Category: Adolf Hitler

• History Daily: August 28

  EMMETT TILL IS MURDERED Image: Emmett Till (Wikimedia Commons) On August 28, 1955, while visiting family in Money, Mississippi, 14-year-old Emmett Till, an African American boy from Chicago, is viciously murdered for allegedly flirting with a white woman four days earlier. His murderers—the white woman’s husband and his brother—made Emmett carry a 75-pound cotton gin…

  August 28, 2023

  1800s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, Adolf Hitler, American History, Civil Rights Movement, Emmett Till, event & history, History Daily, Lynching, Poland, Trains, World War II

  1800s, 1930s, 1950s, Adolf Hitler, Civil Rights Movement, Emmett Till, History Daily, Lynching, Poland, Trains, World War II

• 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…

  August 21, 2023

  1500s, 1800s, 1940s, Adolf Hitler, American Civil War, American History, Confederate Partisans, event & history, Habsburg Empire, History Daily, Lawrence, Kansas, Ottoman Turks, Seige of Buda, Suleiman the Magnificent

  1500s, 1800s, 1940s, American Civil War, Battle of the Caucasus, Confederate Partisans, event & history, Kansas, Lawrence, massacre, Ottoman Turks, Seige of Buda, Suleiman the Magnificent

• 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