The French Cabinet held an emergency session over the collapsing franc.
Dangerous "boy gangs" were cruising Denver, according to the Rocky Mountain News.
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Ostensibly exploring the practice of law before the internet. Heck, before good highways for that matter.
Dangerous "boy gangs" were cruising Denver, according to the Rocky Mountain News.
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Three explosions at the Castle Gate coal mine in Utah killed all 171 miners working at the mine. It is one of the worst mining disasters in American history.
The Kingdom of Greece established diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union while, on the same day, the Prime Minister was forced to resign after refusing the Army's call to abolish the monarchy.
Henry Breault, a submariner, received the Medal of Honor. He is the only enlisted submariner to have ever received the medal.
For heroism and devotion to duty while serving on board the U.S. submarine O-5 at the time of the sinking of that vessel. On the morning of 28 October 1923, the O-5 collided with the steamship Abangarez and sank in less than a minute. When the collision occurred, Breault was in the torpedo room. Upon reaching the hatch, he saw that the boat was rapidly sinking. Instead of jumping overboard to save his own life, he returned to the torpedo room to the rescue of a shipmate whom he knew was trapped in the boat, closing the torpedo room hatch on himself. Breault and Brown remained trapped in this compartment until rescued by the salvage party 31 hours later.
Aiden de Brune became the first person to walk all he way around Australia. His return to Melbourne was the completion of a journey he began on September 21, 1921.
A 7.1 magnitude earthquake in Costa Rica resulted in the death of 70 people.
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Teresa Gullace, seven months pregnant, was killed by a German soldier when she attempted to pass a sandwich to her husband, who was detained by the Germans in Rome. She was part of a group of women that had gathered to protest the Germans holding their husbands.
The scene was later depicted in Rosellini's 1945 Rome open city, one of three great films by the director set during World War Two and filmed immediately after, and which used amateur actors to a large degree.
The U.S. Army Air Force hit the Roman rail facilities at the Tiburtino, Littorio and Ostiense marshalling yards. There were 400 civilian casualties.
Over 500 railroad passengers died of carbon monoxide poisoning during a protracted stall in a tunnel at Balvano, Italy. It's one of the worst rail disasters of all time.
Stalin shut the door on further negotiations on the Polish border.
The Soviet Union created the Medal of Ushakov and the Medal of Nakhimov, both of which were awarded to sailors. Interestingly, they were both named after Imperial Russian officers.
Japanese troops on Los Negros launched a night attack, which was repulsed by US cavalrymen.
The 3d Infantry Division repulsed a German attack on the Anzio beachhead at Ponte Rotto. It would be the last German offensive action at Anzio.
Paul-Émile Janson, a Belgian Prime Minister just before World War Two, died at Buchewald at age 71.
The Nixon Nitration Works disaster occured in which an explosion of ammonium nitrate killed at least 18 people, destroyed several miles of New Jersey factories, and demolished Nixon, New Jersey.
While a very famous industrial disaster, the Nixon Nitration Works and Nixon New Jersey are remembered now principally for being mentioned in Band of Brothers as Cpt. Lewis Nixon III, a major character Ambrose's depiction of the 506 Parachute Infantry Regiment, mentions it. Lewis Nixon was in fact a member of the family that owned the plant, and it was the case that Richard Winters, his close friend and for most of his service in Europe his superior, worked there for a time after the war.
The Nixon's were troubled in general, and Lewis Nixon III was no exception. His marriage contracted just after the start of the war failed during it, as did a subsequent one. A third marriage to Grace Umezawa, formerly a Japanese internee, was successful. She helped him overcome the alcoholism depicted during the series.
The KDP, the Communist Part of Germany, was reinstated. The KDP, together with the NADSP, the Nazi Party, would figure enormously in the destruction of German democracy as the extremes grew increasingly powerful in the remaining years of the Weimar Republic.
Alice's Day at Sea, the first of 57 Alice comedies produced by Walt Disney, appeared. They were short films meant to be shown before the feature, something at one time common.
White rats paraded in San Pedro, California.
Not a hack, but on this day, an Irish Traveler feeding his pony on this day in 1924.
A 20-year-old marrying a 15-year-old?
And she was in 6th Grade?
The Norwegian cargo ship Henry and passenger ship Irma were sunk off Kristiansund by two ships of the Royal Norwegian Navy due to their not having markings, according to the Royal Norwegian Navy.
The sinking became controversial, and remains so.
The USS Macaw ran aground at Midway and sank.
The U.S. 14th Air Force raided Hong Kong.
The Germans assassinated Cretan resistance fighter Yiannis Dramoutanis.
The Red Army took Luga, Polna and Lyady. Trapped German units pulled out of Korsun-Sevchenkosky late in the day, but did not break out of encirclement.
This past week, we published this item:
Here we look at the topic of illegal immigration itself.
The number of illegal migrants living in the US was stable, at about 7,000,000, from 2017 to 2020. Then things began to change. It's important to realize that, as while the situation is bad, it's not quite what it was reported to be. It is not the case that 8,000,000 people have arrived under Biden's watch.
It is the case that too many have.
Here are some stats on it, lifted whose sale from the Migration Policy Institute. What does this tell us?
Quite a lot, really.
For one thing, the often repeated "8,000,000 have come in", is wrong. It's more like 3,000,000 in terms of an increase in the illegal immigrant population that was in the country from 2017 to 2020.
That figure, however, was a big increase from the 3,600,000 figure that was present in 1995. It climbed every year from 1995 to about 2007, when it was 8,200,000, after which it fell for a while. In 2021, it was 7,800,000.
This also demonstrates that, contrary to some recent reporting, most illegal immigrant in the US, slightly under half, are from Mexico. This has been the case for a long time. Recent news reports would suggest they're all Venezuelan, and perhaps this data is just a little too old to reflect a big influx of Venezuelans, but more likely, they're mostly from Mexico and parts to the immediate south of Mexico. Indeed, this would indicate 18% are from Central America, which we can perhaps boost up to maybe something like 25% now.
India at 4% is a surprise.
Most aren't married, well over 50%.
Close to half can't speak English.
Construction is the biggest employer, at 21%. Farm work, contrary to what some keep suggesting, doesn't even show up. Over half are uninsured, but nearly 30% own a home.
Most of these people are economic migrants.
Hardly any are dangerous Arab terrorists, as some propaganda wishes you to believe.
They are illegal, which is illegal, and illegality breeds illegal activities. Therefore, like it or not, these populations, like most distressed migrant populations, legal or illegal, are associated with crime, as recent Venezuelan gang activity in New York has demonstrated. The control of dope money in Colorado should have already demonstrated that. Sinola infiltrating American Indian reservations, which has been going on for many years, but which oddly just hit the press, is another feature of that.
For the most part, what we're seeing here is people who are in a position to pick up and move for work, are doing so. Some are merely opportunistic. Some are flat out desperate. Very few are asylum seekers in any conventional sense.
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