Month: August 2023
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Six American Airmen Were Murdered by the Townspeople of Russelsheim, Germany, During World War II. August 26, 1944.
Image: Five Germans were condemned to death for the killing of six American flyers, who were seized from their German military captors. Joseph Harzgen is led to execution by hanging at Bruchsal, Germany. (Wikimedia Commons.) On this day in history, six American airmen were murdered by the townspeople of Russelsheim, Germany, during World War II.…
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German Soldiers Stationed in the Belgian Village of Louvain During the Opening Month of World War I Burn and Loot Much of the Town, Executing Hundreds of Civilians. August 25, 1914.
Image: Depiction of the mass murder of civilians in Blégny by Évariste Carpentier. (Wikimedia Commons.) On this day in history, and over the next five days, German soldiers stationed in the Belgian village of Louvain during the opening month of World War I burn and loot much of the town, executing hundreds of civilians. Located…
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Italian-Born Anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are Executed for Murder in Boston, Massachusetts. August 23, 1927.
Image: Bartolomeo Vanzetti (left), handcuffed to Nicola Sacco (right). Dedham, Massachusetts Superior Court, 1923.This photo was taken in 1923 when Sacco was on the 23rd day of a hunger strike. (Wikimedia Commons.) On this day in history, despite worldwide protests in support of their innocence, Italian-born anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are executed for…
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King Richard III Was Defeated and Killed at the Battle of Bosworth Field, Thus Ushering in the House of Tudor. August 22, 1485
Image: Battle of Bosworth, as depicted by Philip James de Loutherbourg (1740–1812) (Wikimedia Commons.) On this day in history, in the last battle of the War of the Roses, King Richard III was defeated and killed at the Battle of Bosworth Field by Henry Tudor, the Earl of Richmond. After the battle, the royal crown,…
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History Daily: August 21
CONFEDERATE GUERILLAS MASSACRE 150 PEOPLE IN LAWRENCE, KANSAS Image: An artist’s depiction of the destruction of the city of Lawrence, Kansas, and the massacre of its inhabitants by Confederate guerrillas on August 21, 1863. (Wikimedia Commons.) The vicious guerilla war in Missouri rolls into Kansas. It triggers one of the most shocking acts of violence…
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Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa is Stolen Right Off the Walls of the Louvre in Paris. August 21, 1911.
On this day in history, on a quiet, humid Monday morning in Paris, three men were hurrying out of the Louvre with what would become the most famous painting in the world. They were committing the “art heist of the century.” History Daily: 365 Fascinating Happenings Volume 1 & Volume 2 – August 21, 1914…
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History Daily:August 20
RUSSIAN REVOLUTIONARY LEON TROTSKY IS MORTALLY INJURED IN MEXICO CITY ATTACK Image: Leon Trotsky (Wikimedia Commons.) Born in Ukraine to Russian-Jewish parents in 1879, Trotsky became a Marxist as a teenager and later left the University of Odessa to help organize the subversive South Russian Workers Union. In 1898, he was arrested for radical activities…
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First Africans in Virginia. August 20, 1619.
Image: “Landing Negroes at Jamestown from Dutch man-of-war, 1619”. This 1901 illustration’s caption is incorrect, as The White Lion was an English privateer operating under a Dutch letter of marque, and landed at nearby Old Point Comfort. (Wikimedia Commons.) On this day in history, August 20, 1619, twenty Africans, kidnapped by the Portuguese in Angola,…
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History Daily: August 19
OUTLAW JOHN WESLEY HARDIN IS MURDERED IN TEXAS Image: John Wesley Hardin’s post mortem photo. (Wikimedia Commons.) On August 19, 1895, John Wesley Hardin, one of the most vicious and prolific killers in the American Old West, is murdered by an off-duty policeman in a saloon in El Paso, Texas. Born in Texas on May…
History Daily With Francis Chappell Black 