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May 28: National Hamburger Day: -- National Hamburger Day on May 28th wraps up National Burger Month and also ushers in the summer grilling season! America's most iconic food, though it originated in Hamburg, Germany, became the hamburger as we know it in Seymour, Wisconsin, a town still famous for its hamburger heroics. Americans eat over 50 billion burgers a year, so it's only fitting we set aside a whole day for these special sandwiches. A toasted bun, beef patty, mustard, ketchup, onion, pickles, with optional cheese. Convenient, cheap, and delicious, the world-famous burger has a storied though somewhat uncertain history. People have been eating cooked meat on bread for centuries, but the association with Hamburg seems to stem from a 1758 recipe for a dish called the "Hamburg Sausage." Others think the name originates from a cruise company known as the Hamburg America Line, which served its passengers similar sandwiches in the Mid-1800s. Numerous deli and diner owners across the United States claim that their joint is responsible for inventing the burger. However, there seems to be some consensus amongst historians that the food as we know it today truly gained popularity at the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis, an event that also gave us the ice-cream cone. However it happened, the hamburger has grown to be one of the world's most widely consumed food items, found on menus from Texas to Thailand. They can be had for a dollar a piece or made from gourmet ingredients that cost hundreds. However you decide to chow down, this day is for you. Fire up the grill, gather round your friends, and cook up some delicious burgers. Will you add cheese and make it a double? There are so many options when it comes to our burgers these days, how do we even decide anymore? Some creative burger choices you might try are bleu cheese, coleslaw, avocado, fried egg, barbeque and peanut butter, mac & cheese. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-rolling-stones-olympic-studio-sessions-1967-70-mp3-download-cd.html
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May 28: National Beef Burger Day: -- If you hear a sizzle and your mouth begins to water, it just might be National Beef Burger Day! On May 28th and all summer long, there's no better time to enjoy a juicy beef burger. The day is all about kicking off the grilling season and honoring America's favorite grilling protein - beef! A beef burger starts with real ground beef on a bun or between two slices of bread. And don't forget the toppings like cheese, onions, pickles, and condiments. Each one allows for the perfect customization - the mouthwatering possibilities are endless. Of course, some of us like ours double stacked, and others prefer them spicy. Add those seasonings, too, if you want. What's really important is what's in the middle - that delicious beef burger! It's summer, so start grilling those beef burgers! Share your favorite recipes or find some mouthwatering ones from websites like BeefItsWhatsForDinner. Be sure to share your favorite beef burgers using #NationalBeefBurgerDay on social media. The National Cattlemen's Beef Association, a contractor to the Beef Checkoff and manager of the Beef. It's What's For Dinner. brand, founded National Beef Burger Day in 2020 to celebrate America's favorite grilling protein and to kick off summer with delicious recipes, too. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/complete-jean-shepherd-radio-and-lp-collection-mp3-dvds-2-dis32.html
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May 28: National Brisket Day: -- Celebrates one of the more complicated but also most delicious cuts of beef, the ever-popular brisket. It's great for so much more than just barbecue or corned beef on St. Patrick's Day. It comes from the breast area, and is separated into point cuts and flat cuts. Both have their uses. The point cut is fatty, and full of connective tissue, which makes it a great candidate for braising or smoking. It's also full of flavor. The flat cut is no less flavorful, but can be much leaner, meaning that it requires a different preparation. Whatever your preference, grab some brisket and celebrate! Primal Cuts are those that are severed from the carcass first before the smaller and less important cuts are removed. The brisket is among these cuts, and while it requires a little know-how to make it properly, when properly made it is nothing less than the choicest of the primal cuts. Some things take time, and a good brisket is one of these. Brisket is a popular cut of meat to serve as part of any family affair, and it's long cooking time ensures that it is a big hit when those who know how to prepare it. Brisket is a tricky meat in that it comes from the animal tough, but if you find a particularly well-marbled piece and cook it correctly, it will become fork soft and simply peel apart, making it the tenderest of tender meats. Of course, there are hundreds of variations on how to prepare brisket, including the use of various hardwoods in the grilling process to ensure a nice smoky flavor. Some people marinate them, some don't, and many like to serve it with a sauce. The history of brisket dates back to ancient history - practically ever since humans reared cattle. People would sacrifice their animals on special occasions and eat every part of the animal, including the brisket cut. Texas BBQ brisket is one of the most popular ways to prepare it. Here, chefs marinate the meat for between 24 and 48 and cook it in a unique wood or charcoal-fired BBQ oven. Careless cooking often resulted in tough meat, so people developed techniques to get the most out of the cut. After all, if you could make brisket taste good, it was a great way to get delicious and cheap meat. In the old days, you couldn't store meat in a refrigerator. The technology simply didn't exist. After 48 hours following the death of the animal, the carcass would begin to turn, meaning that the butcher had to cook and eat it fast. Friday evenings, therefore, became the traditional day on which people would cook up the remaining cuts of meat uneaten and unsold throughout the week. People found that barbecuing meat and adding marinades and sauces provided the best flavor. And so the rationale for holding National Brisket Day celebrations was born. National Brisket Day is also heavily associated with smoked meats - not just brisket. Again, butchers had to use smoking to preserve meat so that it wouldn't go off. For that reason, they took cuts of meat, such as rib-eye or tenderloin, and put them in smoke sheds. This process killed off all the bacteria and created compounds that would inhibit the growth of harmful bugs in the future. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/subways-trains-and-railroads-locomotive-films-2-dual-layer-dvd2.html
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May 28: World Hunger Day: -- A day that raises awareness about the more than 820 million people living in chronic hunger and to encourage action to bring this to an end. Can you imagine that a significant portion of the human population has suffered from hunger since the world began? Hunger is a condition in which an individual lacks the physical or financial capability to meet their nutritional needs. It leads to malnutrition, wasting, stunted growth, and death. According to The Hunger Project, hunger kills more than AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis combined, and it's primarily prevalent in Africa and South America. Hunger is a condition affecting humanity since the beginning of history, but so is the collective fight against it. According to the philosopher Simone Weil, people have always worked together to ensure that the hungry are fed. In ancient Egypt, people helped the hungry to justify their deeds in the afterlife. Also, before the introduction of markets, Weil says human societies shared their food to avoid hunger or chose to starve together. Before the 19th century, religious organizations and philanthropic individuals usually led hunger relief efforts. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, people began calling for government involvement in hunger relief, especially the global action against hunger. One of the initiatives the U.S. government embarked on during that period was shipping millions of tons of food to European countries during and in the years immediately after WWI. After WWII, the newly-formed United Nations began leading the fight against hunger. Following its establishment, the U.N. created FAO, W.F.P., and IFAD to promote food security and agricultural development. In the late 1970s, international organizations such as the I.M.F. and the World Bank began focusing on developing countries as starvation in countries like Ethiopia came into the global limelight. In the 20th century, the prevailing view was that hunger was a problem of demand surpassing supply. However, this view was brought to an end by the research of economist Amartya Sen, who successfully demonstrated that hunger in modern times was a distribution problem or caused by government policies in developed and developing economies. In 1998, Sen won a Nobel Prize for this research. In 2011, the Hunger Project created World Hunger Day. The day is an initiative to highlight the plight of disadvantaged people around the world and take action to end world hunger. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-march-of-time-dvd-set-all-3-tv-series-19334631933467.html
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May 28: Amnesty International Day: -- Amnesty International is continuously working hard to improve the globe. They seek to advocate for human rights and spread understanding of their violations and how our daily choices affect them. This day encourages people of all nationalities, cultures, and races to participate in a variety of global human rights events. A worldwide human rights organization, Amnesty International is active in topics such as war crimes and torture. This organization studies and campaigns to release individuals wrongly imprisoned, prosecute criminals, and fight all forms of abuse. Amnesty International was founded in the British capital of London in July 1961. When Peter Benenson, a British labor lawyer, learned about two Portuguese students who had been sentenced to seven years after "drinking a glass to liberty," he was inspired to start this group. With Eric Baker of the Religious Society of Friends and many other members of the intelligentsia, including academics, writers, and lawyers, they wrote an article titled "The Forgotten Prisoners." This was published in "The Observer" in May 1961 and garnered widespread attention. This resulted in an appeal, which swiftly blossomed into an organization dedicated to changing the world and ensuring that everyone has access to a basic set of human rights for all people everywhere. Since then, the diligent efforts of this group have played a crucial role in exposing breaches of human rights and striving to influence government policy concerning the preservation of those rights. Members of the group were accused of anything from spying in 1980s Russia to acting as a defender of the criminal underworld, and their activity was not always well-received. In reality, they are advocates of the oppressed and the downtrodden, and they work tirelessly every day to ease the suffering of people all over the world who are suffering from famine, conflict, and asylum-seeking situations. By influencing governments and other powerful groups, and publicizing their transgressions, Amnesty International is a non-governmental organization dedicated to the defense of human rights worldwide. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/tv-commercials-the-cable-age-classics-ii-dvd.html
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May 28: Thales Day: -- May 28, 585 BC: The Eclipse Of Thales: On one of history's cardinal dates, the earliest historical event whose date is known with precision and a date from which other dates can be calculated, what Isaac Asimov described as "the birth of science" takes place when a solar eclipse occurs, as predicted by the Greek philosopher and scientist Thales of Miletus, while the King of Lydia Alyattes is battling the King of the Medes (King Of Media) Cyaxares in the Battle Of Halys, now known as The Battle Of The Eclipse. According to The Histories of Herodotus, the appearance of the eclipse was interpreted as an omen, and the interruption of this battle in a long-standing war between the Medes and the Lydians resulted in the fighting immediately stopping, and they agreed to a truce. If Herodotus's account is accurate, this eclipse is the earliest recorded as being known in advance of its occurrence. In honor of Thales, Thales day celebrates critical thinking and the transition from myth to logic. Raise a glass to the beginning of sound human reasoning by joining in with various activities and events in honor of Thales of Miletus, honoring his life, and learning more about his work that led to modern thinking. His work is considered to be the common origin of the logical study of nature - the beginning of using reason and sound judgment to better understand the world. The celebration of Thales Day has taken place unofficially in pockets of the scientific world for many years. In 2015, the event was marked as the 2600th anniversary of science and Danish philosopher, Henrick Schoneberg, was a catalyst for the celebration of the day. Live events took place in Copenhagen and other celebrations also took place in honor of Thales Day in places around the world, including the Chicago Science Fest in the United States. Since then, Thales Day has become an annual event that acts as a cultural landmark to show appreciation for science, philosophy and critical thinking about nature, with live events in Denmark as well as online and in person activities for those celebrating around the world. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/greek-fire-ancient-greece-in-the-modern-era-tv-documentary-series.html
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May 28, 1588: The European Wars Of Religion: The Eighty Years' War (The Dutch Revolt): The Anglo-Spanish Wars: The Anglo-Spanish War (1585-1604): The Spanish Armada (The Invincible Armada, The Enterprise Of England [Spanish: Grande Y Felicisima Armada, "Great And Most Fortunate Navy"]): -- The 130 ships and 30,000 men of The Spanish Armada set sail from Lisbon, Portugal, heading for the English Channel; it will take until May 30 for all ships to leave port. The Spanish Armada (Spanish: Grande y Felicisima Armada, literally "Great and Most Fortunate Navy") was a Spanish fleet of 130 ships that sailed from A Coruna in late May 1588, under the command of the Duke of Medina Sidonia, with the purpose of escorting an army from Flanders to invade England. The Spanish Armada naval expedition was organized by the devout Catholic Philip II, who was King of Spain (1556-98), King of Portugal (1581-98, as Philip I, Filipe I), King of Naples and Sicily (both from 1554), and "jure uxoris" (Latin for "by right of (his) wife"), King of England and Ireland (during his marriage to Queen Mary I from 1554-58); he was also Duke of Milan, and from 1555 he was lord of the Seventeen Provinces of the Netherlands. The strategic aim of the armada was to overthrow Queen Elizabeth I and her establishment of Protestantism in England, with the expectation that this would put a stop to English interference in the Spanish Netherlands and to the harm caused to Spanish interests by English and Dutch privateering. The Armada chose not to attack the English fleet at Plymouth, then failed to establish a temporary anchorage in the Solent, after one Spanish ship had been captured by Francis Drake in the English Channel. The Armada finally dropped anchor off Calais. While awaiting communications from the Duke of Parma's army, the Armada was scattered by an English fireship attack. In the ensuing Battle Of Gravelines the Spanish fleet was damaged and forced to abandon its rendezvous with Parma's army, who were blockaded in harbour by Dutch flyboats. The Armada managed to regroup and, driven by southwest winds, withdrew north, with the English fleet harrying it up the east coast of England. The commander ordered a return to Spain, but the Armada was disrupted during severe storms in the North Atlantic and a large number of the vessels were wrecked on the coasts of Scotland and Ireland. Of the initial 130 ships over a third failed to return. The expedition was the largest engagement of the undeclared Anglo-Spanish War (1585-1604). The following year, England organised a similar large-scale campaign against Spain, the Drake-Norris Expedition or "Counter-Armada of 1589", which was also unsuccessful. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/armada-dvd-spanish-armada-tv-series-all-3-episode3.html
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May 28, 1818: #BOTD: P. G. T. Beauregard, American and Confederate general who was the first prominent general of the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War (d. February 20, 1893) is #born Pierre Gustave Toutant-Beauregard at the Contreras sugar cane plantation in St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, about 20 miles outside New Orleans, the third of seven children of the Louisiana Creole family of Helene Judith de Reggio, of mixed French and Italian ancestry and descendant of Francesco M. de Reggio, member of an Italian noble family whose family had migrated first to France and then to Louisiana, and her husband, Jacques Toutant-Beauregard, of French and Welsh ancestry. As was typical for Louisiana Creoles, his family spoke French and practiced Roman Catholicism. Commonly referred to as P. G. T. Beauregard, he rarely used his first name as an adult; he signed correspondence as G. T. Beauregard. Trained as a civil engineer at the United States Military Academy, Beauregard served with distinction as an engineer in the Mexican-American War. Following a brief appointment as superintendent at West Point in 1861, after the South seceded he resigned from the United States Army and became the first brigadier general in the Confederate States Army. He commanded the defenses of Charleston, South Carolina, at the start of the Civil War at Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861. Three months later he won the First Battle Of Bull Run near Manassas, Virginia. Beauregard commanded armies in the Western Theater, including at the Battle Of Shiloh in Tennessee, and the Siege Of Corinth in northern Mississippi. He returned to Charleston and defended it in 1863 from repeated naval and land attacks by Union forces. His greatest achievement was saving the important industrial city of Petersburg, Virginia, in June 1864, and thus the nearby Confederate capital of Richmond, from assaults by overwhelmingly superior Union Army forces. His influence over Confederate strategy was lessened by his poor professional relationships with President Jefferson Davis and other senior generals and officials. In April 1865, Beauregard and his commander, General Joseph E. Johnston, convinced Davis and the remaining cabinet members that the war needed to end. Johnston surrendered most of the remaining armies of the Confederacy, including Beauregard and his men, to Major General William Tecumseh Sherman. Following his military career, Beauregard returned to Louisiana, where he advocated for Black civil rights and Black suffrage, served as a railroad executive, and became wealthy as a promoter of the Louisiana Lottery. Beauregard died in his sleep aged 74 in New Orleans, Louisiana of what was recorded as "heart disease, aortic insufficiency, and probably myocarditis." Edmund Kirby Smith, the last surviving full general of the Confederacy, served as the "chief mourner" as Beauregard was interred in the vault of The Army Of Tennessee in historic Metairie Cemetery. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-battle-of-fort-sumter-civil-war-dvd-mp4-download-usb-flash-driv4.html
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May 28, 1830: The United States: The History Of The United States: Native Americans: The History Of Native Americans: Forced Migrations Of Native Americans In The United States: The Indian Removal Act: -- U.S. President Andrew Jackson signs The Indian Removal Act which relocates Native Americans. On May 26, 1830, the Indian Removal Act was passed by the U.S. Congress. The law authorized the president to negotiate with southern Native American tribes for their removal to federal territory west of the Mississippi River in exchange for their lands. The act has been referred to as a genocide. The Act was signed by Jackson and it was enforced under his administration and that of Martin Van Buren. The act enjoyed strong support from the non-Indian peoples of the South, but there was a large amount of resistance from the Indian tribes, the Whig Party, and whites in the northeast, especially New England. The Cherokee worked together as an independent nation to stop this relocation. However, the Cherokee were unsuccessful in their attempt to keep their land and were eventually forcibly removed by the United States government in a march to the west that later became known as the Trail of Tears, a series of forced relocations of Native American peoples that included members of the Cherokee, Muscogee (Creek), Seminole, Chickasaw, Choctaw, and Ponca nations. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/native-north-american-indian-history-documentaries-dvd-mp4-us4.html
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May 28, 1837: #BOTD: #HBD! Tony Pastor, nicknamed "The Dean Of Vaudeville" and "Little Man Tony", American impresario, variety performer and theatre owner who became one of the founding forces behind American vaudeville in the mid-to-late-nineteenth century (d. August 26, 1908) is #born Antonio Pastor in New York City. The strongest elements of his entertainments were an almost-jingoistic brand of United States patriotism and a strong commitment to attracting a "mixed-gender" audience, the latter being something revolutionary in the male-oriented variety halls of the mid-century. Although he was a performer and producer, Pastor is best known for "cleaning up" bawdy variety acts and presenting a clean and family-friendly genre that came to be called Vaudeville. Tony Pastor died aged 71 in Elmhurst, New York. He is interred in The Cemetery Of The Evergreens in Brooklyn. Though greatly mourned at his death as one of the last gentlemen of the early vaudeville halls, the medium had passed him by with the advent of the vaudeville circuit in the 1880s. Pastor had remained a local showman in an epoch that increasingly came to be dominated by regional and national chains. Fighting against the monopolies for the rights of individual local showmen was an undertaking that marked the last years of his life, earning him the nickname of "Little Man Tony". On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/vaudeville-tv-vanities-olsen-amp-johnson-ben-blue-dual-layer-dvd.html
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May 27-28, 1871: The Unification Of Germany (German: Deutsche Einigung): The Franco-Prussian War (The Franco-German War, The War Of 1870): The Siege Of Paris (The Siege Of Paris 1870-1871): The Paris Commune (March 18 - May 28, 1871: Bloody Week (French: Semaine Sanglante): The Fall Of The Paris Commune: -- Some 20,000 communards were killed and 38,000 arrested by French troops who invaded the Paris Commune and engage its residents in street fighting since May 21, bringing an end to Bloody Week and bringing about The Fall Of The Paris Commune. On the morning of May 27 , the regular army soldiers of Generals Grenier, Paul de Ladmirault and Jean-Baptiste Montaudon launched an attack on the National Guard artillery on the heights of the Buttes-Chaumont. The heights were captured at the end of the afternoon by the first regiment of the French Foreign Legion. One of the last remaining strongpoints of the National Guard was the Pere Lachaise Cemetery, defended by about 200 men. At 6:00 in the evening, the army used cannon to demolish the gates and the First Regiment of naval infantry stormed the cemetery. Savage fighting followed around the tombs until nightfall, when the last Communards were taken prisoner. The captured guardsmen were taken to the wall of the cemetery and shot. Another group of prisoners, consisting of officers of the National guard, was collected at Mazas Prison and La Roquette prison. They were given brief trials before the military tribunal, sentenced to death, and then delivered to Pere Lachaise. There they were lined up in front of the same wall and executed in groups, and then buried with them in a common grave. This group include one woman, the only recorded execution of a woman by the army during the Bloody Week. The wall is now called the Communards' Wall, and is the site of annual commemorations of the Commune. On May 28, the regular army captured the remaining positions of the Commune, which offered little resistance. In the morning, the regular army captured La Roquette prison and freed the remaining 170 hostages. The army took 1,500 prisoners at the National Guard position on Rue Haxo, and 2,000 more at Derroja, near Pere Lachaise. A handful of barricades at rue Ramponneau and Avenue de Tourville held out into the middle of the afternoon, when all resistance ceased. The Paris Commune (French: Commune de Pari) was a French revolutionary government that seized power in Paris from March 18 to May 28, 1871. During the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71, the French National Guard had defended Paris, and working-class radicalism grew among its soldiers. Following the establishment of the Third Republic in September 1870 (under French chief executive Adolphe Thiers from February 1871) and the complete defeat of the French Army by the Germans by March 1871, soldiers of the National Guard seized control of the city on March 18. They killed two French army generals and refused to accept the authority of the Third Republic, instead attempting to establish an independent government. The Commune governed Paris for two months, establishing policies that tended toward a progressive, anti-religious system of social democracy, including the separation of church and state, self-policing, the remission of rent, the abolition of child labor, and the right of employees to take over an enterprise deserted by its owner. All the Roman Catholic churches and schools were closed. Feminist, socialist, communist and anarchist currents played important roles in the Commune. However, the various Communards had little more than two months to achieve their respective goals. The national French Army suppressed the Commune at the end of May during La semaine sanglante ("The Bloody Week") beginning on 21 May 1871. The national forces killed in battle or quickly executed between 10,000 and 15,000 Communards, though one unconfirmed estimate from 1876 put the toll as high as 20,000. In its final days, the Commune executed the Archbishop of Paris, Georges Darboy, and about one hundred hostages, mostly gendarmes and priests. 43,522 Communards were taken prisoner, including 1,054 women. More than half were quickly released. Fifteen thousand were tried, 13,500 of whom were found guilty. Ninety-five were sentenced to death, 251 to forced labor, and 1,169 to deportation (mostly to New Caledonia). Thousands of other Commune members, including several of the leaders, fled abroad, mostly to England, Belgium and Switzerland. All the prisoners and exiles received pardons in 1880 and could return home, where some resumed political careers. Debates over the policies and outcome of the Commune had significant influence on the ideas of Karl Marx (1818-1883) and Friedrich Engels (1820-1895), who described it as the first example of the dictatorship of the proletariat. Engels wrote: "Of late, the Social-Democratic philistine has once more been filled with wholesome terror at the words: Dictatorship of the Proletariat. Well and good, gentlemen, do you want to know what this dictatorship looks like? Look at the Paris Commune. That was the Dictatorship of the Proletariat." On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-western-tradition-dvd-set-all-52-shows-13-d5213.html
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May 28, 1884: #BOTD: #HBD! Edvard Benes, Czech academic and politician, 2nd and twice President of Czechoslovakia (1935-1938 and 1945-1948) (d. September 3, 1948) is #born into a peasant family in the small town of Kozlany, Kingdom of Bohemia, Cisleithania, in what was then the Austro-Hungarian Empire. . Sometimes anglicised to Edward Benesh or Eduard Benes, Dr. Edvard Benes was also Minister of Foreign Affairs (1918-1935), 4th Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia (1921-1922) and the President of Czechoslovakia in exile (1939-1945). A member of the Czechoslovak National Social Party, he was known as a skilled diplomat. He opposed Nazi Germany's claim to the German-speaking Sudetenland in 1938. In October 1938, Italy, France and the United Kingdom signed the Munich Agreement, which allowed for the annexation and the military occupation of the Sudetenland by Germany. Czechoslovakia was not consulted. Benes agreed, despite opposition from within his country, after France and the United Kingdom warned that they would remain neutral, despite their previous promises, in a war between Germany and Czechoslovakia. On October 5, 1938, Benes resigned and fled abroad amid threats from Adolf Hitler and was replaced by Emil Hacha. In March 1939, Hacha's government was bullied into allowing the German occupation of the remaining Czech territory, as Slovakia had already declared its nominal independence. Having served as the President of Czechoslovakia in exile during World War II, he returned to Czechoslovakia after Prague Uprising ejected the Nazi German forces remaining in the country and Benes resumed his former position as President. He was unanimously confirmed in office the National Assembly on October 28, 1945. Article 58.5 of the Constitution said, "The former president shall stay in his or her function till the new president shall be elected". On June 19, 1946, Benes was formally elected to his second term as President. On May 9, 1948, Czechoslovakia's Ninth-of-May Constitution came into effect, the second constitution of Czechoslovakia, in force from 1948 to 1960. It came into force shortly after the communist seizure of power in the country and the Third Republic ended on February 25, 1948. On June 7, 1948, Benes refused to sign it and resigned, and his nation thereby became a de facto Communist state.. The Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, with Soviet backing, assumed undisputed control over the government of Czechoslovakia on February 22, 1948 during the 1948 Czechoslovak Coup, marking the onset of four decades of communist rule in the country. Edvard Benes died of natural causes aged 64 at his villa in Sezimovo Usti, a town in Tabor District in the South Bohemian Region of what is now The Czech Republic, seven months after the communist coup. He is interred in the garden of his villa, and his bust is part of the headstone. His wife Hana, who lived until December 2, 1974, is interred next to him. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/czechoslovakia-the-long-wait-for-spring-dvd-1988-cold1988.html
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May 28, 1892: #BOTD: Sepp Dietrich, Adolf Hitler's chauffeur and bodyguard, Nazi German politician, SS general during the Nazi era (d. April 21, 1966) is #born Josef Dietrich in Hawangen, near Memmingen in the Kingdom of Bavaria, German Empire. He joined the Nazi Party in 1928 and was elected to the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic in 1930. Despite having no formal staff officer training, Dietrich was, along with Paul Hausser, the highest-ranking officer in the Waffen-SS, the military branch of the SS. Reaching the rank of Oberst-Gruppenfuehrer, he commanded units up to army level during World War II. As commanding officer of the 6th Panzer Army during the Battle Of The Bulge, Dietrich bore responsibility for the Malmedy Massacre, the mass murder of U.S. prisoners of war in December 1944. After the war, an American military tribunal convicted Dietrich of war crimes at the Malmedy Massacre Trial. Upon his release from Landsberg Prison in 1955, Dietrich became active in HIAG (German: Hilfsgemeinschaft Auf Gegenseitigkeit Der Angehorigen Der Ehemaligen Waffen-SS, "Mutual Aid Association Of Former Waffen-SS Members"), a lobby group and a denialist veterans' organisation founded by former high-ranking Waffen-SS personnel in West Germany in 1951 whose main objective was to achieve legal, economic, and historical rehabilitation of the Waffen-SS. Dietrich died of a heart attack in Ludwigsburg, West Germany, aged 73. Six thousand people, including many former SS men, attended his funeral. Dietrich was married twice: he was divorced from his first wife in 1937 and remarried in 1942. He had three children. Before his second marriage he was a customer of the Salon Kitty, a high-class Berlin brothel used by the Nazi intelligence service, the Sicherheitsdienst (SD), for espionage purposes during World War II. Created in the early 1930s, the salon was taken over by SS general Reinhard Heydrich and his subordinate Walter Schellenberg in 1939. The brothel was managed by original owner Kitty Schmidt throughout its entire existence. The plan was to seduce top German dignitaries and foreign visitors, as well as diplomats, with alcohol and women so they would disclose secrets or express their honest opinions on Nazi-related topics and individuals. Notable guests included Heydrich himself, Joseph Dietrich, Galeazzo Ciano and Joseph Goebbels. The building housing the salon was destroyed in an air raid in 1942 and the project quickly lost its importance. Salon Kitty has been the inspiration or subject of many brothels featured in films involving Nazi espionage. Sepp Dietrich died of a heart attack in Ludwigsburg, West Germany, aged 73. He is buried at Neuer Friedhof Ludwigsburg in Ludwigsburg, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany. Six thousand people, including many former SS men, attended his funeral. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/ss-19231945-dvd-schutzstaffel-history-doc19231945.html
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May 28, 1900: Grand Openings: World's Fair Openings: Exposition Universelle (1900) (The 1900 Paris Exposition, The 1900 Paris World's Fair): The Gare d'Orsay: -- The first electrified urban terminal station in the world, The Gare d'Orsay railway station and hotel, is inaugurated in Paris as part of the 1900 Paris World's Fair. Built in 1900 to designs by Victor Laloux, Lucien Magne and Emile Benard, the Gare d'Orsay served as a terminus for the Chemin de Fer de Paris a Orleans (Paris-Orleans Railway). The station was constructed in Beaux-Arts style, and the western and southern sides of the building included the 370-room Hotel Palais d'Orsay. By 1939 the station's short platforms had become unsuitable for the longer trains that had come to be used for mainline services, and the Gare d'Orsay was closed to long-distance traffic, though some suburban trains of the SNCF continue to use its lower levels to this day. The former station was used as a collection point for the dispatch of parcels to prisoners of war during the Second World War, and after the war as a reception centre for liberated prisoners on their return; a plaque on the side of the building facing the River Seine commemorates this latter use. The structure served as the setting for several films, including Orson Welles' version of Franz Kafka's The Trial, and is a central location in Bernardo Bertolucci's The Conformist. General Charles de Gaulle held a press conference in the ballroom of the Hotel Palais d'Orsay on 19 May 1958 at which he announced his "availability to serve his country", ushering in the end of the French Fourth Republic. As well, it was the inspiration for the larger Penn Station in New York City when Alexander Cassatt, president of Pennsylvania Railroad, traveled on his annual trip to Europe in 1901. The Hotel Palais d'Orsay closed at the beginning of 1973. In 1977, the French Government decided to convert the station to a museum. It reopened in December 1986 as the Musee d'Orsay, an art museum. The museum is currently served by the RER station of the same name. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/la-belle-epoque-18901914-western-high-society-cul18901914.html
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May 27-28, 1905: The Russo-Japanese War (Russian: Russko-Yaponskaya Voyna, "The Russian-Japanese War"; Japanese: Nichiro Senso, "The Japanese-Russian War"): The Battle Of Tsushima (The Battle Of Tsushima Strait, The Naval Battle Of The Sea Of Japan) (Russian: Tsusimskoye Srazheniye, "The Battle Of Tsushima"; Japanese: Nihonkai Kaisen, "The Battle Of Tsushima"): -- In naval history's only decisive sea battle fought by modern steel battleship fleets, the first naval battle in which wireless telegraphy (radio) played a critically important role, and the last naval battle in which the ships of the line of a beaten fleet surrendered on the high seas, the final naval battle of the Russo-Japanese War is fought when the Russian Second Pacific Squadron under Admiral Zinovy Rozhestvensky, which had been the Russian Baltic Fleet until it sailed for over seven months and some 18,000 nautical miles from the Baltic Sea to engage the Imperial Japanese Navy's Combined Fleet commanded by Marshal-Admiral Togo Heihachiro, results in a devastating defeat for the Imperial Russian Navy in The Battle Of Tsushima, described by contemporary Sir George Clarke as "by far the greatest and the most important naval event since Trafalgar". The Russians hoped to reach Vladivostok and establish naval control of the Far East in order to relieve the Imperial Russian Army in Manchuria. The Russian fleet had a large advantage in the number of battleships, but was overall older and slower than the Japanese fleet. The Russians were sighted by the Japanese in the early morning on May 27, and the battle began in the afternoon. Rozhestvensky was wounded and knocked unconscious in the initial action, and four of his battleships were sunk by sunset. At night, Japanese destroyers and torpedo boats attacked the remaining ships, and Admiral Nikolai Nebogatov surrendered in the morning of May 28. All 11 Russian battleships were lost, out of which seven were sunk and four captured. Only a few warships escaped, with one cruiser and two destroyers reaching Vladivostok, and two auxiliary cruisers as well as one transport escaping back to Madagascar. Three cruisers were interned at Manila by the United States until the war was over. Eight auxiliaries and one destroyer were disarmed and remanded at Shanghai by China. Russian casualties were high, with more than 5,000 dead and 6,000 captured. The Japanese, which had lost no heavy ships, had 117 dead. The loss of almost every heavy warship of the Baltic Fleet forced Russia to sue for peace, and the Treaty of Portsmouth was signed in September 1905. In Japan, the battle was hailed as one of the greatest naval victories in Japanese history, and Admiral Togo was revered as a national hero. His flagship Mikasa has been preserved as a museum ship in Yokosuka Harbour. Isoroku Yamamoto, a recent graduate of the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy and future Grand Admiral of the Imperial Japanese Navy during the Pacific War of World War II, served on the armored cruiser Nisshin when he was wounded during the battle, losing two fingers (the index and middle fingers) on his left hand, as the cruiser was hit repeatedly by the Russian battle line. Had he lost one more finger, he would have had to leave the Imperial Japanese Navy, according to their rules of physical fitness of its men. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/yamamoto-dvd-grand-admiral-isoroku.html
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May 28, 1910: #BOTD: #HBD! T-Bone Walker, African American blues pioneer and innovator of the jump blues and electric blues sound, considered by many the greastest R & B guitarist, singer, songwriter. composer, pianist, banjo player, ukelele player, violinist and mandolin player, writer and performer of the famous blues standard "Call It Stormy Monday (But Tuesday Is Just as Bad)" (d. March 16, 1975) is #born Aaron Thibeaux Walker in Linden, Texas, of African American and Cherokee descent. His parents, Movelia Jimerson and Rance Walker, were both musicians. His stepfather, Marco Washington, taught him to play the guitar, ukulele, banjo, violin, mandolin, and piano. Walker began his career as a teenager in Dallas in the 1920s. His mother and stepfather (a member of the Dallas String Band) were musicians, and Blind Lemon Jefferson, a family friend, sometimes came over for dinner. Walker left school at the age of 10, and by 15 he was a professional performer on the blues circuit. Initially, he was Jefferson's protege and would guide him around town for his gigs. In 1929, Walker made his recording debut with Columbia Records, billed as Oak Cliff T-Bone, releasing the single "Wichita Falls Blues" backed with "Trinity River Blues". Oak Cliff is the community in which he lived at the time, and T-Bone is a corruption of his middle name. The pianist Douglas Fernell played accompaniment on the record. Walker married Vida Lee in 1935; the couple had three children. By the age of 25, Walker was working in clubs on Central Avenue, in Los Angeles, sometimes as the featured singer and as guitarist with Les Hite's orchestra. In 1940 he recorded with Hite for the Varsity label, but he was featured only as a singer. In 1942, Charlie Glenn, the owner of the Rhumboogie Cafe, brought T-Bone Walker to Chicago for long-time stints in his club. In 1944 and 1945, Walker recorded for the Rhumboogie label, which was tied to the club, backed up by Marl Young's orchestra. T-Bone Walker performed at the second famed Cavalcade of Jazz concert held at Wrigley Field in Los Angeles produced by Leon Hefflin Sr. on October 12, 1946. Jack McVea, Slim Gaillard, The Honeydrippers, Lionel Hampton and his Orchestra, and Louis Armstrong were all on the same program. He also performed for the third Cavalcade of Jazz concert held in the same location on September 7, 1947 along with Woody Herman as Emcee, The Valdez Orchestra, The Blenders, The Honeydrippers, Slim Gaillard, Johnny Otis and his Orchestra, Toni Harper, The 3 Blazers and Sarah Vaughn. Much of his output was recorded from 1946 to 1948 for Black & White Records, including his most famous song, "Call It Stormy Monday (But Tuesday Is Just as Bad)" (1947). Other notable songs he recorded during this period were "Bobby Sox Blues" (a number 3 R & B hit in 1947) and "West Side Baby" (number 8 on the R & B singles chart in 1948). Throughout his career Walker worked with top-notch musicians, including the trumpeter Teddy Buckner (e.g. in Call It Stormy Monday (But Tuesday Is Just as Bad), the pianist Lloyd Glenn, the bassist Billy Hadnott (in the vinile album Hot Leftovers and in Good-Bye Blues), and the tenor saxophonist Jack McVea (in the songs Don't leave me baby and No Worry Blues). He recorded from 1950 to 1954 for Imperial Records (backed by Dave Bartholomew). Walker's only record in the next five years was T-Bone Blues, recorded during three widely separated sessions in 1955, 1956 and 1959 and released by Atlantic Records in 1959. By the early 1960s, Walker's career had slowed down, in spite of an energetic performance at the American Folk Blues Festival in 1962 with the pianist Memphis Slim and the prolific writer and musician Willie Dixon, among others. However, several critically acclaimed albums followed, such as I Want a Little Girl (recorded for Delmark Records in 1968). Walker recorded in his last years, from 1968 to 1975, for Robin Hemingway's music publishing company, Jitney Jane Songs. He won a Grammy Award for Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording in 1971 for Good Feelin', while signed with Polydor Records, produced by Hemingway, followed by another album produced by Hemingway, Fly Walker Airlines, released in 1973. Walker's career began to wind down after he suffered a stroke in 1974. He later died of bronchial pneumonia following another stroke in March 1975. He influenced a generation of Detroit guitarists. Walker was posthumously inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 1980 and The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in 1987. In 2018 Rolling Stone magazine ranked him number 67 on its list of "The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time". Chuck Berry named Walker and Louis Jordan as his main influences. B.B. King cited hearing Walker's recording of "Stormy Monday" as his inspiration for getting an electric guitar. In his 1996 autobiography, King commented when first heard Walker, he thought "Jesus Himself had returned to earth playing electric guitar. T-Bone's blues filled my insides with joy and good feeling. I became his disciple. And remain so today. My biggest musical debt is to T-Bone." Blues-rock soloing pioneer Lonnie Mack named Walker his principal blues guitar influence. Walker was admired by Jimi Hendrix, who imitated Walker's trick of playing the guitar with his teeth. Steve Miller stated that in 1952, when he was eight, Walker taught him how to play his guitar behind his back and also with his teeth. He was a family friend and a frequent visitor to Miller's family home and Miller considers him a major influence on his career. "Stormy Monday" was a favorite live number of the Allman Brothers Band. The British rock band Jethro Tull covered Walker's "Stormy Monday" in 1968 for John Peel's "Top Gear". Eva Cassidy performed "Stormy Monday" on her 1996 Live at Blues Alley recording. According to Cleveland.com, Walker may have been the best R & B guitarist. He "pioneered electric blues by becoming the first artist to make the electric guitar a solo instrument and a true centerpiece of his stunning live shows". T-Bone Walker died of bronchial pneumonia in Lost Angeles, California following a stroke at the age of 64. He is buried in Inglewood Park Cemetery in Inglewood, Los Angeles County, California. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/that-rhythm-those-blues-dvd-american-black-rampb-music-history.html
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May 28, 1936: The Industrial Revolution: The Third Industrial Revolution (1947-Present) (The Information Age, The Computer Age, The Digital Age, The Digital Electronics Revolution, The Silicon Age, The New Media Age, The Media Age): The Computer: The History Of The Computer: Digital Computers: The History Of Computer Programming: Alan Turing's "On Computable Numbers": -- Alan Turing submits for publication an article that set the limits of computer science and founds the limits of possible computation, "On Computable Numbers". in the Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society, Series 2, vol. 42, pp. 230-265, published in January 1937. In it is Turing's proof, first published in January 1937 with the title "On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem." It was the second proof (after Church's theorem) of the conjecture that some purely mathematical yes-no questions can never be answered by computation; more technically, that some decision problems are "undecidable" in the sense that there is no single algorithm that infallibly gives a correct "yes" or "no" answer to each instance of the problem. In Turing's own words: "...what I shall prove is quite different from the well-known results of Godel ... I shall now show that there is no general method which tells whether a given formula U is provable in K [Principia Mathematica]..." (Undecidable, p. 145). Turing followed this proof with two others. The second and third both rely on the first. All rely on his development of type-writer-like "computing machines" that obey a simple set of rules and his subsequent development of a "universal computing machine", the Turing Machine, a model for all computations. Alan Turing, English computer scientist, mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, philosopher and theoretical biologist (1912 - 1954) was highly influential in the development of theoretical computer science, providing a formalisation of the concepts of algorithm and computation with the Turing machine, which can be considered a model of a general purpose computer. Turing is widely considered to be the father of theoretical computer science and artificial intelligence. During the Second World War, he worked for the Government Code and Cypher School (GCAndCS) at Bletchley Park, Britain' codebreaking centre that produced Ultra intelligence. For a time he led Hut 8, the section which was responsible for German naval cryptanalysis. Here he devised a number of techniques for speeding the breaking of German ciphers, including improvements to the pre-war Polish bombe method, an electromechanical machine that could find settings for the Enigma machine. Turing played a pivotal role in cracking intercepted coded messages that enabled the Allies to defeat the Nazis in many crucial engagements, including the Battle of the Atlantic, and in so doing helped win the war. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/breaking-the-code-1996-alan-turing-derek-jacobi-mp4-video-downloa19964.html
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May 28, 1940: The European Civil War: World War II: The Second European War (The European Theater Of World War II): The German Invasion Of Western Europe (World War II) (Sieg Im Westen [German: "Victory In The West"}) (The Manstein Plan, Fall Gelb [German: "Case Yellow", Unternehmen Sichelschnitt, "Operation Sickle Cut"): The Battle Of Belgium (The German Invasion Of Belgium [1940], The Invasion Of Belgium, The Belgian Campaign, The 18 Days' Campaign): The Belgian Surrender (The German Occupation Of Belgium During World War II): -- Belgium surrenders to Nazi Germany, bringing an end to The Battle Of Belgium and the beginning of The German Occupation Of Belgium. On May 17, 1940, after having defeated Belgium as a result of the general warfare that erupted on the Western Front during World War II when Germany invaded France and the low countries of Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg according the German Manstein Plan, Germany occupied the capital of Belgium, Brussels; it was a matter of time before the entire country fell to the Germans. The German occupation of Belgium (French: Occupation allemande, Dutch: Duitse bezetting) during World War II began on 28 May 1940, when the Belgian army surrendered to German forces, and lasted until Belgium's liberation by the Western Allies between September 1944 and February 1945. It was the second time in less than thirty years that Germany had occupied Belgium. After the success of the invasion, a military administration was established in Belgium, bringing the territory under the direct rule of the Wehrmacht. Thousands of Belgian soldiers were taken as prisoners of war, and many were not released until 1945. The German administration juggled competing objectives of maintaining order while extracting material from the territory for the war effort. They were assisted by the Belgian civil service, which believed that limited co-operation with the occupiers would result in the least damage to Belgian interests. Belgian Fascist parties in both Flanders and Wallonia, established before the war, collaborated much more actively with the occupiers; they helped recruit Belgians for the German army and were given more power themselves toward the end of the occupation. Food and fuel were tightly rationed, and all official news was closely censored. Belgian civilians living near possible targets such as railway junctions were in danger of Allied aerial bombing. From 1942, the occupation became more repressive. Jews suffered systematic persecution and deportation to concentration camps. Despite vigorous protest, the Germans deported Belgian civilians to work in factories in Germany. Meanwhile, the Belgian Resistance, formed in late 1940, expanded vastly. From 1944, the SS and Nazi Party gained much greater control in Belgium, particularly after the military government was replaced in July by a Nazi civil administration, the Reichskommissariat Belgien-Nordfrankreich. In September 1944, Allied forces arrived in Belgium and quickly moved across the country. That December, the territory was incorporated de jure into the Greater German Reich although its collaborationist leaders were already in exile in Germany and German control in the region was virtually non-existent. Belgium was declared fully liberated in February 1945. In total, 40,690 Belgians, over half of them Jews, were killed during the occupation, and the country's pre-war gross domestic product (GDP) was reduced by eight percent. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-world-at-war-dvd-1942-motion-pic1942.html
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May 28, 1940: The European Civil War: World War II: The Second European War (The European Theater Of World War II): The German Invasion Of Denmark And Norway (Operation Weserubung [German: Unternehmen Weserubung, "Operation Weser Exercise]): The Norwegian Campaign: The Battles Of Narvik: -- Norwegian, French, Polish and British forces recapture Narvik in Norway. This is the first allied infantry victory of the War. The Battles Of Narvik were fought from April 9 to June 8, 1940 as a naval battle in the Ofotfjord and as a land battle in the mountains surrounding the north Norwegian city of Narvik as part of the Norwegian Campaign of the Second World War. The two naval battles in the Ofotfjord on April 10 and April 13 were fought between the British Royal Navy and Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine, while the two-month land campaign was fought between Norwegian, French, British, and Polish troops against German mountain troops, shipwrecked Kriegsmarine sailors and German paratroopers (Fallschirmjaeger) from the 7th Air Division. Although defeated at sea off Narvik, losing control of the town of Narvik and being pushed back towards the Swedish border, the Germans eventually prevailed because of the Allied evacuation from Norway in June 1940 following the Battle Of France. Narvik provided an ice-free harbour in the North Atlantic for iron ore transported by the railway from Kiruna in Sweden. Both sides in the war had an interest in securing this iron supply for themselves and denying it to the enemy, setting the stage for one of the biggest battles since the Invasion Of Poland. Prior to the German invasion, British forces had considered Narvik as a possible landing point for an expedition to help Finland in the Winter War. Such an expedition also had the potential of taking control of the Swedish mines and opening up the Baltic for the Allies. French politicians were also eager to start a second front as far away from France as possible. On May 7, 1940, the Norway Debate in the British House Of Commons began, lasting for two days, and leading to the replacement of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain with Winston Churchill three days later. The Norway Debate, sometimes called the Narvik Debate, was a momentous debate in the British House Of Commons during World War II on May 7 and 8, 1940. It led directly to the formation of a broadly-based coalition government led by Winston Churchill, which governed Britain until the end of World War II in Europe. The debate began following an adjournment debate, which in the Westminster System of the parliamentary government in the UK means an adjournment motion to engage in a debate on a subject without considering a substantive motion, i.e. a formal proposal by a member of a deliberative assembly that the assembly take certain action. The debate was primarily about the progress of the Norwegian Campaign but it quickly brought to a head widespread dissatisfaction with the overall conduct of the war by the Conservative-dominated National Government, led by Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. In the debate, Chamberlain's government was criticised not only by the Opposition but also by respected members of his own party. The Opposition forced a vote, effectively a motion of no confidence, which the government won with a greatly reduced majority. Over a quarter of Conservative members voted with the Opposition or abstained, despite a three line whip (a strict instruction to attend and vote, breach of which would normally have serious consequences), and this made it clear that support for Chamberlain in his own party was crumbling. There were calls for national unity to be established by formation of an all-party coalition, but it was not possible for Chamberlain to reach agreement with the opposition Labour and Liberal parties who refused to serve under his leadership, though they would accept a different Conservative leader. On Friday, May 10, the day that Nazi Germany invaded Belgium and the Netherlands, Chamberlain resigned and was succeeded as Prime Minister by Churchill. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/victory-at-sea-1954-dvd-the-movie-rare-wwii-1954.html
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May 28, 1942: The European Civil War: World War II: The Second European War (The European Theater Of World War II): The Assassination Of Reinhard Heydrich (Operation Anthropoid): -- In retaliation for the assassination attempt on Reinhard Heydrich the day prior, the Nazis in Czechoslovakia kill over 1,800 people in the Czech villages of Lidice and Lezaky. Both villages were razed; all men and boys over the age of 16 were shot, and all but a handful of the women and children were deported and killed in Nazi concentration camps. The day prior, May 27, 1942, German SS officer and politician Reinhard Heydrich was fatally wounded in Prague, dying of his injuries eight days later. He was ambushed by a team of Czech and Slovak agents who had been sent by the Czechoslovak government-in-exile to kill the Reich-Protector; the team was trained by the British Special Operations Executive. On December 28, 1941, Operation Anthropoid, the plot to assassinate SS Obergruppenfuehrer and General der Polizei Reinhard Heydrich, commenced. Heydrich was head of the Reichssicherheitshauptamt (Reich Main Security Office, RSHA), the combined security services of Nazi Germany, and acting Reichsprotektor of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. Operation Anthropoid was carried out in Prague, Czechoslovakia on 27 May 1942 after having been prepared by the British Special Operations Executive with the approval of the Czechoslovak government-in-exile. Wounded in the attack, Heydrich died of his injuries on 4 June 1942. His death led to a wave of merciless reprisals by German SS troops, including the destruction of the Czechoslovakian villages of Lidice and Lezaky and the mass execution or imprisonment of civilians in those and other villages. Anthropoid was the only successful assassination of a senior Nazi leader during World War II. Heydrich was one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany and an important figure in the rise of Adolf Hitler; as a Nazi potentate, he was given overall charge of the so-called Final Solution (Holocaust) of the Jews in Europe. Despite the risks, the Czechoslovaks decided to undertake the operation to help confer legitimacy on the Edvard Benes government-in-exile in London, as well as for retribution against Heydrich's harsh rule. Nazi intelligence falsely linked the assassins to the villages of Lidice and Lezaky. The Nazis in Czechoslovakia killed over 1,800 people in the Czech villages of Lidice and Lezaky. Both villages were razed and completely leveled until not a trace remained; all men and boys over the age of 16 were shot, and all but a handful of the women and children were deported and killed in Nazi concentration camps. The women of Lidice were deported to Ravensbruck concentration camp where most died. Ninety Lidice young children were sent to the concentration camp at Gneisenau, with some later taken to Nazi orphanages if they were German looking. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/hitler39s-master-race-the-mad-dream-of-the-ss-d39.html
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May 28, 1945: #BOTD: #HBD! John Fogerty, American singer, songwriter and guitarist, who together with Doug Clifford, Stu Cook, and his brother Tom Fogerty founded the swamp rock band Creedence Clearwater Revival (CCR), for which he was the lead singer, lead guitarist, and principal songwriter, is born John Cameron Fogerty in Berkeley, California. Creedence Clearwater's name came from three sources: Tom Fogerty's friend Credence Newball, whose name they changed to form the word Creedence (as in creed); a television commercial for Olympia Brewing Company ("clear water"); and the renewed commitment to their band by its four members: John Fogerty, his brother, rhythm guitarist Tom Fogerty, bassist Stu Cook, and drummer Doug Clifford. Cook described the name as "weirder than Buffalo Springfield or Jefferson Airplane". CCR had nine top-10 singles and eight gold albums between 1968 and 1972, and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993. Since CCR parted ways in 1972, Fogerty has had a successful solo career, which continues. He was listed on Rolling Stone magazine's list of 100 Greatest Songwriters (at No. 40) and the list of 100 Greatest Singers (at No. 72). His songs include "Proud Mary", "Bad Moon Rising", "Fortunate Son", "Green River", "Down on the Corner", "Who'll Stop the Rain", "Up Around the Bend", "Have You Ever Seen the Rain", "Centerfield", "The Old Man Down the Road", and "Rockin' All Over the World". On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-golden-age-of-rock-39n39-roll-dvd-complete-tv-series-5-39395.html
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May 28, 1951: Aesthetics: Performing Arts: Premieres: Radio Premieres: British Radio Premieres: -- The British radio comedy program The Goon Show is broadcast on the BBC for the first time. It was originally produced and broadcast by the BBC Home Service from 1951 to 1960, with occasional repeats on the BBC Light Programme. The first series broadcast from May 28 to September 20, 1951, was titled Crazy People; subsequent series had the title The Goon Show, a title inspired, according to Spike Milligan, by the Popeye character Alice the Goon (when The Goon Show was brought to television in the form of a puppet show in 1963, the puppet of The Goon Show character Eccles was modeled on Alice the Goon). The show's chief creator and main writer was Terence Alan Milligan, who named himself Spike Milligan after hearing on Radio Luxembourg the great American novelty song band Spike Jones and his City Slickers. It starred Spike Milligan (British-Irish comedian, writer, poet, playwright and actor.), Harry Secombe (Welsh comedian, actor and singer), Peter Sellers (English film actor, comedian and singer) and from 1951-1953 Michael Mentine (Peruvian-English comedian, comic actor and founding member of the Goons). The scripts mixed ludicrous plots with surreal humour, puns, catchphrases and an array of bizarre sound effects. Some of the later episodes feature electronic effects devised by the fledgling BBC Radiophonic Workshop, many of which were reused by other shows for decades. Many elements of the show satirised contemporary life in Britain, parodying aspects of show business, commerce, industry, art, politics, diplomacy, the police, the military, education, class structure, literature and film. The show was released internationally through the BBC Transcription Services (TS). It was heard regularly from the 1950s in Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, India and Canada, although these TS versions were frequently edited to avoid controversial subjects. NBC began broadcasting the programme on its radio network from the mid-1950s. The programme exercised a considerable influence on the development of British and American comedy and popular culture. It was cited as a major influence by The Beatles and the American comedy team The Firesign Theatre as well as Monty Python and many others. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/6-disc-goon-show-discount-valuepack-5-dvd-videos--1-mp36513.html
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May 28, 1956: Civil Rights Movements: The American Civil Rights Movement (1954-1968): Anti-Black Racism In The United States: Segregation: Racial Segregation: Civil Rights Protests: Civil Rights Protests In The United States: Transport And Bus Segregation In The United States: Transport And Bus Boycotts In The United States: The Tallahassee Bus Boycott: -- The Tallahassee Bus Boycott begins, precipitated when Wilhelmina Jakes and Carrie Patterson, two Florida A & M University students, were arrested on May 26, 1956 by the Tallahassee Police Department for "placing themselves in a position to incite a riot". The day after the incident, the Ku Klux Klan burned a cross in front of the women's residence. News of the cross-burning quickly spread throughout the campus, and Student Government Association officers, led by Brodes Hartley, called for a meeting of the student body. The incidents (the cross-burning and the arrest) were discussed in the meeting. Student leaders called for the withdrawal of student support of the bus company and for students to seek participation in the boycott throughout the community. Reverend Steele, a member of the Tallahassee Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance (IMA) and leader in the NAACP, organized a mass meeting that night. In the meeting, the Inter-Civic Council (ICC) was born from the joining of the NAACP, IMA, and Tallahassee Civic League. The ICC was formed in response to community fear that an NAACP-led protest would be met with repression by the state of Florida. Its leaders held weekly meetings and the council was highly active in Civil Rights-related activism. The NAACP became involved well after the boycott had been started, when leaders sent a lawyer to defend drivers of boycotters (carpool drivers) who were arrested for driving unlicensed "for hire" vehicles. Robert Saunders, representing the NAACP, and Rev. C. K. Steele then began talks with city authorities while the local African-American community started boycotting the city's buses. Three months into the boycott, the demand for the employment of black bus drivers was met. For months after Browder v. Gayle, the government upheld de facto segregation, with the instantiation of an ordinance mandating assigned seats on buses. That led to arrests of blacks who did not sit in the seats assigned to them. Efforts persisted in resisting bus segregation and enforcement of the ordinance became less strict, when blacks again rode the buses. In 1959, members of the Tallahassee InterCivic Council tested the success of the boycott by riding the newly integrated buses; they found that the integration was successful. Organizational and community leaders did not gather until after the initiation of the boycott, which highlights the spontaneity of the student-initiated boycott. Furthermore, the boycott was initiated during a time in which Tallahassee's civil rights-related organizational activity was markedly low and the black community in Tallahassee was unprepared for a protest as large as the boycott. The creation of the ICC provided an example of the emergence of new norms and structures. Although it is widely believed that the centers of Civil Rights Movement activity were organizational and structural bodies such as the black church and the NAACP, a new normative structure emerged in the Tallahassee Bus Boycott. The boycott was a departure from the circumstances of the Montgomery bus boycott, which was planned and precipitated by active individuals and organizations; in addition, the Tallahassee boycott, at least in its initial stages, was separate from and did not model the latter. On December 22, 1956, the ICC calld off the The Tallahassee Bus Boycott after talks with city authorities resulted in an agreement to repeal their bus-franchise segregation clause because it conflicted with the SCOTUS ruling Browder v. Gayle (1956). The Tallahassee bus boycott was a citywide boycott in Tallahassee, Florida, that sought to end racial segregation in the employment and seating arrangements of city buses. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/eyes-on-the-prize-ii-dvd-set-4-discs-complete-2nd-seri42.html
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May 28, 1964: The Cold War: The Arab Cold War (July 23, 1952 - February 11, 1979): The Arab-Israeli Conflict: The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Arab Nationalism: The Palestine Liberation Organization (Arabic: Munazzamat At-Tahrir Al-Filastiniyyah, "Palestine's Liberation Organization") (PLO): -- Following upon decisions made by The Arab League at its first summit meeting, The 1964 Arab League Summit, The Palestinian National Council (PNC) meets in Jerusalem, founds The Palestine Liberation Organization. a Palestinian nationalist coalition that is now internationally recognized as the official representative of the Palestinian people, and adopts of The Palestinian National Covenant, agreeing to make the Palestinian National Council the legislative branch of the PLO and to make The Palestinian National Covenant the charter of the PLO. The PLO initially sought to establish an Arab state over the entire territory of the former Mandatory Palestine, advocating the elimination of the State of Israel. However, in 1993, the PLO recognized Israeli sovereignty with the Oslo I Accord, and now only seeks Arab statehood in the Palestinian territories (the West Bank and the Gaza Strip) that have been militarily occupied by Israel since the 1967 Arab-Israeli War. It is headquartered in Al-Bireh, a city in the West Bank. As the officially recognized government of the de jure State of Palestine, it has enjoyed United Nations observer status since 1974. Prior to the Oslo Accords, the PLO's militant wings openly engaged in acts of violence against Israeli civilians, both within Israel and outside of Israel. Consequently, the United States designated it as a terrorist group in 1987, though a presidential waiver has permitted American-PLO contact since 1988. Mediated talks between the Israeli government and the PLO in 1993 (the Oslo I Accord) resulted in the PLO recognizing Israel's right to exist in peace and accepting United Nations Security Council Resolution 242, while Israel recognized the PLO as a legitimate authority representing the Palestinian people. Despite the Israel-PLO Letters of Mutual Recognition, in which PLO leader Yasser Arafat renounced "terrorism and other acts of violence" against Israel, the PLO continued to engage in militant activities, particularly during the Second Intifada (2000-2005). On October 29, 2018, the PLO Central Council suspended the Palestinian recognition of Israel, and subsequently halted all forms of security and economic cooperation with Israeli authorities until Israel recognizes a Palestinian state on the pre-1967 borders. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/terror-the-israelipalestinian-conflict-dvd-mp4-video-downloa4.html
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May 29, 1982: The British Empire: The Falkland Islands (Spanish: Islas Malvinas): The Falkland Islands Sovereignty Dispute: The Falklands War (Spanish: Guerra De Las Malvinas): The Battle Of Goose Green (Spanish: Batalla De Pradera Del Ganso): -- The Battle Of Goose Green begins, an engagement between British and Argentine forces on May 28-29, 1982 during the Falklands War. Argentine forces were in a well-defended position, within striking distance of San Carlos Water, where the British task force had made its amphibious landing. The main body of the British assault force was the 2nd Battalion, Parachute Regiment (2 Para), commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel Herbert Jones. BBC radio broadcast news of the imminent attack on Goose Green. Knowing that this had likely forewarned the Argentinian defenders, the broadcast provoked immediate criticism from Jones and other British personnel. After the attack began in the early hours of May 28, 1982, the 2nd Parachute Battalion advance was stalled by fixed trenches with interlocking fields of fire. Jones was killed during a solo charge on an enemy machine-gun post. The Argentinian garrison agreed to a ceasefire and formally surrendered the following morning. As a result of their actions, both Jones and his successor as commanding officer of the 2nd Parachute Battalion, Major Chris Keeble, were awarded medals: Jones received a posthumous Victoria Cross and Keeble received the Distinguished Service Order. On the second and final day of the battle, British forces defeated the Argentines. Goose Green, the site of an airfield, and its neighbouring settlement Darwin on East Falkland lie on Choiseul Sound on the east side of the island's central isthmus. They are about 13 miles south of the site where the major British amphibious landings took place in San Carlos Water (Operation Sutton) on the night of May 21-22, 1982. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-falklands-war-the-untold-story-dvd-2-part-tv-serie2.html
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May 28, 1982: The Falklands War: #DOTD: #RIP: H. Jones, English Lieutenant Colonel, posthumous Victoria Cross recipient (b. May 14, 1940) #dies, killed in action during the Battle Of Goose Green. He is buried at Blue Beach Military Cemetery at San Carlos, Faukland Islands. H. Jones was born Herbert Jones in Putney, a district of South London, England, in the London Borough of Wandsworth, five miles (eight kilometres) southwest of Charing Cross. He was awarded the VC for his actions as commanding officer of the 2nd Battalion, Parachute Regiment, during the Falklands War. His VC citation reads: "On 28th May 1982 Lieutenant Colonel Jones was commanding 2nd Battalion The Parachute Regiment on operations on the Falkland Islands. The Battalion was ordered to attack enemy positions in and around the settlements of Darwin and Goose Green. During the attack against an enemy who was well dug in with mutually supporting positions sited in depth, the Battalion was held up just South of Darwin by a particularly well-prepared and resilient enemy position of at least eleven trenches on an important ridge. A number of casualties were received. In order to read the battle fully and to ensure that the momentum of his attack was not lost, Colonel Jones took forward his reconnaissance party to the foot of a re-entrant which a section of his Battalion had just secured. Despite persistent, heavy and accurate fire the reconnaissance party gained the top of the re-entrant, at approximately the same height as the enemy positions. From here Colonel Jones encouraged the direction of his Battalion mortar fire, in an effort to neutralise the enemy positions. However, these had been well prepared and continued to pour effective fire onto the Battalion advance, which, by now held up for over an hour and under increasingly heavy artillery fire, was in danger of faltering. In his effort to gain a good viewpoint, Colonel Jones was now at the very front of his Battalion. It was clear to him that desperate measures were needed in order to overcome the enemy position and rekindle the attack, and that unless these measures were taken promptly the Battalion would sustain increasing casualties and the attack perhaps even fail. It was time for personal leadership and action. Colonel Jones immediately seized a sub-machine gun, and, calling on those around him and with total disregard for his own safety, charged the nearest enemy position. This action exposed him to fire from a number of trenches. As he charged up a short slope at the enemy position he was seen to fall and roll backward downhill. He immediately picked himself up, and again charged the enemy trench, firing his sub-machine gun and seemingly oblivious to the intense fire directed at him. He was hit by fire from another trench which he outflanked, and fell dying only a few feet from the enemy he had assaulted. A short time later a company of the Battalion attacked the enemy, who quickly surrendered. The display of courage by Colonel Jones had completely undermined their will to fight further. Thereafter the momentum of the attack was rapidly regained, Darwin and Goose Green were liberated, and the Battalion released the local inhabitants unharmed and forced the surrender of some 1,200 of the enemy. The achievements of 2nd Battalion The Parachute Regiment at Darwin and Goose Green set the tone for the subsequent land victory on the Falklands. The British achieved such a moral superiority over the enemy in this first battle that, despite the advantages of numbers and selection of battle-ground, the Argentinian troops never thereafter doubted either the superior fighting qualities of the British troops, nor their own inevitable defeat. This was an action of the utmost gallantry by a Commanding Officer whose dashing leadership and courage throughout the battle were an inspiration to all about him." His Victoria Cross is displayed at the National Army Museum in Chelsea, London. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-falklands-war-1992-93-3-part-docuseries-2-mp4s-or-2-dvds-set.html
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May 28, 1987: The Aftermath Of World War II: The Cold War: The Dissolution Of The Soviet Union: The Revolutions Of 1989 (The Fall Of Nations, The Autumn Of Nations, The Fall Of Communism): Mathias Rust's Aircraft Landing In Red Square: -- A West German pilot, Mathias Rust, who was 18 years old, evades Soviet Union air defenses and lands his Cessna airplane into Red Square in the Red Square in Moscow, Russia. He is immediately detained and released on August 3, 1988. Rust flew from Helsinki, Finland, to Moscow, being tracked several times by Soviet air defence and interceptor aircraft. The Soviet fighters did not receive permission to shoot him down, and his aeroplane was mistaken for a friendly aircraft several times. He landed on Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge, next to Red Square near the Kremlin in the capital of the Soviet Union. Rust said he wanted to create an "imaginary bridge" to the East, and that his flight was intended to reduce tension and suspicion between the two Cold War sides. Rust's flight through a supposedly impenetrable air defence system had a great effect on the Soviet military and led to the dismissal of many senior officers, including Minister of Defence Marshal of the Soviet Union Sergei Sokolov and the Commander-in-Chief of the Soviet Air Defence Forces, former World War II fighter ace pilot Chief Marshal Alexander Koldunov. The incident aided Mikhail Gorbachev in the implementation of his reforms, by allowing him to dismiss numerous military officials opposed to his policies. On September 2, 1987, Rust, then 19 years old, went on trial in Moscow. Rust was sentenced to four years in prison for violation of border crossing and air traffic regulations, and for provoking an emergency situation upon his landing. After 14 months in prison, he was pardoned by Andrei Gromyko, the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, and released. Rust's return to Germany on August 3, 1988 was accompanied by huge media attention, but he did not talk to the assembled journalists; his family had sold the exclusive rights to the story to the German magazine Stern for DM100,000. He reported that he had been treated well in the Soviet prison. Journalists described him as "psychologically unstable and unworldly in a dangerous manner". William E. Odom, former director of the U.S. National Security Agency and author of The Collapse of the Soviet Military, says that Rust's flight irreparably damaged the reputation of the Soviet military. This enabled Gorbachev to remove many of the strongest opponents to his reforms. Minister of Defence Sergei Sokolov and the head of the Soviet Air Defence Forces Alexander Koldunov were dismissed along with hundreds of other officers. This was the biggest turnover in the Soviet military since Stalin's purges 50 years earlier. Rust's rented Reims Cessna F172P (serial #F17202087), registered D-ECJB, was sold to Japan where it was exhibited for several years. In 2008 it was returned to Germany and was placed in the Deutsches Technikmuseum in Berlin. His later life has been turbulent. While doing his obligatory community service (Zivildienst) in a West German hospital in 1989, Rust stabbed a female co-worker who had rejected him. The victim barely survived. He was convicted for injuring her and sentenced to two and a half years in prison, but was released after 15 months. Since then he has lived a fragmented life, describing himself as a "bit of an oddball". After being released from court, he converted to Hinduism in 1996 to become engaged to a daughter of an Indian tea merchant. In 2001, he was convicted of stealing a cashmere pullover and ordered to pay a fine of DM10,000, which was later reduced to DM600.A further brush with the law came in 2005, when he was convicted of fraud and had to pay 1,500 EU for stolen goods. In 2009 Rust described himself as a professional poker player. In 2012, he described himself as an analyst at a Zurich-based investment bank. In October 2015, The Hindu published an interview with Mathias Rust to mark the 25th anniversary of German reunification. Mathias Rust surmised that institutional failures in Western countries to preserve moral standards and uphold the primacy of democratic ideals was creating mistrust between peoples and governments. Pointing to the genesis of a New Cold War between Russia and the Western powers, Mathias Rust suggested that India should tread with caution and avoid entanglement: "India will be better served if it follows a policy of neutrality while interacting with EU member countries as the big European powers at present are following the foreign policy of the U.S. unquestioningly". He claimed: "Governments have been dominated by the corporate entities and citizens have ceased to matter in public policy". Because Rust's flight seemed like a blow to the authority of the Soviet regime, it was the source of numerous jokes and urban legends. For a while after the incident, Red Square was jokingly referred to by Muscovites as Sheremetyevo-3 (Sheremetyevo-1 and -2 being the two terminals at Moscow's main international airport). At the end of 1987, the police radio code used by law enforcement officers in Moscow was allegedly updated to include a code for an aircraft landing. 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May 28-30, 1990: The Aftermath Of World War II: The Cold War: The Origins Of The Gulf War (The Persian Gulf War, Gulf War I): Events Leading To The Gulf War: The Arab League: The 1990 Arab League Summit (The Emergency Arab Summit Conference): -- An extraordinary summit of The Arab League convenes in the Iraqi capital of Iraq. Held about two months before Iraq invaded Kuwait, it was called for by Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, where he met wtih Emir of Kuwait Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah. At the conference, Saddam Hussein said that oil overproduction by Kuwait and United Arab Emirates was "economic warfare" against Iraq by exceeding its OPEC quotas for oil production. In order for the cartel to maintain its desired price of 18USD per barrel, discipline was required. The United Arab Emirates and Kuwait were consistently overproducing; the latter at least in part to repair losses caused by Iranian attacks in the Iran-Iraq War and to pay for the losses of an economic scandal. The result was a slump in the oil price - as low as 10USD per barrel - with a resulting loss of 7B ISD a year to Iraq, equal to its 1989 balance of payments deficit. Resulting revenues struggled to support the government's basic costs, let alone repair Iraq's damaged infrastructure. Jordan and Iraq both looked for more discipline, with little success. The Iraqi government described it as a form of economic warfare, which it claimed was aggravated by Kuwait slant-drilling across the border into Iraq's Rumaila oil field. According to oil workers in the area, Iraq's slant drilling claim was fabricated, as "oil flows easily from the Rumaila field without any need for these techniques." At the same time, Saddam looked for closer ties with those Arab states that had supported Iraq in the war. This move was supported by the US, who believed that Iraqi ties with pro-Western Gulf states would help bring and maintain Iraq inside the US' sphere of influence. The conference also warned of the wave of Jewish immigration from the Soviet Union as a result of its being on the verge of disintegration, which immigration was considered a threat to Arab national security and the rights of the Palestinians. Syria and Lebanon were absent from the conference. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-gulf-crisis-the-road-to-war-tv-documentary-series-dvd-mp4-us4.html
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May 28, 1999: Aesthetics: Art: Art History: The Visual Arts: Painting: Paintings Of The Last Supper: The High Renaissance: Paintings By Leonardo Da Vinci: The Last Supper By Leonardo Da Vinci: -- After 22 years of restoration work, Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece The Last Supper is put back on display in Milan, Italy on the anniversary of the 1369 birth of Muzio Sforza, founder of the Milanese House Of Sforza dynasty and grandfather of Leonardo's patron for The Last Supper, Ludovico Sforza. The Last Supper (Italian: Il Cenacolo or L'Ultima Cena) is a mural painting by the Italian High Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci, dated to c. 1495-1498. The painting represents the scene of the Last Supper of Jesus with the Twelve Apostles, as it is told in the Gospel of John - specifically the moment after Jesus announces that one of his apostles will betray him. Its handling of space, mastery of perspective, treatment of motion and complex display of human emotion has made it one of the Western world's most recognizable paintings and among Leonardo's most celebrated works. Some commentators consider it pivotal in inaugurating the transition into what is now termed the High Renaissance. The work was commissioned as part of a plan of renovations to the church and its convent buildings by Leonardo's patron Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan. In order to permit his inconsistent painting schedule and frequent revisions, it is painted with materials that allowed for regular alterations: tempera on gesso, pitch, and mastic. Due to the methods used, a variety of environmental factors, and intentional damage, little of the original painting remains today despite numerous restoration attempts, the last being completed in 1999. Housed in the refectory of the Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan, Italy, The Last Supper is his largest work, aside from the Sala delle Asse. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/leonardo-da-vinci-documentary-dvd-mp4-video-download-usb-flash-driv4.html
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May 28, 2002: The War On Terror (The Global War On Terrorism [GWOT]): The September 11 Attacks (9/11): The World Trade Center Site (Ground Zero, The Pile): -- The last steel girder is removed from the original World Trade Center site. Cleanup duties officially end with closing ceremonies at Ground Zero in Manhattan, New York City. The World Trade Center Site is a 14.6-acre area in Lower Manhattan in New York City bounded by Vesey Street to the north, the West Side Highway to the west, Liberty Street to the south, and Church Street to the east. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PANYNJ) owns the site's land (except for 7 World Trade Center). The original World Trade Center complex stood on the site until it was destroyed in the September 11 Attacks. The Port Authority, Silverstein Properties, and the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation (LMDC) have overseen the reconstruction of the site as part of the new World Trade Center, following a master plan by Studio Daniel Libeskind. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/september-11th-attacks-mp3s-mpgs-jpgs-cd-usb-dr113.html
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May 28: National Multiple Births Awareness Day: -- Looking for double, or even triple, the reason to get involved with celebrating this day? Then look no further than . It's a great time to get involved and connect with others who are parents, friends or family members of multiple birth children, whether twins, triplets, or more! Founded in 2005 by a non-profit organization called Multiple Births Canada (MBC), National Multiple Births Awareness Day (NMBAD) has been going strong for around two decades. The inaugural event was scheduled to take place on May 28 in honor of the Dionne Quintuplets, who were born in 1934. At the time, the successful birth and survival of the Dionne Quints, five identical, and premature infants, was unprecedented. The event garnered a great deal of attention to their village of Corbeil, Ontario in Canada and caused some challenging issues for the family. But even through a great deal of trials and with the odds stacked against them, all five of the girls, Yvonne, Annette, Cecile, Emilie and Marie, lived to adulthood. In a nod to this fascinating story, the first NMBAD events took place at the Dionne Quints Museum, located in North Bay, Ontario. survive infancy. All five of the identical girls survived to adulthood. After four months with their family, custody was signed over to the Red Cross who paid for their care and oversaw the building of a hospital for the sisters. Less than a year after this agreement was signed, the Ontario Government stepped in and passed the Dionne Quintuplets' Guardianship Act, 1935 which made them Wards of the Crown until the age of 18. The Ontario provincial government and those around them began to profit by making them a significant tourist attraction. While the parents claimed that they wished to integrate the quintuplets into the family, the sisters frequently travelled to perform at various functions, and still dressed identically. According to the accounts of the surviving sisters, the parents often treated them at home as a five-part unit, and frequently lectured them about the trouble they had caused the family by existing. They were sometimes denied privileges the other children received, and were more strictly disciplined and punished. They also received a heavier share of the housework and farmwork. They were unaware for many years that the lavish house, the expensive food and the series of cars the family enjoyed were paid for with money they themselves had earned. In particular, Oliva Dionne was resentful and suspicious of outsiders as a result of his having lost custody of the girls. In 1995, the three surviving sisters alleged that their father had sexually abused them during their teenaged years. The quintuplets left the family home upon turning 18 years old in 1952 and had little contact with their parents afterwards. The identical quintuplet girls were, in order of birth: Yvonne Edouilda Marie Dionne (died 2001); Annette Lillianne Marie Allard (living as of 2020); Cecile Marie Emilda Langlois (living as of 2020); Emilie Marie Jeanne Dionne (died 1954); and Marie Reine Alma Houle (died 1970). https://store.earthstation1.com/complete-warnerpathe-newsreels-collection-2-dual-layer-dvd-se2.html
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May 28: -- Menstrual Hygiene Day: -- Many women do not have access to feminine hygiene products, which can lead to shame and even dropping out of school. Menstrual Hygiene Day focuses on the importance of proper menstrual hygiene management. This day aims to break taboos and spread awareness about menstrual health and hygiene around the world. It was first observed in 2014, and the German-based NGO WASH United initiated it. The date, May 28, reflects the average length of the menstrual cycle and the menstruation period??. The day is crucial because over 500 million women and girls globally lack proper access to menstrual hygiene facilities. This lack of access affects their health, education, and overall well-being. Menstrual hygiene is about more than just access to sanitary products. It includes having clean and safe spaces to change, the ability to wash with soap and water, and hygienically disposing of used menstrual products. Importantly, it also involves education on menstruation to manage it with dignity and without discomfort or fear. Honoring Menstrual Hygiene Day helps address the multi-dimensional issues related to menstruation. These include inadequate sanitary facilities, lack of access to affordable menstrual products, and cultural taboos that lead to stigma and discrimination. Through education and raising awareness, the day contributes to reducing the negative impact of poor menstrual health and hygiene on girls' and women's education, health, and overall life chances. It's a call to action for improvements in policy, facilities, and societal attitudes towards menstruation. Menstrual Hygiene Day has a quirky and impactful history. It's about turning the tide on period stigma and making menstrual care accessible to everyone, everywhere. Kicked off by the go-getter NGO WASH United in 2013, this day quickly made its mark by starting a global conversation about periods. The choice of May 28 for its annual celebration wasn't random; it cleverly mirrors the average menstrual cycle of 28 days and the five days of menstruation, aligning with May being the fifth month. It's like they wrapped the whole menstrual experience into one date! The purpose of the day is to break taboos and spread the word that menstruation is normal and should be stigma-free. The aim is to ensure everyone can manage their menstruation safely, hygienically, and without shame by 2030. The movement has grown massively, with over 970 partners worldwide working on providing access to quality menstrual products. They educate people about menstruation, change negative social norms, and push for policy changes, like reducing taxes on period products. The global reach and impact of Menstrual Hygiene Day are nothing short of amazing. What started with reaching over 20 million people in its first year has ballooned to touching nearly 700 million lives by 2022. That's a lot of conversations and changed attitudes about menstruation! Changes are happening, with various countries implementing policies to make menstrual products freely available in schools and workplaces and even incorporating menstrual education into school curriculums. https://store.earthstation1.com/classic-sex-education-films-dvd.html
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May 28, 1843: #DOTD: #RIP: Noah Webster, known as "The Father Of American Scholarship And Education", American lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English-language spelling reformer, political writer, editor, and author (b. October 16, 1758) #dies in New Haven, Connecticuit aged 84 while working on a second volume of his dictionary, and the rights to the dictionary were acquired by George and Charles Merriam. He is buried at Grove St Cemetery in New Haven. Noah Webster was born Noah Webster Jr. in the Western Division of Hartford (which became West Hartford, Connecticut) to an established family. Dictionary Day on October 16 celebrates his birth and for his publishing the first dictionary in 1806, which he continued to compile and expand for the next 27 years. When his dictionary was published in 1828, it was a formidable resource packed with useful words and spelling updates. His birthplace is the Noah Webster House which highlights Webster's life and is the headquarters of the West Hartford Historical Society. His father Noah Webster Sr. (1722-1813) was a descendant of Connecticut Governor John Webster; his mother Mercy (Steele) Webster (1727-1794) was a descendant of Governor William Bradford of Plymouth Colony. His father was primarily a farmer, though he was also deacon of the local Congregational church, captain of the town's militia, and a founder of a local book society (a precursor to the public library). After American independence, he was appointed a justice of the peace. Noah Webster Jr.'s "Blue-backed Speller" books taught five generations of American children how to spell and read. Webster's name has become synonymous with "dictionary" in the United States, especially the modern Merriam-Webster dictionary that was first published in 1828 as An American Dictionary of the English Language. Born in West Hartford, Connecticut, Webster graduated from Yale College in 1778. He passed the bar examination after studying law under Oliver Ellsworth and others, but was unable to find work as a lawyer. He found some financial success by opening a private school and writing a series of educational books, including the "Blue-Backed Speller". A strong supporter of the American Revolution and the ratification of the United States Constitution, Webster later criticized American society as being in need of an intellectual foundation. He believed that American nationalism was superior to Europe because American values were superior. In 1793, Alexander Hamilton recruited Webster to move to New York City and become an editor for a Federalist Party newspaper, The American Minerva, New York City's first daily newspaper. He became a prolific author, publishing newspaper articles, political essays, and textbooks. He returned to Connecticut in 1798 and served in the Connecticut House of Representatives. Webster founded the Connecticut Society for the Abolition of Slavery in 1791 but later became somewhat disillusioned with the abolitionist movement. In 1806, Webster published his first dictionary, A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language. The following year, he started working on an expanded and comprehensive dictionary, finally publishing it in 1828. He was very influential in popularizing certain spellings in the United States. He was also influential in establishing the Copyright Act of 1831, the first major statutory revision of U.S. copyright law. https://store.earthstation1.com/the-american-adventure-series-us-1st-century-4-dv14.html
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May 28, 1754: The Anglo-French Wars (1109-1815): The Second Hundred Years' War (1689-1815): The Sixty Years' War (French: Guerre De Soixante Ans) (1754-1815): The Seven Years' War (1756-1763): The French And Indian War: The Battle Of Jumonville Glen (The Jumonville Affair): -- In the first engagement of the war, the Virginia militia, under the command of the 22-year-old Lieutenant Colonel George Washington, defeats a French reconnaissance party in the Battle Of Jumonville Glen near present-day Hopwood and Uniontown in what is now Fayette County in southwestern Pennsylvania. A company of colonial militia from Virginia under the command of Lieutenant Colonel George Washington, and a small number of Mingo warriors led by the chieftain Tanacharison (also known as the "Half King"), ambushed a force of 35 Canadiens under the command of Joseph Coulon de Villiers de Jumonville. A larger French Canadien force had driven off a small crew attempting to construct a British fort under the auspices of the Ohio Company at present-day Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, land claimed by the French. A British colonial force led by George Washington was sent to protect the fort under construction. The French Canadiens sent Jumonville to warn Washington about encroaching on French-claimed territory. Washington was alerted to Jumonville's presence by Tanacharison, and they joined forces to ambush the Canadien camp. Washington's force killed Jumonville and some of his men in the ambush, and captured most of the others. The exact circumstances of Jumonville's death are a subject of historical controversy and debate. Since Britain and France were not then at war, the event had international repercussions, and was a contributing factor in the start of the Seven Years' War in 1756. After the action, Washington retreated to Fort Necessity, where Canadien forces from Fort Duquesne compelled his surrender. The terms of Washington's surrender included a statement (written in French, a language Washington did not read) admitting that Jumonville was assassinated. This document and others were used by the French and Canadiens to level accusations that Washington had ordered Jumonville's slaying. https://store.earthstation1.com/meet-george-washington-the-man-behind-myth-dvd-mp4-us4.html
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May 28, 1779: #BOTD: Thomas Moore, also known as Tom Moore, Irish poet and composer (d. February 25, 1852) is #born in Dublin, Ireland. Lord Byron gave Moore his memoirs with instructions to publish them after his death as a literary executor. However, at the behest of Byron' family, who thought the memoirs scandalous, Moore was responsible, with John Murray, for burning them after Byron's death. Some "friend" :/ . Thomas Moore died at Sloperton Cottage, Bromham, Wiltshire, England aged 72, having gone senile in December, 1849. He is buried in St. Nicholas churchyard, Bromham,Wiltshire, England, within view of his cottage home, beside his daughter Anastasia (who had died aged 17). His own literary executor, Lord John Russell, the Whig leader who just four days before Moore's death had ended his first term as Prime Minister. Russell dutifully published Moore's papers in accordance with his late friend's wishes, unlike how Moore had published his friend Byron's papers. The Memoirs, Journal, and Correspondence of Thomas Moore appeared in eight volumes, published between 1853 and 1856. https://store.earthstation1.com/the-bad-lord-byron-19491949.html
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May 28, 1908: #BOTD: #HBD! Ian Fleming, English author, journalist and naval intelligence officer who is best known for his James Bond series of spy novels (d. August 12, 1964) is #born Ian Lancaster Fleming at 27 Green Street in the wealthy London district of Mayfair into the wealthy family connected to the merchant bank Robert Fleming & Co.; his father was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Henley from 1910 until his death on the Western Front in 1917, and his mother Evelyn "Eve" (nee Rose) Fleming, an English socialite known for her flamboyant beauty. Educated at Eton, Sandhurst and, briefly, the universities of Munich and Geneva, Fleming moved through several jobs before he started writing. While working for Britain's Naval Intelligence Division during the Second World War, Fleming was involved as the master planner of Operation Goldeneye, an the Allied plan to monitor Spain after a possible alliance between Francisco Franco and the Axis powers, and to undertake sabotage operations. He was also responsible for the planning and oversight of two intelligence units, 30 Assault Unit (also known as No. 30 Commando, a British Commando unit during the Second World War, originally formed to gather intelligence) and T-Force (the operational arm of a joint US Army-British Army mission to secure designated German scientific and industrial technology targets before they could be destroyed by retreating enemy forces or looters during the final stages of World War II and its immediate aftermath). His wartime service and his career as a journalist provided much of the background, detail and depth of the James Bond novels. Fleming wrote his first Bond novel, Casino Royale, in 1952. It was a success, with three print runs being commissioned to cope with the demand. Eleven Bond novels and two collections of short stories followed between 1953 and 1966. The novels revolved around James Bond, an officer in the Secret Intelligence Service, commonly known as MI6. Bond was also known by his code number, 007, and was a commander in the Royal Naval Reserve. The Bond stories rank among the best-selling series of fictional books of all time, having sold over 100 million copies worldwide. Fleming also wrote the children's story Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang and two works of non-fiction. In 2008, The Times ranked Fleming 14th on its list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". Fleming was married to Ann Charteris, who was divorced from the second Viscount Rothermere because of her affair with the author. Fleming's last two books, The Man with the Golden Gun and Octopussy and The Living Daylights, were published posthumously. The Man with the Golden Gun was published eight months after Fleming's death and had not been through the full editing process by Fleming. As a result, the novel was thought by publishing company Jonathan Cape to be thin and "feeble". The publishers had passed the manuscript to Kingsley Amis to read on holiday, but did not use his suggestions. Fleming's biographer Henry Chandler observes that the novel "received polite and rather sad reviews, recognising that the book had effectively been left half-finished, and as such did not represent Fleming at the top of his game". The final Bond book, containing two short stories, Octopussy and The Living Daylights, was published in Britain on June 23, 1966. Other writers have since produced Bond novels. Fleming's creation has appeared in film twenty-six times, portrayed by seven actors. Ian Fleming died in the early morning at age 56 on his son Caspar's 12th birthday at Kent And Canterbury Hospital in Canterbury, Kent, England. His last recorded words were an apology to the ambulance drivers for having inconvenienced them, saying "I am sorry to trouble you chaps. I don't know how you get along so fast with the traffic on the roads these days." Fleming was a heavy smoker and drinker throughout his adult life, and suffered from heart disease. In 1961, aged 53, he suffered a heart attack and struggled to recuperate. On August 11, 1964, while staying at a hotel in Canterbury, Fleming went to the Royal St George's Golf Club for lunch and later dined at his hotel with friends. The day had been tiring for him, and he collapsed with another heart attack shortly after the meal. Fleming is buried in the churchyard of Sevenhampton, near Swindon. His will was proved on 4 November, with his estate valued at 302,147 PS (equivalent to 6,513,997 PS / 8,077,356 USD in 2021). In October 1975 Fleming's son Caspar, aged 23, killed himself by drug overdosem and was buried with his father. Fleming's widow, British socialite Ann Geraldine Mary Fleming (nee Charteris, June 19, 1913 - July 12, 1981), previously known as Lady O'Neill and Viscountess Rothermere, is buried with her husband and their son. https://store.earthstation1.com/we-dive-at-dawn-dvd-1943-john-mills-wwii-uk-submar1943.html
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May 28, 2010: #DOTD: #RIP: Gary Coleman, African American actor and comedian regarded as one of the greatest child actors of all time, and was the highest-paid adolescent on television throughout the late 1970s and 1980s, rated first on a list of VH1's "100 Greatest Kid Stars" (b. February 8, 1968) #dies at Utah Valley Regional Medical Center in Provo, Utah, aged 42. He had been admitted two days earlier after falling down the stairs at his home in Santaquin and striking his head, resulting in an epidural hematoma (bleeding between the tough outer membrane covering the brain (dura mater) and the skull). His remains were cremated; the disposition of Coleman's ashes remains unknown. His partner Shannon Price said that had she been granted disposition, she would have scattered the ashes at the Golden Spike National Historic Site in Utah as a tribute to Coleman's lifelong love of trains. Gary Coleman was born Gary Wayne Coleman in Zion, Illinois, on February 8, 1968. He was adopted by W. G. Coleman, a fork-lift operator, and Edmonia Sue, a nurse practitioner. Due to the kidney disease focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (scarring of the kidneys), and the corticosteroids and other medications used to treat it, his growth was limited to 4 ft 8 in (142 cm), and his face kept a childlike appearance even into adulthood. He underwent two unsuccessful kidney transplants in 1973 and again in 1984, and required dialysis. Coleman was known for playing the role of Arnold Jackson in the sitcom Diff'rent Strokes (1978-1986), which he reprised in numerous other television series such as Hello, Larry (1979), The Facts of Life (1979-1980) and The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1996), among others. For playing the role of Arnold, he received several accolades, which include two Young Artist Awards; in 1980 for Outstanding Contribution to Youth Through Entertainment and in 1982 for Best Young Actor in a Comedy Series; and three People's Choice Awards; a consecutive three wins for Favorite Young TV Performer from 1980 to 1983; as well as nominations for two TV Land Awards. Coleman's stardom resulted in several roles thereafter, including his film debut On the Right Track (1981), the comedies Jimmy the Kid and The Kid with the Broken Halo (both released in 1982), the cult film Dirty Work (1998), and the satirical-comedy film An American Carol (2008) and the independent film Midgets vs. Mascots (2009). He was the star of The Gary Coleman Show (1982) where he voiced Andy LeBeau, and he additionally provided the voice of Kevin in the animated show Waynehead (1996-1997). He also starred in the video games The Curse of Monkey Island (1997) and did some voice acting and motion capture for Postal 2 (2003). Coleman struggled financially in later life; in 1989, he successfully sued his parents and business adviser over misappropriation of his assets, only to declare bankruptcy a decade later. Very few details of Coleman's medical history have been made public, although his battles with issues such as growth deficiency, substance abuse, and depression during his life earned significant media coverage. https://store.earthstation1.com/color-adjustment-40-years-of-black-americans-on-tv-dvd-download-u40.html
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May 28, 1972: #DOTD: #RIP: Hound Dog Lorenz, rock 'n' radio disc jockey, particularly popular in the American northeast during the 1950s and 1960s, known for his catch phrase "The Hound's Around" (b. October 22, 1919) #dies in his sleep at his home in Baitz Avenue in Buffalo, New York, aged 62. His burial details are not known. Hound Dog Lorenz s born George Lorenz to Fredrick and Lillian Lorenz. In the mid to late 1940s, George Hound Dog Lorenz started his career at WXRA in Buffalo. On January 24, 1948, the same day his daughter was #born, George Lorenz would start at WJJL in Niagara Falls, NY where he had a morning show. He was known at this time as Ol Man Lorenz. At the same time he promoted a country western show in Tonawanda, NY. George was a big fan of Hank Williams Senior. In 1951, after a few years at WJJL, George Lorenz would become known as the Hound Dog. The nickname had it roots in a 1940s expression doggin around. While at WJJL, George Hound Dog Lorenz was also on the air in Cleveland, OH from 1953 to 1955. During this time, Rock 'n' Roll was born. In 1955, The Hound joined WKBW in Buffalo, NY. WKBW would propel the Hound even further. A powerful station, WKBW was heard in 20 states and Canada. The Eastern Seaboard was rocking to the sounds the Hound played. His fan club grew to record numbers at this time. During his time a WKBW he would also begin to syndicate his show. Until 1958, George Lorenz called WKBW home. In July 1958, WKBW would change to a top 40 format. Before the change over, The Hound left the station. He felt top 40 "is hurting the record industry, is lowering radio listening, and is decreasing a new artists chance to make it" (Billboard Magazine). The Hound found himself at WINE in Williamsville, NY (just outside Buffalo) until 1960. After WINE, he started World Wide Programming, where he continued to syndicate the Hound Dog Show. In 1962, George applied for the last FM frequency in the Buffalo market, 93.7 FM. On December 10, 1964, WBLK 93.7 FM went on the air, and the Hound Dog had his own radio station. Around this time, he also created a industry paper called Behind the Scenes. He operated the station until he passed away. https://store.earthstation1.com/dj-radio-airchecks-mp3-dvd-1950s60s70s-dis319506070.html
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May 28, 1981: #DOTD: #RIP: Mary Lou Williams, African American jazz pianist, arranger, and composer known as "The First Lady Of The Jazz Keyboard", one of the first women to be successful in jazz (b. May 8, 1910) #dies of bladder cancer in Durham, North Carolina at the age of 71. Dizzy Gillespie, Benny Goodman, and Andy Kirk attended her funeral at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola. She is buried in the Calvary Catholic Cemetery in Pittsburgh. Looking back at the end of her life, Mary Lou Williams said: "I did it, didn't I? Through muck and mud." Mary Lou Williams was born Mary Elfrieda Scruggs in Atlanta, Georgia. She wrote hundreds of compositions and arrangements, and recorded more than one hundred records in 78, 45, and LP versions. Williams wrote and arranged for Andy Kirk, Duke Ellington and Benny Goodman, and she was friend, mentor, and teacher to Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Tadd Dameron, Bud Powell, and Dizzy Gillespie. https://store.earthstation1.com/mary-lou-williams-music-on-my-mind-dvd-documentary.html
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May 28, 1944: #BOTD: #HBD! Gladys Knight, African American singer, songwriter, actress, businesswoman and author known as "The Empress Of Soul" is #born Gladys Maria Knight in Atlanta, Georgia. A seven-time Grammy Award-winner (four as a solo artist and three with the Pips), Knight is known for the hits she recorded during the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s with her group The Pips, which also included her brother Merald "Bubba" Knight and cousins William Guest and Edward Patten. Knight has recorded two number-one Billboard Hot 100 singles ("Midnight Train to Georgia" and "That's What Friends Are For"), eleven number-one R & B singles and six number-one R & B albums. She is an inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Vocal Group Hall of Fame along with The Pips. Two of her songs ("I Heard It Through the Grapevine" and "Midnight Train to Georgia") were inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame for "historical, artistic and significant" value. She also recorded the theme song for the 1989 James Bond film Licence to Kill. Rolling Stone magazine ranked Knight among the 100 Greatest Singers of All Time. https://store.earthstation1.com/wabc-musicradio-shows-mp3-dvd-60s80s-am-360807775.html
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May 28, 1936: #BOTD: #HBD! Dr. Betty Shabazz, also known as Betty X, Black American educator and civil rights advocate and activist, wife of Malcolm X (d. June 23, 1997) is #born Betty Dean Sanders; throughout her life, she maintained that she had been born in Detroit, Michigan, but early records, such as her high-school and college transcripts, show Pinehurst, Georgia, as her place of birth. Authorities in Georgia and Michigan have not been able to locate her birth certificate. Shabazz grew up in Detroit, Michigan, where her foster parents largely sheltered her from racism. She attended the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, where she had her first encounters with racism. Unhappy with the situation in Alabama, she moved to New York City, where she became a nurse. It was there that she met Malcolm X and, in 1956, joined the Nation of Islam. The couple married in 1958. Along with her husband, Shabazz left the Nation Of Islam in 1964. She witnessed his assassination the following year. Left with the responsibility of raising six daughters as a widow, Shabazz pursued higher education, and went to work at Medgar Evers College in Brooklyn, New York. Betty Shabazz died as a result of the fire set in Shabazz's apartment by her 12-year-old grandson Malcolm Shabazz, the son of her second daughter Qubilah, on June 1, 1997. Shabazz suffered burns over 80 percent of her body, and remained in intensive care for three weeks, at Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx, New York. She underwent five skin-replacement operations as doctors struggled to replace damaged skin and save her life, but Shabazz ultimately died of her injuries. She is buried with her husband at Ferncliff Cemetery and Mausoleum in Hartsdale, New York. Following the 1995 arrest of Qubilah for allegedly conspiring to murder Louis Farrakhan, Shabazz took in her ten-year-old disturbed child Malcolm. The police found him wandering the streets, barefoot and reeking of gasoline. At a hearing, experts described Malcolm as psychotic and schizophrenic; he was also described as "brilliant but disturbed." Malcolm Shabazz was sentenced to 18 months in juvenile detention for manslaughter and arson. https://store.earthstation1.com/malcolm-x-make-it-plain-biography-documentary-dvd-download-usb-drive.html
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May 28, 2014: #DOTD: #RIP: Maya Angelou, African American poet, memoirist, playwright, screenwriter, and civil rights activist (b. April 4, 1928) #dies in the morning of natural causes in Winston-Salem, North Carolina after years of heart ailments at the age of 86. She was found by her nurse. Although Angelou had reportedly been in poor health and had canceled recent scheduled appearances, she was working on another book, an autobiography about her experiences with national and world leaders. During her memorial service at Wake Forest University, her son Guy Johnson stated that despite being in constant pain due to her dancing career and respiratory failure, she wrote four books during the last ten years of her life. He said, "She left this mortal plane with no loss of acuity and no loss in comprehension." Tributes to Angelou and condolences were paid by artists, entertainers, and world leaders, including Obama, whose sister was named after Angelou, and Bill Clinton. Harold Augenbraum, from the National Book Foundation, said that Angelou's "legacy is one that all writers and readers across the world can admire and aspire to." The week after Angelou's death, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings rose to number 1 on Amazon.com's bestseller list. On May 29, 2014, Mount Zion Baptist Church in Winston-Salem, of which Angelou was a member for 30 years, held a public memorial service to honor her. On June 7, a private memorial service was held at Wait Chapel on the campus of Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem. The memorial was shown live on local stations in the Winston-Salem/Triad area and streamed live on the university web site with speeches from her son, Oprah Winfrey, Michelle Obama, and Bill Clinton. On June 15, a memorial was held at Glide Memorial Church in San Francisco, where Angelou was a member for many years. Rev. Cecil Williams, Mayor Ed Lee, and former mayor Willie Brown spoke. Her remains were cremated, and the ashes scattered at Storm King Mountain, just off the Hudson River in New York. Maya Angelou was born Marguerite Annie Johnson in St. Louis, Missouri. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several books of poetry, and is credited with a list of plays, movies, and television shows spanning over 50 years. She received dozens of awards and more than 50 honorary degrees. Angelou is best known for her series of seven autobiographies, which focus on her childhood and early adult experiences. The first, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969), tells of her life up to the age of 17 and brought her international recognition and acclaim. She became a poet and writer after a string of odd jobs during her young adulthood. These included fry cook, pimp, prostitute, sex worker, nightclub performer, Porgy and Bess cast member, Southern Christian Leadership Conference coordinator, and correspondent in Egypt and Ghana during the decolonization of Africa. She was also an actress, writer, director, and producer of plays, movies, and public television programs. In 1982, she was named the first Reynolds Professor of American Studies at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. She was active in the Civil Rights Movement and worked with Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. Beginning in the 1990s, she made approximately 80 appearances a year on the lecture circuit, something she continued into her eighties. In 1993, Angelou recited her poem "On the Pulse of Morning" (1993) at the first inauguration of Bill Clinton, making her the first poet to make an inaugural recitation since Robert Frost at the inauguration of John F. Kennedy in 1961. With the publication of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Angelou publicly discussed aspects of her personal life. She was respected as a spokesperson for Black people and women, and her works have been considered a defense of Black culture. Her works are widely used in schools and universities worldwide, although attempts have been made to ban her books from some U.S. libraries. Angelou's most celebrated works have been labeled as autobiographical fiction, but many critics consider them to be autobiographies. She made a deliberate attempt to challenge the common structure of the autobiography by critiquing, changing and expanding the genre. Her books center on themes including racism, identity, family and travel. https://store.earthstation1.com/grde7padosem.html