The deadliest tornado in U.S. History, the Tri State Tornado, swept across the states of Missouri, Illinois and Indiana killing 751 people.
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The Battle of Kiauneliškis ended in a Red Army victory with the destruction of the Lithuanian partisan bunkers.
The British Indian 62nd Bde took the last Japanese rail link to Mandalay.
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United States Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan issued a letter revealing the American government's concerns over Japan's rejection of the Open Door Policy and further encroachments on Chinese sovereignty.
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Sun Yat-sen died at age 58.
The British government rejected the Geneva Protocol on the basis that the lack of US participating in the League of Nations rendered the Protocol unenforceable.
It's interesting that while the US had competent leadership at the time, as opposed to the rampaging buffoons who govern it now, the isolationist mallogic was strong at the time, helping to doom the world to a Second World War.
The Nazi stand in Großdeutsche Volksgemeinschaft disbanded in favor of the Nazis, with its populist members folding right back in.
Yes, populists. The Nazi Party was a populist right wing party.
Retired General W. R. E. Murphy, Commissioner of the Dublin Metropolitan Police, launched overnight raids on all of the brothels ("Kip-Houses") in the Irish capital signalling the end of the tolerance of prostitution.
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Which also shows that the classic "NATO isn't pulling its weight" is bull crap.
Deposed Chinese Emperor Puyi accepted a Japanese offer of projection and moved to the moved to the Japanese concession of Tianjin.
An item from Reddit's 100 Years Ago Today sub:
Truly awful.
It's really the early 1920s, not the 1970s, that gave rise to a really powerful "women's liberation" movement, although you can find it building in the decades prior to that. The 20s, however, saw it really blossom in much the same way that it would later, with much of the same goals. As with the movement in the 70s, it met with some pretty nasty counter reactions.
Coeds themselves, meaning women in college, was a fairly new thing in this form. It wasn't really until the post war economic boom of the 1920s that a lot of women began to leave home to attend college for a secondary education.
I'm not a feminist, of course, but part of the horror of the Trump years is watching these sorts of attitudes creep back in and begin to be expressed openly.
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The Page Act of 1875 banned the immigration of Chinese women into the United States on the assumption that they were all being imported as prostitutes. They could obtain exemption from the act, but the invasive procedures required effectively deterred them from attempting to do so. The situation was complicated by the practices of polygamy and concubinage in Chinese culture. Prostitution was not uncommon, but then it was not uncommon in the US in general.
There were other restrictions as well, but that was the main one The act was the first exclusionary immigration law in US history.
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About 20 people were killed when representatives of the Fengtian Clique met resistance attempting to disarm about 1,000 defeated Jiangsu troops, who apparently weren't quite as defeated as thought.
Flapper Fanny Says was on day three of its new syndicated run. The cartoon would run until 1940, during which time Fanny ceased being a flapper. It had two different cartoonist illustrate it, both of them women.
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The Red Army took Katowice and Leszno.
Female Red Army sniper Roza Shanina died of wounds sustained from artillery fire the prior day. She is reported to have killed 50 Axis soldiers during her service. She was 20 years of age.
While not really well depicted in film, artillery was the great killer of the Second World War, not rifle fire or close combat. This was so much the case that for a long period of time after the war artillery came to be seen as the predominant conventional combat arm, with this really only changing after the US began to appreciate the lessons of the Vietnam War which showed a shift back to close combat wounds.
The Germans killed Italian generals Giuseppe Andreoli, Emanuele Balbo Bertone, Ugo Ferrero, Carlo Spatocco, Alberto Trionfi, Alessandro Vaccaneo in Kuźnica Żelichowska.
The 8th Air Force conducted raids over the Ruhr.
The first supplies to cross the Ledo Road enter China.
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Russian mercenaries captured Shanghai for the Fengtian clique.
Displaced Russian military forces were a menace in China for some time. The refugee population was relatively large, and there's still a population of Russians in China.
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February 17, 2022
The Center for Disease Control estimates that, taking the massive spread of Omicron around the country into account and the final relatively high vaccination rate in the country, 73% of the nation is now immune from the Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2, i.e. COVID 19.
Nobody is really sure exactly what that means. But it might mean that we're entering a phase where the virus doesn't disappear, but it's much less disruptive to society.
It's still the case, however, that it remains a danger for the unvaccinated.
March 1, 2022
Wyoming's public health emergency shall expire on March 14.
March 21, 2022
A new variant of Omicron has developed, which is about 30% more transmissible than the already more transmissible Omicron. It's spiking in Europe and in Hong Kong has caused an outbreak with a massive death rate, mostly concentrated in the unvaccinated elderly.
China has reported its first deaths in many months.
According to experts, the world is about 50% through the probable course of the pandemic.
April 14, 2022
Over 1,000,000 Americans have now died from the COVID 19.
July 22, 2022
President Biden has COVID 19.
At this point, two members of our four member family also have, with one having had it quite recently and finding it awful, but being grateful accordingly for having been vaccinated.
A new, more traditional type of vaccine, has now been approved.
September 20, 2022
On 60 Minutes over the weekend, President Biden stated; "The pandemic is over. We still have a problem with COVID. We're still doing a lot of work on it. But the pandemic is over." The HHS Secretary later confirmed that position.
Epidemiologically, it isn't over, but then neither is the plague's pandemic either. The statement has been criticized, with 400 people per day dying of the disease, but by and large it reflects the mood of the public which has largely gone back to a new post Covid introduction, world in which COVID 19 is part of the background.
December 15, 2022
The new defense spending authorization includes a requirement that the Secretary of Defense rescind vaccination requirements for troops because, well because that's the idiotic sort of thing that politicians like to stick into bills.
All of the troops should be vaccinated.
December 24, 2022
China, which has not accepted western vaccines, reported 37,000,000 new vaccinations in a single day.
January 2, 2023
A new variant of Omicron, XBB.1.5, now makes up 40% of the new cases in the U.S.
And Covid is still killing.
January 20, 2023
Governor Gordon Tests Positive for COVID-19
CHEYENNE, Wyo. – Governor Mark Gordon has received results of a COVID-19 test that showed he is positive for the virus. The Governor is experiencing only minor symptoms at this time and will continue working from home on behalf of Wyoming.
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The Central Intelligence Agency revised its report on the origin of COVID reporting, with low confidence, that a Chinese laboratory is to blame.
This was a report that was completed during the Biden Administration and was just now released. It's being released now is unfortunate, in that it comes during the Trump Interregnum which is packed with people who generally have a contempt for science, which this will slightly fuel if anyone notices it given all the distraction at the present time. Most Scientists think the most likely hypothesis is that it circulated in bats, like many coronaviruses, before infecting another species.
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Hitler appointed Heinrich Himmler as commander of the newly created Army Group Vistula. This was rightfully resented by the German military.
The Battle of Poznań began for Polish city.
The French 1st Army took crossing over the River Ill in Alsace. The British 2nd Army entered Heinsberg.
The US took Calapan on Mindoro and Cabanatuan on Luzon.
The US 14th Air Force abandoned Suichuan airfield in China due to Japanese advances. Operation Ichi-Go, the Japanese ground offensive in China, was going spectacularly well at the same time the United States was destroying the Japanese in the Pacific and getting ever closer to Japan itself, giving this a surreal quality. Additing to it, British operations in Burma were going very well.
The Shigure was sunk by the USS Blackfin in the Gulf of Siam.
Today In Wyoming's History: January 24:1945 The Legislature rejects a junior college plan.
One thing that's nice about doing these posts is that you learn how prior legislatures were short sighted. This is just such an example, most likely.
They would approve a community college plan within a couple of years.
This year the legislature is going to pass a bill, probably, allowing people who homeschool to not report to their school district. By and large, those homeschooling around here do it so their children don't learn something, rather than insure that they learn.
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Zhou Enlai (周恩来) was re-elected as Prime Minister of the People's Republic of China. Deng Xiaoping (邓小平) was elected as a Vice-Premier and Vice-Chairman of the party, ending an eight year period of political exile.
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France legalized infanticide during the first ten weeks of pregnancy.
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Marines landed at Nanjing to patrol near the university and to protect Americans in the vicinity.
Costa Rica, unhappy with the League of Nations failure to address regional issues, withdrew form the body.
The French mandate states of Aleppo and Damascus were united in the State of Syria.
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Hitler left the Wolfsschanze for good.
Partisans took Kosovo.
The British commence attempting to disarm Greek partisans.
Lights came back on in the Piccadilly, the Strand and Fleet Street districts of London.
Facing discontent, Chiang Kai-shek appointed a new Minister of War.
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The USS Mount Hood, an ammunition ship, exploded at Seeadler Harbor at Manus Island in Papua New Guinea, killing all on board and damaging 22 other ships.
Imperial Japanese forces took U.S. airfields in China as part of Operation Ichi-Go. The Japanese were gaining ground in China.
The Germans rounded up over 50,000 Dutch me in Rotterdam as slave labor, and effectively as hostages.
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The Tientsin Conference opened in China between warlords Zhang Zuolin, Feng Yuxiang, and Lu Yongxiang. Former president Sun Yat-sen, the ongoing head of the Kuomintang and the government sitting in Canton, organized the meeting to discuss the ongoing civil war.
Ranch property belonging to Mexican president elect Plutarco Elías Calles was expropriated by the state in accordance with Mexican agrarian laws.
Chicago mobster Dean O'Banion, leader of Chicago's North Side Gang, was gunned down in his florist shop, making the cover of The Casper Herald. His murder was nearly inevitable as he'd grown crosswise with one of the Italian mob families in Chicago.
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