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24 Sept 1945: Truman gets the Clifford-Elsey Report, detailing violations of post-war agreements with Soviets. Stating they violated peace agreements, stripped its people's rights & preparing for war in Eastern Europe. It informed the Truman Doctrine. #ad amzn.to/3PJgQ6i
24 Sept 1952: #American fast food restaurant #Kentucky Fried Chicken, aka KFC, opens its first franchise. It was opened in Salt Lake City, Utah. The company was founded on March 20, 1930. #restaurant #history #OTD #yum #ad amzn.to/3Uw5Qth
24 Sept 768: Pepin the Short, the first Carolingian king of the Franks, dies. He became king in 751 with the help of Pope Zachary. He deposed the last of the Merovingian kings, Childeric III. He is probably best known as the father of Charlemagne. #ad amzn.to/3KBbJAF
24 Sept 1991: American Theodor Seuss Geisel, aka Dr. #Seuss, famous children's author, dies of cancer at the age of 87 in La Jolla, California. #history #OTD #book #ad amzn.to/3coTrSq
24 Sept 1780: During the #American Revolution, American General Benedict #Arnold learns of British Major John #Andre’s capture and defects to the #British for whom he was working. Arnold had given Andre plans to West Point. #History #AmericanRevolution #ad amzn.to/361W77p
23 Sept 1215: Kublai Khan, who was a #Mongol Emperor and founded and ruled the #Yuan dynasty, is born in Mongolia. He was the fifth Great Khan. #History #OTD #ad amzn.to/3hTvkfK
23 Sept 63 BC: Rome's first emperor, Augustus Caesar, born Gaius Octavius Thurinus, is born in Rome. He reigned from 27BC-14AD. He initiated Pax Romana when #Rome was largely free from large-scale conflict for more than two centuries. #history #OTD #ad amzn.to/33QyqMv
23 Sept 1905: The #Karlstad Treaty is signed, peacefully dissolving the union of Norway and Sweden, ushering in an independent #Norway establishing the first Norwegian king, Haakon VII, since 1397. #History #OTD #ad amzn.to/346lNNN
23 Sept 1949: President #Truman announces the Soviet Union has detonated its first atomic bomb. The Soviets had exploded the bomb on Sept 3, but Truman refused to believe it since it was thought they were not that close to obtaining the technology. #ad amzn.to/3cmRbLk
23 Sept 1338: The first #naval conflict where #artillery is used occurs during the Battle of Arnemuiden, which is part of the Hundred Years' War. The #English ship Christopher had three #cannons and one handgun at its disposal. #History #OTD #ad amzn.to/2FRcb18
23 Sept 1940: Operation Menace begins during World War II as British, #Australian and Free French forces try but fail to take the strategic port of #Dakar in the colony of #French West #Africa held by #Vichy France. #history #WW2 #WWII #OTD #ad amzn.to/33UQCF3
23 Sept 1122: The Concordat of Worms goes into effect. An agreement between Pope Calixtus II and the Holy #Roman emperor Henry V, it settled the Investiture Controversy, which basically concerned the appointment of bishops by secular leaders. #OTD #ad amzn.to/3FYAF1l
23 Sept 1939: Austrian #neurologist Sigmund Freud, the father of Psychoanalysis, i.e.. treating a through a dialogue between the patient and psychoanalyst, dies at the age of 83 in London, England. #history #RIP #OTD #ad amzn.to/3CzATef
23 Sept 1930: American #singer-songwriter and #pianist Ray Charles is born in Albany, #Georgia as Ray Charles Robinson. He was blind from the age of seven. He died on June 10, 2004 in Beverly Hills, California at the age of 73. #RayCharles #music #OTD #ad amzn.to/3kJDpFx
23 Sept 1215: Kublai Khan, who was a #Mongol Emperor and founded and ruled the #Yuan dynasty, is born in Mongolia. He was the fifth Great Khan. #history #OTD #ad amzn.to/3hTvkfK
23 Sept 63 BC: Rome's first emperor, Augustus Caesar, born Gaius Octavius Thurinus, is born in Rome. He reigned from 27BC-14AD. He initiated Pax Romana when Rome was largely free from large-scale conflict for more than two centuries. #history #OTD #ad amzn.to/33QyqMv
23 Sept 1905: The #Karlstad Treaty is signed, peacefully dissolving the union of Norway and Sweden, ushering in an independent #Norway establishing the first Norwegian king, Haakon VII, since 1397. #history #ad amzn.to/346lNNN
22 Sept 1862: President Lincoln issues a preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, threatening to free all slaves in the Confederacy if they didn't rejoin the Union by Jan 1, 1863. It's partly issued in response to the heavy losses at Battle of Antietam. #ad amzn.to/48dvme1
22 Sept 1944: #Vichy French Admiral Jean-Pierre Esteva is arrested in Paris charged with multiple treasonous counts. He was the first arrest of many collaborators. After the armistice with Nazi Germany in 1940, he signed on with the Vichy government. #ad amzn.to/3UMO8UR
22 Sept 1882: German Field Marshal and war #criminal Wilhelm Keitel is born Helmscherode. German Empire. He served as Chief of the Armed Forces High Command in Germany during WWII. He would be convicted of war crimes and hanged on October 16th, 1946. #ad amzn.to/2S08MzH
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