Showing posts with label Greece. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Greece. Show all posts
Thursday, July 30, 2026
Thursday, June 18, 2026
Friday, June 18, 1926. Egyptian troops at Mecca.
Egyptian soldiers fired into a crowed of Muslims Najadis, killing 25 of them, following a protest that began when the Egyptians were playing music while carrying the Mahmal through the holy city of Mecca during the Hajj pilgrimage, to which the Najadis took offense.
It's often forgotten in the West that Islam is far more internally divided than Christianity, a fact that's aided by the fact that there is no central head of Islam.
The Fédération Internationale de Philatélie was formed for stamp collecting and other branches of philately in at Castagnola in Switzerland.
It's the oldest such organization in the world.
Princess Olga Constantinovna of Russia, 74, former Queen Consort of Greece from 1867 to 1913 as the wife of King Geórgios I, and briefly regent for one month in 1920, died in exile in Rome.
Congress was getting ready to go home.
Congress of that era, and all the way up into at least the 90s, really did work harder than it currently does. I've heard an interview of a member of Congress who was out of office for a decade or more and who was shocked when he went back about how much real work had decreased. It's not hard to see that the current Congress is a model of being ineffective.
I wonder, in part, if modern transportation contributes to that. And the net definitely does.
You could get really fresh butter in Casper.
I knew that you could get locally produced butter in the 20s (and 30s, and 40s, and at least the early 50s), but I didn't really give that all that much thought.
And Out Our Way explored a misunderstanding.
Monday, June 14, 1926. The Calles Law.
Thursday, April 30, 2026
Friday, April 30, 1976. The end of the Greek Language Question.
The Greek Parliament decided that the official language of Greece would be Demotic Greek, "Demotiki", the modern colloquial form of the Greek language, rather than "Katharevousa" an updated version of Ancient Greek. The latter had been the official form.
The Greek language question (γλωσσικό ζήτημα) had been going on since the 19th Century.
The British fishing trawler Arctic Corsair rammed the Icelandic Coat Guard vessel ICGV Óðinn.
The ship continued to serve until 2006, and appears as a US vessel in Flags of our Fathers. It's presently a museum ship.
Muhammed Ali barely clung on to his heavyweight title in a fight against Jimmy Young in Landover, Maryland.
Both boxers health declined enormously after their boxing careers, due to their boxing careers. Young died at age 56.
Last edition:
Sunday, April 25, 1976. Saving the flag.
Tuesday, March 31, 2026
Sunday, March 31, 1946. Arresting Nazis, Russia pays up, you have to wonder about Дональд, Field Marshall Gort passes.
7,000 Allied soldiers served warrants on Nazi officials. Ausgezeichnet!
The first Greek elections since 1936 took place, with the Communist Party of Greece refusing to participate.
Russia, as a political subdivision of the USSR, paid its U.N. dues of $1,725,000, under the thesis that the USSR had multiple representation in the UN.
Trump would probably support an effort of Russia not to pay, which was feared at the time, sending the leader of the nation a Я люблю тебя, Дональд note, like he does in an implied way to the current leader of Russia constantly.
What's up with that?
Field Marshal John Standish Surtees Prendergast Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort became yet another World War Two senior officer to die following the war, albeit his death was due to liver cancer.
He was a recipient of the Victoria Cross in World War One.
Last edition:
Monday, January 14, 1946. Wartime and Post War foodstuffs.
Labels: 1940s, 1946, Army, Cartoons, Iran, J.R. Williams, Mountain Troops, Personalities, The Cold War, U.S. Navy, United States, USSR, World War Two
Thursday, October 23, 2025
Friday, October 23, 1925. Stray dog, beer and Billy Mitchell.
Dog:
Whatever It Is, I’m Against It: Today -100: October 23, 1925: Of invasions, discre...: War of the Stray Dog News: Greece invades Bulgaria, occupying posts and shelling villages (well, at least one village). Greece, claiming Bu...
Billy Mitchell's troubles hit the front page.
Beer in Chicago did as well.
Delegates to a Congregationalist convention posed for a photograph.
Last edition:
Thursday, October 22, 1925: Follyology?
Wednesday, October 22, 2025
Thursday, October 22, 1925: Follyology?
Whatever It Is, I’m Against It: Today -100: October 22, 1925: Follyology?: Greece demands Bulgaria pay an indemnity of 2 million French francs gold, which is the equivalent of some money, for what they describe as ...
Last edition:
Tuesday, October 20, 1925. Coolidge orders Billy Mitchell Court Martialed.
Sunday, September 14, 2025
Monday, September 14, 1925. Mitchell's comments draw a rebuke. Rif siege at Tétouan broken.
Billy Mitchell was in trouble:
Mitchell was frustrated about the post World War One direction of airpower, and had lambasted the Navy on September 5 (which I missed). At that time, he stated; "Brave airmen are being sent to their deaths by armchair admirals who don't care about air safety."
Yikes.
He was referring to the Shenandoah Incident and the recent Navy long distance flight to Hawaii. I didn't really cover either. I should have, as this was a big event.
The Spanish broke the siege at Tétouan.
The Byzantine cross appeared in the sky over Athens during an old calendar service of the Greek Orthodox Church of the Exaltation of the All-Honourable and Life-giving Cross of our Savior. The Orthodox Church was being repressed by the Greek government at the time.
Last edition:
Saturday, September 15, 1925.
Tuesday, July 29, 2025
Wednesday, July 29, 1925. Traffic stop.
New York, July 29, 1925.
L'Osservatore Romano printed a long list of Fascist offenses against Catholics.
Italy announced a new law providing that any newspaper publishing attacks on the government that were "too strong and too frequent" would receive two warnings, after which the paper would no longer be recognized.
Mikis Theodorakis (Μιχαήλ "Μίκης" Θεοδωράκης), Greek composer known for Zorba the Greek's score, was born.
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Wednesday, February 12, 2025
Monday, February 12, 1945. Peru enters the war.
The Treaty of Varkiza was signed in which Greek resistance agreed to disarm and relinquish control of all the territory it occupied in exchange for legal recognition, free elections, and the removal of Nazi collaborators from the armed forces and police, which seems reasonable enough.
Greek politics had been a mess for years, and would continue to be for many more years.
The Japanese executed Antonio Villa-Real, an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court in the Philippines.
Peru declared war on Germany and Japan.
A tornado outbreak in Mississippi and Alabama killed 45 people.
Himmler appeared on the cover of Time magazine, in an illustration depicting him as a death's head.
Last edition:
Sunday, February 11, 1945. Yalta winds up.
Saturday, January 11, 2025
Thursday, January 11, 1945. Reinforcements at Lingayen
"Graves registration officer identifies dead Yanks among Germans killed in Ardennes salient during 1st and 3rd Army squeeze against Von Rundstedt's lines. 11 January, 1945. Photographer: Pvt. Arthur H. Hertz, 166th Signal Photo Co."
The 3d Army and 30 Corps joined near St. Hubert.
"Pvt. Thomas Amenta, 1391 S. Concord St., Los Angeles., Calif., of the 3rd Armored Div., hikes back to the rear area after his tank was knocked out by a road mine in the fighting beyond Langlir, Belgium during the First Army drive into Ardennes salient. 11 January, 1945."
"M-4 tractors tow captured 88mm Nazi guns into place to be fired against Germans pocketed in the "bulge" between the 1st and 3rd U.S. Armies. Luxembourg. 11 January, 1945.
90th Infantry Division."
Archer T. Gammon preformed the actions that resulted in his being awarded a posthumous Medal of Honor.
He charged 30 yards through hip-deep snow to knock out a machinegun and its 3-man crew with grenades, saving his platoon from being decimated and allowing it to continue its advance from an open field into some nearby woods. The platoon's advance through the woods had only begun when a machinegun supported by riflemen opened fire and a Tiger Royal tank sent 88mm. shells screaming at the unit from the left flank. S/Sgt. Gammon, disregarding all thoughts of personal safety, rushed forward, then cut to the left, crossing the width of the platoon's skirmish line in an attempt to get within grenade range of the tank and its protecting foot troops. Intense fire was concentrated on him by riflemen and the machinegun emplaced near the tank. He charged the automatic weapon, wiped out its crew of 4 with grenades, and, with supreme daring, advanced to within 25 yards of the armored vehicle, killing 2 hostile infantrymen with rifle fire as he moved forward. The tank had started to withdraw, backing a short distance, then firing, backing some more, and then stopping to blast out another round, when the man whose single-handed relentless attack had put the ponderous machine on the defensive was struck and instantly killed by a direct hit from the Tiger Royal's heavy gun. By his intrepidity and extreme devotion to the task of driving the enemy back no matter what the odds, S/Sgt. Gammon cleared the woods of German forces, for the tank continued to withdraw, leaving open the path for the gallant squad leader's platoon.
The 25th Infantry Division, reinforced by an armored group, landed at Lingayen to reinforce the beachhead. Heavy kamikaze attacks occurred and many smaller ships were damaged.
Aircraft from the US 3d Fleet sank 25 ships and damaged 13 more from Japanese convoys off of Indochina. On the same day a German coastal convoy lost at least 3 or 4 of the 8 ships in it in a British air attack off of southern Norway.
The HMS Thane, an escort carrier, was sunk in the Irish Sea by the U-1172.
The Dekemvriana came to an end.
Last edition:
Wednesday, January 10, 1945. Continuing to gain ground.
Labels: 1940s, 1945, Armor, Army, Artillery, Battle of the Bulge, British Army, Luzon, World War Two
Friday, January 3, 2025
Wednesday, January 3, 1945. British actions.
The US commenced the Invasion of Lingayen Gulf with a naval bombardment that would last six days. The Japanese responded with kamikaze attacks.
British commandos and Indian Army troops made a nearly unopposed landing at the Burmese island of Akyab.
The Battle of Bure, a British attack in the Battle of the Bulge, commenced.
US troops in Belgium, January 3, 1945.
General Nikolaos Plastiras became Prime Minister of Greece.
Last edition:
Tuesday, January 2, 1945. Advances and withdrawals.
Monday, December 30, 2024
Saturday, December 30, 1944. Reporting on the bomb.
"Pvt. Roy McDaniels, Hartford City, Ind., keeps a look out for enemy activity from a 30th Division observation post in Stavelot, Belgium. 30 December, 1944. 1st Battalion, 117th Regiment, 30th Division." Note that a block has been nailed in to support the tripod of the machinegun, and that McDaniels is carrying a combat knife.
The German 5th Panzer Army made an attempt to encircle Bastogne. The U.S. 3d Army attacked towards Houffalize.
King George II of Greece proclaimed a regency and appointed Archbishop Damaskinos of Athens to the role.
General Leslie Groves reported that two atomic bombs would be ready for testing by the summer of 1945.
Part I of the Sergei Eisenstein's Russian epic film Ivan the Terrible premiered. Part II would not be released until 1958, as it was banned. Eisenstein died in 1948 and a planned Part III was accordingly never made.
Last edition:
Friday, December 29, 1944. Siege of Budapest.
Saturday, December 28, 2024
Thursday, December 28, 1944. The German staff says Rückzug, Hitler says Angriff.
"Under conditions of snow and fog which makes visibility impossible, a 155mm howitzer is fired on German positions in Conzen from a location near Roetgen. 28 December, 1944." Battery C, 309th Field Artillery Battalion, 78th Infantry Division.
Hitler, faced with American advances in the Ardennes, ignored the advice of his senior generals and ordered renewed offensives in the Ardennes and an offensive in Alsace.
General Eisenhower met with British 21st Army Group command Field Marshal Montgomery to coordinate the counteroffensive.
Outnumbered Germans and fascist Italians retook Northern Tuscany in the Battle of Garfagnana.
Soldier of the Italian Social Republic opening the action of a German K98k.
The Infantry Landing Ship Empire Javelin sank in the English Channel with 1,483 troops aboard. Around twenty soldiers drowned. It's unknown is she was sunk by a U-boat or a mine. The U-735 was sunk by British aircraft off Horten, Norway.
1200 B-17s escorted by 700 fighters bombed Coblenz and other targets. The RAF bombed Cologne.
Churchill agreed to recommend the establishment of a regency to the King of Greece.
Maurice Richard of the Montreal Canadiens scored eight points (five goals and three assists) during a 9–2 win over the Detroit Red Wings. It was a record that stood until 1976. Richard had spent the day prior to the game helping his family move from one Montreal apartment to another, and was exhausted when he showed up for the game.
Montreal born Richard was the first player in NHL history to score 50 goals in one season, accomplishing the feat in 50 games in 1944–45, and the first to reach 500 career goals. He played professional hockey from 1942 until 1960. He lived in Montreal his entire life.
Last edition:
Thursday, December 26, 2024
Boxing Day, 1944. Third Army broke through to Bastogne.
The Third Army broke through to Bastogne, relieving the siege of the city. The Royal Air Force hit the German transportation hub at St. Vith.
"Anti-tank gun on guard against attempted German breakthrough on Bastogne. 26 December, 1944. 101st Airborne Division."
Churchill opened a conference between all parties in the Greek political crisis.
The Japanese Navy, in its last raid on the Philippines, hit Mindoro.
Today In Wyoming's History: December 26. Boxing Day: 1944 Kentucky beat Wyoming in football, 50 to 46, in Buffalo New York.
Last edition:
Christmas Day, 1944. Benignitas et humanitas
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