Diversionary air attacks take place in support of the upcoming landings at Leyte gulf.
The Greek civil war commenced with fighting in Athens.
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Diversionary air attacks take place in support of the upcoming landings at Leyte gulf.
The Greek civil war commenced with fighting in Athens.
It was the first such media event in U.S. Presidential politics and was calculated to counteract Coolidge's dour personality.
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Pancho Villa ordered his forces to attack a garrison loyal to Venustiano Carranza and Álvaro Obregón at Naco, Sonora, Mexico, commencing what would become a 119 day siege.
The town is on the border with Arizona.
The British took Violaines and French cavalry Fromelles . French forces recaptured Armentières.
The German Navy lost a torpedo squadron trying to lay mines at them mouth of the Thames. A German torpedo boat sank the Japanese cruiser Takachiho.
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Lt. George Sweet became the first U.S. Navy officer to fly in an aircraft.
He went up as a passenger of Orville Wright.
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Lex Anteinternet: Inflation. A needed primer.: Seeing as I see so many posts, some from people running for office on this, a reminder. Inflation going down just means the rate of inflatio...
The German backed fascist coup in Hungary, designed to keep the country in the war, completed with the leader of the banned fascist Arrow Cross Party, Ferenc Szálasi, becoming prime minister of a "Government of National Unity" w hich was controlled by the Germans. Horthy was taken prisoner.
Horthy, who appears here a lot, died in Portugal in 1957 at age 88. Szálasi was executed in 1946 at age 49.
Who the crap could think that the fascist were going to win in late 1944?
The Soviets launched the Gumbinnen Operation with the goal of penetrating the borders of East Prussia.
Albanian partisans liberated Vlorë.
The U.S. launched an offensive towards Bologna.
The 10th Indian Division crossed the Savio River.
A U.S. bombing raid on Salzburg destroyed the dome of the cathedral and most of the Mozart family home.
Incarcerated menace Adolf Hitler published a statement admitting that he was born in Austria, not Germany, but arguing that he had lost his Austrian citizenship after volunteering to serve in the German Army during World War I . He claimed that mentally, he'd always been a German.
He nonetheless did not renounce his Austrian citizenship until 1925, and didn't acquire German citizenship until 1932.
Ma Rainey recorded See See Rider, the first known recording of the blues standard which has an unknown origin and date of origin. It's at least a couple of decades older than the recording.
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Belgian and French troops held back the Germans at the Yser.
The British took Aubers at the cost of 1,000 casualties.
The New Zealand Expeditionary Force left New Zealand for Australia.
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Regent of Hungary Miklós Horthy made a radio broadcast announcing a separate peace with the Soviet Union. The Germans launched Operation Panzerfaust, a commando operation to seize Horthy and keep Hungary in the war. He was in fact seized later that day and resigned in favor of Arrow Cross leader Ferenc Szálasi when he learned that his son had been seized and his life was in danger.
The Red Army too Riga.
Partisans launched an operation to expel the Germans from Kosovo.
The Poles took Gambettola.
The Leipzig collided with the Prinz Eugen in the Baltic fog and was rendered a total loss.
The U-777 was sunk by the RAF.
Task Force 38.4 conducted air raids north of Manila.
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Proclamation, October 15, 1924
Purpose: To declare historic landmarks on military reservations as national monuments
CASTLE PINCKNEY, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina.
The entire area comprising 18.09 acres situated in the city of Saint Augustine, Florida.
Calvin Coolidge.
The Prince of Wales traveled from Detroit to Toronto and participated in a fox hunt.
Toronto was a very English town at the time.
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Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, rather than face trial for his remote association with the July 20 plot, killed himself. He was met first by representatives of the German government and his house surrounded and given the choice between suicide with a state funeral and immunity from prosecution for his family, vs a trial. The German public was told that he died from wounds associated with an Allied strafing run on his car.
The Allies took Athens and the Piraeus. British forces landed at Corfu.
German and Italian Social Republic forces took Domodossola, Italy from partisans.
The Germans withdrew from Niš, Yugoslavia.
The 81st Infantry Division replaced the 1st Marine Division at Peleliu.
Formosa was hit again by Task Force 38. Task Force 38.4 conducted air raids on Luzon.
The Canadian frigate Magog was damaged beyond repair in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence by the U-1223.
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