This Day In History

[Doc4]

On April 23, 1915, Rupert Brooke, a young scholar and poet serving as an officer in the British Royal Navy, dies of blood poisoning on a hospital ship anchored off the Greek island of Skyros, while awaiting deployment in the Allied invasion of the Gallipoli Peninsula.

Brooke, born in 1887 in Rugby, Britain, attended King’s College in Cambridge, where he befriended such future luminaries as E.M. Forster, John Maynard Keynes and Virginia Stephens (later Woolf) as a member of the famed Bloomsbury set. Brooke’s travels in the United States in 1912 produced a series of acclaimed essays and articles; he also lived for a time in Tahiti, where he wrote some of his best-known poems. Returning to England just before the outbreak of World War I in August 1914, Brooke gained a commission in the Royal Naval Division with the help of his close friend Edward Marsh, then secretary to First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill. In his poetry, Brooke welcomed the arrival of war, writing: "Now, God be thanked Who has matched us with His hour/And caught our youth, and wakened us from sleeping."

Rupert Brooke saw his only action of World War I during the defense of Antwerp, Belgium, against German invasion in early October 1914. Although aided by a stiff resistance from Antwerp’s inhabitants, British troops suffered a decisive defeat in that conflict and were forced to retreat through a devastated Belgian countryside. Brooke subsequently returned to Britain to await redeployment, where he caught the flu during the training and preparation. While recovering, Brooke wrote what would become the most famous of his war sonnets, including "Peace," "Safety," "The Dead" and "The Soldier."

 

[Mr. Scruffy]

April 24

1184 BC - Greek soldiers descend from the belly of a huge hollow wooden horse constructed to gain entrance into Troy during the Trojan War. Troy was rampaged, with hundreds of men, women, and children slaughtered or raped.

1898 - Spain declares war after rejecting US ultimatum to withdraw from Cuba. The ensuing war was pathetically one-sided, since Spain had readied neither its army nor its navy for a distant war with the formidable power of the United States.

1916 - On Easter Monday in Dublin, the Irish Republican Brotherhood, a secret organization of Irish nationalists led by Patrick Pearse, launches the so-called Easter Rebellion, an armed uprising against British rule. Assisted by militant Irish socialists under James Connolly, Pearse and his fellow Republicans rioted and attacked British provincial government headquarters across Dublin and seized the Irish capital’s General Post Office.

1980 - An ill-fated military operation to rescue the 52 American hostages held in Tehran ends with eight U.S. servicemen dead and no hostages rescued. During the operation, three of eight helicopters failed, crippling the crucial airborne plans. The mission was then canceled at the staging area in Iran, but during the withdrawal one of the retreating helicopters collided with one of six C-130 transport planes, killing eight soldiers and injuring five.

 

[MVeeI]

April 25

1898 - The U.S. declares war on Spain.

1945 - The German occupation army surrenders and leaves northern Italy. The day was set as a public holiday to celebrate the Liberation of Italy.

1953 - Francis Crick and James Watson publish the paper describing the double helical structure of DNA.

1961 - Robert Noyce is granted a patent for an integrated circuit.

Birthdays

1874 - Guglielmo Marconi, Italian businessman and inventor. He is considered the inventor of radio.

1900 - Wolfgang Pauli, Austrian-born physicist.

1908 - Edward R. Murrow, journalist.

1917 - Ella Fitzgerald, singer.

1933 - Jerry Lieber, songwriter and producer.

1940 - Al Pacino, actor and director.

1946 - Talia Shire, actress.

 

[Mr. Scruffy]

April 27

1521 - After traveling three-quarters of the way around the globe, Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan is killed during a tribal skirmish on Mactan Island in the Philippines.

1805 - After marching 500 miles from Egypt, U.S. agent William Eaton leads a small force of U.S. Marines and Berber mercenaries against the Tripolitan port city of Derna. The Marines and Berbers were on a mission to depose Yusuf Karamanli, the ruling pasha of Tripoli, who had seized power from his brother, Hamet Karamanli, a pasha who was sympathetic to the United States.

 

[Bakker1964]

April 27

1805 - After marching 500 miles from Egypt, U.S. agent William Eaton leads a small force of U.S. Marines and Berber mercenaries against the Tripolitan port city of Derna. The Marines and Berbers were on a mission to depose Yusuf Karamanli, the ruling pasha of Tripoli, who had seized power from his brother, Hamet Karamanli, a pasha who was sympathetic to the United States.

Please correct me if I am mistaken, but is this event where the line about the "shores of Tripoli" in the Marine Corps Hymn derives from?

 

[Mr. Scruffy]

Please correct me if I am mistaken, but is this event where the line about the "shores of Tripoli" in the Marine Corps Hymn derives from?

Yes it is.

 

[Mr. Scruffy]

April 28

1789 - Three weeks into a journey from Tahiti to the West Indies, the HMS Bounty is seized in a mutiny led by Fletcher Christian, the master’s mate. Captain William Bligh and 18 of his loyal supporters were set adrift in a small, open boat, and the Bounty set course for Tubuai south of Tahiti.

1945 - “Il Duce,” Benito Mussolini, and his mistress, Clara Petacci, are shot by Italian partisans who had captured the couple as they attempted to flee to Switzerland.

1951 - Mohammad Mosaddegh elected Prime Minister of Iran by the Parliament of Iran (Majlis)

 

[Mr. Scruffy]

April 29

1429 - During the Hundred Years’ War, the 17-year-old French peasant Joan of Arc leads a French force in relieving the city of Orleans, besieged by the English since October. As a French sortie distracted the English troops on the west side of the city, Joan entered unopposed by its eastern gate. Bringing needed supplies and troops into the besieged city, she also inspired the French to a passionate resistance and through the next week led the charge during a number of skirmishes and battles. On one occasion, she was even hit by an arrow, but after dressing her wounds she returned to the battle. On May 8, the siege of Orleans was broken, and the English retreated.

1945 - The U.S. Seventh Army’s 45th Infantry Division liberates Dachau, the first concentration camp established by Germany’s Nazi regime. A major Dachau subcamp was liberated the same day by the 42nd Rainbow Division.

 

[MVeeI]

April 30

1789 - George Washington takes the oath of office to become the first elected President of the U.S.

1803 - The U.S. purchases the Louisiana territory from France for $15 million.

1892 - J. J. Thomson announces his discovery of the electron.

1905 - Albert Einstein completes his doctoral dissertation at the University of Zurich.

1939 - The 1939 - 1940 New York World's Fair opens.

1945 - Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun commit suicide.

1975 - Saigon falls and the Vietnam War formally ends.

Birthdays

1777 - Karl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician and physicist.

1872 - Alice B. Toklas, memoirist.

1908 - Eve Arden, actress.

1943 - Bobby Vee, pop singer-songwriter.

1944 - Jill Clayburgh, actress.

 

[Mr. Scruffy]

May 1

1394 - Ekiho, Zen teacher of the Rinzai line, head of Engakuji, exorcised the temple and it's surroundings from an old badger who (like most of the badgers in medieaval Japan) was an expert in bewitching passers-by.

1898 - At Manila Bay in the Philippines, the U.S. Asiatic Squadron destroys the Spanish Pacific fleet in the first battle of the Spanish-American War. Nearly 400 Spanish sailors were killed and 10 Spanish warships wrecked or captured at the cost of only six Americans wounded.

1960 - An American U-2 spy plane, piloted by Francis Gary Powers, is shot down while conducting espionage over the Soviet Union. The incident derailed an important summit meeting between President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev that was scheduled for later that month.

 

[MVeeI]

April 28

1945 - “Il Duce,” Benito Mussolini, and his mistress, Clara Petacci, are shot by Italian partisans who had captured the couple as they attempted to flee to Switzerland.

Some members of the crowd expressed their appreciation for Mussolini's leadership by urinating on the corpse. They were pissed off.

 

[Mr. Scruffy]

May 4

1471 - The Battle of Tewkesbury was one of the decisive battles of the Wars of the Roses in England. The forces loyal to the House of Lancaster were completely defeated by those of the rival House of York under their monarch, King Edward IV. The Lancastrian heir to the throne, Edward, Prince of Wales, and many prominent Lancastrian nobles were killed during the battle or thereafter executed. The Lancastrian king, Henry VI, who was a prisoner in the Tower of London, died or was murdered shortly after the battle. Tewkesbury restored political stability to England until the death of Edward IV in 1483.

1776 - Rhode Island, the colony founded by the most radical religious dissenters from the Puritans of Massachusetts Bay Colony, becomes the first North American colony to renounce its allegiance to King George III. Ironically, Rhode Island would be the last state to ratify the new American Constitution more than 14 years later on May 29, 1790.

1970 - In Kent, Ohio, 28 National Guardsmen fire their weapons at a group of anti-war demonstrators on the Kent State University campus, killing four students, wounding eight, and permanently paralyzing another. The tragedy was a watershed moment for a nation divided by the conflict in Vietnam, and further galvanized the anti-war movement.

 

[MVeeI]

May 5

1866 - Memorial Day is first celebrated in the U.S., at Waterloo, NY.

1912 - Pravda begins publication in Saint Petersburg.

1945 - Six people are killed by a Japanese fire balloon near Bly, Oregon. They are the only Americans killed in the contiguous United States during World War II.

1961 - Alan Shepard becomes the first American to travel in space on a suborbital flight.

Birthdays

1818 - Karl Marx, German philosopher.

1864 - Nellie Bly, journalist and author.

1944 - Tammy Wynette, singer-songwriter and guitarist.

 

[Bakker1964]

May 5th, 1945. Liberation of the Netherlands by Canadian Forces and other Allied troops.

 

[Mr. Scruffy]

Also on May 5...

Happy Cinco de Mayo!!

1862 - During the French-Mexican War (1861-1867), an outnumbered Mexican army defeats a powerful invading French force at Puebla. The retreat of the French troops at the Battle of Puebla represented a great moral victory for the people of Mexico, symbolizing the country’s ability to defend its sovereignty against a powerful foreign nation.

 

[Doc4]

5th May, 1821 ... Napoleon Bonaparte dies in exile on St Helena.

 

[Mr. Scruffy]

May 6

878 - At the Battle of Edington, an army of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex under Alfred the Great defeated the Great Heathen Army led by Guthrum, resulting in the Treaty of Wedmore later the same year. Primary sources locate the battle at "Ethandun" or "Ethandune", and until a scholarly consensus linked its location with the present-day Edington in Wiltshire it was known as the Battle of Ethandun, a name which continues to be used.

1937 - The airship Hindenburg, the largest dirigible ever built and the pride of Nazi Germany, while attempting to moor at Lakehurst,NJ, suddenly burst into flames, probably after a spark ignited its hydrogen core. Rapidly falling 200 feet to the ground, the hull of the airship incinerated within seconds. Thirteen passengers, 21 crewmen, and 1 civilian member of the ground crew lost their lives, and most of the survivors suffered substantial injuries.

1942 - U.S. Lieutenant General Jonathan Wainwright surrenders all U.S. troops in the Philippines to the Japanese.

 

[ukobke]

April 24, 1184 BC: Greek soldiers enter Troy inside famous Trojan horse - https://www.history101.com/april-24-1184-bc-greek-soldiers-troy-trojan-horse/

Just happened to read this story written by Kasy Long. This person does write following its own imagination and lies.

Unfortunately these... stories are reproduced in B&B (copy/paste).

The source of that history, is known from Homer and other historical important writers of the ancient times. The war took place in the years between 1194-1184 B.C. Trojan War - Wikipedia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_War
Noone knows exactly. New research indicate that it was the year 1218 B.C . I wonder where this ignorant Kasy Long discovered April !!!! 24!!!!! and above all where ( ?????) did he find the source of "hundreds of men, women, and children slaughtered or raped".

Possibly is the Indiana Jones or some kind of history maker.....

....by the way, today May 6th year 1001 B.C the Japanese discovered Mexico.

 

[Mr. Scruffy]

May 7

1718 - La Nouvelle-Orléans (New Orleans) was founded in the spring of 1718 (May 7 has become the traditional date to mark the anniversary, but the actual day is unknown) by the French Mississippi Company, under the direction of Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, on land inhabited by the Chitimacha. It was named for Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, who was Regent of the Kingdom of France at the time. His title came from the French city of Orléans.

1915 - Less than a year after World War I erupted across Europe, a German U-boat torpedoed and sank the RMS Lusitania, a British ocean liner en route from New York to Liverpool, England.

1954 - Ho Chi Minh’s Viet Minh forces decisively defeat the French at Dien Bien Phu, a French stronghold besieged by the Vietnamese communists for 57 days. The Viet Minh victory at Dien Bien Phu signaled the end of French colonial influence in Indochina and cleared the way for the division of Vietnam along the 17th parallel at the conference of Geneva.

 

[MVeeI]

May 10

1801 - The Barbary pirates of Tripoli declare war on the U.S.

1865 - Jefferson Davis is captured by U.S. troops near Irwinsville, Georgia.

1869 - The first transcontinental railroad is completed at Promontory Summit, Utah.

1876 - The Centennial Exposition is opened in Philadelphia.

1924 - J. Edgar Hoover is appointed as the first Director of the FBI.

1954 - Bill Haley and His Comets release Rock Around the Clock.

1962 - Marvel Comics publishes the first issue of The Incredible Hulk.

Birthdays

1828 - John Wilkes Booth,, actor and killer of President Lincoln.

1899 - Fred Astaire, actor, singer and dancer.

1935 - Larry Williams, singer-songwriter, pianist and producer. Among his hits were Short Fat Fannie and Bony Moronie.

1946 - Donovan, Scottish singer-songwriter. His hits include Sunshine Superman, Hurdy Gurdy Man and Atlantis.

1949 - Miuccia Prada, Italian fashion designer.

1955 - Mark David Chapman, killer of John Lennon.

1957 - Sid Vicious, English singer and bass player.