From a Twitter post (from last year, actually).
The trick-or-treating ritual is one of the few times a year when many Americans go out of their way to interact with their neighbors, and for no other reason than tradition and the fun of it.
We all need that kind of community, and in a very important sense it’s good politics.
Hitler moved his headquarters from Werwolf in Ukraine back to the Wolf's Lair in East Prussia (now part of Poland) confident that Stalingrad would soon fall.
Hitler seemed oddly possessed of the notion that his physical presence close to the front served the Nazi war effort, whereas the Allied leaders generally governed from their capital cities, with certain exceptions from time to time.
Hitler's HQ's also demonstrated an odd fascination with wolves, which are native to Germany but which had been extirpated by the 1940s. They returned to Germany only in recent years.
The Luftwaffe hit Canterbury in their largest raid on England since the Blitz. However, as Sara Sundin notes on her blog, their efforts were hampered by barrage balloons. During the raid, famous German fighter pilot Paul Galland, brother of the more famous Adolf Galland, was shot down while flying a FW190 by Spitfires.
White Christmas by Bing Crosby took the number one position on Billboard's singles chart.
In spite of the Christmas themed song on the charts, it was Halloween. In the U.S. kids were out trick or treating, but on coastal cities, for the first time, that was during the day, due to blackouts at night.
Mussolini officially took office as the Prime Minister of Italy on this day in 1922.
Parades commemorating the event by current fascists took place in Italy yesterday. As earlier noted here, the current Prime Minister is a member of a political party with fascist roots, although she maintains that she is not a fascist herself.
The Trial of Six commenced in Greece, in which the trial of the defeated heads of the late war effort against Turkey would be held, leading to their execution. It was effectively a political trial for the crime of losing the war.
It was, of course, Halloween.
King Victor Emmanuel III, Italy's king, refused a request from Prime Minister Luigi Facta to declare martial law to address the Fascist March on Rome. The Italian army advised the king that it was fearful troops would disobey any order to fire on the Fascists, and therefore the request should be denied.
With this, the Italian government effectively surrendered to Fascism. The King invited Mussolini to come to Rome to discuss the political situation with him.
KYW broadcast the first national radio transmission of a football game. The game was between Princeton and the University of Chicago.
Antrim Castle in Northern Ireland caught fire during a grand ball and was destroyed. Suspicion existed that the castle fire may have been the work of the Irish Republican Army, but no charges were ever brought against anyone and no insurance claim was ever paid out.
I have to think that Justice Ginsberg herself would find this odd.Cuteness Overload: Kids & Pets In Ruth Bader Ginsburg Halloween CostumesSimply adorable!
