Ostensibly exploring the practice of law before the internet. Heck, before good highways for that matter.
Wednesday, January 17, 2024
Monday, January 17, 1944. The Battle of Monte Cassino begins.
Tuesday, September 19, 2023
Sunday, September 19, 1943. Wars within the war.
The Markham, Ramu and Finisterre campaigns on New Guinea began with an Allied offensive in the Ramu Valley.
Monday, May 3, 2021
May 3, 1941. Meet John Doe
The famous Capra film, Meet John Doe, was released on this date in 1941, which I only know as its mentioned here:
Today in World War II History—May 3, 1941
The film is regarded as a classic, but its one that I haven't seen.
Australian troops at Tobruk launched a counterattack, but were repulsed by Italians, while at sea the Italians took a bruising from the British.
Italy annexed part of Slovenia and termed it the Province of Ljuljana. The annexation caused an odd ethnic relocation of the Gottschee population, which was German speaking, to a different portion of Slovenia which Germany had annexed as Hitler didn't want ethnic Germans in territory annexed into Italy.
Saturday, October 10, 2020
October 10, 1920. An Historic World Series Game, The Passing of Hudson Stuck, A Carinthian Plebiscite
Stuck was the co-leader of the first expedition to climb Denali.
Stuck was an Englishman born in London who immigrated to the United States in 1885 after graduating from London's King's College. In the US he worked as a cowboy and a teacher in Texas before enrolling in the Episcopal University of the South. Following graduation he was ordained as an Episcopal Priest and served at first in Texas, where he was active in trying to provide relief to the poor and in opposing child labor. He also preached against lynching at a time when it was at a Southern high.
In 1904 he went to Alaska where he was an Episcopal Archdeacon, a position in that church equivalent to a senior ordained clergyman. Stuck exemplified muscular Christianity and was well suited for Alaska. He was an Episcopal missionary priest there. In 1913 he co-led, with Harry Karstens, the first ascent of Denali. He authored an excellent book on the topic, which I have read. Two of his four books on his time in Alaska remain in print.
While the Episcopal Church has no means or process for canonizations, Stuck has a day on the Episcopal Church's calendar and is celebrated as a saint.
In Carinthia a plebiscite, which was designed as a two part process, determined that the majority of individuals in that region wished to remain in Austria.