Wednesday, October 16, 1946. Nuremberg sentences carried out.

Joachim von Ribbentrop (Minister of Foreign Affairs), Wilhelm Keitel (Head of the German High Command), Ernst Kaltenbrunner (Head of the Reich Main Security Office), Alfred Rosenberg (Primary Nazi ideologist and racial theorist), Hans Frank (Governor-General of occupied Poland), Wilhelm Frick (Minister of the Interior),  Julius Streicher (Publisher of Der Stürmer), Fritz Sauckel (Plenipotentiary for Labor Deployment), Alfred Jodl (Chief of the Operations Staff of the Armed Forces High Command) and Arthur Seyss-Inquart (Reich Commissioner for the Netherlands) were executed.

Their last meal consisted of sausage and cold cuts, along with potato salad, black bread, and tea.

Sgt. John Woods was the executioner.

Executions started at 1:30 a.m.

Von Ribbentrop was executed first.  His final words were:

God protect Germany. God have mercy on my soul. My final wish is that Germany should recover her unity and that, for the sake of peace, there should be an understanding between East and West. I wish peace to the world.

Von Ribbentrop apparently told the Lutheran pastor who was present that he would see him again. The execution was not done well and it took fourteen minutes for him to die.

Wilhelm Keitel.

I call on God Almighty to have mercy on the German people. More than two million German soldiers went to their death for the fatherland before me. I follow now my sons—all for Germany.

Keitel was a cousin once-removed of Katherine "Kitty" Oppenheimer.

Ernst Kaltenbrunner "

I have loved my German people and my fatherland with a warm heart. I have done my duty by the laws of my people and I am sorry my people were led this time by men who were not soldiers and that crimes were committed of which I had no knowledge. Germany, good luck.

Alfred Rosenberg, nothing.

Hans Frank

I am thankful for the kind treatment during my captivity and I ask God to accept me with mercy.

Wilhelm Frick

Long live eternal Germany.

Julius Streicher

Adele, my dear wife.

Fritz Sauckel

I am dying innocent. The sentence is wrong. God protect Germany and make Germany great again. Long live Germany! God protect my family.

Alfred Jodl

My greetings to you, my Germany.

Arthur Seyss-Inquart

I hope that this execution marks the final act of the tragedy of the Second World War and that the lesson learned from this war will be that peace and understanding should exist between peoples. I believe in Germany.

The News reported that some women were studying engineering in Colorado.

It was also speculating on the political fortunes of Wyoming's Governor, Lester Hunt.

Hunting season was the subject of a cartoon.

The RMS Queen Elizabeth returned to commercial use.

Gordie Howe made his NHL debut.

Actress Suzanne Somers was born.

Last edition:

Tuesday, October 15, 1946. Death of Hermann Göring

Labels: 1940s, 1946, 1946 World Series, baseball, Cartoons, Daily Living, Food, German Luftwaffe, Harry S. Truman, Hermann Göring, J.R. Williams, Nazi Germany, Nuremberg Trials, Truman Administration, Uncle Mike, War Crimes, World War Two

Monday, October 12, 1936. Armor to the Spanish Republicans, FDR in Cheyenne.

It was Columbus Day, which had been officially recognized as a permanent honorific day in 1934.

Republican T-26.

Fifty Soviet T-26 tanks and some BA-3 armored cars arrived in Cartagena, Spain.

The T-26 tank was a very good tank for the period and would serve in the Red Army throughout World War Two.

A cross channel locomotive ferry service commenced between Dover and Dunkirk.

The Rocky Mountain News reported that Franklin Roosevelt had been in Cheyenne the day prior, where he attended Episcopal Church services.

He was in Denver today.

Last edition:

Sunday, October 11, 1936. End of the Arab General Strike, Fascists attacks in London, War Concerns, Hermaphrodites.

Labels: 1930s, 1936, 1936 Election, Agriculture, Arab General Strike, Austria, British League of Nations Mandates, Franklin Roosevelt, Great Palestinian Revolt, Hermaphrodite, Men, Palestine, Science, Third Parties, Women

Wednesday, October 11, 1911. First MVPs.

Baseball gavec out its first MVP designations:

On This Day In Baseball History: October 11, 1911

The Italian expeditionary force arrived at Tripoli.

Mare Island, Vallejo, California, October 11, 1911:

Last edition:

Tuesday, October 10, 1911. Uprisings in China.

Labels: 1910s, 1911, California, China, Chinese 1911 Revolution, Chinese Army, Democracy, Government, Qing Dynasty, suffrage, Taiwan, Women, Wuchang Uprising

Monday, August 30, 1926. The end of Italian voting.

Italian municipal elections were abolished so that municipal officials could be appointed by the fascist state, something Der Fibber hasn't quite gotten around to here, yet.

A funeral Mass was held for Rudolph Valentino at Saint Malachy's Catholic Church in New York City.  The parish is famously associated with the theater district in New York.

The Soviet steamer Burevestnik sank in Kronstadt in a pier/ship collision accident, killing 65 passengers.

Last edition:

Saturday, August 28, 1926

Labels: 1920s, 1926, Art, fishing, Norman Rockwell

Tuesday, August 10, 1926. Executions in Mexico, Hurricane in Nova Scotia.

The Mexican government executed 20 people by firing squad. They'd participated in the uprising several days prior.

A hurricane struck Nova Scotia, sinking two fishing boats and causing the death of 26 crewmembers.

Out Our Way featured the cowboys for today.

Last edition:

Saturday, August 7, 1926. Calles rejects foreign mediation.

Labels: 1920s, 1926, Art, Automobile racing, Cristero War, Italy, Plutarco Elías Calles, Spain, United Kingdom

Sunday, July 21, 1946. Rationing bread.

The British Ministry of Food, with the approval of the House of Commons, put bread rationing in effect in the United Kingdom.  It was the first time that had occured in the country's history.

Britain continued to deal with food shortages for quite some time after the Second World War.  Bread rationing, which had not occurred during the war, would last until July 1948.  Other types of wartime rationing would continue on and be phased out, with the last rationing ending in 1954.

An oddity of this is that British health was noted to have improved due to rationing.  We don't often think of this occurring, but it did.  Likewise, it was noted that German soldiers in Allied hospitals, who had been getting by on thin rations, recovered from their wounds more quickly than well fed American ones.

Lieutenant Commander James J. Davidson landed a FH-1 Phantom on the deck of the USS Franklin D. Roosevelt, becoming the first American to land a jet aircraft on a carrier.

President Gualberto Villarroel of Bolivia was murdered by a mob that stormed the presidential palace.

Last edition:

Saturday, July 10, 1946. "Report of the Joint Committee on the Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack".

Labels: 1940s, 1941, 1946, 79th Congress, Army, China, Chinese Civil War, Imperial Japanese Navy, Nationalist Chinese Army, Pearl Harbor Hawaii, People's Liberation Army, U.S. Navy, World War Two

Monday, July 1, 1946 Crossroads Able.

 

Crossroads Able, "Gilda" July 1, 1946.

Atomic weapons were detonated, this time on Bikini Atoll, for the fourth time in human history.   The testing was on ships.  The device was not on target, so the impact was less than expected.

It was front page news, of course, but it was mixed with economic news and concerns.

Ameican troops were fighting German uniforms again, but over a different cause.

Last edition:

Sunday, June 30, 1946. Wartime powers expire.

Labels: 1940s, 1946, actors and actresses, Communism, Economics, Internment of Japanese, It was because of World War Two, Office of Price Administration, Poland, Rationing, Teenagers, Trucks, USSR, War Assets Administration, Women

The Madness of King Donald. The 25th Amendment Watch List, Tenth Edition. Finger on the nuclear trigger.

 

Oh yeah, that's the look of a sane man, right?   Photo by LAURENT GILLIERON / POOL / AFP via Getty Images, posted under Fair Use Exception.

Kaitlan Collins:  "Mr. President, what would you say to sex abuse survivors of Epstein who haven’t seen justice” 

Donald Trump: “You know, I’ve never seen you smile”

Man, that's creepy.

I wonder how many teenage girls head that after they were raped at Epstein Island?

February 7, 2026

Trump claimed in an interview with the New York Post that Venezuela failed to get their AAA rockets off the ground during the U.S.'s raid as the US used a "discombobulator" on them.

Um. . .sure.

In a bit of a defense for the deranged prince, what the military probably was referring to was an electronic jamming system.  While no doubt the most recent variants are quite advanced, such systems have been around for a very long time.

Trump's incredibly racist post depicting the Obama's as apes was taken down and blamed on a staffer.

Um. . . sure.

Trump is also claiming that the US has wanted a triumphal arch for 200 years, with is complete nonsense and which is only slightly less weird than his claim that Presidents have wanted the giant outhouse he hopes to build for 100 years.

February 9, 2026

Loss of inhibitions can be a sign of dementia.

This is definitely a "get off my lawn" moment.

February 10, 2026

Trump is clearly unhinged.

A spoiled brat and a real estate developer by trade, he sees the world through a pinhole.  His mind is turning to much.  He needs to be removed.

February 20, 2026

I flew to Iraq. I was extremely brave. I said to my people, 'Am I allowed to give myself the Congressional Medal of Honor?'…Someday I'm going to try. I'm going to test the law

Donald Trump.

February 21, 2026

Greenland has universal health care.  

Greenland is presently taking care of a U.S sailor evacuated from a U.S. submarine. . . by a Danish Seahawk helicopter.

Trump is completely delusional.  He should be removed.

Greenland doesn't need this, and moreover, Greenland's universal healthcare is something Americans lack.  If anything, Denmark should send a hospital ship to us.

This is patently absurd.  Frankly, at this point, anyone supporting Trump is not doing so out of faith in him, unless they're just willfully ignorant.  So outside of that, why on Earth is anyone not demanding that he be removed?

March 4, 2026

Mad King Donny is threatening to cut off all trade with Spain.

March 16, 2026

This is the first installment of this since Trump ignored his advisers and launched a war against Iran that he thought might last a few days and bring him a big victory.

It isn't.  It's wrecking the economy and there's no end in sight.   He is, of course, having a complete fit:

With Iran, Trump has met something that truly doesn't care what he thinks about anything whatsoever.  He can't bully them, he's already attacking them.  The news isn't cheery and he can't lie his way out of it.

Given this, the stress of his complete impotence here is going to get worse and worse, and probably with that, his behavior  He's threatening not to directly take on the Press, which may finally cause the US press to grow a spine.

And things may be beginning to finally happen:

A theory very close to the one I've advanced here.

We are now in a very dangerous place in the globe. Trump is an immoral man, and he's demented.  He's also getting desperate.  At some point my guess is he'll start asking Hegseth about what nuclear weapons might do here.  And he will commit, to some degree, U.S. ground forces.

March 22, 2026

In his madness and frustration over his  massive, and frankly stupid, miscalculation over Iran's reaction to being attacked in an illegal war by the US, Donald Trump is now resorting to broadcasting his illegal intentions on social media.  If Iran does not open the Straits of Hormuz, which its not going to, he's going to order US forces to illegally strike the electrical power structure of Iran.

Trump is a monster.  The 25th Amendment  must be invoked now.

With Trump reaching new levels of barbarism and insanity, we will close with this edition.

March 24, 2026

Mark Jacob on how the press ignores the biggest Trump story

"The president of the United States is clearly mentally unfit for office."

And with this entry, which nails it, we'll go on to a new edition.

To sum it up, Donald Trump is insane.

Cont:

He looked old, and he seemed tired. His speech slurred. More than anything else, he seemed utterly unattuned to the many crises that are all piling up around his many careless decisions. He finished speaking, everybody else at the table took turns lavishing him with praise, and then it was time to head to Graceland.

We’ve made the point many times during Trump’s second term, but it bears repeating: There’s little reason to believe that any of this is an affectation. Trump is a lifelong pathological solipsist. He’s fed that solipsism by vacuum-packing himself in an information environment of buttery flattery, spending his days marinating in the most over-the-top praise both in person and online. And it hasn’t helped that, as he’s gotten older, he’s seemingly fallen prey to the same tendencies that many old people do: the strongest parts of his personality just keep getting stronger. Any day now, he seems genuinely to believe, it’s all gonna turn around. Everybody just wait and see. The golden age is mere moments away.

Last edition:

The Madness of King Donald. The 25th Amendment Watch List, Ninth Edition. Trump is insane and the end of the United States as a great nation.

Labels: 2020s, 2026, 25th Amendment Watch List, Castratis, Civil Unrest, Donald Trump, Espionage, Ignorance, Mental Health, Sic transit Gloria Mundi, The Madness of King Donald, The Second Trump Administration, United States, War

Monday, February 4, 1946. Weather and War Brides.

National weather forecasts returned to American newspapers for the first time since December 15, 1941.

The SS Argentina arrived in New York City with 452 British war brides, one war groom and 173 children, the first large-scale such arrival.

The partially completed deck of the USS Kentucky (BB 66). February 4, 1946. She'd never be completed and would be scrapped.

Last edition:

Sunday, February 3, 1946. The Gouzenko Affair.

Labels: 1940s, 1946, Espionage, German SS, Radio, The Holocaust, The Press, USSR

Instead of invading Greenland, maybe they should fix the head.

 

The toilets on the Navy’s largest aircraft carrier keep failing

The USS Gerald R. Ford, currently taking part in operations in the Caribbean, sees some of toilets fail nearly every day.

 

The Navy is struggling to build ships

Sunday, December 28, 1975. Conflict in the Third Cod War.

The Icelandic Coast Guard vessel ICGV Týr rammed the Royal Navy frigate HMS Andromeda which was escorting two British fishing trawlers in what Iceland claimed as its territorial waters in the first confrontation of the Third Cod War.

The Týr is still in service.  The HMS Andromeda went on to serve in the Falklands War and was decommissioned in 1983.

Argentine guerilla commander Roberto Quieto was captured by soldiers in Martinez, Argentina during a raid on a warehouse. He'd betray his confederates under torture.

Quieto was a lawyer by training and would disappear while in Argentine captivity in 1976.

Both Chile and Argentina went through a period like this, called the Dirty War in Argentina.

Down 14-10 with  32 seconds remaining on  the clock, Dallas Cowboys quarterback Roger Staubach threw a long pass to win the game.  Interviewed later, he'd say:

It's a play you hit one in a hundred times if you're lucky.  It's a Hail Mary pass.  You throw it up and pray he catches it.

Staubach thereby coined, unintentionally the phrase that's irreverently used to refer to such desperate passes in football today.  I dislike the phrase so much I thought about not posting it here, but it's so frequently used, I relented.

Last edition:

Tuesday, December 23, 1975. Going metric.

Labels: 1940s, 1945, 79th Congress, Cheesecake, Ethnicities, It was because of World War Two, law, Marriage, The Press, The relationship between men and women, Women, World War Two

Wednesday, December 26, 1945. Boxing Day.

Seagulls surround the USS Wisconsin after it dumping of Christmas meal leftovers.

Former Vietnamese Emperor Duy Tân, 45, (Nguyễn Phúc Vĩnh San) was killed in an airplane crash in Central Africa.

As Emperor, he had participated in an anti French rebellion while only 16 years old, an event which lead to the French removing him from his throne.  He thereafter went into exile on Réunion Island, where he retained pro independence views.  During World War Two he held anti Vichy views and entered the Free French Navy, and then Army, when the island was liberated from Vichy.  DeGaulle, realizing how desperate the situation in French Indochina was, was having  him returned to Vietnam where he would have been re-installed as Emperor, which would have amounted to deposing Boa Dai, who had sided with Vichy.  His untimely death left the Communist dominated Viet Minh as the only real functioning anti colonial force in the region.

Still highly regarded in Vietnam, most Vietnamese cities have streets named after him.  His remains were reinterred in Vietnam in 1987.

The Red Chinese won the Gaoyou–Shaobo Campaign in which the Nationalist troops were principally made up of units that had formerly collaborated with the Japanese.

Admiral of the Fleet Roger John Brownlow Keyes, 1st Baron Keyes, who in spite of his age saw some service in World War Two, died at age 73.

Last edition:

Tuesday, December 25, 1945. Christmas.

Labels: 1940s, 1945, Cartoons, Cheesecake, Christianity, Christmas, Holidays, Imperial Japanese Navy, It was because of World War Two, Newspapers, religion, The Cold War, Wake Island, War, War Crimes, Women