Joe Lieber

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7 Aug 1944: The trials of the conspirators who tried to kill German dictator Adolf Hitler in Operation #Valkyrie begins. Notorious Judge Roland #Freisler presides. The attempt occurred on July 20. Ringleader Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg was executed on July 21. #WWII #WW2 #OTD #ad https://t.co/TW6evZBRyn

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6 Aug 1926: American Gertrude Ederle becomes the first #woman to #swim across the #English Channel. She made her first attempt on August 18, 1925. She swam approximately 35 miles from Cape Gris-Nez, France, to Kingsdown, Kent, battling heavy waves and stinging jellyfish. Upon her return to New York, she was honored with a massive ticker-tape #parade attended by an estimated two million people. #History #OTD #ad https://t.co/i1iIe1HLEw

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6 Aug 1996: The #Ramones play the final concert of their career at The Palace in Los Angeles. They recorded their fourth live #album, We’re Outta Here, that evening.  All the band members adopted the #pseudonym Ramone, though none of them were related. #OTD #History #ad https://t.co/GtOzoo2NGy

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5 Aug 1792: Tory #British Prime Minister from 1770-1782, Frederick North, aka Lord North, dies at the age of 60. He is known as the prime minister "who lost #America". #History #HistoryMatters #OTD #freedom #ad https://t.co/1d25CuoqgN

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5 Aug 1305: William Wallace, who led the #Scottish resistance against England, is captured. He is tried for treason, found guilty and #executed on August 23. The movie "Braveheart" starring Mel Gibson, is based on him. #History #OTD #ad https://t.co/c7TiptJTp3

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5 Aug 1943: The first secret negotiations between United States General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Italy's fascist leader Pietro Badoglio's government to discuss an #Italian surrender to the Allies takes place. An #armistice is announced on September 8, though it was secretly agreed to on September 3. #OTD #History #ad https://t.co/QJCjzgz9Wa

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4 Aug 1944: A #Dutch informer leads the #Gestapo to #Jewish diarist Anne Frank and her family in Amsterdam. Anne Frank would be sent to and dies in Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. #WWII #WW2 #History #OTD #ad https://t.co/CZXowUJCte

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3 Aug 2000: The #Republican party nominates George W. #Bush to run for president. He goes on to beat #Democratic nominee Vice #President Al #Gore in a controversial race where the Supreme Court had to settle a recount dispute in the case known as Bush v. Gore. #History #OTD #ad https://t.co/keWuXo0VyZ

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3 Aug 1852: #Harvard beats #Yale in the first intercollegiate regatta. The race is also considered the first American intercollegiate #athletic event. #history #race #OTD #ad https://t.co/bdRGturqqm

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3 Aug 1936: U.S. #Olympic runner Jesse #Owens defeats the “fastest man” in the world, fellow U.S. teammate Ralph Metcalfe, in the 100 meter dash at the 1936 #Berlin Summer Olympic games to win the gold medal. #History #running #OTD #race #ad https://t.co/hOj7ltl3NI

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2 Aug 1914:  2 Aug 1914: #Germany and Turkey secretly ratify the Ottoman–German Alliance. The alliance, signed shortly after the outbreak of World War I, stated the two countries would remain neutral in the Austria-Hungary and #Serbia war, unless #Russia entered the war. Then they would be allies. #Turkey wanted to remain neutral but felt it couldn't, having tried to ally with #Britain and France first. However, because those nations were already allied with Russia—Turkey's long-time enemy—they rejected a Turkish pact to keep #Moscow happy, leaving Turkey isolated. #History #OTD #ad https://t.co/9AmNmgeDEf

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@Di_Krass_ And yet most of them still can’t beat the market.

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2 Aug 1914: A day after Germany entered World War I, its government demands free passage for its #army through neutral Belgian. The next day #Belgium refused the request. Germany invaded on August 4, which caused outrage across the globe. #History #OTD #ad https://t.co/BbhUS6zW0J

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1 August 1946: Andrey Vlasov, leader of the #Russian Liberation Army, is hanged in #Moscow after being convicted of high #treason. A highly decorated #Soviet general who originally fought heroically for the Red Army during the Battle of Moscow, Vlasov was captured by the Germans in 1942 and subsequently defected due to his deep disillusionment with Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin's brutal #military mismanagement. He then organized captured #Russian soldiers to fight alongside Nazi Germany beginning in 1944, a desperate anti-Stalinist alliance that ultimately led to his capture by Allied forces and execution. #WWII #WW2 #History #OTD #ad https://t.co/QkAe0NNgvN

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31 July 1986: Former vice-consul to the Japanese Consulate in #Lithuania Chiune Sugihara dies. He helps save thousands of refugees, including Jews, in 1940, during World War II by issuing them transit visas through Japan. He is the only #Japanese national to have been honored by #Israel as the Righteous Among the Nations. #History #OTD #ad https://t.co/PswcG4vETD

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30 July 1945: During World War II, the USS #Indianapolis is torpedoed by #Japanese #submarine I-58 and sank. Of the 1,195 men on board only 316 survived. It was the single largest loss of life at sea from one ship in the history of the U.S. Navy. #WW2 #History #OTD #ad https://t.co/XtRQrbjO0K

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29 July 1944: Poland’s Home #Army is encouraged to rise up against the occupying Germans by a #radio broadcast from Moscow. However, during the resulting #Warsaw Uprising, the #Soviets do almost nothing to help, actively preventing Western Allied planes from landing on Soviet-controlled airfields to drop critical supplies. Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin intentionally allows the Germans to crush the #Polish resistance to ease the future Sovietization of the country. #History #OTD #disgraceful #WWII #ad https://t.co/cSs21Znmnh

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28 July 1741: #Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi, famous for his The Four Seasons concerti and many other compositions, dies at age of 63 in Vienna, Austria. He was born in Venice, #Italy on March 4, 1678. #TheFourSeasons #ClassicalMusic #History #OTD #ad https://t.co/Dx3RnRtThr

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28 July 1944: #Soviet forces take Brest-Litovsk, #Ukraine from the Germans. It was the site where the Russo-German peace treaty of World War I was signed. #WWI #WWII #OTD #History #HistoryMatters #ad https://t.co/QcADzSkGOK

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28 July 1794: French #revolutionary leaders Maximilien Robespierre, his brother Augustin, Louis Antoine de Saint-Just and others are #executed by #guillotine in Paris, #France in what is known as the Thermidorian Reaction to the French Revolution. #History #OTD #ad https://t.co/Bw777pydAb