Today In History @URDailyHistory
Letting you know what happened today, in the past. Posts are made on West Coast US time. #history #OTD. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. Orange County, CA Joined January 2017-
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28 April 1908: Oskar #Schindler, subject of the 1993 #movie Schindler's List, is born in Zwittau, Moravia. He is credited with saving 1,200 #Jews during #WWII. He was named Righteous Among the Nations by the #Israeli government in 1963. #history #OTD #ad amzn.to/2KyH09F
28 April 1949: Rep. Tom Cole (R-OK), who is the longest serving Native American in Congress, is born in Shreveport, Louisiana. He's a member of the Chickasaw Nation. His mother, Helen, is the first Native American elected to the #Oklahoma State Senate. #ad amzn.to/49AbeSx
27 April 1945: #Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, his #mistress Clara Petacci and 15 other acolytes are captured by #communist partisans in Dongo, Italy. Mussolini, his mistress and most of the others are shot and killed the next day. #OTD #History #ad amzn.to/2Y7EGOO
27 April 1943: Polish resistance fighter Witold #Pilecki escapes from Auschwitz after being purposefully sent there. He gathered intelligence and #escaped after two and half years there. While there, he also organized a #resistance movement. #WWII #OTD #ad amzn.to/356otL7
27 April 1996: #Olympic gold medal winner and University of #Oklahoma gymnast Bart #Conner and gymnastics Olympic gold medalist Nadia #Comăneci are married in Bucharest, Romania. They run a #gymnastic center in #Norman, Oklahoma. #ad amzn.to/2x8KjkD
27 April 1822: Ulysses S. #Grant is born in Point Pleasant, Ohio. He was the commander of the Union #army during the U.S. Civil War and was the 18th #president of the United States. #history #historyMatters #ad amzn.to/2VEzKPO
27 April 1945: Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, his #mistress Clara Petacci and 15 other acolytes are captured by #communist partisans in Dongo, Italy. Mussolini, his mistress and most of the others are shot and killed the next day. #OTD #ad amzn.to/2Y7EGOO
27 April 1943: Polish resistance fighter Witold #Pilecki escapes from Auschwitz after being purposefully sent there. He gathered intelligence and escaped after two and half years there. While there, he also organized a #resistance movement. #WWII #ad amzn.to/356otL7
26 Apr 1942: German dictator Adolf Hitler gives a #speech before the #Reichstag where he seeks absolute power and it is granted. Given this increase in power for Hitler, it is the last time the Reichstag would ever meet. #History #WW2 #WWII #OTD #ad amzn.to/3qiIFVs
26 April 1865: John Wilkes Booth, who #assassinated U.S. #President Abraham Lincoln, is shot and killed by Union soldier #Boston Corbett on a #Virginia farm near Bowling Green when he tried to escape from a burning barn. #history #OTD #ad amzn.to/3eSskQn
26 April 121 AD: #Roman Emperor Marcus #Aurelius is born. Emperor from 161 to 180, he died on March 17, 180 in #Vindobona in what is now Vienna. He is considered the last #emperor of Pax Romana, an age of relative #peace and stability for the Empire. #ad amzn.to/2Y2KM2O
26 April 2018: #Quarterback Baker #Mayfield of the #Oklahoma #Sooners is chosen as the first pick in the #NFL draft. He was also the first walk-on college #football player to win the #Heisman Trophy. #NFLDraft #OTD @bakermayfield #ad amzn.to/2KB7R50
26 April 1865: Confederate Gen. Joseph Johnston surrenders the Army of Tennessee to Union General General William T. Sherman in North Carolina. He surrenders all remaining Confederate forces still active in N. Carolina, S. Carolina, Georgia & Florida. #ad amzn.to/3EDKNxH
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25 April 1850: Paul Julius Reuter establishes the news service, now called #Reuters, using 45 pigeons to deliver #news and stock prices between Brussels, Belgium and Aachen, Germany. #wireservice #History #OTD @Reuters #ad amzn.to/3bwP3zz
@URDailyHistory A great uncle of mine mentioned bombing Hitler's 'lair'. I wonder if he meant this?
@URDailyHistory I took a tour of that place while staying at the General Walker Hotel (since closed and demolished) in 1989. Amazing experience.
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26 April 121 AD: #Roman Emperor Marcus #Aurelius is born. Emperor from 161 to 180, he died on March 17, 180 in Vindobona in what is now Vienna. He is considered the last #emperor of Pax Romana, an age of relative peace and stability for the Empire. #ad amzn.to/2Y2KM2O
'You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain'
Did you know? The von Richthofen family had three flying aces. Manfred’s brother Lothar was one. So was Wolfram von Richthofen, who was Field Marshal in the Luftwaffe during World War II. Wolfram was the counterpart to Erich von Manstein, often viewed as Germany’s best Marshal.
20 April 1918: World War I German ace Manfred von Richthofen, aka The Red Baron, shoots down his 79th and 80th enemy aircraft. He would be shot down and killed on April 21. #WWI #History #OTD #ad amzn.to/2yuyRQU
@URDailyHistory Alexander the Great (356 - 323 BC) Alexander III of Macedon ( 20/21 July 356 BC – 10/11 June 323 BC), commonly known as Alexander the Great, was a king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon The Empire of Alexander the Great
@URDailyHistory and the Gettysbugr adress later this year
24 April 1915: The date generally given as the day the Armenian #Genocide began. #Ottoman officials began deporting #Armenians from Constantinople. The Ottoman Empire is estimated to have killed between 800,000 and 1.5 million Armenians. #History #OTD #ad amzn.to/3eNQU5d
24 April 1953: Former #British Prime Minister Winston #Churchill is #knighted by #Queen Elizabeth II. Invested as a Knight of the Garter, he becomes Sir Winston Churchill, KG. #history #OTD #ad amzn.to/2yCINrp
@URDailyHistory but even with the code, Sherman burned Atlanta
there's alot of talk about genocide today. a misuse of the word,devaluing it. this we should never do. words matter,and are meant to carry weight. this however,was a genocide. a sad,utterly sad event still denied by some.
24 April 1915: The date generally given as the day the Armenian #Genocide began. #Ottoman officials began deporting #Armenians from Constantinople. The Ottoman Empire is estimated to have killed between 800,000 and 1.5 million Armenians. #History #OTD #ad amzn.to/3eNQU5d
@URDailyHistory This sculpture is my spirit animal.
@URDailyHistory And subsequently overruled by the EU as anticompetitive, so that beer with more ingredients than the classic three could be sold in Germany.
@URDailyHistory My grandfather was the only surviver of his family. He came to the US at age 17 alone.
@URDailyHistory Born April 23, 1564 Died April 23, 1616