#OnThisDay in 2016, #MerleHaggard, American #countrysinger-#songwriter ("Mama Tried"; "If We Make It Through December"; "Okie from Muskogee"), died on his 79th birthday.
#RIP

#OnThisDay in 1942, #AllanClarke, British rock vocalist (Hollies - "Air That I Breathe"), born in Salford, Lancashire, England. °⋆.ೃ࿔*:･
#HappyBirthday #83

Today in WW2 History, 5 Apr 1945: [Photo] Portrait of Yamato officers just prior to Ten-Go Operation #ww2 #onthisday https://ww2db.com/image.php?image_id=5588

#OnThisDay in 1948, #DaveHolland, English heavy metal rocker (Judas Priest - "Breakin' The Law"), born in Northampton, England (d. 2018).
#RIP

Today in 1998, 27 years ago: in Japan the Great Bridge of Akashi Kaikyō opens to traffic, the longest bridge in the world, with a length of 3.91 km.

Today in 1911, 114 years ago: revolutionary general Emiliano Zapata takes the Plaza de Chiautla, freeing all the prisoners including Jesús Morales "El Tuerto".

Today in WW2 History, 5 Apr 1945: French First Army captured Karlsruhe, Germany. #ww2 #onthisday https://ww2db.com/battle_spec.php?battle_id=322

Today in 2010, 15 years ago: In the state of West Virginia, 29 coal miners are killed in an explosion at the Upper Big Branch mine.

Today in 1958, 67 years ago: Ripple Rock, an underwater threat to shipping in the Seymour Narrows (255 km northwest of Vancouver, Canada), is destroyed in one of the largest non-nuclear explosions of the time.

5.4.1933 OTD Genevieve Annette Flora Levy born in Saint Gilles Belgium. After German occupation deported to and murdered in Auschwitz.

#OTD #OnThisDay #Kalenderblatt #dontforget #Geschichte #history @histodons

https://www.outono.net/elentir/2022/04/05/genevieve-annette-flora-levy-2/

Today in 1956, 69 years ago: in Cuba, Fidel Castro declares war against the Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista.

Today in 1977, 48 years ago: The US Supreme Court rules that congressional legislation that diminished the size of the Sioux people's reservation thereby destroyed the tribe's jurisdictional authority over the area in Rosebud Sioux Tribe v. Kneip.

Today in 1933, 92 years ago: in the Principality of Andorra - within the framework of the Andorran Revolution - the Andorran Youth occupy the Casa de la Vall and force the government to hold democratic parliamentary elections with universal male suffrage.

Today in 2010, 15 years ago: Up to 50 people are killed and another 100 injured in two militant suicide bombings and attacks in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan: the first on an Awami National Party rally in Timergara; the second on the U.S. Consulate in Peshawar.

Today in 1982, 43 years ago: for the first time there is a national strike in Luxembourg, called against the freezing of wages.

Today in 1990, 35 years ago: in Berlin (Germany) the first session of the Volkskammer, the first freely elected parliament of the German Democratic Republic, is held.

Today in 1932, 93 years ago: Dominion of Newfoundland: Ten thousand rioters seize the Colonial Building leading to the end of self-government.

Today in WW2 History, 5 Apr 1944: Soviet troops captured Dorohoi, Romania. #ww2 #onthisday https://ww2db.com/battle_spec.php?battle_id=300

Today in 1955, 70 years ago: in London, Winston Churchill resigns as Prime Minister.

Today in 1949, 76 years ago: at Saint Anthony Hospital, in the city of Effingham (state of Illinois) there is a fire, which kills 77 people and leads to improvements in the fire code nationwide in the United States.