On This Day

Interested in history and nostalgia as well as current issues. (Also post elsewhere on X ( "Twitter") including @WashingtonViews. (Same bio!)

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#OnThisDay Feb 19 ....
1979: PLO's Yasser Arafat, in Iran Reports Khomeini Pledges Aid for Victory Over Israel, tours Israeli "Embassy" given to PLO VIDEO https://t.co/ae6QqF9Ewy

1942: President Roosevelt “Order 9066” US Internment of Japanese Americans https://t.co/6oIrniYe9z

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#OnThisDay Feb 19....1979: PLO's Yasser Arafat, in Iran Reports Khomeini Pledges Aid for Victory Over Israel, tours Israeli "Embassy" given to PLO VIDEO: https://t.co/uRILlp0lxg

1942: President Roosevelt “Order 9066” US Internment of Japanese Americans https://t.co/6oIrniYe9z

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Flashbacks

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@TheMonologist It's was on one of the Streaming services a couple of years ago. (Had to watch 2 or 3 times to grasp it all)

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#OnThisDay in 1950: Senator Joseph McCarthy makes his accusation....Partial text (although McCarthy's reports varied over the number of claimed communists McCarthy allegedly had the names of) https://t.co/3J8miGkVCf #McCarthyism #JoeMcCarthy

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#OnThisDay in 1964: The famed "The Beatles" appearance on the Ed Sullivan show in New York https://t.co/iFaVF89qUA #EdSullivan #Beatles

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Flashback 36 years...#OnThisDay (yesterday!) in 1990 The @nytimes was reporting on the election of Barack Obama to head the Harvard Law Review @HarvLRev @Harvard_Law @BarackObama

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#OnThisDay in 1952: The death of King George VI. Princess Elizabeth returns to England to become Queen Elizabeth II - and to reign for 70 years via @BritishPathe https://t.co/8xFlOgIjkn @RoyalFamily #QueenElizabethII #KingCharlesIII

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#OnThisDay in 1945: The start of the weeklong conference in Yalta, the Crimea between Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin https://t.co/iyLG8WIZep https://t.co/UboevNeolk #Yalta #WWII #Churchill #FDR #Stalin

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#OnThisDay Feb 4
1997: 2 Israeli troop-carrying helicopters collided on their way to Lebanon, all 73 aboard killed. (Led to 'Four Mothers' against @IDF-in-Lebanon Movement
1969: Yasser #Arafat chosen to head the Palestine Liberation Organization (#PLO)
https://t.co/w2NZxgjqn1

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#OnThisDay Feb 3, 1943: The famed "Four Chaplains" who drowned after they gave their life jackets to others aboard the torpedoed SS Dorchester in the Atlantic. The "#FourChaplains" - Two Protestant Ministers, a Catholic Priest and a (Jewish) Rabbi https://t.co/cF0z2bFEQd

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89 year old Winston Churchill leaves the House of Commons for the last time. He was a member of Parliament for 64 years. July 27, 1964.

As he moved slowly down the aisle of the chamber he had once commanded, the man who had steered a nation through its darkest hours seemed only a distant echo of his former self. Surveying the room, he turned to a colleague and murmured, almost wistfully, “I am so bored with it all.” Six months later, Churchill was gone.

47 of the most haunting photos from history:
https://t.co/POrqRRccxc

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#OnThisDay - January 31st, 1949:
- The United States (President Truman) extends "De Jure" Recognition of Israel
- Same day in UK: A couple of days after British "De Facto" Recognition of Israel; #Israel opens London consulate Video https://t.co/iFvZ2kMYpP https://t.co/OQEwN6a4Jt

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Who knew?!! Flashback: Actor Robson Green's (Grantchester, Wire in the Blood, etc) music "Breakthrough" - 1995 with Jerome Flynn in tv series "Soldier Soldier" "Unchained Melody" - The song (remade) became the Number 1 hit in the UK Robson & Jerome https://t.co/7skrEufyDl

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#OnThisDay - JAN 29th.... 20 years-2006: @JTANews #Hamas set to take power in Gaza after Palestinian elections. (No Gaza elections since!)...2002: President Bush on "Axis of Evil" (North Korea, #Iran and Iraq)...2003: Ariel Sharon reelected @IsraeliPM
https://t.co/Pas5p5VA7j

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#OnThisDay - January 28
1986: Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster
1980: #ARGO - 6 US Diplomats escape Iran - ht #Canada & @CIA!
1976: #YitzhakRabin first Israeli Prime Minister to addresses Joint Session of Congress
1916: Louis Brandeis to Supreme Court
https://t.co/AnPOo14YSM

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@HistoryGirlBW And yet my Father could have been in one those photos!

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#OnThisDay - January 27 -Today is of course, Holocaust Remembrance or Memorial Day…1945: Soviets Liberate Auschwitz....1967: The Apollo I Fire Kills the 3 Astronauts, Gus Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffe on the launch pad https://t.co/QVb2ffRYOV

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#OnThisDay January 26
[Jan 27 is International Holocaust Remembrance Day

2021 -Conference of Presidents Member Organizations Adopt IHRA Definition https://t.co/dwD08Qfhjz

1980 - Israel completes withdrawal from much of Sinai; Israel-Egypt border opens; diplomatic relations.