Today In History

9 years 9 months ago - 9 years 9 months ago #211 by Nikita
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August 4, 1944


Anne Frank is arrested in Amsterdam by the Gestapo. Deported to the concentration camp of Bergen-Belsen, she'll die there by typhus,
some days after her sister Margot .

She left a world-famous book , for those who don't want to forget...





"I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains."

Anne Frank


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9 years 9 months ago - 9 years 9 months ago #212 by Nikita
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August 7, 1942


Guadalcanal





Well, the name is world-known and the Wikipedia topic is impressive and shows the importance of this battle. Nothing to add more so but just something that i think...


About the Pacific War , i make a link with the famous quote by Winston Churchill, who said on November 9, 1942 about the battle of El Alamein : "Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning".


In the Pacific, Midway was perhaps the end of the beginning and Guadalcanal, the beginning of the end...
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9 years 9 months ago - 9 years 9 months ago #213 by Nikita
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August 15, 1944


Two months after Operation Overlord, the Allies start "the other landing". Operation Dragoon , called Débarquement de Provence in French,
take place on the French mediterranean coast.



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9 years 9 months ago #214 by Nikita
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9 years 9 months ago - 9 years 9 months ago #215 by Nikita
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August 21, 1968


Against Alexander Dubček's liberal reforms in Czechoslovakia, Leonid Brezhnev launches Operation Danube .

According to Wikipedia, the Brezhnev Doctrine in action means about 500,000 men (27 divisions), 6,300 tanks, 800 airplanes and 2,000 cannons of the Warsaw Pact against the spirit of Prague spring.

The "normalisation" of Czechoslovakia will last 20 years, until the country became a sovereign nation as the Czech Republic.



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9 years 8 months ago - 9 years 8 months ago #216 by Nikita
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August 22, 1914


An episode of the WW1 not well known or even ignored ... A Wikipedia article which is entitled only in French and Vietnamese ... A battle that was not even planned or foreseen by any of the belligerents...

At the village of Rossignol , and according to the historian Jean-Michel Steg, France will know the deadliest day of all her history...








"Le sang sèche vite en entrant dans l'histoire"

Jean Ferrat
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