Earthquakes in northeastern China killed 650,000 people.
The loss of life on this scale is nearly unimaginable. It equates to the number of Americans, of both sides, killed in the Civil War.
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Tuesday, July 28, 2026
Tuesday, July 14, 2026
Wednesday, July 14, 1976. Carter and Mondale nominated.
Jimmy Carter and Walter Mondale were nominated for the 1976 Democratic ticket on the first ballot.
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Sen. Barbara Jordan delivering the keynote address, the first woman to do so.
Cesar Chavez nominating California's Governor Jerry Brown.
Canada's House of Commons approved the permanent abolition of the death penalty.
General António Ramalho Eanes was sworn as the new president of Portugal.
Aparicio Méndez, age 71, was appointed to be the new president of Uruguay effective September 1.
A border clash between El Salvador and Honduras killed several El Salvadoran soldiers.
An earthquake in Indonesia killed 573 people.
German SS special forces leader Joachim Peiper was assassinated in the village of Traves, Haute-Saône, France where he had stupidly been living. Peiper served only nine years of a life sentence and after various post war occupations, relocated to France under an assumed name. Discovered shortly before his murder, he gave interviews, and blamed the French defeat in 1940 on French cowardice. His house there was set on fire and he died within. His body was found with a .22 pistol in his hand.
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Lex Anteinternet: Tuesday, July 6, 1976. First women at Anapolis. Not nothing the anniversary.
Friday, June 5, 2026
Saturday, June 5, 1976. Teton Dam collapse.
Leaks in the dam started at 7:30 am and increased over a two hour period. Crews were sent to repair the dam but by noon the earthen dam was beyond repair and collapsed.
Belfast pubs were bombed as part of ongoing IRA and UVF campaigns.
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Tuesday, June 1, 1976. End of the Cod Wars.
Sunday, May 24, 2026
Monday, May 24, 1926. National Parks created. Oil concessions extended. Tokachi erupts.
The U.S. Senate passed bills creating Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky, Shenandoah National Park in Virginia, and Great Smoky Mountains National Park in North Carolina and Tennessee.
You can tell the likes of Harriet Hageman and Deseret Mike Lee weren't in Congress at the time.
The Kingdom of Iraq extended the "D'Arcy Concession" of the oil fields in the Diyala Governorate for an additional 35 years past its scheduled expiration date of May 27, 1961. In reality, events would cause the concessions to be renegotiated after World War Two and expire in 1958, the year that the Kingdom of Iraq itself expired.
Most of the concession territory was in Iran and was cancelled in 1932.
Mount Tokachi erupted in Hokkaidō, Japan, killing 140 people.
The volcano is located within the Daisetsuzan National Park.
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Thursday, May 20, 1926. Trains and Planes.
Labels: 1920s, 1926, 1930, 1930s, Aircraft, Barnstorming, Calvin Coolidge, Ernst Udet, law, Railroads, Transportation
Friday, April 10, 2026
Saturday, April 10, 1926. "Big Business and State Socialism are very much alike, especially Big Business."
It was a Saturday.
Chesterton penned one of his observations:
Big Business and State Socialism are very much alike, especially Big Business.
G.K. Chesterton (G.K.’s Weekly, April 10, 1926)
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Quill and Scroll, the high school journalism honor society, was founded at a convention held at the University of Iowa.
Mauna Loa erupted.
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Wednesday, April 1, 2026
Monday, April 1, 1946. The April 1, 1946 Aleutian Islands Earthquake
The April 1, 1946 Aleutian Islands earthquake occurred which resulted in an tsunami that devastated parts of Hawaii, most notably Hilo. Up to 173 people were killed, mostly in Hawaii.
People fleeing the tsunami in Hilo.
Warnings were given but many ignored them, thinking them an April Fools Day joke. The event is responsible for a much improved warning system.
Bituminous coal miners went on strike in the U.S.
The U.S. Navy destroyed 24 Japanese submarines. Seems like a terrible waste really.
The UK made Singapore a Crown Colony and separated it and its mostly Chinese ethnic population from Malaya.
What does Russia want was a question that was posed (from more than one Reddit sub).
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Sunday, March 31, 1946. Arresting Nazis, Russia pays up, you have to wonder about Дональд, Field Marshall Gort passes.
Tuesday, January 27, 2026
Tuesday, January 27, 1976. Earthquake at Rawlins and the White Hall Flasher.
Today In Wyoming's History: January 27: 1976 A small earthquake occurred near Rawlins.
Oddly enough, "flashing" was a trend in the 1970s which continued on into the 1980s in the form of "streaking", running through a public area naked. Comedic singer Ray Stevens even authored a song about it, "The Streak".
The White Hall flaster was arrested.
Oddly enough, "flashing" was a trend in the 1970s which continued on into the 1980s in the form of "streaking", running through a public area naked. Comedic singer Ray Stevens even authored a song about it, "The Streak".
Laverne & Shirley premiered.
It was a spin off of Happy Days and ran until 1983. Depicting two single women employed in a brewery in Milwaukee for most of its run, it was set in the 1950s to early 1960s. The last season was set in Burbank, California.
I can't say that I was a fan.
The Royal Moroccan Army attacked the Algerian Army at Amgala.
The House passed a bill already passed by the Senate to ban the sale of US arms to or to provide aid to paramilitary groups in Angola.
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Wednesday, January 21, 1976. Supersonic.
Labels: 1970s, 1976, Aircraft, Angola, Bahrain, Brazil, France, People's Air Force of Angola, Transportation, United Kingdom
Friday, November 21, 2025
Saturday, November 21, 1925. Lava Beds.
It was a Saturday.
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Thursday, November 19, 1925. First lighted high school football game.
Labels: 1920s, 1925, football, Introspection, J.R. Williams, Nostalgia, Sports, technology, Wyoming, Wyoming (Casper), Wyoming (MIdwest)
Monday, November 17, 2025
Tuesday, November 17, 1925. Earthquake at Big Horn.
Today In Wyoming's History: November 17: 1925 An earthquake occurred at Big Horn with the tremor felt in Johnson and Sheridan Counties. Attribution: On This Day.
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Wednesday, July 2, 2025
Wednesday, July 2, 1975. Dead Savage Spring.
A child fishing with his father found the body of Old Faithful Lodge cook Donald Watt Cressey, the senior cook at Old Faithful Lodge in a hot spring at Yellowstone National Park.
Cressey had died in the same hot spring in which Yellowstone Park concessioner employee Brian Parsons had been fatally burned in July 1967.
After Cressey's death the hot spring was named "Dead Savage Spring" by the U.S. Geological Survey, "savage" being Yellowstone Park lexicon for a park concessioner employee.
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Tuesday, July 1, 1975. ARPANET.
Friday, June 27, 2025
Saturday, June 27, 1925. An earthquake in Montana.
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A 6.6 magnitude occurred near Townsend Montana.
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Friday, June 26, 1925. The Gold Rush.
Labels: 1920s, 1925, 1925 at the movies, Communications, Lodging, Montana, Movies, Native Americans, telephone
Monday, June 23, 2025
Tuesday, June 23, 1925. The Gros Ventre Landslide.
The Gros Ventre landslide near Jackson occurred following heavy rains and a 4.0 magnitude earthquake. Approximately 38,000,000 m3 (1.3×109 cu ft) of sedimentary rock came down the Tetons, dammed a river, and created the Lower Slide Lake. The dam partially failed in 1927, wiping out Kelly.
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Sunday, June 21, 1925. Vietnamese Revolutionary Youth League
Sunday, March 23, 2025
Tuesday, March 23, 1875. The Marianas Trench discovered.
The HMS Challenger dropped a weighted rope 27,000 feet into the ocean, discovering the Marianas Trench.
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Friday, March 19, 1875. The execution of Tiburcio Vásquez.
Friday, February 28, 2025
Saturday, February 28, 1925. Earthquake in Quebec.
A 6.2 struck Quebec with an epicenter in the St. Lawrence River near La Malbaie. It caused damage in the areas of Charlevoix and Kamouraska, but no major casualties.
The Saturday magazines were out.
The Country Gentleman had a scene that would have been familiar to much of the globe's population living in colder regions, but which is largely unfamiliar to most now, lighting a wood burning stove. I have a short description of this in my currently unfinished novel.
Saturday, February 1, 2025
Thursday, February 1, 1725. The Great East Siberian Earthquake.
The Great East Siberian Earthquake occurred. It is arguably the earliest recorded seismic event in the region. The quake had a magnitude of at least 7, and perhaps somewhat over 8.
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Friday, January 26, 1725. Foundation of the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools.
Saturday, December 7, 2024
Thursday, December 7, 1944. The end of the USS Ward
A U.S. counterattack halted the Japanese offensive on Leyte.
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USS Lamson on fire after being hit by a kamikaze at Ormac Bay.
Kamikazes damaged the USS Mahan and USS Ward beyond repair during landings at Ormoc Bay.
The Ward figures prominently in the story of the Battle of Pearl Harbor.
Today in World War II History—December 7, 1939 & 1944: At Ormoc Bay, destroyer USS Ward is damaged by a kamikaze; three years earlier to the day, USS Ward fired the first shots during the attack on Pearl Harbor.
The 77th Division landed against Japanese opposition, but it was not heavy.
General Nicolae Radescu took office as Prime Minister of Romania.
The International Civil Aviation Organization was established.
The Arab Women's Congress of 1944 took place in Cairo.
An earthquake at Tokai, Japan, killed 1200 people and halted production at the Mitsubishi plant.
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Wednesday, December 6, 1944. Japanese paratroopers on Leyte.
Labels: 1940s, 1944, Airborne, Aircraft, Battle of Leyte, boats and ships, Charles de Gaulle, Dekemvriana (Δεκεμβριανά), Greek Civil War, Imperial Japanese Army, Joseph Stalin, Royal Air Force, World War Two
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