This Day In History:

May 8th 1945.

We win.

May 9th 1945

We win. In the time zones east of Berlin.

17 May 1959

First Land Reform Law 50 years ago in Cuba.

13 June 1980

Walter Rodney a revolutionary thinker and fighter is assassinated.

June 14th 1775 - Establishment of US Army.

June 22, 1941- The invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany begins.

16th July



1945: Allied leaders gather at Potsdam

The leaders of the three Allied nations have gathered in the German city of Potsdam to decide the future of a defeated Germany. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, US President Harry S Truman and leader of the Soviet Union Josef Stalin, accompanied by senior ministers and military staff, are conducting a systematic review of the political and economic situation in Europe.


1969: Apollo 11 takes off for the Moon

The Apollo 11 space rocket has taken off successfully from Cape Kennedy, Florida, at the start of the first attempt to land a man on the Moon.
An estimated one million people gathered from all over the state to see the giant Saturn 5 booster rocket blast off.

18 July:

1936 The Spanish Civil War starts.

1968 Intel Corporation was created.

19 July 1979

30 years ago the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) enters Managua and assumes power.

July 20th 1969 man lands on the moon

26th of July 1953

Moncada Barracks and the first phase of the armed struggle against the Batista dictatorship in Cuba.

Wow...It was 56 years ago that the Moncada Barracks ambush took place.

*Lowers head in silence*

July 25-26 1934

The 75th Anniversary Of the 1934 Minneapolis Teamsters Strikes

People's Liberation Army of China founded, 1927.

Since I won't be able to log on "tomorrow", here's this:

August 2: 1937 – The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 is passed in America, essentially rendering marijuana and all its by-products illegal.


One of the worst laws ever created; not that it stops me, though.

1914 – World War I: Germany invades Belgium. In response, the United Kingdom declares war on Germany. The United States declares its neutrality.

1944 – The Holocaust: a tip from a Dutch informer leads the Gestapo to a sealed-off area in an Amsterdam warehouse where they find Jewish diarist Anne Frank and her family.

1964 – American civil rights movement: civil rights workers Michael Schwerner, Andrew Goodman and James Chaney are found dead in Mississippi after disappearing on June 21.

1993 – A federal judge sentences LAPD officers Stacey Koon and Laurence Powell to 30 months in prison for violating motorist Rodney King's civil rights.

1961 – Barack Obama, 44th President of the United States is born

1940 – World War II: Latvia is annexed by the Soviet Union.

1962 – Nelson Mandela is jailed. He would not be released until 1990.

1979 – In Afghanistan, Maoists undertake an attempted military uprising.

1989 – General elections are held in Nicaragua with the Sandinista Front winning a majority.

2003 – A car bomb explodes in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta outside the Marriott Hotel killing 12 and injuring 150.

1806 – Francis II, the last Holy Roman Emperor, abdicates ending the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation.

1825 – Bolivia gains independence from Spain.

1914 – World War I: First Battle of the Atlantic – two days after the United Kingdom had declared war on Germany over the German invasion of Belgium, ten German U-boats leave their base in Helgoland to attack Royal Navy warships in the North Sea.

1945 – World War II: Hiroshima is devastated when the atomic bomb "Little Boy" is dropped by the United States B-29 Enola Gay. Around 70,000 people are killed instantly, and some tens of thousands die in subsequent years from burns and radiation poisoning.

1960 – Cuban Revolution: in response to a United States embargo, Cuba nationalizes American and foreign-owned property in the nation.

1962 – Jamaica becomes independent.

1965 – US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law.

1988 – The Tompkins Square Park Police Riot in New York City spurs reform of the NYPD, who were responsible for the melee that transpired the night of August 6-7.

1991 – Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web. WWW debuts as a publicly available service on the Internet.

1996 – NASA announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms.

2008 – A military junta led by Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz stages a coup d'état in Mauritania, overthrowing president Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi

You can't just c+v from wiki, that's cheating.