April 19, 1943
– The 50,000 Jews remaining in Warsaw began a desperate and heroic
attempt to resist Nazi deportation to extermination camps. Their armed
insurgency became known as the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. (From the Daily Bleed)
There had been over 3 million Jews living in Poland prior to the Nazi
occupation. The Nazis rounded them up and forced them into crowded
ghettos. The Warsaw ghetto had 250,000-300,000 Jews living in abominable
conditions. Between 250,000 and 300,000 Warsaw ghetto residents died at
the Treblinka concentration camp within the two months the Nazis were
deporting them. The Jews managed to stockpile Molotov cocktails, hand
grenades, military uniforms, and even a few pistols and some explosives.
The resistance was crushed by the Nazis on May 16. (From Wikipedia)
January 20, 1872 – Filipino soldiers and workers staged a bloody revolt against Spanish rule. (From the Daily Bleed)
January 20, 1920 – American Civil Liberties Union was founded. (From the Daily Bleed)
January 20, 1934 – Nazis abolished collective bargaining and union elections. (From the Daily Bleed)
January 20, 1986
- Bruce Springsteen's "My Hometown" topped the music charts on this
date in 1986. The song, a eulogy for dying industrial cities, includes
the lines: "Now Main Street's whitewashed windows and vacant stores /
Seems like there ain't nobody wants to come down here no more / They're
closing down the textile mill across the railroad tracks / Foreman says
these jobs are going boys and they ain't coming back to your hometown /
Your hometown / Your hometown / Your hometown . . ." (From Workday Minnesota)
December 23, 1617--America's first penal colony was established in Virginia, creating safe, humane [sic] home for the nascent country's future class war prisoners. (From the Daily Bleed)
December 23, 1921 - President Warren Harding issued a "Christmas amnesty," freeing Eugene V. Debs and 23 other political prisoners who had been imprisoned for their opposition to World War I. (from Workday Minnesota)
December 23, 1938--Franco's forces launched an assault on Catalonia.(From the Daily Bleed)
December 23, 1947-- Truman pardoned 1,523 out of 15,805 WWII draft resistors.(From the Daily Bleed)
April 19, 1943 – The 50,000 Jews remaining in Warsaw began a desperate and heroic attempt to resist Nazi deportation to extermination camps. Their armed insurgency became known as the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. (From the Daily Bleed) There had been over 3 million Jews living in Poland prior to the Nazi occupation. The Nazis rounded them up and forced them into crowded ghettos. The Warsaw ghetto had 250,000-300,000 Jews living in abominable conditions. Between 250,000 and 300,000 Warsaw ghetto residents died at the Treblinka concentration camp within the two months the Nazis were deporting them. The Jews managed to stockpile Molotov cocktails, hand grenades, military uniforms, and even a few pistols and some explosives. The resistance was crushed by the Nazis on May 16. (From Wikipedia)
January 20, 1872 – Filipino soldiers and workers staged a bloody revolt against Spanish rule. (From the Daily Bleed)
January 20, 1920 – American Civil Liberties Union was founded. (From the Daily Bleed)
January 20, 1934 – Nazis abolished collective bargaining and union elections. (From the Daily Bleed)
January 20, 1986 - Bruce Springsteen's "My Hometown" topped the music charts on this date in 1986. The song, a eulogy for dying industrial cities, includes the lines: "Now Main Street's whitewashed windows and vacant stores / Seems like there ain't nobody wants to come down here no more / They're closing down the textile mill across the railroad tracks / Foreman says these jobs are going boys and they ain't coming back to your hometown / Your hometown / Your hometown / Your hometown . . ." (From Workday Minnesota)
April 19, 1943 – The 50,000 Jews remaining in Warsaw began a desperate and heroic attempt to resist Nazi deportation to extermination camps. Their armed insurgency became known as the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. (From the Daily Bleed) There had been over 3 million Jews living in Poland prior to the Nazi occupation. The Nazis rounded them up and forced them into crowded ghettos. The Warsaw ghetto had 250,000-300,000 Jews living in abominable conditions. Between 250,000 and 300,000 Warsaw ghetto residents died at the Treblinka concentration camp within the two months the Nazis were deporting them. The Jews managed to stockpile Molotov cocktails, hand grenades, military uniforms, and even a few pistols and some explosives. The resistance was crushed by the Nazis on May 16. (From Wikipedia)
