Ostensibly exploring the practice of law before the internet. Heck, before good highways for that matter.
Wednesday, March 6, 2024
Thursday, March 6, 1924. The US Olympic Equestrian Team.
Thursday, January 25, 2024
Friday, January 25, 1924. The First Winter Olympics.
The 1924 Winter Olympics opened in Chamonix. It was the first winter games.
While Lenin's foul body remains in a specialized mausoleum for worship by the secular, the city regained its rightful name in June 1991, when it appeared that Russia might escape the treachery of its recent past.
Mexican rebels took Morelia.
Czechoslovakia and France signed a mutual defense treaty.
Tuesday, January 2, 2024
Wednesday, January 2, 1924. Kings in Exile.
Bulgaria gave former King Ferdinand, who had been in exile since 1918, permission to return to Sofia.
Kings in exile are more philosophic under reverses than ordinary individuals; but our philosophy is primarily the result of tradition and breeding, and do not forget that pride is an important item in the making of a monarch. We are disciplined from the day of our birth and taught the avoidance of all outward signs of emotion. The skeleton sits forever with us at the feast. It may mean murder, it may mean abdication, but it serves always to remind us of the unexpected. Therefore we are prepared and nothing comes in the nature of a catastrophe. The main thing in life is to support any condition of bodily or spiritual exile with dignity. If one sups with sorrow, one need not invite the world to see you eat.
Yugoslavia issued an ultimatum objecting to his return.
He in fact did not return, and having taken steps to secure his fortune, lived a quasi bucolic life, marked by family tragedy, and carried on in Germany, dying in 1948. The prior year, he married a third time, to his secretary, age 26.
Simon & Schuster, the legendary publishing house, was formed.
The U.S. Winter Olympic team left for the first Winter Olympics.
The Constitutionalist government of Mexico reported that is forces had achieved a victory over the rebels of Adolfo de la Huerta at Zacualpan.
The war in Mexico, and other age-old lethal vices, were making headlines far away:
Flooding in Paris closed the railroads.
Sabine Baring-Gould, composer of "Onward, Christian Soldiers", died at age 89. Clara Abbott, American businesswoman who had been the first woman to serve on the board of a major American corporation, Abbott Laboratories, died at age 66.
United States Senators Frazier and Johnson were photographed working.
A new flag for Iowa was unveiled.
It is, frankly, ugly.
It had been adopted in 1921. Iowa had lacked one before that.
Wednesday, October 25, 2023
Thursday, October 25, 1973. Ramping up to and backing down from war.
The US military was alerted that the Soviet Union was "planning to send a very substantial force" to intervene in the Yom Kippur War. On the same day, perhaps ironically, Egypt and Israel accepted United Nations Security Council Resolution 340 creating a peacekeeping force between them that would omit US and Soviet troops.
The Local Government (Scotland) Act of 1973 was given royal assent.
Lebanon, which was not in a good place in relation to petroleum bans, provided that cars with even-numbered plates could only drive on even-numbered days, those with odd-numbered plates only on odd-numbered day.
Abebe Bikila (Amharic: ሻምበል አበበ ቢቂላ), Olympic marathon runner who won the1960 Summer Olympics in Rome marathon while running barefoot and the 1964 Tokyo Olympics marathon died as a result of an automobile accident sustained in 1969
Both his 60 and 64 runs were world records.
Friday, January 20, 2023
Wednesday, January 20, 1943. Senseless deaths.
Attila Peschauer, Hungarian Olympic fencer and gold medalist in 1928 and 1932, is commonly thought to have died in the Davidovka concentration camp in Ukraine where Hungarian Jews had been deported by Nazi Germany, an act which required cooperation of Hungary.
It's commonly misunderstood by those in the West that all the victims of the Holocaust were gassed in camps, which is far from true, and in the few camps whose names are in common circulation in the West. In reality, bullets and starvation were the most common means of death and most of the killing took place in the Poland, Ukraine and Belorussia in those areas where they were occupied by the Germans.
While, as noted, it's been commonly thought that Peschauer died in a concentration camp, and may even have been ordered into execution by a fellow Hungarian serving the Germans, some recent information is that he actually died in a Soviet POW camp. The irony here would be that Hungary was a German ally during World War Two. This might actually be more likely as while Hungary was repressive towards its Jewish citizens, it didn't deport those who actually held Hungarian citizenship, that being done to Jews who lived in areas that Hungary took in after it invaded the Soviet Union.
By this point in the war, it should be noted, countries like the Kingdom of Hungary should have been seriously reconsidering their role in the war as, at least to an astute advisor, there was no way for them to come out on the winning side. Of course, they were also captive to their earlier decision to side with the Germans.
The Luftwaffe bombed the Sandhurst Road School in a daytime raid of the London suburb of Catford, killing 41 school children. By this point in the war, Luftwaffe raids over the UK were increasingly rare. Six teachers were also killed. Eleven of the German aircraft were downed by Typhoons.
The Red Army continued to advance, with the New York Daily Post noting that the Germans were now back on their 1941 line as a result. The British took Homs and Tarhuna in Libya. The Germans advanced in Tunisia. Chile broke diplomatic relations off with Germany, Italy and Japan.
Tuesday, September 6, 2022
Thursday, September 6, 1972. Tragedy in Munich
Monday, September 5, 2022
Wednesday, September 5, 1972. An Olympic Tragedy
On this day in 1972 the Palestinian terrorist organization Black September attacked the Israeli quarters at the Olympic village in Munich, killing two athletes and taking nine hostages.
Black September was named for the failed Palestinian attempt to overthrow the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan in September 1970, an event which was a Palestinian disaster. This event itself led to the Palestinians being expelled from Jordan and going to Lebanon. The organization's connection with the Palestinian Liberation Organization has never been clear, but it is clear that there was one. In 1973 the PLO caused the shutting down of the organization, whose violent acts had not been successful in engendering any support for the Palestinian cause.
This is an event I can recall happening, and oddly enough I believe I learned about it after the family went swimming on a Wednesday afternoon, something that was pretty common for us to do. Indeed, we swam a lot during the summer, and almost always did on Saturday afternoons and often on Sunday afternoons. It wasn't a tradition I kept up with my own family, but I probably should have. The day prior Mark Spitz had won his seventh gold medal at the Olympics, the first athlete to do so.
Spitz had intended to become a dentist, but the Olympics interrupted that pursuit, and he did not resume it after 1992, other opportunities having developed. He married the next year and the couple have two children.
Tuesday, July 27, 2021
The 2021 Olympics and the rise of the female athelete.
I don't really follow the Olympics much anymore. I'm not sure why, I just lost interest in it at some point. Having said that, I've followed this one slightly more than usual.
Anyhow, having said that, this one has been really remarkable due to women. And I don't necessarily mean their accomplishments in sport, but in standing up for something that really needed to change or to have attention drawn to them.
It started off, at least in my somewhat inattentive to sports view, when Australian Kaylee McKeown dropped out of the Olympics. What exactly motivated it remain (as far as I know) unknown, but it was really clear that she was extremely made due to unwanted sexual attention.
This is something we've read a lot about over the last several years, and it's been particularly bad in gymnastics, or at least that's where the news has been focused. What exactly was going on is unclear, but McKeown basically called some people she had to deal with perverts and said she had enough.
That's remarkable enough in and of itself. Usually nobody gets called a pervert until they've committed a string of really notable atrocities. Even Bill Cosby, who was let out of prison recently, received a warm welcome back by his former Cosby costar, and It's pretty clear he was drugging women and then, well and then. . .
Anyhow, the next notable event was when the German gymnastics team refused to wear the usual tight-fitting female gymnastics uniform and instead opted for the very athletic looking "unitards".
Other than the weird sounding name, this is a positive development. The German female gymnastic athletes look like. . . well really serious athletes. This was way overdue.
Having said that, at least one American standout spoke on it and said she found the current US leotards to be less restrictive, and she liked them. I'm okay with that, but I think the trend away from uniforms that exploited female appearance over performance was sexist, and it needs to go.
And nowhere was that more evident than in beach volleyball.
Beach volleyball arrived on the scene over 30 years ago at which time the networks started televising it on Saturdays. It may have been a serious athletic endeavor at the time, and the women involved in it are obviously athletes, but at least from my point of view it seemed an exercise in televising women, at first wearing as little as conceivably possible. I was surprised when the sport crossed over to the Olympics, but that showed how serious of sport it had become.
It turns out that the female beach volleyball teams were still required to preform as close to nude as you could. Well, this year the Norwegian team said they had enough and chose to wear shorts rather than bikini bottoms. Heck, it isn't as if they're going swimming, and they were simply tired of being ogled rather than admired for their athletic accomplishments.
This met a threat of a fine, and they just charged on anyhow. US singer Pink, whom I don't otherwise follow, said she'd pay the fines. Good for her.
It's common to note how women's sports have come along ways in recent years, and they certainly have. Sports remain the one area of society where the differences between men and women are still acknowledged which is why in most areas men and women are segregated into men's sports and women's. Hopefully for most, this continues, in a real recognition of the physical differences, although in some areas, it really makes no sense. Why, for example, are the shooting sports segregated by sex? At any rate, however, one area where women's sports have continued to be anchored in seemingly the Hugh Hefner era has been in what they've been required to wear, which was reduced to cutesy in some circumstances, or outright 1960s/70s sexists in others.
Good riddance to that.
And the more power to the rise of the female athlete.
Friday, July 23, 2021
"Imagine". I'm imaging a world in which John Lennon's vapid pop mush anthem isn't played anymore.
"Imagine".
You know, the John Lennon song.
The opening ceremonies of the Olympics are on right now and, of course, somebody had to decide that this song, essentially expressing the exact same sentiments as The Communist Manifesto, must be played.
What Lennon "imagined" in his song was a world so devoid of values of any kind, and so demanding of universal group think, that there's be a sort of bland world peace of the lazy vapid. Of course, no world can be created that would be peaceful dedicated only to the proposition of believing nothing whatsoever.
What keeps this Marxist musical memento going is hard to say. A lot of it is that songs that might be genuinely devoted to peace require people to devote themselves to something pretty significant. Ave Maria, for example, would be a better option, but that's going to make somebody mad, as that would require a certain set of beliefs, at least at some level. Imagine doesn't require you to do anything other than not think.
Saturday, June 12, 2021
Maddie Groves administers the dope slap
Let this be a lesson to all misogynistic perverts in sport and their boot lickers - You can no longer exploit young women and girls, body shame or medically gaslight them and then expect them to represent you so you can earn your annual bonus. Time’s UP
I don't know who Maddie Groves is, really. After this story broke it became clear that she's an Australian Olympic swimmer.
She's obviously had enough, and while the details aren't fully spelled out, the gist of it sure is.
Good for her.
Thursday, September 17, 2020
September 17, 1920. Arrivals
And on this date, a merger or professional football teams brought the immediate precursor of the National Football League into existance.
Thursday, April 23, 2020
April 23, 1920. Mexican rebels issue the Plan De Agua Preita, Men Misbehave, Women visit the Supreme Court, Turkey becomes a republic, The House of David extends their thanks.
PLAN DE AGUA PRIETA
The basic gist of the plan was an accusation that Carranza had betrayed the values of the revolution and that Obergon was to lead the military until a new government could be put in place.Hermosillo, Sonora. 29 de abril de 1920.
CONSIDERANDO:
I. Que la Soberanía Nacional reside esencial y originariamente en el pueblo: que todo poder público dimana del pueblo y se instituye para su beneficio, y que la potestad de los mandatarios públicos es únicamente una delegación parcial de la soberanía popular, hecha por el mismo pueblo.
II. Que el actual Presidente de la República, C. Venustiano Carranza, se había constituído Jefe de un partido político, y persiguiendo el triunfo de ese partido ha burlado de una manera sistemática del voto popular; ha suspendido, de hecho las garantías individuales; ha atentado repetidas veces contra la soberanía de los Estados y ha desvirtuado radicalmente la organización de la República.
III. Que los actos y procedimientos someramente expuestos constituyen, al mismo tiempo, flagrantes violaciones a nuestra ley suprema, delitos graves del orden común y traición absoluta a las aspiraciones fundamentales de la Revolución Constitucionalista.
IV. Que habiendo agotado todos los medios pacíficos para encauzar los procedimientos del repetido Primer Mandatario de la Federación por las vías constitucionales, sin haberse logrado tal finalidad, ha llegado el momento de que el pueblo mexicano arma toda su soberanía, revocando el imperio absoluto de sus instituciones y de sus leyes. En tal virtud, los suscritos, ciudadanos mexicanos en pleno ejercicio de nuestros derechos políticos, hemos adoptado en todas sus partes y protestamos sostener con entereza, el siguiente:
Plan Orgánico del Movimiento Reivindicador de la Democracia y de la Ley.
Art. I. Cesa en el ejercicio del Poder Ejecutivo de la Federación el C. Venustiano Carranza.
Art. II. Se desconoce a los funcionarios públicos cuya investidura tenga origen en las últimas elecciones de Poderes Locales verificadas en los Estados de Guanajuato, San Luis Potosí, Querétaro, Nuevo León y Tamaulipas.
Art. III. Se desconoce asimismo el carácter de Consejales del Ayuntamiento de la ciudad de México a los CC. Declarados electos con motivo de los últimos comicios celebrados en dicha capital.
Art. IV. Se reconoce como Gobernador Constitucional del Estado de Nayarit al C. José Santos Godinez.
Art. V. Se reconoce también a todas las demás autoridades legítimas de la Federación y de los Estados. El Ejército Liberal Constitucionalista sostendrá a dichas autoridades siempre que no combatan ni hostilicen el presente movimiento.
Art. VI. Se reconoce expresamente como Ley Fundamental de la República a la Constitución Política del 5 de febrero de 1917.
Art. VII. Todos los generales, jefes, oficiales y soldados que secunden este Plan constituirán el Ejército Liberal Constitucionalista. El actual Gobernador Constitucional de Sonora, C. Adolfo de la Huerta, tendrá interinamente el carácter de Jefe Supremo del Ejército con todas las facultades necesarias para la organización política y administrativa de este movimiento.
Art. VIII. Los gobernadores constitucionales de los Estado que reconozcan y se adhieran a este movimiento en el término de 30 días, a contar de la fecha de la promulgación de este Plan, nombrarán cada uno de ellos un representante debidamente autorizado con objeto de que dichos delegados reunidos a los 60 días de la fecha del presente, en el sitio de que designe el Jefe Supremo Int,. procedan a nombrar en definitiva, por mayoría de votos, el Jefe Supremo del Ejército Liberal Constitucionalista.
Art. IX. Si, en virtud de las circunstancias originadas por la campaña, la Junta de Delegados de los Gobernadores Constitucionales a que se refiere el Art. Anterior no reúne mayoría en la fecha indicada, quedará definitivamente como Jefe Supremo del Ejército Liberal Constitucionalista el actual Gobernador Constitucional del Estado de Sonora, C. Adolfo de la Huerta.
Art. X. Tan luego como el presente Plan sea adoptado por la mayoría de la Nación y ocupada la ciudad de México por el Ejército Liberal Constitucionalista, se procederá a nombrar un Presidente Provisional de la República, en la forma prevista en los artículos siguientes.
Art. XI. Si el movimiento quedare consumado antes de que termine el actual período del Congreso Federal, el Jefe del Ejército Liberal Constitucionalista, convocará al Congreso de la Unión a sesiones extraordinarias, en el lugar en que pueda reunirse, y los miembros de ambas cámaras elegirán el Presidente Provisional, de conformidad con la Constitución vigente.
Art. XII. Si el caso previsto por el artículo X llegare a presentarse con posterioridad a la terminación del período constitucional de las Cámaras actuales, el Jefe Supremo del Ejército Liberal Constitucionalista asumirá la Presidencia Provisional de la República.
Art. XIII. El Presidente Provisional convocará a elecciones de Poderes Ejecutivo y Legislativo de la Federación inmediatamente que tome posesión de su cargo.
Art. XIV. El Jefe Supremo del Ejército Liberal Constitucionalista nombrará Gobernadores Provisionales de los Estados de Guanajuato, San Luis Potosí, Querétaro, Nuevo León y Tamaulipas, de los que no tengan Gobernador Constitucional y de todas las demás Entidades Federativas cuyos primeros mandatarios combatan o desconozcan este movimiento.
Art. XV. Consolidado el triunfo de este Plan, el Presidente Provisional autorizará a los Gobernadores Provisionales para que convoquen inmediatamente a elecciones de Poderes Locales de conformidad con las Leyes respectivas.
Art. XVI. El Ejército Liberal Constitucionalista se regirá por la Ordenanza General y Leyes Militares actualmente en vigor en la República.
Art. XVII. El Jefe Supremo del Ejército Liberal Constitucionalista, y todas las autoridades civiles y militares que secunden este Plan impartirán garantías a nacionales y extranjeros y protegerán muy especialmente el desarrollo de la industria, del comercio y de todos los negocios.
Sufragio Efectivo. No Reelección.
Agua Prieta, abril 23 de 1920.
GRAL. DE DIVISIÓN, P. ELÍAS CALLES
Generales de Brigada: Ángel Flores, Francisco R. Manzo, Juan Cruz, Lino Morales, Francisco R. Serrano. Generales Brigadieres: Miguel Piña H., J. M. Padilla, Fructuoso Méndez, Carlos Plank, Roberto Cruz, Alejandro Mange, Luis Matys, Ramón Gómez, Luis Espinosa, Ignacio Mori, Macario Gaxiola y José María Ochoa. Capitán de Navío J. de la Llave. Capitán de Navío El Olivier. Coroneles: Abelardo L. Rodríguez. J. M. Aguirre, Fausto Topete, Enrique León, Guillermo M. Palma, Lorenzo Muñoz, E. C. García, Anatolio B. Ortega, A.A. Ancheta, Guillermo Nelson, Eduardo Andalon, Julio García, Z. Jiménez Ponce, Francisco G. Manríquez, Camilo Gastélum Jr., Mateo de la Rocha, Rosendo Quezada, Pablo C. Macías, Juan G. Amaya y Antonio Guerrero. Tenientes Coroneles: Mariano Valtiérrez, Ángel Camargo, Pero Sosa, Anselmo Armenta, Antonio Cruz, J. Jesús Arvizu, A. Campoell, Jesús M. Palma, G.R. Limón, Jesús O. Cota, Rafael Villagrán, Alberto G. Montaño, Manuel Bacilio, Francisco Ochoa, Juan B. Izaguirre, Antonio Armenta, Pedro Quintero, Pedro C. Figueroa, Manuel García, Ignacio Otero, Rodolfo Ibarra Vega, Manuel Limón, Jesús Otero, Manuel Escobar, Gumersindo López, Eligio Samaniego, Benito Bernal, Alberto Zuno Hernández, Santos R. Flores y Jesús Bórquez. Mayores: Luis Palomares, Rodolfo M. Reyna, Isaac M. Rocha, Guadalupe Cruz, Canuto Ortega, Máximo Othón, Patricio García, Manuel Meza, Manuel I. Medina, J. M. Burrota, J. J. Pérez, Ricardo Legaspi, B. González, Luis R. Flores, Manuel O. Lugo, Ángel Gaxiola Jr., Victoriano Tabárez, F. Polanco, Leopoldo Robles, Alfredo Delgado, José Ma. Hernández, Victoriano Díaz, Manuel Martínez, José S. Obregón y José A. Araiza. Capitanes Primeros: S. Amézquita Liceaga, Pantaleón Pineda, José Ma. Tapia, Francisco Herrera. Subteniente Manuel H. Lira. Señores: Francisco S. Elías, Luis L. León, H. Gavilondo, Antonio G. Rivera. Administrador Aduana de Agua Prieta, Julián S. González; Pdte. Mpal. De Cananea, J. R. Estrada; Alfonso Vázquez, Agente Comercial en Douglas, Arizona; Ricardo C. López, Jefe de Oficina Telegráfica en Nogales, Son.; Teniente Coronel Abraham Fraijo, Presidente Mpal. De Agua Prieta; Arturo M. Escandón, Director de El Tiempo, F. Alfonso Pesqueira. Constituyentes de Querétaro: Luis G. Monzón y Froilán C. Manjarrez. Constituyentes de Sonora: Antonio R. Romo, Rosendo L. Galaz., José Ma. V. Lizárraga, Gabriel Corella, Adalberto Trujillo y Clodoveno Valenzuela; Ramón M. Bernal, Oficial Mayor del Congreso del Estado; A. M. Sánchez, Oficial 1° de la Secretaría de Gobierno; S. M. Moreno, Jefe de la Sección de Gobernación; A.B. Sobrazo, Encargado de la Sección del Registro Civil; Amos B. Casas, Oficial 2° de la Secretaría de Gobierno; S.A. Campoy, Oficial 3° de la Secretaría de Gobierno; Carlos Díaz, Jefe del Departamento de Compras; Miguel Vázquez, Jefe del Departamento de Archivo; Ángel Avilez, Oficial del Depto. De Archivo; Guillermo de la Rosa, Director General de Educación Pública; Miguel Yépez Solórzano, director General del Catastro; Aurelio S. Larios, Dibujante del Catastro; Manuel Larios, Ingeniero de la Dirección del Catastro; Raúl Salazar, Procurador General de Justicia en el Estado; B. Cabrera, Jefe de Defensores de Oficio; Ángel Amante, Oficial 1° de la Secretaría del Congreso; Plutarco Padilla, Oficial 2° de la Secretaría del Congreso; Heliodoro Pérez Mendoza, Jefe de la Sección de Glosa de la Inspección de Telégrafos; Eloy García S., Jefe de la Oficina Telegráfica de Hermosillo; F.R. Pesqueira, Administrador Principal del Timbre; Rafael Manzo, Tesorero General del Estado; Lic. Pedro González Rubalcava, Juez de Instrucción Militar; Lic. José Guzmán V., Agente del Ministerio Público Militar; Lic. Zenón García, Asesor de Guerra; José S. Healy, periodista; Alberto S. Díaz, Carlos Genda Jr., Mario Hernández Machain, Secretario Particular del Jefe Supremo del Ejército Liberal Constitucionalista; A.R. Guzmán, Agente General de Agricultura y Fomento; Diputados al Congreso del Estado: Lic. Gilberto Valenzuela, Emiliano Corella M., Ing. Joaquín C. Bustamente, Miguel C. López, Alejo Bay, Luis F. Vhávez, Felizardo Frías, Ramón D. Cruz, Alfonso Almada, Ignacio G. Soto, Florencio Robles, Leoncio J. Ortiz, Julio C. Salazar, Rafael F.L. Paredes y Emilio Mendívil. Magistrados del Supremo Tribunal de Justicia: Lic. Luis N. Rubalcava, Espiridión S. Ruíz y Lic. Manuel Zezati; Alberto C. Loustaunau, Secretario del Tribunal de Justicia; Diputados al Congreso de la Unión: Alejandro Velázquez López, Damián Alarcón, Ezequiel Ríos Landeros. Señores: Fernando Torreblanca, Lic. Rafael Díaz de León, Alfonso Guerra y Rodolfo Torreblanca. Senadores por Estado de Sonora: Flavio A. Bohórquez y Carlos Plank.
Agua Prieta is a border town that joins Douglas, Arizona.
In Turkey the Turkish Grand National Assembly convened in Ankara in a move that was on its way towards the establishment of the modern Turkish republic. On the same day an Allied conference announced its intent to recognize Armenian sovereignty and allow Greece to administer a Turkish Smyrna.
And ice hockey premiered on this day as an Olympic sport.