry Kissinger is sworn in as US Secretary of State, his time in power led to unprecedented bloodshed:
-US carpet bombing of Cambodia, which killed between 150,000-500,000 civilians, Kissinger approved each of the 3875 bombing raids between 1969-70
-Gave the green light for Pakistan to launch its brutal killings in Bangladesh, which led to 3 million deaths
-Approved Argentina’s ‘Dirty War’ against left-wing Argentinians, which killed around 30,000 people
-Oversaw many of the years of the US bombing of Laos, in which the United States dropped 260 million bombs on the country, which killed an estimated 200,000
-Oversaw the Nixon years of the US’ imperial was on Vietnam, the final death toll of the war was 2.5-3 million Vietnamese deaths
-Helped organise Augusto Pinochet’s fascist coup in Chile, thousands killed in the formative years of Pinochet’s regime
-Gave the green light for Indonesia to invade East Timor, resulting in a brutal occupation that would last 24 years. Hundreds of thousands died.

 

[odanny]

On this day, September 23rd in 1806, after almost two and a half years, the expedition of Lewis and Clark returned to St.Louis, bringing back a wealth of information about the largely unexplored northwestern portion of the Louisiana Territory, as well as valuable U.S. claims to the Oregon Territory on the Pacific coast.

10 Little-Known Facts About the Lewis and Clark Expedition | HISTORY

Explore ten surprising facts about one of America’s first and greatest expeditions of discovery.

www.history.com

 

[Ringo]

September 23 is considered the birthday of chewing gum. On this day in 1848, american John Curtis created chewing gum at home.

 

[Ringo]

On September 26, 1960 (63 years ago), Cuban leader Fidel Castro gave the longest uninterrupted speech in the history of the U.N. The title was quite revolutionary and quite in the style of the comandante: "When the philosophy of plunder disappears, then the philosophy of war will also disappear."
The fiery tribune set a world record in the Guinness Book of World Records: the speech lasted 4 hours and 29 minutes. To date, it is the longest speech ever delivered at the UN. After this speech, the UN introduced a time limit on speeches in its regulations.

 

[Ringo]

A year ago, Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 were blown up.
"This act is called terrorism, the perpetrators must be severely punished"- loud statements of Western governments. But for a year no investigation has taken place, and a ridiculous version about "Ukrainians on a yacht" has been concocted.

 

[Ringo]

80 years ago, in a speech to a meeting of SS Gruppenführers in Poznan, Himmler spoke most frankly about the tasks and goals of the Nazi regime.

Posen speeches - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

"...I am not in the slightest degree interested in the fate of a Russian or a Czech. We will take from other nations what blood of our type they can give us. If it becomes necessary, we will take their children from them and bring them up in our environment. Whether other nations live in contentment or whether they starve to death interests me only insofar as we need them as slaves for our culture; otherwise it does not interest me.

If ten thousand Russian broads fall from exhaustion while digging anti-tank ditches, it will interest me only in so far as that anti-tank ditch is ready for Germany. It is clear that we will never be cruel and inhumane, because there is no need to be. We Germans are the only people in the world who are decent to animals, so we will be decent to these animal people, but we will commit a crime against our own race if we take care of them and instill ideals in them so that our sons and grandsons will have an even harder time dealing with them. When one of you comes to me and says, "I cannot dig an anti-tank ditch with children or women. It is inhuman, they are dying from it," I will have to answer, "You are a murderer towards your own race, because if the anti-tank ditch is not dug, German soldiers will die, and they are the sons of German mothers. They are our blood."

I also want to talk to you here with all frankness about a very serious matter. Between ourselves we will speak quite frankly, but we will never mention it publicly... I am referring now to the evacuation of the Jews, the extermination of the Jewish people. These things are easily said. "The Jewish people will be exterminated," says every member of our Party. - And this is quite understandable, for it is written in our program. The eradication of the Jews, the extermination of them - we are doing it." And so they come - 80 million honest Germans, and each one has his own decent Jew. Of course, all others are pigs, but the Jew in question is a first-class Jew. None of those who say that have seen or experienced this. Most of you know what it is like to have 100 corpses lying around, or 500 or 1000 corpses lying around. To endure such things to the end, and yet, except for individual cases of human weakness, to remain decent people - that is what hardened us. This is a glorious page of our history, which has not been written and will never be written..."

 

[odanny]

Henry VIII was wed to Anne, based on a painting of her he received prior to her arrival. He didn't think she looked anything like the painting, and his disappointment allowed her live out her life, while his other wives were not so lucky.

This predated men and women being disappointed someone didn't look like their picture on the internet by more than 450 years.



On this day, October 4th in 1539, William, Duke of Cleves, signed the marriage treaty promising his sister Anne in marriage to King Henry VIII of England. Anne would become Henry's fourth wife, although the marriage would later be annulled. Unkindly nicknamed by Henry as his "Flanders Mare", Anne received a settlement from the king that included a large estate with servants and a generous allowance. She would go on to outlive Henry and all his other wives.

 

[Ringo]

On October 14, 1943, an uprising took place in the Sobibor concentration camp, led by Soviet officer Alexander Pechersky.
Sobibor was a death camp organized by the Nazis in Poland. It operated from May 15, 1942 to October 15, 1943. About 250 thousand people were killed here.

 

[Ringo]

This tragedy happened on October 15, 1970, when two terrorists from Lithuania hijacked soviet An-24.
That day, 19-year-old stewardess Nadezhda Kurchenko stood in the way of the villains to protect the pilots and passengers...
Awarded the Order of the Red Banner (posthumously)
The U.S. accepted the terrorist killers and gave them citizenship. Later, one of the terrorists killed the other.