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October 24, 2006
This Date in History
...in living color.
Black:
...The UN came into existence on 24 October 1945, after the Charter had been ratified by the five permanent members of the Security Council — Republic of China, France, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States — and by a majority of the other 46 signatories.
Blue:
...the first woman to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel, in 1901...Anna Edson Taylor, after emerging from her barrel, said, "Nobody ought ever do that again," then lapsed into incoherency for several days(she recovered).
1648 - The treaties for the Peace of Westphalia were signed, ending the Thirty Years War, ultimately destroying the Holy Roman Empire, and ushering in the modern European state system.
Walt Disney testifies to the House Un-American Activities Committee, naming Disney employees he believes to be communists.
Red:
President Kennedy's announcement to world heads of state regarding the US 'Naval Quarantine' of Cuba (24 Oct-20 Nov 1962) to prevent further Soviet arms shipments of offensive weapons and development of further missile bases
Gil Perez was a Spanish soldier of the Filipino Guardia Civil who allegedly suddenly appeared in the Plaza Mayor of Mexico City on October 24, 1593. He was wearing the uniform of the guards of Malacanang Palace in the Philippines, and claimed he had no idea how he had arrived in Mexico.
Posted by tree hugging sister at October 24, 2006 11:00 AM
Comments
...in living color. I like it.
Today was also the anniversary of Black Thursday in the 1929 stock market crash.
Posted by: Prussian Tiger at October 25, 2006 01:24 AM
...in living color. I like it.
Today was also the anniversary of Black Thursday in the 1929 stock market crash.
Posted by: Prussian Tiger at October 25, 2006 01:28 AM
Ironic that the Peace of Westphalia and the creation of the UN took place on the same day. Westphalia firmly established state sovereignty as the basis of the international legal order; the UN hopelessly undermined that.
Posted by: Dave J at October 26, 2006 09:36 PM