Today In History
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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.
23 July 1944: German dictator Adolf Hitler finally accedes to Joseph Goebbels and Albert Speer's idea for total war. Hitler creates the office of Reich Plenipotentiary for the Total War Effort, led by Goebbels. #WW2 #WWII #history #OTD #ad amzn.to/3aM3Prf
23 July 1974: The #Greek military junta/dictatorship led by #Colonel Georgios Papadopoulos ends with former Prime Minister Konstantinos Karamanlis leading a new #government and ushering in democracy. Papadopoulos’ government collapsed under pressure from Turkey’s invasion of…
23 July 1945: #Vichy France's Prime Minister Philippe #Pétain’s trial for #treason begins. He is convicted and dies in prison on July 23, 1951. He was a hero of France during World War I. #WWII #WW2 #history #France #OTD #ad amzn.to/30RyrP5
23 July 1942: Nazi #Germany opens the #Treblinka extermination camp in Poland. Some 700,000-900,000 #Jews were killed there, more than any camp other than #Auschwitz. #WWII #WW2 #history #holocaust #OTD amzn.to/2Ebzu4z
23 July 1905: #Germany for the second time in a year offers an alliance with Russia. Both would come to the aid of the other if attacked. The Tsar's #political and #economic advisors objected due to their alliance with #France and the Treaty of Bjorko never took effect. #ad…
23 July 1940: Acting Secretary of State Sumner Welles issues the #Welles Declaration, condemning the June 1940 #Soviet occupation of the #Baltic states of Estonia, #Latvia and Lithuania. The U.S. refused to recognize their annexation as Soviet Republics. #WWII #ad…
23 July 1962: Former #Brooklyn Dodger Jackie #Robinson is inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York. He was the first player to break the color barrier in #baseball when the #Dodgers started him at first base on April 15, 1947. #HOF #history #ad…
23 July 1944: During World War II, the Soviet Red #Army liberates the #Majdanek concentration camp on the outskirts of Lublin, Poland. It is the first Nazi concentration camp to be liberated. #History #OTD #ad amzn.to/3O3a6hv
22 July 1990: Greg #LeMond wins his third and final Tour de France. LeMond was the first American to win France's premier race. #TourdeFrance #history #OTD #ad amzn.to/32Lsfuj
22 July 1975: The U.S. House of Representatives votes 407-10 to restore former Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s U.S. citizenship. The #Senate had previously voted by voice vote. #President Gerald Ford then signed the #congressional resolution. #OTD #ad amzn.to/3wXnucH
22 July 1944: Soviet #dictator Joseph #Stalin formally recognizes the #Polish Committee of National Liberation (PKWN), also known as the #Lublin Committee. Stalin’s action was an effort to establish a #communist government in post-World War II Poland, which he succeeded in…
22 July 1923: #Senator, 1996 #Republican presidential candidate and World War II veteran Robert #Dole is born in Russell, Kansas. He was badly wounded by a German machine gun near Castel d'Aiano in the Apennine mountains southwest of Bologna, Italy during WW2. #History #OTD #ad…
22 July 1890: Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, the mother of U.S. #President John F. Kennedy, Attorney General and presidential candidate Robert #Kennedy and #Senator Ted Kennedy, is born in Boston, Massachusetts. #history #OTD #ad amzn.to/30AU0mM
22 July 1943: During World War II, U.S. forces under General George Patton capture Palermo, Sicily, Italy. #Patton was given permission to take Palermo, but the order was rescinded. He claimed the message was garbled and took the city anyway. #WW2 #history #ad…
22 July 1802: #Emperor Gia Long unifies #Vietnam after conquering Hanoi. He founded the #Nguyễn Dynasty, which was the last of the Vietnamese dynasties. #history #OTD #ad amzn.to/30wLh56
22 July 1933: Wiley #Post becomes the first person to fly solo around the world. He did it in 7 days, 18 hours and 45 minutes. On Aug. 15 Post and actor Will #Rogers were killed when a plane that Post was flying crashed near Point Barrow, Alaska. #OTD #ad amzn.to/3hlyCbQ
22 July 1456: Hungary Regent John #Hunyadi defeats the Islamic Ottomans' #Mehmet II at the Siege of Belgrade. Mehmet, who had conquered #Constantinople in 1453, wanted to subjugate the Kingdom of #Hungary. #history #OTD #ad amzn.to/3juYiV8
21 July 2007: #HarryPotter and the Deathly Hallows, the final book in the series by #author J. K. #Rowling is published and sells 11 million copies worldwide in 24 hours. #history #book #novel #ad amzn.to/3eUbHD3
21 July 356 BC: #Herostratus sets fire to the Temple of Artemis, one of the Seven Wonders of the World, in #Ephesus in present-day Turkey to gain notoriety. His act leads to a law, damnatio memoriae, forbidding anyone to mention his name. #history #ad amzn.to/3fPTd7G
21 July 1774: #Russia and the #Ottoman Empire sign the Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca, ending the Russo-Turkish War. The Turkish losses were mainly diplomatic and the result was that Islamic Turkey would not be seen as a threat to most of #Christian Europe. #ad amzn.to/3jm8TSp
