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The Battle of Tannenberg Ended With the Destruction of the Russian Second Army, With 140,000 Killed, Injured, or Captured by the German 8th Army. August 30, 1914.
Image: Russian prisoners of war after the Battle of Tannenberg (Wikimedia Commons.) On this day in history, August 30, 1914, the Battle of Tannenberg ended with the destruction of the Russian Second Army, with 140,000 killed, injured, or captured by the German 8th Army led by Paul von Hindenburg and Erich Ludendorff. History Daily: 365…
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History Daily: August 29
WOMEN JOIN BRITISH WAR EFFORT On August 29, 1914, with World War I approaching the end of its first month, the Women’s Defense Relief Corps was formed in Britain. Though women’s rights organizations in Britain had initially opposed the country’s entry into World War I, they soon reversed their position, recognizing the potential of the…
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On August 28, 1941, More Than 23,000 Hungarian Jews Were Murdered by the Gestapo in Occupied Ukraine.
Image: Jews being killed in Eastern Europe, October 1941. (Yad Vashem) On this day in history, more than 23,000 Hungarian Jews were murdered by the Gestapo in occupied Ukraine. History Daily: 365 Fascinating Happenings Volume 1 & Volume 2 – August 28, 1941 The Kamianets-Podilskyi massacre was a World War II extermination of Jews carried…
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An Exhausted and Demoralized Sauk Leader, Black Hawk, Surrenders After Defeat in the Black Hawk War. August 27, 1832.
Image: Black Hawk, the Sauk war chief and namesake of the Black Hawk War in 1832. (Wikimedia Commons.) On this day in history, after capitulating to the Americans at the end of the Black Hawk War, an exhausted and demoralized Sauk leader, Black Hawk, surrendered to Indian agent Joseph Street at Fort Crawford (present-day Prairie…
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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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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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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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