Category: 1930s

• History Daily: August 22

  THE BARKER GANG ROB A FEDERAL RESERVE MAIL TRUCK AND KILL A POLICE OFFICER WHILE GETTING AWAY WITH NO MONEY Image: Ma Barker (Wikimedia Commons) The infamous Barker gang holds up a Federal Reserve mail truck in Chicago, Illinois, and kills a police officer. After obtaining only a stack of worthless checks, the Barkers returned…

  August 22, 2023

  1700s, 1930s, 1960s, American Revolutionary War, Barker Gang, Black history, crime & punishment, Fannie Lou Hamer, Fannie Lou HamerCivil Rights Movement, History Daily, King George III, King George IIIAmerican colonies, Ma Barker

  1700s, 1930s, 1960, American colonies, American Revolution, Barker Gang, Black history, Civil Rights Movement, crime & punishment, Fannie Lou Hamer, History Daily, King George III, Ma Barker

• History Daily: August 17

  BILLY THE KID KILLS HIS FIRST MAN Image: Billy the Kid 1880. (Wikimedia Commons.) Despite being a teenager at the time, on August 17, 1877, Billy the Kid shoots and injures an Arizona blacksmith who dies the next day. He was the infamous outlaw’s first casualty. Just how many men the Kid killed is unknown.…

  August 17, 2023

  1800s, 1930s, 1940s, American History, Billy the Kid, Conquest of Sicily 1943, event & history, George Patton, History Daily, military history, The Wizard of Oz, World War II

  1800s, 1930s, 1940s, American History, Billy the Kid, Conquest of Sicily 1943, event & history, George Patton, History Daily, military history, The Wizard of Oz, World War II

• History Daily: August 15

  EMPEROR HIROHITO ANNOUNCES JAPAN”S SURRENDER TO THE JAPANESE PEOPLE Image: General Douglas MacArthur and Emperor Hirohito (Wikimedia Commons) Emperor Hirohito announced the news of Japan’s surrender to the Japanese people on August 15, 1945. Although Tokyo had already agreed to the Allies’ surrender terms at the Potsdam Conference several days earlier, and a Japanese news…

  August 15, 2023

  1930s, 1940s, 700s, Adolf Hitler, American History, Charlemagne, History Daily, military history, World War II

  1930s, 1940s, 700s, Adolf Hitler, American History, Charlemagne, History Daily, Japan, World War II