On this day:
1204
Constantinople falls to the Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade, temporarily ending the Byzantine Empire.
1829
The British Parliament grants freedom of religion to Roman Catholics.
1861
American Civil War: Fort Sumter surrenders to Confederate forces.
1873
The Colfax Massacre takes place.
1941
Pact of neutrality between the USSR and Japan is signed.
1943
World War II: The discovery of a mass grave of Polish prisoners of war executed by Soviet forces in the Katyń Forest Massacre is announced, causing a diplomatic rift between the Polish government in exile in London from the Soviet Union, which denies responsibility. The Nazis were shocked!
1970
An oxygen tank aboard Apollo 13 explodes, putting the crew in great danger and causing major damage to the spacecraft while en route to the Moon.
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"Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell."--Frank Borman (ex-Eastern CEO)
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The Colfax massacre, sometimes referred to as the Colfax riot, occurred on Easter Sunday, April 13, 1873, in Colfax, Louisiana, the parish seat of Grant Parish. An estimated 62–153 black men were murdered while surrendering to a mob of former Confederate soldiers and members of the Ku Klux Klan
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Estimates of the number of Polish citizens executed at three mass murder sites in the spring of 1940 range from some 14,540 to 21,857 to 28,000. Most of those killed were reserve officers taken prisoner during the 1939 Polish September Campaign, but the dead also included many civilians who had been arrested for being "intelligence agents and gendarmes, spies and saboteurs, former landowners, factory owners, and officials."
Between 250,000 and 454,700 Polish soldiers had become prisoners and were interned by the Soviets, following their invasion of Poland on September 17, 1939, three weeks after Germany and the Soviet Union had signed the secret Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. This was a little over two weeks after the initial invasion of Poland by Germany, on September 1, 1939.
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Spanish Prime Minister's wife charged with corruption. Sometimes the high road is short.
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Constantinople falls to the Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade, temporarily ending the Byzantine Empire.
1829
The British Parliament grants freedom of religion to Roman Catholics.
1861
American Civil War: Fort Sumter surrenders to Confederate forces.
1873
The Colfax Massacre takes place.
1941
Pact of neutrality between the USSR and Japan is signed.
1943
World War II: The discovery of a mass grave of Polish prisoners of war executed by Soviet forces in the Katyń Forest Massacre is announced, causing a diplomatic rift between the Polish government in exile in London from the Soviet Union, which denies responsibility. The Nazis were shocked!
1970
An oxygen tank aboard Apollo 13 explodes, putting the crew in great danger and causing major damage to the spacecraft while en route to the Moon.
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"Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell."--Frank Borman (ex-Eastern CEO)
***
The Colfax massacre, sometimes referred to as the Colfax riot, occurred on Easter Sunday, April 13, 1873, in Colfax, Louisiana, the parish seat of Grant Parish. An estimated 62–153 black men were murdered while surrendering to a mob of former Confederate soldiers and members of the Ku Klux Klan
***
Estimates of the number of Polish citizens executed at three mass murder sites in the spring of 1940 range from some 14,540 to 21,857 to 28,000. Most of those killed were reserve officers taken prisoner during the 1939 Polish September Campaign, but the dead also included many civilians who had been arrested for being "intelligence agents and gendarmes, spies and saboteurs, former landowners, factory owners, and officials."
Between 250,000 and 454,700 Polish soldiers had become prisoners and were interned by the Soviets, following their invasion of Poland on September 17, 1939, three weeks after Germany and the Soviet Union had signed the secret Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. This was a little over two weeks after the initial invasion of Poland by Germany, on September 1, 1939.
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Spanish Prime Minister's wife charged with corruption. Sometimes the high road is short.
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From the Annals of Willing Suspension of Disbelief
Life is full of surprises and contradictions. Some are enlightening. Some are unsettling. Public politics is beginning to be more under the heading of "Diagnosis." Examples:
-Iran, disarmed, defeated, and humiliated, continues to posture as a tough guy. Are they trying to fulfill their martyrdom? Their's may be desired, but their citizens' may not be. Is this an Eastern example of the government enforcing a 'greater purpose' on its citizen-victims?
-America's enemies shudder at the blockade as 'an act of war.' What did they think was going on here? And what about Iran's blockading itself? Are they declaring war on themselves? Sometimes martyrdom is harder to achieve than you would think. Is two beligerents blockading one belligerent a tie?
-Is threatening the Iranian culture a lot worse than Death to America?
-Iran's negotiations started with their demands that everything return to before the war and that the US pay reparations. What explains that mindset? In light of their recent self-blockade, are they negotiating with themselves?
-Mamdami just declared a socialist victory in NYC without having done anything yet. Does that remind you of Iran, or is it just politics?
-Why is it a logical step with a past heavily laden with accusations of sexual assault to run for governor? Do these politicians, like Mamdani's victory dance, live in a parallel universe?
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