Friday, October 4, 1946. Truman's announcement on the eve of Yom Kippur.

President Truman announced that he had telegraphed Prime Minister Clement Attlee to endorse the immigration of 100,000 Jewish refugees to Palestine.  Attlee was furious at the public disclosure which made an already difficult situation worse.

Speculation was that Truman may have done this to court Jewish votes in the election.

The Gnostic Nag Hammadi library, discovered in 1945, was accepted into the Coptic Museum in Cairo.

Robert A. Taft publicly criticized the results of the Nuremberg trials as unjust, citing the impossibility of the victor trying the vanquished fairly.

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Thursday, October 3, 1946. Game two of the 1946 National League Playoffs.

Labels: 1940s, 1946, 1946 World Series, Aircraft, baseball, Disaster, Labrador, Sports, Transportation

Tuesday, September 18, 1945. The first desegregation student protest.

White students in Gary, Indiana, walked out of their schools to protest racial integration.  It was the first such example of this in the United States, and an early effort to desegrated segregated schools.

The Red Chinese won the Battle of Xiangshuikou 

Secretary of War Henry Stimson resigned.  He'd also held the post from 1911-13 under Taft.

Stimson regarded Taft as the most efficient President he served under, and he served under more administrations than any other person in U.S. history.  He said that the best President was "Roosevelt", not making a distinction between the two Roosevelts.

Look was out, with Ingrid Bergman on the covery in her role in The Bells of St. Mary.

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Friday, September 14, 1945. Strike!

Labels: 1940s, 1945, Belgium, Corporatism, It was because of World War Two, Labor unrest, Post WWII Occupation of Germany, Strike Wave of 1945-1945, The Post War Economy Myth, Unions

Tuesday, August 15, 1911. No to Arizona (and New Mexico) statehood.

President Taft vetoed the bill admitting Arizona and New Mexico into the Union.

The veto was aimed at Arizona's judicial recall provision, and New Mexico was simply a victim of being included in the same bill.

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Monday, August 14, 1911. Emiliano Zapata demands that Federal troops be withdrawn from Morelos.

Labels: 1910s, 1911, Emiliano Zapata, Mexican Revolution, Mexico, Mexico (Morelos)

Thursday, December 1, 1910. Diaz inaugurated. . . again. Taft introduced to society.

Porfirio Diaz was inaugurated for his eighth term as President of Mexico.  His status in that role was already disputed.  His refusal to know when to go had already started a revolution, although at this moment, it was small.

Diaz might actually be remembered as a great leader of Mexico, in spite of his anti democratic tendencies, had he stepped down in 1910.

19 year old Helen Taft, the daughter of President Taft and his wife Nellie, had her debutante ball at the White House.

Miss Taft in 1908.

She was a historian and academic, and had an extraordinarily successful career.  Her focus was history, and she obtained a doctorate from Yale.

Today In Wyoming's History: December 1: 1910  A bounty on coyotes in the amount of $1.25, a not unsubstantial amount at the time, established. Attribution:  Wyoming State Historical Society.

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Tuesday, November 29, 1910. Race to the Antarctic.

Labels: 1910, 1910s, Antarctic, British Antarctic Expedition, Japanese Antarctic Expedition

Saturday, September 10, 1910. Taft on Conservatism.

 

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Thursday, September 8, 1910. Racist in the Texas legislature and heroes on board the USS North Dakota.

Labels: 1910, 1910s, boats and ships, Brazil, Heroes, Racism, Texas, U.S. Navy

Saturday, July 31, 1909. Zion National Park sort of established.

President Taft established Mukuntuweap National Monument in what is now Zion National Park.

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Thursday, July 29, 1909. GM acquires Cadillac.

Labels: 1900s, 1909, Angola, Automobiles, Food, Portuguese Empire, Slavery, Transportation

Sunday, Juue 3, 1900. Cold reception in a hot climate.

William Howard Taft arrived in Manila on the USS Hancock as Governor-General of the Philippines, replacing General Arthur MacArthur. the last military governor. 

Taft would later say; "I cannot describe the coldness of the Army officers and the Army men who received us any better than by saying that it somewhat exceeded the coldness of the populace."  Given the attitude of career Army officers at the time, that can't be doubted.

The International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU) was founded in New York City.

Germany's comprehensive meat inspection laws in the world, to that time.

Boxers cut the rail line between Beijing and Tianjin.