On This Day in History

[Deadstick]

But they are exceptional.

 

[Ringo]

On March 18, 1974, the Soviet Army adopted the AK-74 assault rifle. Its main feature was the adoption of the 5.45 caliber instead of the 7.62 caliber used on the legendary AK-47. Reduction of caliber allowed to reduce recoil, improve accuracy and increase the volume of carried ammunition. According to analysts, the AK-74 has become one of the most common and popular assault rifles in the world.

 

[Ringo]

March 18, 2014 - the Day of Crimea's reunification with Russia. The very moment when the Will of the People finally coincided with the Interests of the State

 

[Ringo]

75 years ago, on April 4, 1949, 12 Western countries created a military-political bloc - NATO.
NATO is not a defensive alliance! Because NATO has never defended itself against anyone, it has always attacked.

 

[Ringo]

 

[Deadstick]

75 years ago, on April 4, 1949, 12 Western countries created a military-political bloc - NATO.
NATO is not a defensive alliance! Because NATO has never defended itself against anyone, it has always attacked.

Yes from it's establishment the high command of Nato was always infested with high ranking Nazis.

 

[Ringo]

On April 8, 1783, Catherine II signed a rescript notifying European countries that "the Crimean peninsula, the Taman peninsula and the entire Kuban side were taken under the power of the All-Russian Empire". In 1784, the Tauride region was formed on the annexed territory.

 

[Ringo]

April 9
In 1241, at the Battle of Legnica, the Mongols (Baidar) defeated the army of Henry II the Pious, which included troops from Greater and Lesser Poland, Upper and Lower Silesia, Moravia, the Teutonic Order, the Templar Order, the Duchy of Austria and individual German knights, as well as militias of townspeople and miners (the Czechs were late to the battle, except for the vanguard). Henry II fell in battle.
After the victory, Baidar, according to orders, turned to Hungary to join the main forces, passing through the Sudetes and devastating all of Moravia, except for 2 cities that survived a short siege: Olomouc and Brno.

In 1288, Vietnamese commander Tran Hung Dao defeated a Mongol army on the Bat Dang River, after which the Mongols were expelled from all of Daiviet (as Vietnam was then called).

In 1609, a 12-year truce agreement between the Netherlands and Spain was signed in Antwerp. De facto Spain recognized the independence of the Netherlands after 40 years of war (since 1568).

In 1609, King Philip III issued a decree expelling all Moriscos (Moors converted to Catholicism) to North Africa. In 1609-19, 272,000 (85% of the total) were expelled, mostly from Aragon and Valencia, which severely damaged the Spanish economy and contributed to the rise of the Berberian pirate states in the Maghreb. Only what the moriscos could carry on their backs was allowed to be taken, all real estate was confiscated. The initiator was the Archbishop of Valencia, Patriarch of Antioch, St. (in the future) Juan de Ribera.

in 1809, the Fifth Coalition War began: Austria declared war on France and Bavaria. The next day, Austrian troops invaded the border regions.

in 1865, by 4pm, General Robert E. Lee signed the surrender of his Army of Northern Virginia, effectively ending the U.S. Civil War: Robert E. Lee's Surrender

in 1865, Erich Ludendorff, a German military and political figure of the 10s-30s of the 20th century was born

in 1940, the landing of German units in Norway began. The date of April 9 was finally approved by Hitler only on the 2nd, the landing ships went to sea on the 6th.

1942 Japanese deck aircraft sink the British aircraft carrier Hermes in the Indian Ocean.

In 1945, the nazi garrison of Königsberg surrendered.
The completion of the storm was marked by a salute of the highest category - in Moscow 324 guns made 24 artillery salvos, the medal "For the capture of Koenigsberg" was established, 98 military units were named "Koenigsberg".

In 1965, near Hainan Island, there was an air battle between three U.S. Navy F-4s from the aircraft carrier Ranger and Chinese J-6s, during which one Phantom and (according to U.S. claims) one MiG were shot down. Both Phantom pilots, Lieutenants Terry Murphy and Ronald Feagan, were killed.

The incident demonstrated the unreliability of American air-to-air missiles. William Fraser and Christopher Billingsley fired two Sparrow and two Sidewinder missiles at the Chinese from their Phantom. Three of the rockets failed to start and one Sidewinder missed its target.

Lts. Howard Watkins and John Mueller also fired all their missiles from their Phantom: one Sparrow went "ballistic"; the other failed to start its engine; one Sidewinder was maneuvered away by the Chinese, and the other failed to engage the target (which, when parsed, led to speculation that Murphy and Feagan's Phantom might have been shot down by one of the stray Sidewinders, although the Chinese later claimed they shot down the Phantom with cannon fire).

The Chinese J-6 (MiG-19) lost in this battle was the first MiG shot down in the Vietnam War, and the Murphy-Figan F-4 was in turn the first Phantom shot down by MiGs.

in 1992, a court in Miami, Florida, convicted former Panamanian President Manuel Noriega on eight charges of drug trafficking and extortion. Noriega was arrested after the U.S. intervention in Panama in 1989

In the 2003 invasion of Iraq by coalition forces, U.S. forces captured Baghdad

 

[odanny]

On this day, April 9th in 1483, Edward V, aged just 12 years old, succeeded to the English throne after the death of his father, Edward IV. His Uncle, Richard of York, soon to be Richard III, had been nominated by his father to be Protector of the young King.

Richard had Edward sent to the Tower of London in May of the same year, and his younger brother, Richard of Shrewsbury joined him the next month. By the end of summer/start of autumn, neither boy would ever be seen again. They have became known in history as the Princes in the Tower, and their fate has become the subject of much debate.

 

[Ringo]

On This Day in History

At the end of the winter of 1943-1944, the German occupation command decided to use the pupils of Polotsk Children's Home № 1 as blood donors for the wounded German soldiers. On the night of February 18 to 19, 1944, 154 pupils from 3 to 14 years old and 38 employees of the children's home, as...

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[odanny]

On this day in history, April 12th in 1204, the sack of Constantinople occurred, marking the culmination of the Fourth Crusade. The original purpose of the Fourth Crusade had been to "liberate" Jerusalem from Muslim control. Instead, the Crusader armies from western Europe captured, looted, and destroyed parts of Constantinople, which was then the capital of the Christian Byzantine Empire.

After the capture of the city, the Latin Empire (known to the Byzantines as the Frankokratia or the Latin occupation) was established, and Baldwin of Flanders was crowned Emperor Baldwin I of Constantinople in the Orthodox cathedral church Hagia Sophia.

The event began the serious decline of the once powerful eastern Christian empire and created long lasting animosity between the Orthodox eastern and Catholic western branches of the Christian church.

(Much of that outer wall pictured still exists today in Istanbul, surrounded by traffic and everyday life)

 

[JWBooth]

April 14, 1865 John Wilkes Booth earned his pistol marksmanship ribbon.

 

[JWBooth]

April 15, 1865 the tyrant Lincoln assumes room temperature.

 

[Ringo]

On April 16, 2015, writer and journalist Oles Buzina was killed in Kiev. Law enforcers detained nationalists Andriy Medvedko and Denis Polishchuk on suspicion of committing this murder.
Both were later released from custody under house arrest and then practically became part of the Ukrainian government. Zelensky, having come to power, refused to meet Buzina's mother.

 

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[Litwin]

75 years ago, on April 4, 1949, 12 Western countries created a military-political bloc - NATO.
NATO is not a defensive alliance! Because NATO has never defended itself against anyone, it has always attacked.

rt.ru crap

the reality :
Blokhin has executed tens of thousands of prisoners in the Soviet Gulag. He was the chief executioner for the NKVD (Soviet secret police). Commissar Blokhin used his Walther PPK pistol to kill thousands of his victims with a shot to the back of the head.

Vasily Blokhin-Stalin’s butcher

Born to a Russian peasant family in 1895, as a young man he quickly earned a reputation for “chernaya rabota”, or “black work”, while serving in the Tsarist army during World War I- gaining recogni…

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Vasily BlokhinâââThe Most Prolific Executioner in History

Stalin’s chief executioner personally shot 7,000 people in 28 days in the Katyń Forest. He did it with a smile on his face

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[Ringo]

On April 19, 1956 during the visit to Portsmouth of the head of the USSR N.S. Khrushchev and N.A. Bulganin several British military divers tried to dive under the cruiser in order to explore the bottom and propellers. One of them, Commander Lionel Crabb, died under the propellers.

 

[Ringo]

April 19
In 1587, in the harbor of Cadiz in southern Spain, a British squadron of 13 small ships under the command of Francis Drake destroyed half of the 60 ships of the Spanish Armada, preparing to sail to conquer England. Several ships the English took away as trophies. The Spanish postponed the expedition for a year.

In 1713, the Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI, who had no direct male descendants, passed a law called the Pragmatic Sanction, according to which the succession in the Austrian house no longer depended on gender. After 27 years, this led to the War of Austrian Succession and the loss of Silesia.

in 1783 After the last Crimean khan Shagin-Girey abdicated in February 1783, the Crimean Khanate was annexed to Russia by Catherine II's manifesto of April 8(19), 1783, and Crimea became Russian.

In 1824 in Missolongi (Mesolongion) in the 37th year of life died of fever Lord George Gordon Byron, an outstanding English poet, who went in the summer of 1823 to help the Greek revolution and sold all his property for this purpose.

In 1943, the army special departments were withdrawn from the NKVD subordination. On their basis SMERSH was created.

In 1943, the German attempt to start liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto turned into an armed uprising. Officially, the Germans announced the "end of the action" on May 16, although some fighting groups continued the struggle for several months.

in 1945, 969 British bombers raided the island of Helgoland in the North Sea, using among other things Tallboy super-heavy bombs and losing 3 vehicles. As the population and personnel took shelter in caves, only 128 people were killed, but the surface of the island began to resemble a lunar landscape. The island was completely evacuated the next night. It was used as a munitions disposal site and remained uninhabited until 1952, when it was returned to Germany.

in 1959, Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro, on an unofficial 11-day visit to the United States, met with Vice President Richard Nixon for nearly three hours in Washington. Although Nixon praised Castro's personal qualities, the latter refused to accept Nixon's proposed Puerto Rican model of reforms based on private property for Cuba, thus closing the issue of U.S. investment de facto. This, together with the cancelation of elections scheduled for June and the suspension of the constitution, led to a rapid deterioration in U.S.-Cuban relations.

In 1989, a gun turret exploded on the U.S. battleship Iowa, then in the Atlantic, 500 kilometers northeast of Puerto Rico. 47 crew members were killed.
The causes of the explosion remained unknown.

 

[Litwin]

April 19
In 1587, in the harbor of Cadiz in southern Spain, a British squadron of 13 small ships under the command of Francis Drake destroyed half of the 60 ships of the Spanish Armada, preparing to sail to conquer England. Several ships the English took away as trophies. The Spanish postponed the expedition for a year.

In 1713, the Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI, who had no direct male descendants, passed a law called the Pragmatic Sanction, according to which the succession in the Austrian house no longer depended on gender. After 27 years, this led to the War of Austrian Succession and the loss of Silesia.

in 1783 After the last Crimean khan Shagin-Girey abdicated in February 1783, the Crimean Khanate was annexed to Russia by Catherine II's manifesto of April 8(19), 1783, and Crimea became Russian.

In 1824 in Missolongi (Mesolongion) in the 37th year of life died of fever Lord George Gordon Byron, an outstanding English poet, who went in the summer of 1823 to help the Greek revolution and sold all his property for this purpose.

In 1943, the army special departments were withdrawn from the NKVD subordination. On their basis SMERSH was created.

In 1943, the German attempt to start liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto turned into an armed uprising. Officially, the Germans announced the "end of the action" on May 16, although some fighting groups continued the struggle for several months.

in 1945, 969 British bombers raided the island of Helgoland in the North Sea, using among other things Tallboy super-heavy bombs and losing 3 vehicles. As the population and personnel took shelter in caves, only 128 people were killed, but the surface of the island began to resemble a lunar landscape. The island was completely evacuated the next night. It was used as a munitions disposal site and remained uninhabited until 1952, when it was returned to Germany.

in 1959, Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro, on an unofficial 11-day visit to the United States, met with Vice President Richard Nixon for nearly three hours in Washington. Although Nixon praised Castro's personal qualities, the latter refused to accept Nixon's proposed Puerto Rican model of reforms based on private property for Cuba, thus closing the issue of U.S. investment de facto. This, together with the cancelation of elections scheduled for June and the suspension of the constitution, led to a rapid deterioration in U.S.-Cuban relations.

In 1989, a gun turret exploded on the U.S. battleship Iowa, then in the Atlantic, 500 kilometers northeast of Puerto Rico. 47 crew members were killed.
The causes of the explosion remained unknown.