Thursday, July 4, 1946. Philippine Independence.

The US recognized the independence of the Republic of the Philippines.

An armed uprising sparked by rent issues occured in Kadavendi, India.

The Kielce pogrom took place in Poland in which 40 Jews were murdered by a mob in Kielce, Poland.  The police did not intervene.  The event, in which soldiers and police participated, was sparked by a false accusation of kidnapping.

Female Stutthof Concentration Camp Guards Elisabeth Becker, Wanda Klaff was hung for war crimes.

Stutthhof is unusual in that the majority of the inmates there were Catholic Poles, many of whom were ethnic Germans.

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Wednesday, July 3, 1946. Breaking the meat famine in Denver.

Labels: 1940s, 1946, Canadian Army, Food, Immigration, Office of Price Administration, Post War United States (and Canada), Rationing

Tuesday, July 13, 1915. Internment.

The Castle Mountain Internment Camp for Canadian enemy aliens was established in Banff National Park, Canada.

The Central Powers renewed their Eastern Front offensive and pushed the Russians back to the Bug.

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Sunday, July 11, 1915. Garza enters Mexico City. Revolutionary ambush in Brownsville.

Labels: Battle of Rufiji Delta, Constitutionalist Army, German East Africa, German Kriegsmarine, Mexican Revolution, Mexico, Mexico City, Plan of San Diego, police, Royal Navy, Sedicionistas, Texas, Texas (Brownsville)

Friday, May 24, 1901. British concentration camps.

British social activist Emily Hobhouse returned from a trip to South Africa with photographic proof the British were keeping Boers of all ages and genders in concentration camps where they were suffering horrific depravations.

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Tuesday, May 21, 1901. Speed Limit.

Labels: 1900s, 1901, Automobiles, Connecticut, law, Transportation

Thursday, January 24, 1901. King of Ireland.

Edward VII was proclaimed King of Ireland.

I should have known, but did not, that coronations for Ireland were separate.  I simply assumed that the coronation was for the entire United Kingdom.

Emily Hobhouse arrived at Bloemfontein concentration camp to report on conditions.  A sample of her writing:

They went to sleep without any provision having been made for them and without anything to eat or to drink. I saw crowds of them along railway lines in bitterly cold weather, in pouring rain–hungry, sick, dying and dead. Soap was not dispensed. The water supply was inadequate. No bedstead or mattress was procurable. Fuel was scarce and had to be collected from the green bushes on the opes of the kopjes (small hills) by the people themselves. The rations were extremely meagre and when, as I frequently experienced, the actual quantity dispensed fell short of the amount prescribed, it simply meant famine.

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Wednesday, January 23, 1901. Russia's Day of Shame.

Labels: 1900s, 1901, 2010s, 2020s, 2026, Banking and finance, Canada, Civil Unrest, Economics, Imperial Russian Army, Russia, Russia (St. Petersburg), The Madness of King Donald

Saturday, November 17, 1900. British barbarity in the Transvaal.

Field Marshal Kitchener announced a plan that would result in Boer concentration camps in the Transvaal., following a policy of rural depopulation first explored by the Spanish in Cuba.

The campbs would end up housing 111,619 white and 43,780 black citizens residents of the Transvaal.  They'd feature a 34% death rate.

Dr. Ernest Reynolds discovered the cause of an outbreak of alcoholic neuritis in the United Kingdom.  It was traced to  a manufacturer of contaminated glucose used in the brewing process, and then to impure sulfuric acid used in processing the glucose.   Seventy people died as a result, 36 of those people in Manchester.

The U.S. Navy completed tests on 12 inch naval guns.

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Friday, November 16, 1900. The lynching of Preston Porder.

Labels: 1900, 1900s, Advertising, Alcohol, Colorado, Colorado (Limon), Crime, Racism