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On this day in 2013 former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher died. Street parties spontaneously broke out across the country. Pictured: Thatcher being welcomed to hell by one of her good friends and supporters, serial paedophile Jimmy Savile


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If only they knew what was in store for them.
 
On this day in1890 Joseph Merrick The Elephant man died.
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On this day in 1919 the Jallianwala Bagh massacre took place in Amritsar, India . Acting Brigadier-General Reginald Dyer ordered troops to open fire on an unarmed crowd of civilians who were celebrating a religious festival.Estimates of the dead vary between 3759& 1000 with the wounded between 1200 & 1500.
Although criticized by a parliamentary commission Dyer was considered a hero by many who directly benefited from the British Raj .
Britain never formally apologised for the massacre but expressed "regret" in 2019.
 
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I'm never sure what a Country apologising for an act carried out a hundred years ago or more gains...or what it achieves ...

No person who lost a relative or was involved in any way is still alive...
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Learn from the past and understand why decisions were made and taken ....... but the snowflake current media hype led hysteria demanding apologies from everyone who possibly wronged someone or carried out an act that's by it's nature is judged with hindsight and a full view of all the facts and not from the view point of the person or persons who made that decision and with the info they had to go on seems to be unproductive and pointless .... and rather selective .....

Crap has happened since the first Cave Man clubbed another one to steal his food or woman and will continue to happen around the world until the last human catches their last breath.... humans will act out of belief they are doing the right thing or because they are under pressure or scared.... most of the worst genocides in history have been carried out in the name of tribal or religious beliefs.... and few are related to colour of skin .

Human kind is without doubt the cruellest species that will ever inhabit this planet.....
 
I'm never sure what a Country apologising for an act carried out a hundred years ago or more gains...or what it achieves ...

No person who lost a relative or was involved in any way is still alive...
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Learn from the past and understand why decisions were made and taken ....... but the snowflake current media hype led hysteria demanding apologies from everyone who possibly wronged someone or carried out an act that's by it's nature is judged with hindsight and a full view of all the facts and not from the view point of the person or persons who made that decision and with the info they had to go on seems to be unproductive and pointless .... and rather selective .....

Crap has happened since the first Cave Man clubbed another one to steal his food or woman and will continue to happen around the world until the last human catches their last breath.... humans will act out of belief they are doing the right thing or because they are under pressure or scared.... most of the worst genocides in history have been carried out in the name of tribal or religious beliefs.... and few are related to colour of skin .

Human kind is without doubt the cruellest species that will ever inhabit this planet.....
Could we keep this thread more informational and less political. This was supposed to be a thread of information and not a debating forum. There are other methods for that, make a separate thread if you want to make a political point.

So calling Nelson Mándela a former terrorist or claiming that Churchill was the greatest leader & we'd all be speaking Deutsche without him is'nt political or invites debate .Glad we've cleared that up .
Apologising for an atrocity that happened over 100 years ago makes the position of the government of the day unequivocal , that what happened was simply wrong and no justification is valid.Why do you find apologizing for slaughtering civilians so objectionable ? Imagine if such a crime against humanity took place today in Iran , Cuba or Venezuela ? even with a fraction of the victims the non snowflake press would be calling for action before you could s say Rule Britania . The real problem here is the myth of the Empire & the verifiable history that records the actions of an invading and colonising power that subjugated an entire subcontinent for the gain of a few already wealthy oligarchs.

Learn from the past and understand why decisions were made and taken
in the context of this massacre it was to supress the growing forces of Indian liberation that threatened the vastly profitable colonial project in India and elsewhere.
The "shit happened , we're all savages " narrative hardly fits in with the rationale of colonialization , that "we" are sophisticated , advanced and god fearing & the others are savages that need our help and guidance.
 
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FFS American Indians , Aborigines and the Pharoes were trading slaves and slaughtering each other long before anyone this side of the world knew there was something beyond the horizon . I guess you think the Spanish empire was all about sharing flowers and cupcakes and the Great Wall of China was built as a tourist attraction .

Can't apologize to dead people about what dead people did because they are dead.
 
" Can't apologize to dead people about what dead people did because they are dead. "

My point in much fewer and less controversial words....

No more comment from me unless I find a good funny fact that happened on a given day in history ..... crap happens every day let's find the stuff that was weird or funny cause god knows we all need a smile ....
 
On this day,in 1816, a slave uprising known as Bussa’s rebellion, named after its leader, broke out on Easter Sunday night in Barbados. It was to be the island's largest rebellion of enslaved Africans.
Enslaved people took advantage of the temporary freedom from work and the cover of permitted gathering for Easter festivities to organise themselves. They chose a leader on each sugarcane plantation, and were assisted by three free Black men who travelled around meeting with rebels.
The revolt began with the burning of cane fields in St Philip, and soon around 400 men and women working on over 70 other estates had joined in.
British colonial authorities declared martial law the following day, and soon suppressed the uprising. While only two whites were reported killed, 120 enslaved people were killed during the repression, with 144 executed and 132 deported in the aftermath.
Bussa is today remembered in Barbados as a national hero.
 
On this day in 1995 a bomb destroyed the federal building in Oklahoma city , USA killing 168 people and injuring 680. One of the perpetrator cited The Turner diaries a novel still popular with fascists and white supremacist as an inspiration.
 
On this day in 1968 Conservative MP Enoch Powell makes his "Rivers of Blood" speech, railing against a government policy allowing 50,000 dependents of immigrants into the UK each year.
Interestingly another example of the media telling lies;
The expression "rivers of blood" did not appear in the speech but is an allusion to a line from Virgil's Aeneid which he quoted: "as I look ahead, I am filled with foreboding; like the Roman, I seem to see 'the River Tiber foaming with much blood"
 
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The 'Surgeon's Photograph', the famous photo “showing” the Loch Ness Monster, was published in the Daily Mail. In 1999, it was revealed to be a hoax.

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BBC television launched Playschool as the opening programme of their second channel. It was a day late due to a major power failure the previous day.
 
On this day in 1926 at 2.40am The Queen was born at 17 Bruton Street in Mayfair, London. She was the first child of The Duke and Duchess of York, who later became King George VI and Queen Elizabeth.

Also on this day in 2021 police officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty of murder.

I know which one I prefer to remember.
 
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On this day, 1856, stonemasons in Melbourne, Australia, went on strike demanding a maximum 8-hour working day – down from 10 hours per day Monday-Friday with 8 hours on Saturday. They marched from their construction site, the Old Quadrangle building at Melbourne University, brandishing a banner demanding “8 hours work, 8 hours recreation, 8 hours rest”. The workers were extremely well organised, and were soon successful in achieving their goal, with no loss of pay, for workers engaged in public works in the city. They celebrated on Monday 12 May, the Whit Monday holiday, with a parade of nearly 700 people from 19 trades.
Also in 1920 the Anaconda Road massacre took place in Butte, Montana, when mine guards employed by the Anaconda company shot 17 striking miners, killing one. All were shot in the back as they tried to flee. No one was charged for the killing
 
On this day in 1968 The first decimal coins – 5p and 10p pieces – come into circulation.
 
On this day in 1979 teacher and antifascist Blair Peach was killed by a blow to the head by police from the notorious SPG whilst protesting against a meeting of the national front in Southall.
An investigation by Commander John Cass of the Metropolitan Police concluded that Peach had been killed by one of six SPG officers, and others had preserved their silence to obstruct his investigation.The report remained secret until the death of Ian Tomlimson , who died after being attacked by the TSG , the name given to thee SPG in an attempt to whitewash their reputation.In a separate incident Clarence Baker, manager of the Reggae group Misty In Roots spent 5 months in a coma after being attacked by the SPG.
 
On this day in 1954, British colonial authorities in Nairobi, Kenya, began Operation Anvil, to ethnically cleanse Kikuyu people from the city. With the background of the Mau Mau insurgency, which was largely made up of members of the Kikuyu community, the British believed they could destroy the movement for "land and freedom" which they thought was led from Nairobi.
So over a two-week period, troops shut down the city, block by block and abducted every member of the Kikuyu and related Embu and Maru tribes. They were interrogated, then divided into groups depending on how supportive they allegedly were of the Mau Mau movement. Those believed to be more militant were sent for interrogation, torture and detention, while those without Mau Mau affiliation were deported to overcrowded "reserves".
By the time it was over, apart from a small number of workers with long-term contracts with European employers, nearly the whole Kikuyu population of the city was gone, with 20,000 sent for "screening" and 30,000 to reserves. At most, those abducted could only take one bag of possessions, with the rest looted by British troops.
Rather than quell the insurgency, the brutal repression caused opposition to colonial rule to increase.
 
On this day in 1962 Ranger IV becomes the first American spacecraft to land on the moon – watch an explanation from the late Sir Patrick Moore.
 
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