Today In History

3 May 1945: Royal Air Force #Typhoons sink the former luxury liner SS Cap #Arcona in Neustadt Bay, Germany. Unknown to the #British pilots, 4,500 #Neuengamme concentration camp victims were on board. ~4,000 were killed. #WWII #History #OTD #ad amzn.to/3d37iNk

3 May 1937: American #author Margaret Mitchell wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her book Gone with the Wind. #History #PulitzerPrize #OTD #MargaretMitchell #ad amzn.to/3eaiStj

3 May 1915: Canadian Lieutenant Colonel, MD John McCrae writes the poem "In Flanders Fields". He wrote the #poem in the early days of the Second Battle of #Ypres in a memorial service to his friend #Lieutenant Alexis Helmer. #WWI #History #OTD #ad amzn.to/3aYQOoa

@_internalexile Nah.

@URDailyHistory Proper behaviour

3 May 1945: #Ireland Prime Minister Eamon de Valera formally offers condolences to the #German Minister in #Dublin after German dictator Adolf Hitler committed suicide on April 30. Even though it was in accordance with diplomatic protocol, it was controversial to say the least. #WWII #History #OTD #ad amzn.to/2Yr351Z

3 May 1946: The World War II war crimes’ trials begin for 28 #Japanese officials. The trial ends on November 4, 1948 with 25 of 28 officials found guilty. Seven were given death sentences, including General Hideki Tojo, who served as premier during the war. #OTD #History #ad amzn.to/3aYCFaz

3 May 1469: Niccolò #Machiavelli is born in Florence, Italy. He is best known for The Prince, published in 1532, five years after his death. He is credited with being the father of modern political #philosophy and #political science. #History #OTD #ad amzn.to/3d6T0LI

@JeanPierre62607 What a group.

@URDailyHistory Left to right : General Helmuth Weidling, General Kurt Woytasch, Oberst Hans Oskar Wöhlermann, General Walter Schmid-Dankward.

2 May 1945: #Berlin surrenders to the Soviets during World War II. German General Helmuth Weidling accepts General Vasily Chuikov's unconditional surrender terms. Weidling is taken prisoner by the Soviets and sentenced to 25 yrs in prison. He died on Nov. 17, 1955 in Russia. #History #OTD #ad amzn.to/2KRV1zu

@Elisius22 And a horribly evil individual who was responsible for the murder of millions.

@URDailyHistory Stalin was such an idiot.

3 May 1939: Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin replaces his Foreign Minister Maxim Litvinov, who is identified as being anti-German and who wants a closer relationship with #Britain and France. Stalin hoped to improve relations with Nazi Germany with the move, which it initially did. #WW2 #History #OTD #ad amzn.to/2Spv7Kt

3 May 752: Bird Jaguar IV of #Yaxchilan becomes king of the #Mayans in what today is Chiapas, Mexico. He was Yaxchilan's most famous ancient ruler. His reign marked a dramatic cultural peak, transforming #Yaxchilan into a dominant power along the #Usumacinta River #History #HistoryMatters #OTD #ad amzn.to/2Wlht9q

3 May 1898: The fourth Prime Minister of Israel, Golda Meir, is born in Kiev, Ukraine. She was elected Prime Minister on March 17, 1969 and served until June 3, 1974. She was the first and so far only female prime minister of Israel. #History #OTD #ad amzn.to/2zUK7qt

3 May 1943: U.S. #President Franklin D Roosevelt sends a letter to #British Prime Minister Winston Churchill stating, "I am more and more of the opinion that we should consider #France as a militarily-occupied nation.. governed by British and American generals ... We would keep 90% of the [Vichy] mayors... But the important posts would remain the responsibility of the #military commander, #American and British. Perhaps de Gaulle can become governor of Madagascar." #History #OTD #ad amzn.to/3Q8Wm6W

2 May 1808: The Dos de Mayo Uprising begins as citizens of Madrid rise up against #French imperial troops occupying the city, marking the beginning of the #Spanish War of Independence. The rebellion is brutally suppressed by Marshal Joachim Murat, which was immortalized in Francisco Goya's famous painting, "The Second of May 1808." This spark ignited nationwide resistance against Napoleon Bonaparte. #History #OTD #ad amzn.to/4ufDTak

2 May 1536: England's #King Henry VIII has his second wife Anne #Boleyn arrested for high treason. She is sent to the Tower of London, is tried and found guilty on May 15. She is #beheaded four days later. #History #OTD #ad amzn.to/2KNVh2g

2 May 1964: The first ascent of Tibet's Shishapangma, the 14th highest #mountain in the world and the lowest of the 8,000 meters or higher peaks, is made by a #Chinese expedition led by Xǔ Jìng. #mountaineer #History #OTD #ad amzn.to/2SrE4zO

2 May 2011: Al-Qaeda leader and terrorist #Osama bin Laden is killed by U.S. #Naval Special Warfare Development Group and CIA SAD/SOG operators inside a private house in Abbottabad, Pakistan. #SEALS #History #OTD #goodriddance #ad amzn.to/3d7m0Tz

2 May 1945: Just days before the end of World War II in Europe, #British Field Marshal Alan Francis Brooke is told that Polish General Władysław Anders wants his troops to participate in the occupation of Nazi Germany at the war’s end and then hopes to fight his way home to #Poland through the Soviets. #OTD #History #ad amzn.to/3J30owN

@fbnetoesportes What?

@URDailyHistory It was nothing, stop lying.

1 May 1944: The original day Operation Overlord, aka D-Day, the allied invasion of Normandy, was to take place. The date was set at the #Tehran Conference in Iran among #British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, U.S. #President Franklin Roosevelt and Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin in August 1943. D-Day occurs on June 6, 1944. #History #OTD #ad amzn.to/3dTWft0