Human Historical Stories

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One picture, one story ... “Bloody Saturday” – Depicting a Chinese baby crying within the bombed-out ruins of Shanghai South Railway Station, the photograph became known as a cultural icon demonstrating Japanese wartime atrocities in China. #humanhistoricalstories #onepictureonestory #history #photographie #onthisdayinhistory #otd #thisdayinhistory #todayinhistory #historygeek #worldhistory #memoryoftheday #story #stories #picture #pictureoftheday (à Shanghai, China) https://www.instagram.com/p/CLNBX_GnrnM/?igshid=1m446orfobnfb

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One picture, one story ... Joe O’Donnell, the man who took this photo at Nagasaki, was sent by the U.S. military to document the damage inflicted on the Japanese homeland caused by air raids of fire bombs and atomic bombs. Over the next seven months starting September 1945, he traveled across Western Japan chronicling the devastation, revealing the plight of the bomb victims including the dead. #humanhistoricalstories #onepictureonestory #history #photographie #onthisdayinhistory #otd #thisdayinhistory #todayinhistory #historygeek #worldhistory #memoryoftheday #picture #pictureoftheday #stories #story (à Japan) https://www.instagram.com/p/CLMDJLeFtnA/?igshid=12ecv722153h2

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One picture, one story ... The photo of a German prisoner of war returning to his home town of Frankfurt to discover his house bombed and his family no longer there, shows the kind the depressing moments of dejected subjects we associate with images of war. #humanhistoricalstories #onepictureonestory #history #photographie #onthisdayinhistory #otd #thisdayinhistory #todayinhistory #historygeek #worldhistory #memoryoftheday https://www.instagram.com/p/CLKNQrSFyuF/?igshid=hjid61xh59yp

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February,  10 #onthisday 60. St Paul thought to have been shipwrecked at Malta. 1855. US citizenship laws amended; all children of US parents born abroad granted US citizenship.  1916. Biggest oil well gusher ever - Edward L. Doheny's Cerro Azul No. 4 first gushes 600 feet in the air near Tampico, Mexico. 1932. Saeed bin Taymour takes over the rule of Oman and Muscat after his father Taymur bin Faisal steps down. 1933. Adolf Hitler proclaims end of Marxism. 1934. 1st Jewish immigrant ship to break the English blockade in Palestine. 1940. Tom & Jerry cartoon created by William Hanna & Joseph Barbera debut by MGM. 1943. Algerian leader Ferhat Abbas issues a statement to the Algerian people. This statement is the reference text for the Algerian liberation revolution that ended with the independence of Algeria. 1990. South African President F. W. de Klerk announces Nelson Mandela will be freed on February 11th. 2009. Two satellites collide in space. Both the U.S. satellite “Iridium 33” and the Russian “Kosmos 2251” were destroyed in the accident. #humanhistoricalstories #history #photographie #onthisdayinhistory #otd #thisdayinhistory #todayinhistory #historygeek #worldhistory #memoryoftheday https://www.instagram.com/p/CLKMW1JlthX/?igshid=1rsbdgsh6znn1

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One picture, one story ... The original letter from Balfour to Rothschild. The declaration reads: " His Majesty's government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country. " The Balfour Declaration was a public statement issued by the British government in 1917 during the First World War announcing support for the establishment of a "national home for the Jewish people" in Palestine, then an Ottoman region with a small minority Jewish population. The declaration was contained in a letter dated 2 November 1917 from the United Kingdom's Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour to Lord Rothschild, a leader of the British Jewish community, for transmission to the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland. The text of the declaration was published in the press on 9 November 1917. #onepictureonestory #humanhistoricalstories #history #photographie #onthisdayinhistory #otd #thisdayinhistory #todayinhistory #historygeek #worldhistory #memoryoftheday https://www.instagram.com/p/CLJpiJtlqcS/?igshid=txhlvpjgczlo

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One picture, one story ... "You will know them when they come to avenge me" Lepa Radik was executed by nazis in February 08, 1943 at the age of 17,As her captors tied the noose around her neck, they offered her a way out of the gallows by revealing her comrades and leaders identities. She responded: "you will know them when they come to avenge me" #humanhistoricalstories #history #photographie #onthisdayinhistory #otd #thisdayinhistory #todayinhistory #historygeek #worldhistory #memoryoftheday https://www.instagram.com/p/CLHYse0nCDR/?igshid=2e257enjldnv

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February,  9 #onthisday 474. Zeno is crowned as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire. 967. Sayf al-Dawla al-Hamdani, the most prominent Emir of the Hamdanid state, dies. 1621. Gregory XV becomes Pope, the last Pope elected by acclamation. 1640. The death of Murad IV, the 18th Ottoman Sultan. 1825. After no candidate receives a majority of electoral votes in the US presidential election of 1824, the United States House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams as President of the United States. 1895. William G. Morgan creates a game called Mintonette, which soon comes to be referred to as volleyball. 1943. World War II: Allied authorities declare Guadalcanal secure after Imperial Japan evacuates its remaining forces from the island, ending the Battle of Guadalcanal. 1964. The Beatles make their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, performing before a record-setting audience of 73 million viewers across the USA. 1979. Chadli Bendjedid is elected third president of Algeria. 2004. A group of Jewish extremists destroy ancient marble columns near the Islamic Museum inside the Al-Aqsa Mosque square, dating back to the first Islamic times. #humanhistoricalstories #history #photographie #onthisdayinhistory #otd #thisdayinhistory #todayinhistory #historygeek #worldhistory #memoryoftheday https://www.instagram.com/p/CLGtTUHlcTV/?igshid=17xg05ykobb4h

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February, 8 #onthisday 421. Constantius III becomes co-Emperor of the Western Roman Empire. 1250. Seventh Crusade: Crusaders engage Ayyubid forces in the Battle of Al Mansurah. 1587. Mary, Queen of Scots, is executed on suspicion of having been involved in the Babington Plot to murder her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I. 1601. Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, rebels against Queen Elizabeth I and the revolt is quickly crushed. 1837. Richard Johnson becomes the first Vice President of the United States chosen by the United States Senate. 1865. Delaware refuses to ratify the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Slavery was outlawed in the United States, including Delaware, when the Amendment was ratified by the requisite number of states on December 6, 1865. Delaware ratified the Thirteenth Amendment on February 12, 1901, which was the ninety-second anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln. 1904. Battle of Port Arthur: A surprise torpedo attack by the Japanese at Port Arthur, China starts the Russo-Japanese War. 1958. The events of Sakia Sidi Youssef on the Algerian / Tunisian borders as a reaction to the Tunisian support for the Algerian revolution, and as a result of the events many Algerian and Tunisian deaths. 1985. The Arab satellite, Arabsat, is launched to the sky. 2004. Al-Ad Settlement Association seizes by force 16 houses in the village of Silwan, adjacent to the Al-Aqsa Mosque, in a campaign to Judaize the vicinity of the mosque. 2004. Al-Ad Settlement Association seizes by force 16 houses in the village of Silwan, adjacent to the Al-Aqsa Mosque, in a campaign to Judaize the vicinity of the mosque. #humanhistoricalstories #history #photographie #onthisdayinhistory #otd #thisdayinhistory #todayinhistory #historygeek #worldhistory #memoryoftheday https://www.instagram.com/p/CLFvvMblq-E/?igshid=mbo3dmv5u8hq

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February, 7 #onthisday 457. Leo I the Thracian becomes emperor of the Byzantine Empire. 987. Bardas Phokas the Younger and Bardas Skleros, Byzantine generals of the military elite, begin a wide-scale rebellion against Emperor Basil II. 1830. The French cabinet approves in a special session the occupation of Algeria. 1842. Battle of Debre Tabor: Ras Ali Alula, Regent of the Emperor of Ethiopia defeats warlord Wube Haile Maryam of Semien. 1882. The Egyptian Constitution is issued. 1900. A Chinese immigrant in San Francisco falls ill to bubonic plague in the first plague epidemic in the continental United States. 1940. The second full-length animated Walt Disney film, Pinocchio, premieres. 1965. American boxer Cassius Clay declares his conversion to Islam and changes his name to Muhammad Ali Clay. 1999. Crown Prince Abdullah becomes the King of Jordan on the death of his father, King Hussein. 2011. The results of the referendum of Southern Sudan, held on January 9, are announced. The result is that 98.83% of the voters voted for the secession of the south from the north. #humanhistoricalstories #history #photographie #onthisdayinhistory #otd #thisdayinhistory #todayinhistory #historygeek #worldhistory #memoryoftheday https://www.instagram.com/p/CLEuXSgl8TE/?igshid=l3ibgt3v59rb

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February, 6 #onthisday 1685. James II of England and VII of Scotland is proclaimed King upon the death of his brother Charles II. 1694. The warrior queen Dandara, leader of the runaway slaves in Quilombo dos Palmares, Brazil, is captured and commits suicide rather than be returned to a life of slavery. 1778. New York became the third state to ratify the Articles of Confederation. 1788. Massachusetts becomes the sixth state to ratify the United States Constitution. 1806. Battle of San Domingo: British naval victory against the French in the Caribbean. 1819. Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles founds Singapore. 1833. Otto becomes the first modern King of Greece. 1952. Elizabeth II becomes Queen of the United Kingdom and her other Realms and Territories and Head of the Commonwealth upon the death of her father, George VI. At the exact moment of succession, she was in a tree house at the Treetops Hotel in Kenya. 1988. Michael Jordan makes his signature slam dunk from the free throw line inspiring Air Jordan and the Jumpman logo. 2013. The assassination of the Tunisian politician Chokri Belaid, one of the founders of the Popular Front movement. #humanhistoricalstories #history #photographie #onthisdayinhistory #otd #thisdayinhistory #todayinhistory #historygeek #worldhistory #memoryoftheday https://www.instagram.com/p/CLEGilYF_b4/?igshid=ydivrvk0uysm

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February, 5 #onthisday 789. Idris I reaches Volubilis and founds the Idrisid dynasty, marking the secession of Morocco from the Abbasid caliphate and founding the first Moroccan state. 1576. Henry of Navarre abjures Catholicism at Tours and rejoins the Protestant forces in the French Wars of Religion. 1649. Charles Stuart, the son of King Charles I, is declared King Charles II of England and Scotland by the Scottish Parliament. 1818. Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, Charles XIV John, ascends to the thrones of Sweden and Norway. 1852. The New Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia, one of the largest and oldest museums in the world, opens to the public. 1859. Alexandru Ioan Cuza, Prince of Moldavia, is also elected as prince of Wallachia, joining the two principalities as a personal union called the United Principalities, an autonomous region within the Ottoman Empire, which ushered the birth of the modern Romanian state. 1877. Sultan Abdul Hamid II isolates Grand Vizier Ahmed Medhat Pasha Great for the lead and deny outside the territory of the Ottoman Empire after less than two months on his appointment. 1885. King Leopold II of Belgium establishes the Congo as a personal possession. 1887. The Ottoman Empire begins in Istanbul for the first time the experimental tests for diving the first Ottoman submarine, "Abdul Hamid" submarine, under the sea. It carved the name "Under the Sea" as a name for the submarine, then included it in its naval fleet, and this was the first time that the Ottomans used the submarine. 1962. French President Charles de Gaulle calls for the independence of Algeria. #humanhistoricalstories #history #photographie #onthisdayinhistory #otd #thisdayinhistory #todayinhistory #historygeek #worldhistory #memoryoftheday https://www.instagram.com/p/CK7YtCzFnE_/?igshid=521pxmwww1o4

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February, 4 #onthisday 211. Following the death of Rome's Emperor Septimius Severus at Eboracum (modern York, England) while preparing to lead a campaign against the Caledonians, the empire is left in the control of his two quarrelling sons, Caracalla and Geta, whom he had instructed to make peace. 960. The coronation of Zhao Kuangyin as Emperor Taizu of Song, initiating the Song dynasty period of China that would last more than three centuries. 1789. George Washington is unanimously elected as the first President of the United States by the U.S. Electoral College. 1794. French National convention proclaims abolition of slavery. 1859. One of the oldest known copies of the Bible, "The Codex Sinaiticus" (Sinai Bible), is seen in Egypt by Constantin von Tischendorf who takes the manuscript home with him. 1936. The first production of a radioactive element radium industrial manner. 1942. The British army besieges King Farouk in Abdeen Palace and gives him the choice either to assign the leader of the Wafd Party, Mustafa al-Nahhas, to form the government, or to abdicate the throne. The siege ends with King Farouk implementing the conditions of the British. 1945. World War II: The Yalta Conference between the "Big Three" (Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin) opens at the Livadia Palace in the Crimea. 2004. Facebook, a mainstream online social networking site, is founded by Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin. 2014. Bill Gates resigns from his position as Chairman of the Microsoft Group. #humanhistoricalstories #history #photographie #onthisdayinhistory #otd #thisdayinhistory #todayinhistory #historygeek #worldhistory #memoryoftheday https://www.instagram.com/p/CK44y5NlZzF/?igshid=rxnm8grtwl2d

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February, 3rd #onthisday 1112. Ramon Berenguer III, Count of Barcelona, and Douce I, Countess of Provence, marry, uniting the fortunes of those two states. 1451. Sultan Mehmed II inherits the throne of the Ottoman Empire. 1488. Bartolomeu Dias of Portugal lands in Mossel Bay, South Africa, after rounding the Cape of Good Hope, becoming the first known European to travel so far south. 1509. The Portuguese navy defeats a joint fleet of the Ottoman Empire, the Republic of Venice, the Sultan of Gujarat, the Mamlûk Burji Sultanate of Egypt, the Zamorin of Calicut, and the Republic of Ragusa at the Battle of Diu in Diu, India. 1661. Maratha forces under Chattrapati Shivaji defeat the Mughals in the Battle of Umberkhind. 1781. American Revolutionary War: British forces seize the Dutch-owned Caribbean island Sint Eustatius. 1807. A British military force, under Brigadier-General Sir Samuel Auchmuty captures the Spanish Empire city of Montevideo, now the capital of Uruguay. 1813. José de San Martín defeats a Spanish royalist army at the Battle of San Lorenzo, part of the Argentine War of Independence. 1815. The establishment of the first commercial cheese factory in Switzerland. 1969. Yasser Arafat takes over the presidency of the Palestine Liberation Organization at a meeting of the Palestinian National Council held in Cairo. #humanhistoricalstories #history #photographie #onthisdayinhistory #otd #thisdayinhistory #todayinhistory #historygeek #worldhistory #memoryoftheday https://www.instagram.com/p/CK2KjwxF_xX/?igshid=1ihctzu8fkvt4

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February, 2nd #onthisday 506. Alaric II, eighth king of the Visigoths promulgates the Breviary of Alaric (Breviarium Alaricianum or Lex Romana Visigothorum), a collection of "Roman law". 880. Battle of Lüneburg Heath: King Louis III of France is defeated by the Norse Great Heathen Army at Lüneburg Heath in Saxony. 962. : Translatio imperii: Pope John XII crowns Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, the first Holy Roman Emperor in nearly 40 years. 1032. Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor becomes king of Burgundy. 1260. The fall of Damascus in The hand of the Tatars led by Kitbuga, one of the leaders of Hulagu. 1349. By this date at least 200 people a day were being buried in London as a result of the Black Death. 1536. Spaniard Pedro de Mendoza founds Buenos Aires, Argentina. 1848. Mexican–American War: The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is signed. War is ended. 1878. Greece declares war on the Ottoman Empire in solidarity with the Russian Empire. 1933. 2 days after becoming chancellor, Adolf Hitler dissolves the German Reichstag (Parliament). #humanhistoricalstories #history #photographie #onthisdayinhistory #otd #thisdayinhistory #todayinhistory #historygeek #worldhistory #memoryoftheday https://www.instagram.com/p/CKzwXxkF9IO/?igshid=uahcargfu9l6

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February, 1st #onthisday The Sadikia School was founded by Khair al-Din al-Tunisi in the year 1875. It is considered the first modern secondary school in Tunisia that came to join the effort of the Zaytouna School in spreading knowledge. Most important Tunisian leaders and political figures, such as President Habib Bourguiba, Minister Ahmed Bin Saleh, writer Mahmoud Al-Masaadi, President of the Constituent Assembly, Mustafa Bin Jaafar, Professor Khadija Bint Sheikh Al-Eid Majed, and others have graduated from Al-Sadiqia. #humanhistoricalstories #history #photographie #onthisdayinhistory #otd #thisdayinhistory #todayinhistory #historygeek #worldhistory #memoryoftheday #sadikischool #tunisie #tunisia (à Tunisie Tunisia تونس) https://www.instagram.com/p/CKxNyHIFenu/?igshid=1dnhuw088qxd6

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February, 1st #onthisday 1327. The teenaged Edward III is crowned King of England, but the country is ruled by his mother Queen Isabella and her lover Roger Mortimer. 1411. The First Peace of Thorn is signed in Thorn (Toruń), Monastic State of the Teutonic Knights (Prussia). 1662. The Chinese general Koxinga seizes the island of Taiwan after a nine-month siege. 1713. The Kalabalik or Skirmish at Bender results from the Ottoman sultan's order that his unwelcome guest, King Charles XII of Sweden, be seized. 1793. French Revolutionary Wars: France declares war on the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. 1810. 1st insurance company managed by African Americans, The African Insurance Company opens in Philadelphia. 1856. The end of the Crimean War between the Ottoman Empire and the Russian Empire. 1861. American Civil War: Texas secedes from the United States. 1865. JS Rock, 1st African American lawyer to practise in US Supreme Court, admitted to bar. 1865. President Abraham Lincoln signs the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. #humanhistoricalstories #history #photographie #onthisdayinhistory #otd #thisdayinhistory #todayinhistory #historygeek #worldhistory #memoryoftheday https://www.instagram.com/p/CKxDSQ6lhS7/?igshid=bt57jyb0ma8p

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January, 31 #onthisday 1971. 50 years ago, It is said that Astronauts Alan Shepard, Stuart Roosa, and Edgar Mitchell, aboard a Saturn V, lift off for a mission to the Fra Mauro Highlands on the Moon. And so it records history, the 1st landing in lunar highlands. #humanhistoricalstories #history #photographie #onthisdayinhistory #otd #thisdayinhistory #todayinhistory #historygeek #worldhistory #memoryoftheday #astrnomy #apollo #nasa #alanshepard #stuartroosa #edgarmitchell #moon (à The Moon) https://www.instagram.com/p/CKt0sD8lkvd/?igshid=1srs3ufznx5ri