Historrror

Daily well-documented & researched historical events tweeted - #WW1 #Weimar #Third_Reich #WW2 #Holocaust #Cold_War #Hitler #Stalin #Churchill #FDR #Truman, etc.

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Nov 15, 1873 Birth: Sara Josephine Baker, US physician notable for making contributions to public health, especially in the immigrant communities of NYC; fought against widespread urban poverty & ignorance caused to children; tracked down #TyphoidMary https://t.co/qbl8o13Nlp

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November 15, 1978 Death: Margaret Mead was an American cultural anthropologist who featured frequently as an author and speaker in the mass media during the 1960s and 1970s. https://t.co/G9PJ1D6brp

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November 15, 1998: Death: Stokely Carmichael, prominent organizer in the US #CivilRights movement & the global pan-African movement; Originator of "Black Power" https://t.co/ClFxd6SyNd

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Nov 15, 1957 Birth: Harold Marcuse (@German_History), US professor of modern/contemporary German history, University of California Santa Barbara; author more than a dozen books, incl Legacies of Dachau: The Uses and Abuses of a Concentration Camp 1933-2001 https://t.co/R9MZf2ipfb

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November 14, 1953 Animation Premier: Of Rice and Hen, a #WarnerBros Looney Tunes cartoon starring Foghorn Leghorn, Miss Prissy & Barnyard Dawg; #FoghornLeghorn is voiced by Mel Blanc, with an uncredited Bea Benaderet voicing all of the female hens https://t.co/nLv0xo1xlf

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November 14, 1970 Southern Airways Flight 932 crashes in the mountains near Huntington, West Virginia, killing 75, including almost all of the Marshall University football team: https://t.co/3AuPISWnEK

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Nov 14, 1957 #OrganizedCrime: The "Apalachin Meeting" in rural Tioga County in upstate New York is raided by law enforcement; many high-level #MAFIA figures are arrested while trying to flee; high-water mark of the US Mafia & the beginning of its downfall https://t.co/3wBlcWLP6G

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November 14, 1990 #Reunification German–Polish Border Treaty: The Federal Republic of #Germany and #Poland sign a treaty confirming the Oder–Neisse line as the border between Germany and Poland: https://t.co/7TQ1PBS96n

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November 14, 1982 #Solidarity: Only 2 days after riot police used tear gas, water cannon & phosphorous rockets to disperse big pro-Solidarity demonstrations in #Warsaw & other cities, Lech Walesa is released after 11 months of internment https://t.co/TYkBrTnL8E

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November 14, 1935 #POTUS #FDR cabled Manuel L. Quezon "I send my heartiest congratulations upon your inauguration as the first President of the Commonwealth of the #Philippines and my best wishes for the success of your Administration" https://t.co/a2MpWJVP64

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November 14, 1862: Birth: Johann-Heinrich, Count von Bernstorff, German diplomat, favored a détente with the UK, militated against unrestricted submarine warfare in #WW1, & made efforts for peace https://t.co/6yKBlbjlJ7

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Nov 14, 1965 #VietnamWar Battle of Ia Drang; 1st major engagement between regular American and North Vietnamese forces commences; 1st large scale helicopter air assault; 1st use of Boeing B-52 Stratofortress strategic bombers in a tactical support role. https://t.co/eiOnquJFdV

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November 14, 1960 #CivilRights 6-year-old Ruby Bridges becomes the 1st Black American student to integrate an elementary school in the South; an all-White elementary school in Louisiana: https://t.co/EcIARPPTg5

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November 14, 1967 Day of the Colombian Woman: The Congress of Colombia, in commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the death of Policarpa Sa https://t.co/wakcgjTonn

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Nov 14, 1951 #ColdWar In a surprising turn of events, #POTUS #Truman asks Congress for US military & economic aid for communist #Yugoslavia to try to drive a deeper wedge between Yugoslavia & the #SovietUnion. https://t.co/jjlZtKOmYL

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November 14, 1953 #SpandauPrison After West #German President #Adenauer's statement concerning early releases for some of the convicted #Nazis, Hess & Funk redouble their efforts to be considered seriously ill; DETAILS—> https://t.co/FH4iJd2DOL

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November 14, 1943 #WW2 Anti-#Nazi Clandestine Radio Soldatsender Calais begins transmitting; Soldatensender Calais was a British black propaganda broadcaster of the Political Warfare Executive https://t.co/hVFeIr8wr8

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November 14, 1944 Death Air Chief Marshal Sir Trafford Leigh-Mallory, the RAF Air Commander-in-Chief South East Asia Command, dies when his aircraft crashes; his wife and eight others were killed; the most senior RAF officer to be killed in #WW2 https://t.co/k5jVmNcbVR