A temporary truce was called between the Chinese Army and the Eight National Alliance in Beijing which allowed for food and the transmission of information to occur.
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A temporary truce was called between the Chinese Army and the Eight National Alliance in Beijing which allowed for food and the transmission of information to occur.
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Boxers and Imperial Chinese soldiers began the siege of Tchou-kia-ho (Zhujiahe) in Qin County of Hebei Province, China.
It had a large Christian population.
Chinese residents of the Russian city of Blagoveshchensk were slaughtered by Russian troops.
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Bishop Antonino Fantosati and Father Joseph Gambaro were tortured and killed by Boxer rebels. They were both canonized as party of the Martyrs of China.
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The Kuomintang proclaimed a new national government for the Republic of China.
Ford Australia produced its first Model T.
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Today in World War II History—June 30, 1940 & 1945: 80 Years Ago—June 30, 1945: In the Philippines, Luzon is declared secure. Organized Japanese resistance ends on Mindanao in the Philippines.
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Indeed, some Japanese troops would hold out on the Philippines on an individual basis for decades.
American forces on Okinawa completed a week of mop-up operations in which 8,975 Japanese were reported killed and 2,902 captured, showing how intense operations remained.
While not apparent to anyone yet, the U.S. Army and Marine Corps had effectively concluded the main part of their ground fighting in the war. Ground combat, however, carried on for the British and Dominion armies, and the Chinese Army.
Former U.S. Army Air Force base Liuzhou, China, was recaptured by the Chinese. They also took Chungchin on the Indochinese border.
The French the 5e REI, a Foreign Legion regiment which had been stationed in Indochina, was deactivated, having been decimated in their retreat into China.
Truman appointed James F. Byrnes to be Secretary of State.
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The United Nations Conference on International Organization concluded with the United Nations Charter being signed at the San Francisco War Memorial and Performing Arts Center by 50 of the 51 original member countries.
Poland was unable to send a delegation, and therefore did not sign.
While many people in the world were becoming optimistic about the post war world, the Manhattan Project scientists were getting worried.
The US dropped paratroopers near Aparri to link up with the 37th Infantry Division.
The Chinese army took Liuchow airfield.
The United States Army Air Force commenced B-29 raids at night against Japanese oil refineries.
Norma Jeane Dougherty, later known as Marilyn Monroe, appeared as the Yank centerfold.
The title of Generalissimo of the Soviet Union was introduced aand assigned next day assigned to I.V. Stalin, who declined to use it, favoring Marshall.
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Today in World War II History—June 23, 1940 & 1945: June 23, 1945: In the last airborne assault of the war, paratroopers of the US 11th Airborne Division land near Aparri in northern Luzon.
The Battle of Okinawa ended. It was the last major ground battle of World War Two.
Today in World War II History—June 22, 1940 & 1945: 80 Years Ago—June 22, 1945: Battle for Okinawa officially ends at a high cost—12,520 Americans and 110,000 Japanese were killed, plus 42,000 civilians.
June 22, 1945: The Battle of Okinawa
Operation Ten-Go, the last major Japanese naval operation, concluded.
Gen. MacArthur announced that Gen. Joseph Stilwell would replace Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr. as commander of the U.S. Tenth Army.
Emperor Hirohito directed his government to find a way to peace talks.
Japanese generals Isamu Chō, 50, and Mitsuru Ushijima, 57, committed suicide on Okinawa.
The Japanese withdrew from Liuchow.
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Nguyen Ai Quoc (Ho Chi Minh) founded the Vietnamese Revolutionary Youth League (Việt Nam Thanh niên Cách mệnh Đồng chí Hội; chữ Hán: 越南青年革命同志會) in Guangzhou, China. It was Vietnam's first Communist organization and had the support of the Chinese Communist Party and the Kuomintang.
It'd dissolve due to internal splits in 1929.
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The Chinese government delivered an ultimatum in response to the attack on the Taku Forts to eleven ambassadors in the legation quarter demanding that all foreign residents, including diplomats, missionaries and their families leave Beijing by 4pm the following day. The demand accompanied a promise to provide troops for a safe exit.
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The Taku Forts surrendered after a sixteen hour bombardment by ships of the Eight Nation Alliance. Chinse casualties were very heavy. One Russian ship was sunk in the engagement. Four Chinese destroyers were captured, and recommissioned in Western navies.
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A Canadian federal election was held in which the incumbent Liberal Party led by Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King was re-elected to its third consecutive mandate, but this time through a minority government.
It was likely a sign of things to come in the upcoming British election.
US forces captured the height east of Mount Yaeju on Okinawa but an accompanying Marine assault failed to capture Kunishi Ridge.
Japanese forces recaptured Ishan in Kwangsi Province.
The U.S. Supreme Court decided In re Summers, ruling 5-4 that the First and Fourteenth Amendment freedoms of a conscientious objector were not infringed when a state bar association declined to admit him to the practice of law, which seems obviously wrong.
The Soviets began the expulsion of Sudetenlanders from Czechoslovakia.
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Marines in Shanghai and Amundsen lost.
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Chinese troops completed the occupation of Nanning, the capital of Kwangsi Province, cutting off the main Japanese supply route from French Indochina, Thailand, Malaya and Burma.
The Chinese 6th Army was air transported from Burma to China, the first time an entire army was moved by air.
Heavy fighting occurred on Okinawa. Off of Okinawa the USS Drexler was sunk by Japanese aircraft.
Rudolf Querner, age 51, German SS officer and police leader committed suicide as the odd process of Germany somewhat denazifying itself continued to occur in this fashion.
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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.
January 26, 2025
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.
May 21, 2025
The Trump Administration is limiting vaccine updates to those over 65 or in high risk categories, and requiring extensive testing for new updates.
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