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Blame game re executions of Myuran and Andrew have begun. Waleed Aly has blamed Mr Abbott over irrelevant issues. Meanwhile, a culpable ALP fractures over Same Sex Marriage and Palestine. Both of those issues are irrelevant too, to the execution. Except while Myuran and Andrew could have used then ALP government assistance which would have been effective in preventing their execution, the ALP were navel gazing at these two issues. Same sex marriage is meaningless so long as civil unions are sanctioned. It is an intrusion on religion which no government should touch. Palestine is a UN endorsed terrorist state that is populated by Jordanians. If anyone felt compassion for them, they would send them back.
New cases in China and Malaysia regarding alleged Australian drug smugglers caught with death penalty amounts of drugs. It is unlikely the ALP or ABC will be able to condemn these people fast enough. So they have begun preparing a blame game for the government.
The salient statistics on race and police arrests for 2012 posted yesterday have been 'answered' by Marcus Anderson on Australian Political Debate Open Forum "far far more black people are alienated from American society, on a percentage basis, than white people. Touting sentiments that ignore the historical and important facts reflect your indifference to the problem of racial villification this meme represents." In other words, Marcus feels that the statistic on their own contravenes section 18c of the racial vilification act of Australia. Were that true, then the device would indeed be a meaningless instrument of censorship. It is possible, were one to face the same sentencing judge that Andrew Bolt faced, that Marcus's view would be upheld. Although many have told me that that judge is an effective independent member of the judiciary and not some partisan tool, as evidenced by that judgement on Bolt.
Nepal has more than 6100 deaths from the earthquakes. She needs fresh food and water and shelter for her survivors. Please give generously. And Pray for her people. Prayer works.
In 313, Licinius defeated Maximinus and united the Eastern empire of Rome at the Battle of Tzirallum. He became co Emperor of Rome with Constantine I. Both were involved with making the Edict of Milan which was to make Christian worship acceptable in Rome. Both emperors were capable and eyed the other as a rival. Licinius married the half sister of Constantine I. Fighting continued between the two. Licinius promoted a rival to Constantine I, Valerius Valens as co emperor. But when Constantine objected Licinius had Valerius killed. After Constantine won a final battle between the two in 324, Licinius' wife begged for the old man's life to be spared. Constantine I spared Licinius' life for a year, and then hanged him on a pretext of conspiring to raise troops.
In 1492, Spain gave permission for Columbus to become very rich by trading in the East by ship. In 1789, Washington took the Oath of Office to become President of the United States of America. In 1803, the Louisiana Purchase took place for a mere $15 million, doubling the land size of the US. In 1871, terrorists afraid of losing federal funding by the US Government attacked American Indians, killing the adults and selling the children into slavery in Mexico, from Arizona. President US Grant ordered Arizona to improve her justice issues or risk being subject to federal martial law, so Arizona proceeded to try Indians on any pretext. It was called the Camp Grant Massacre. In 1894, Coxey's Army reached Washington DC to protest unemployment following the Panic of 1893. It is only coincidence that President Grover Cleveland was a Democrat doing what Democrat administrations do, which is to blame Jews, fail to budget appropriately and mishandle industrial and labour issues. There had been a bubble caused by railroad building and a bust caused by Argentina focused investments going sour after a coup in Buenos Aires.
From Wikipedia:
"Historian Hasia Diner notes that "Some Populists believed that Jews made up a class of international financiers whose policies had ruined small family farms. Jews, they asserted, owned the banks and promoted the gold standard, the chief sources of their impoverishment. Agrarian radicalism posited the city as antithetical to American values, asserting that Jews were the essence of urban corruption."
In 1900, Hawaii became a territory of the US. On the same day, at 3:52 AM a great, good, heroic 37 yo family man was killed doing his job for the railroads. He was Casey Jones. He had been tasked with taking a 95 minute late train, Cannonball express, from Memphis Tennessee to Canton Mississippi. He had a reputation of being very reliable and he made up time on the foggy night. But the railroad let him down when he had made up the missing time coming to his destination, freight trains laid across the path of his engine. He saved the colleague next to him, and everyone else, by remaining in the carriage and slowing his train. He died, and the railroads blamed him on a false OHS report claiming he had been warned of the impasse. His widow wore black for the rest of her long life, dying in 1958 at the age of 92, never having considered remarrying after losing the father of her three children. In 1927, Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford became the first celebrities to leave their footprint in concrete in Hollywood. In 1938, the animated cartoon short of Porky's Hare Hunt featured Happy Rabbit, a proto-Bugs Bunny. Also in 1938, the first televised FA Cup final occurred. In 1939, NBC began regular scheduled TV broadcasts with FDR's NY World Fair opening address.
In 1943, Operation Mincemeat had a British Submarine release a dead body dressed up as a British officer with faked invasion plans. It was a plot thought up by James Bond's creator Ian Fleming. In 1945, Hitler found out, after a day, marriage was not for him. In 1956, a corrupt former Democrat VP, Alben Barkley, died during a speech in Virginia. He collapsed after proclaiming "I would rather be a servant in the house of the lord than sit in the seats of the mighty." In 1966, the Church of Satan was established at the Black House in San Francisco. In 2008, skeletal remains were found of the last Tsar and one of his sisters in Yekaterinburg.
2014
It is Consumer Protection day in Thailand, and so time to think of injustice. On this day in 311, the persecution of Christians by Romans ended. Now it was their turn. Lions would go hungry, academics like Hypatia were harshly treated for maintaining different lifestyles. It is said Disraeili remarked that two thousand years of Christian love has left Jews feeling nervous. But then many Christians would dispute what was done in their name, nowadays we have a policy separating church and state in the West. Note, Israel as a Jewish state, having embraced that within a democratic, pluralistic model is legitimate as a modern government, while many Islamic states fail the test of pluralism or separation of church and state.
On this day in 1315 Enguerrand de Marigny was hung on the public gallows at Montfaucon. He had been an effective first minister for his king, but when his king died, jealous courtiers conspired to have him hung on charges of witchcraft. In 1513 Edmund de la Pole, Yorkist pretender to the English throne, was executed on the orders of Henry VIII. Henry VII had accepted Edmund as prisoner on terms of not executing him, but left instructions in his will that his son should. Edmund's crime was to be born to the wrong family. On this day in 1863, three thousand Mexican soldiers laid siege to sixty five French Legionaries. Mexico won. Just. On this day in 1945, Hitler took his life many years too late for millions of innocent victims. 1975, Saigon fell days after the US stopped supporting her. China kept funding the North. The peace community had won and many millions would flee tyranny.
Historical perspectives on this day
In 311, the Diocletianic Persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire ended. 313, Battle of Tzirallum: Emperor Licinius defeated Maximinus II and unified the Eastern Roman Empire. 642, Chindasuinth was proclaimed king by the Visigothic nobility and bishops. 1315, Enguerrand de Marigny was hanged on the public gallows at Montfaucon. 1492, Spain gave Christopher Columbus his commission of exploration. 1513, Edmund de la Pole, Yorkist pretender to the English throne, was executed on the orders of Henry VIII. 1557, Mapuche leader Lautaro was killed by Spanish forces at the Battle of Mataquito in Chile. 1598, Juan de Oñate made a formal declaration of his Conquest of New Mexico. 1636, Eighty Years' War: Dutch Republic forces recaptured a strategically important fort from Spain after a nine-month siege. 1671, Petar Zrinski, the Croatian Ban from the Zrinski family, is executed.
In 1789, On the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York City, George Washington took the oath of office to become the first elected President of the United States. 1803, Louisiana Purchase: The United States purchased the Louisiana Territory from France for $15 million, more than doubling the size of the young nation. 1812, the Territory of Orleans became the 18th U.S. state under the name Louisiana. 1838, Nicaragua declared independence from the Central American Federation. 1863, a 65-man French Foreign Legion infantry patrol fought a force of nearly 2,000 Mexican soldiers to nearly the last man in Hacienda Camarón, Mexico. 1871, the Camp Grant massacre took place in Arizona Territory. 1885, Governor of New York David B. Hill signed legislation creating the Niagara Reservation, New York's first state park, ensuring that Niagara Falls would not be devoted solely to industrial and commercial use. 1894, Coxey's Army reached Washington, D.C. to protest the unemployment caused by the Panic of 1893.
In 1900, Hawaii became a territory of the United States, with Sanford B. Dole as governor. Also 1900, Casey Jones died in a train wreck in Vaughan, Mississippi, while trying to make up time on the Cannonball Express. 1904, the Louisiana Purchase Exposition World's Fair opened in St. Louis, Missouri. 1907, Honolulu, Hawaii became an independent city. 1920, Peru became a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty. 1925, automaker Dodge Brothers, Inc was sold to Dillon, Read & Co. for US$146 million plus $50 million for charity. 1927, the Federal Industrial Institute for Women opened in Alderson, West Virginia, as the first women's federal prison in the United States. 1927, Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford became the first celebrities to leave their footprints in concrete at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood.
In 1937, the Philippines held a plebiscite for Filipino women on whether they should be extended the right to suffrage; over 90% would vote in the affirmative. 1938, the animated cartoon short Porky's Hare Hunt debuts in movie theaters, introducing Happy Rabbit (a prototype of Bugs Bunny). Also 1938, the first televised FA Cup Final took place between Huddersfield Town and Preston North End. 1939, the 1939-40 New York World's Fair opened. Also 1939, NBC inaugurated its regularly scheduled television service in New York City, broadcasting President Franklin D. Roosevelt's N.Y. World's Fair opening day ceremonial address. 1943, World War II: Operation Mincemeat: The submarine HMS Seraph surfaced in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Spain to deposit a dead man planted with false invasion plans and dressed as a British military intelligence officer. 1945, World War II: Führerbunker: Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun committed suicide after being married for one day. Soviet soldiers raised the Victory Banner over the Reichstag building. 1947, in Nevada, the Boulder Dam was renamed the Hoover Dam a second time. 1948, in Bogotá, Colombia, the Organization of American States was established.
In 1953, in Warner Robins, Georgia, an F4 tornado killed 18 people. 1956, former Vice President and Senator Alben Barkley died during a speech in Virginia. He collapses after proclaiming "I would rather be a servant in the house of the lord than sit in the seats of the mighty." 1961, K-19, the first Soviet nuclear submarine equipped with nuclear missiles, was commissioned. 1963, the Bristol Bus Boycott was held in Bristol to protest the Bristol Omnibus Company's refusal to employ Black or Asian bus crews, drawing national attention to racial discrimination in the United Kingdom. 1966, the Church of Satan was established at the Black House in San Francisco. 1967, the Aldene Connection opened in Roselle Park, NJ, shutting down the CNJ's Jersey City waterfront terminal and transferring commuters to Newark Penn Station.
In 1973, Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard Nixon announced that top White House aides H. R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman and others had resigned. 1975, Fall of Saigon: Communist forces gained control of Saigon. The Vietnam War formally ended with the unconditional surrender of South Vietnamese president Dương Văn Minh. 1980, Beatrix became Queen of the Netherlands. Also 1980, the Iranian Embassy siege began in London. 1982, the Bijon Setu massacre occurred in Calcutta. 1993, CERN announced World Wide Web protocols would be free. Also 1993, Monica Seles was stabbed by Günter Parche, an obsessed fan, during a quarterfinal match of the 1993 Citizen Cup in Hamburg, Germany 1994, Formula One racing driver Roland Ratzenberger was killed in a crash during the qualifying session of the San Marino Grand Prix run at Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari outside Imola, Italy. 1995, U.S. President Bill Clinton became the first President to visit Northern Ireland.
In 2004, U.S. media released graphic photos of American soldiers abusing and sexually humiliating Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison. 2008, two skeletal remains found near Yekaterinburg, Russia, were confirmed by Russian scientists to be the remains of Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia and Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna, one of his sisters. 2009, Chrysler filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Also 2009, seven people were killed and another ten injured at a Queen's Day parade in Apeldoorn, Netherlands in an attempted assassination on Queen Beatrix. Also 2009, Azerbaijan State Oil Academy shooting: Twelve people were killed (students and staff members) by an armed attacker. 2012, an overloaded ferry capsized on the Brahmaputra River in India killing at least 103 people. 2013, Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands abdicated and Willem-Alexander became King of the Netherlands. 2014, a bomb blast in Ürümqi killed three people and injured 79 others.
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This column welcomes feedback and criticism. The column is not made up but based on the days events and articles which are then placed in the feed. So they may not have an apparent cohesion they would have had were they made up.
===
Editorials will appear in the "History in a Year by the Conservative Voice" series, starting with August www.createspace.com/4124406, September www.createspace.com/5106914, October www.createspace.com/5106951, or at Amazon www.amazon.com/dp/1482020262/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_dVHPub0MQKDZ4 The kindle version is cheaper, but the soft back version allows the purchase of a kindle version for just $3.99 more.
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For twenty two years I have been responsibly addressing an issue, and I cannot carry on. I am petitioning the Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott to remedy my distress. I leave it up to him if he chooses to address the issue. Regardless of your opinion of conservative government, the issue is pressing. Please sign my petition at www.change.org/en-AU/petitions/tony-abbott-remedy-the-persecution-of-dd-ball
Or the US President at
www.change.org/p/barack-obama-change-this-injustice#
or
petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/change-injustice-faced-david-daniel-ball-after-he-reported-bungled-pedophile-investigation-and/b8mxPWtJ or wh.gov/ilXYR
Douglas Sutherland-Bruce via David Daniel Ball
Mr Ball, I will not sign your petition as it will do no good, but I will share your message and ask as many of friends who read it, to share it also. Let us see if we cannot use the power of the internet to spread the word of these infamous killings. As a father and a former soldier, I cannot, could not, justify ignoring this appalling action by the perpetrators, whoever they may; I thank you Douglas. You are wrong about the petition. Signing it is as worthless and meaningless an act as voting. A stand up guy would know that. - ed
Lorraine Allen Hider I signed the petition ages ago David, with pleasure, nobody knows what it's like until they've been there. Keep heart David take care.
I have begun a bulletin board (http://theconservativevoice.freeforums.net) which will allow greater latitude for members to post and interact. It is not subject to FB policy and so greater range is allowed in posts. Also there are private members rooms in which nothing is censored, except abuse. All welcome, registration is free.
===
Blame game re executions of Myuran and Andrew have begun. Waleed Aly has blamed Mr Abbott over irrelevant issues. Meanwhile, a culpable ALP fractures over Same Sex Marriage and Palestine. Both of those issues are irrelevant too, to the execution. Except while Myuran and Andrew could have used then ALP government assistance which would have been effective in preventing their execution, the ALP were navel gazing at these two issues. Same sex marriage is meaningless so long as civil unions are sanctioned. It is an intrusion on religion which no government should touch. Palestine is a UN endorsed terrorist state that is populated by Jordanians. If anyone felt compassion for them, they would send them back.
New cases in China and Malaysia regarding alleged Australian drug smugglers caught with death penalty amounts of drugs. It is unlikely the ALP or ABC will be able to condemn these people fast enough. So they have begun preparing a blame game for the government.
The salient statistics on race and police arrests for 2012 posted yesterday have been 'answered' by Marcus Anderson on Australian Political Debate Open Forum "far far more black people are alienated from American society, on a percentage basis, than white people. Touting sentiments that ignore the historical and important facts reflect your indifference to the problem of racial villification this meme represents." In other words, Marcus feels that the statistic on their own contravenes section 18c of the racial vilification act of Australia. Were that true, then the device would indeed be a meaningless instrument of censorship. It is possible, were one to face the same sentencing judge that Andrew Bolt faced, that Marcus's view would be upheld. Although many have told me that that judge is an effective independent member of the judiciary and not some partisan tool, as evidenced by that judgement on Bolt.
Nepal has more than 6100 deaths from the earthquakes. She needs fresh food and water and shelter for her survivors. Please give generously. And Pray for her people. Prayer works.
In 313, Licinius defeated Maximinus and united the Eastern empire of Rome at the Battle of Tzirallum. He became co Emperor of Rome with Constantine I. Both were involved with making the Edict of Milan which was to make Christian worship acceptable in Rome. Both emperors were capable and eyed the other as a rival. Licinius married the half sister of Constantine I. Fighting continued between the two. Licinius promoted a rival to Constantine I, Valerius Valens as co emperor. But when Constantine objected Licinius had Valerius killed. After Constantine won a final battle between the two in 324, Licinius' wife begged for the old man's life to be spared. Constantine I spared Licinius' life for a year, and then hanged him on a pretext of conspiring to raise troops.
In 1492, Spain gave permission for Columbus to become very rich by trading in the East by ship. In 1789, Washington took the Oath of Office to become President of the United States of America. In 1803, the Louisiana Purchase took place for a mere $15 million, doubling the land size of the US. In 1871, terrorists afraid of losing federal funding by the US Government attacked American Indians, killing the adults and selling the children into slavery in Mexico, from Arizona. President US Grant ordered Arizona to improve her justice issues or risk being subject to federal martial law, so Arizona proceeded to try Indians on any pretext. It was called the Camp Grant Massacre. In 1894, Coxey's Army reached Washington DC to protest unemployment following the Panic of 1893. It is only coincidence that President Grover Cleveland was a Democrat doing what Democrat administrations do, which is to blame Jews, fail to budget appropriately and mishandle industrial and labour issues. There had been a bubble caused by railroad building and a bust caused by Argentina focused investments going sour after a coup in Buenos Aires.
From Wikipedia:
"Historian Hasia Diner notes that "Some Populists believed that Jews made up a class of international financiers whose policies had ruined small family farms. Jews, they asserted, owned the banks and promoted the gold standard, the chief sources of their impoverishment. Agrarian radicalism posited the city as antithetical to American values, asserting that Jews were the essence of urban corruption."
In 1900, Hawaii became a territory of the US. On the same day, at 3:52 AM a great, good, heroic 37 yo family man was killed doing his job for the railroads. He was Casey Jones. He had been tasked with taking a 95 minute late train, Cannonball express, from Memphis Tennessee to Canton Mississippi. He had a reputation of being very reliable and he made up time on the foggy night. But the railroad let him down when he had made up the missing time coming to his destination, freight trains laid across the path of his engine. He saved the colleague next to him, and everyone else, by remaining in the carriage and slowing his train. He died, and the railroads blamed him on a false OHS report claiming he had been warned of the impasse. His widow wore black for the rest of her long life, dying in 1958 at the age of 92, never having considered remarrying after losing the father of her three children. In 1927, Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford became the first celebrities to leave their footprint in concrete in Hollywood. In 1938, the animated cartoon short of Porky's Hare Hunt featured Happy Rabbit, a proto-Bugs Bunny. Also in 1938, the first televised FA Cup final occurred. In 1939, NBC began regular scheduled TV broadcasts with FDR's NY World Fair opening address.
In 1943, Operation Mincemeat had a British Submarine release a dead body dressed up as a British officer with faked invasion plans. It was a plot thought up by James Bond's creator Ian Fleming. In 1945, Hitler found out, after a day, marriage was not for him. In 1956, a corrupt former Democrat VP, Alben Barkley, died during a speech in Virginia. He collapsed after proclaiming "I would rather be a servant in the house of the lord than sit in the seats of the mighty." In 1966, the Church of Satan was established at the Black House in San Francisco. In 2008, skeletal remains were found of the last Tsar and one of his sisters in Yekaterinburg.
2014
It is Consumer Protection day in Thailand, and so time to think of injustice. On this day in 311, the persecution of Christians by Romans ended. Now it was their turn. Lions would go hungry, academics like Hypatia were harshly treated for maintaining different lifestyles. It is said Disraeili remarked that two thousand years of Christian love has left Jews feeling nervous. But then many Christians would dispute what was done in their name, nowadays we have a policy separating church and state in the West. Note, Israel as a Jewish state, having embraced that within a democratic, pluralistic model is legitimate as a modern government, while many Islamic states fail the test of pluralism or separation of church and state.
On this day in 1315 Enguerrand de Marigny was hung on the public gallows at Montfaucon. He had been an effective first minister for his king, but when his king died, jealous courtiers conspired to have him hung on charges of witchcraft. In 1513 Edmund de la Pole, Yorkist pretender to the English throne, was executed on the orders of Henry VIII. Henry VII had accepted Edmund as prisoner on terms of not executing him, but left instructions in his will that his son should. Edmund's crime was to be born to the wrong family. On this day in 1863, three thousand Mexican soldiers laid siege to sixty five French Legionaries. Mexico won. Just. On this day in 1945, Hitler took his life many years too late for millions of innocent victims. 1975, Saigon fell days after the US stopped supporting her. China kept funding the North. The peace community had won and many millions would flee tyranny.
Historical perspectives on this day
In 311, the Diocletianic Persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire ended. 313, Battle of Tzirallum: Emperor Licinius defeated Maximinus II and unified the Eastern Roman Empire. 642, Chindasuinth was proclaimed king by the Visigothic nobility and bishops. 1315, Enguerrand de Marigny was hanged on the public gallows at Montfaucon. 1492, Spain gave Christopher Columbus his commission of exploration. 1513, Edmund de la Pole, Yorkist pretender to the English throne, was executed on the orders of Henry VIII. 1557, Mapuche leader Lautaro was killed by Spanish forces at the Battle of Mataquito in Chile. 1598, Juan de Oñate made a formal declaration of his Conquest of New Mexico. 1636, Eighty Years' War: Dutch Republic forces recaptured a strategically important fort from Spain after a nine-month siege. 1671, Petar Zrinski, the Croatian Ban from the Zrinski family, is executed.
In 1789, On the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York City, George Washington took the oath of office to become the first elected President of the United States. 1803, Louisiana Purchase: The United States purchased the Louisiana Territory from France for $15 million, more than doubling the size of the young nation. 1812, the Territory of Orleans became the 18th U.S. state under the name Louisiana. 1838, Nicaragua declared independence from the Central American Federation. 1863, a 65-man French Foreign Legion infantry patrol fought a force of nearly 2,000 Mexican soldiers to nearly the last man in Hacienda Camarón, Mexico. 1871, the Camp Grant massacre took place in Arizona Territory. 1885, Governor of New York David B. Hill signed legislation creating the Niagara Reservation, New York's first state park, ensuring that Niagara Falls would not be devoted solely to industrial and commercial use. 1894, Coxey's Army reached Washington, D.C. to protest the unemployment caused by the Panic of 1893.
In 1900, Hawaii became a territory of the United States, with Sanford B. Dole as governor. Also 1900, Casey Jones died in a train wreck in Vaughan, Mississippi, while trying to make up time on the Cannonball Express. 1904, the Louisiana Purchase Exposition World's Fair opened in St. Louis, Missouri. 1907, Honolulu, Hawaii became an independent city. 1920, Peru became a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty. 1925, automaker Dodge Brothers, Inc was sold to Dillon, Read & Co. for US$146 million plus $50 million for charity. 1927, the Federal Industrial Institute for Women opened in Alderson, West Virginia, as the first women's federal prison in the United States. 1927, Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford became the first celebrities to leave their footprints in concrete at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood.
In 1937, the Philippines held a plebiscite for Filipino women on whether they should be extended the right to suffrage; over 90% would vote in the affirmative. 1938, the animated cartoon short Porky's Hare Hunt debuts in movie theaters, introducing Happy Rabbit (a prototype of Bugs Bunny). Also 1938, the first televised FA Cup Final took place between Huddersfield Town and Preston North End. 1939, the 1939-40 New York World's Fair opened. Also 1939, NBC inaugurated its regularly scheduled television service in New York City, broadcasting President Franklin D. Roosevelt's N.Y. World's Fair opening day ceremonial address. 1943, World War II: Operation Mincemeat: The submarine HMS Seraph surfaced in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Spain to deposit a dead man planted with false invasion plans and dressed as a British military intelligence officer. 1945, World War II: Führerbunker: Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun committed suicide after being married for one day. Soviet soldiers raised the Victory Banner over the Reichstag building. 1947, in Nevada, the Boulder Dam was renamed the Hoover Dam a second time. 1948, in Bogotá, Colombia, the Organization of American States was established.
In 1953, in Warner Robins, Georgia, an F4 tornado killed 18 people. 1956, former Vice President and Senator Alben Barkley died during a speech in Virginia. He collapses after proclaiming "I would rather be a servant in the house of the lord than sit in the seats of the mighty." 1961, K-19, the first Soviet nuclear submarine equipped with nuclear missiles, was commissioned. 1963, the Bristol Bus Boycott was held in Bristol to protest the Bristol Omnibus Company's refusal to employ Black or Asian bus crews, drawing national attention to racial discrimination in the United Kingdom. 1966, the Church of Satan was established at the Black House in San Francisco. 1967, the Aldene Connection opened in Roselle Park, NJ, shutting down the CNJ's Jersey City waterfront terminal and transferring commuters to Newark Penn Station.
In 1973, Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard Nixon announced that top White House aides H. R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman and others had resigned. 1975, Fall of Saigon: Communist forces gained control of Saigon. The Vietnam War formally ended with the unconditional surrender of South Vietnamese president Dương Văn Minh. 1980, Beatrix became Queen of the Netherlands. Also 1980, the Iranian Embassy siege began in London. 1982, the Bijon Setu massacre occurred in Calcutta. 1993, CERN announced World Wide Web protocols would be free. Also 1993, Monica Seles was stabbed by Günter Parche, an obsessed fan, during a quarterfinal match of the 1993 Citizen Cup in Hamburg, Germany 1994, Formula One racing driver Roland Ratzenberger was killed in a crash during the qualifying session of the San Marino Grand Prix run at Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari outside Imola, Italy. 1995, U.S. President Bill Clinton became the first President to visit Northern Ireland.
In 2004, U.S. media released graphic photos of American soldiers abusing and sexually humiliating Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison. 2008, two skeletal remains found near Yekaterinburg, Russia, were confirmed by Russian scientists to be the remains of Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia and Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna, one of his sisters. 2009, Chrysler filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Also 2009, seven people were killed and another ten injured at a Queen's Day parade in Apeldoorn, Netherlands in an attempted assassination on Queen Beatrix. Also 2009, Azerbaijan State Oil Academy shooting: Twelve people were killed (students and staff members) by an armed attacker. 2012, an overloaded ferry capsized on the Brahmaputra River in India killing at least 103 people. 2013, Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands abdicated and Willem-Alexander became King of the Netherlands. 2014, a bomb blast in Ürümqi killed three people and injured 79 others.
===
This column welcomes feedback and criticism. The column is not made up but based on the days events and articles which are then placed in the feed. So they may not have an apparent cohesion they would have had were they made up.
===
Editorials will appear in the "History in a Year by the Conservative Voice" series, starting with August www.createspace.com/4124406, September www.createspace.com/5106914, October www.createspace.com/5106951, or at Amazon www.amazon.com/dp/1482020262/ref=cm_sw_r_tw_dp_dVHPub0MQKDZ4 The kindle version is cheaper, but the soft back version allows the purchase of a kindle version for just $3.99 more.
===
For twenty two years I have been responsibly addressing an issue, and I cannot carry on. I am petitioning the Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott to remedy my distress. I leave it up to him if he chooses to address the issue. Regardless of your opinion of conservative government, the issue is pressing. Please sign my petition at www.change.org/en-AU/petitions/tony-abbott-remedy-the-persecution-of-dd-ball
Or the US President at
www.change.org/p/barack-obama-change-this-injustice#
or
petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/change-injustice-faced-david-daniel-ball-after-he-reported-bungled-pedophile-investigation-and/b8mxPWtJ or wh.gov/ilXYR
Douglas Sutherland-Bruce via David Daniel Ball
Mr Ball, I will not sign your petition as it will do no good, but I will share your message and ask as many of friends who read it, to share it also. Let us see if we cannot use the power of the internet to spread the word of these infamous killings. As a father and a former soldier, I cannot, could not, justify ignoring this appalling action by the perpetrators, whoever they may; I thank you Douglas. You are wrong about the petition. Signing it is as worthless and meaningless an act as voting. A stand up guy would know that. - ed
Lorraine Allen Hider I signed the petition ages ago David, with pleasure, nobody knows what it's like until they've been there. Keep heart David take care.
I have begun a bulletin board (http://theconservativevoice.freeforums.net) which will allow greater latitude for members to post and interact. It is not subject to FB policy and so greater range is allowed in posts. Also there are private members rooms in which nothing is censored, except abuse. All welcome, registration is free.