The Communist Party of China, the CPC, was founded in July 1921. It's first National Congress was held July 23-31, 1921, moving from the at the time French-held part of Shanghai to a boat in nearby Jiaxing's South Lake, in Zhejiang Province.
The Leo astrological period is July 23rd to August 22nd, though according to Skyguide, by Mark R Chartrand III, the Sun is 'in' the constellation Cancer July 7th to August 11th now, and is in Leo the Lion August 12th to September 17th.
The Sri Lankan Civil War, between the government and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam / the Tamil Tigers or LTTE, began July 23, 1983 and ended in 2009.
Comet Hale-Bopp was independently discovered by astronomer Alan Hale and amateur astronomer Thomas Bopp July 23, 1995. According to the Wikipedia entry there might be a record in ancient Egypt of HaleThe Turkestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, with Tashkent as its capital, was created within the RSFSR April 30, 1918. The name varied. It was abolished October 27, 1924 and ultimately divided into the Central Asian republics of the USSR, today independent countries.-Bopp's previous entry into the inner solar system in July 2215 BCE; the comet won't appear again for thousands of years. One prediction was ~August 6, 4393.
The Downing Street Minutes came from a British government meeting July 23, 2002 discussing the Bush administration's plans to engineer a war with Iraq. The memo was revealed by a British newspaper May 1, 2005, but seems to have been poorly covered or suppressed by the US mainstream media. Given how the mainstream media is today regarding Ukraine, investigations into the Bidens versus investigations into Trump, etc. the idea that they brazenly suppressed news for the Bush administration has become much more believable
WHO declared the 2022 global monkeypox outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern July 23, 2022: www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/monkeypox-outbreak-constitutes-global-health-emergency-who-2022-07-23/
Friday, July 24, 1998 a gunman killed two Capitol Police officers and wounded a tourist at the US Capitol, apparently the first killing of a Capitol Police officer in an attack and the first gunfire in the building since a March 1, 1954 attack by Puerto Rican nationalists, which resulted in injuries only, prior to 2021: www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/shooting/stories/main072598.htm Shooter Russell Eugene Weston Jr had been known to the Secret Service since 1996, but was judged mentally ill. In July 1996 he had been allowed into the headquarters of the CIA: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_United_States_Capitol_shooting
US forces invaded Puerto Rico July 25, 1898 during the Spanish-American War, first coming ashore in Guánica. See also: durhamspark.blogspot.com/2023/07/from-rebel-to-revolutionary-war-on-war.html
Presenter Razia Iqbal, based in the US, left the BBC around July 18 or 25th.
Inca emperor Atahualpa was given a sort of trial and executed by the Spanish force under Francisco Pizarro around July 26, 1533. Pizarro was assassinated June 26, 1541 in infighting among the conquistadors.
After the possibility of electoral politics was foreclosed, former Cuban congressional candidate Fidel Castro led an armed attack on the Moncada Barracks in Santiago de Cuba July 26, 1953, which was unsuccessful. The 26th of July Movement was formed a few years later during the Cuban Revolution, which succeeded in removing Fulgencio Batista and then moved in a socialist direction, providing an example and resource for resistance to imperialism in the Americas and elsewhere. [July 26th is a Cuban national holiday. See also: www.counterpunch.org/2022/07/26/the-ongoing-infowar-against-cuba-from-the-moncada-assault-to-the-embargo/ , consortiumnews.com/2022/07/26/john-pilger-on-the-urgency-to-free-assange/ , and consortiumnews.com/2022/07/26/pressure-on-biden-to-remove-cuba-from-terror-list/ ,
Egypt nationalized the Suez Canal and barred Israeli ships from the Straits of Tiran July 26, 1956, leading to the Suez Crisis.
The Nigerien presidential guard overthrew President Mohamed Bazoum [on the left?] July 26, 2023. July 30th ECOWAS threatened a military response if Bazoum is not restored to power within a week. By July 31st Mali and Burkina Faso said that they would give Niger military support if it were attacked and Guinea said that it will not participate in sanctions. These three countries have also had military coups recently, forcing the French and other NATO country military forces to relocate to Niger, also a source of uranium, gold, and oil. The Russian Wagner Group replaced French forces in Mali.
The Korean War armstice began July 27, 1953 and has continued ever since. ROK president Syngman Rhee did not sign the document. In DPR Korea July 27th is commemorated as the Day of Victory in the Great Fatherland Liberation War. Recent news coverage used the anniversary in 2023 to cast the DPRK as warlike and in with those deplorable Russians, while the ROK was appropriately somber, despite its role in starting the war and massacring supposed leftists and their relatives. In addition the "UN" forces killed refugees, threatened to use nuclear weapons, was been accused of actually using biological weapons, etc. To be fair, both sides were accused of committing war crimes.
July 27th is Remembrance Day for Child Victims of the Donbass War: ingaza.wordpress.com/2022/07/27/today-is-remembrance-day-for-child-victims-of-the-donbass-war-130-of-them/
World War I began July 28, 1914 with Austria-Hungary's declaration of war against Serbia following the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand June 28th.
There was a Revolutionary War battle at the House in the Horseshoe in a bend of the Deep River at the northeast corner of Moore County July 29 or August 5, 1781.
The Japanese destroyer Hatsushimo survived the sacrificial Operation Ten-Go / the Battle of the East China Sea, but was sunk July 30, 1945 near Maizuru by a mine dropped from the air, becoming the 129th and last destroyer lost by Japan during WWII.
In another drone strike, a CIA drone allegedly killed al Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in Kabul, Afghanistan around 6am July 31, 2022, without any non-combatant casualties, and the Taliban was accused of violating promises not to allow terrorist actions originating in the country.
The cross-quarter day Lammas / Loaf Mass Day Gaelic Lughnasadh / Lughnasa is August 1st.
The USA occupied Haiti July 28, 1915 to August 1, 1934 and another military intervention is being planned in 2023.
Asteriod 15 Eunomia, one of the largest, was discovered July 29, 1851 by Italian astronomer Annibale de Gasparis.
UFOs were detected on radar and seen over Washington DC July 12 – 29, 1952, with the result that the government decided that UFOs needed to be just gotten rid of by debunking, by any means, perhaps reminiscent of the way the government and other elites fear that they are losing narrative control in many areas today, though the media sidelines "expertise" itself at times. "Inconvenient truth[s]" about the government, wars, etc. are whispered or swept under the rug, and people often don't notice, apparently. Or the idea of UFOs/'UAPs" can be used in psychological operations. [It turns out that there is an old term, something like Unknown Atmospheric Phenomenon, UAP, separate from the US government's UAP, unidentified aerial/anomalous phenomenon, but it refers to meteorological anomalies like ball lightning.]
The discovery of the distant dwarf planets Eris and Makemake was announced July 29, 2005, and the discovery of Haumea had been announced on the 27th. The objects had actually been first observed months earlier. Makemake is named for a god from Rapa Nui / Easter Island.
Tanabata and related traditional festivals in East Asia (Tanabata is the Japanese version) are held in July and August; Wikipedia gives one date as August 22nd; a new way of celebrating is to turn off the lights and go outside to look at the stars. Bon, another Japanese festival is held between in July and September; Wikipedia gives one date as August 30th. The Philadelphia, PA Obon Festival is around August 12th.
Two pilots reported a UFO a short distance south of High Point, NC July 11, 1947 at 7:20pm, according to the book Weird Carolinas. I need to post an early 19th century report from around July 17th. There was a report in Orange County in the Daily Tar Heel several years ago, I think in the summer, but I will have to look for it. Many interesting reports are probably not publicized at the time or mentioned in published works. A UFO reportedly hovered over a Duke Power substation in Mount Airy, NC for nearly 45 minutes very early in the morning one day in August 1968. There is another report, from Copeland, NC, October 19, 1973.
Durham's May sister city Toyama (富山市), Japan, in Toyama Prefecture, on the west coast, was devastated by Allied bombing August 1 – 2, 1945. I realized that Toyama might also be Japan-US political prisoner Tsutomu Shirosaki's hometown: denverabc.wordpress.com/prisoners-dabc-supports/political-prisoners-database/tsutomu-shirosaki/
The Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Ecuador, the PCMLE, was founded in August (Wikipedia says the date was August 1, 1964, but this might be inaccurate).
August 1st – 7th is World Breastfeeding Week: www.who.int/health-topics/breastfeeding#tab=tab_1
The NC Green Party again gained state recognition, with difficulty, August 1, 2022.
Oklahoma's Green Corn Rebellion over US entry into WWI and drafting was August 2 - 3, 1917.
Nancy Pelosi and five other Democratic members of Congress made a state visit to Taiwan August 2-3, 2022, the highest American official to go there since Newt Gingrich went in 1997. This enraged China, which began holding military exercises around the island, also involving Japan; sanctioned Pelosi and her family; etc. The new Republican leadership of the House followed Pelosi's lead and has also met with the Taiwanese leadership. The Kuomintang lost the Chinese civil war on the mainland to the CPC, but maintained a US-protected dictatorship on Taiwan for decades, with political reforms not that long ago. There might not be a direct parallel in US history, but the US government often considers neighboring countries such as Cuba to rightfully be under its control, and imagine the reaction if a country substantially supported the movements seeking independence for parts of the USA today, such as Puerto Rico. The US Civil War was almost internationalized by military interventions on both sides, which could have created two "American" states, similar to how China, Korea, and other nations are divided now.
Irish nationalist Thomas Francis Meagher was born August 3, 1823 in Waterford City, in southeastern Ireland, in the province of Munster.
During Pelosi's official visit to Taiwan the world's largest naval exercise was going on, the biennial RIMPAC, Rim of the Pacific Amphibious Assault Training, June 29th - August 4th: unac.notowar.net/2022/08/10/u-s-media-hide-military-threats-vs-china/ Training for an amphibious invasion seems like preparation more suited for international aggression than defense.
[A supernova in Cassiopeia in
our galaxy was recorded in China and Japan August
4-6, 1181.]
Around August 4, 2023 Ukraine attacked a Russia-flagged civilian tanker in the Black Sea, before such an attack by Russia.
WNBA player Brittney Griner, allegedly held by Russia as a political hostage, was sentenced to 9 years in prison and fined August 4, 2022, after admitting to breaking Russian law. How many Americans and others does the US government imprison for marijuana and other "drug" law violations, often with onerous sentences, and how many Americans are held by other countries for similar drug crimes, but without much, or any, publicity? Allegedly more Americans are "hostages" of governments than of non-state actors. The US government claims that, unlike its enemies, it doesn't take political hostages and that US justice is blind, yet the US is holding Colombian Alex Saab to attack Venezuela, wants vengeance against Australian journalist Julian Assange, persuaded Canada to hold Meng Wanzhou, Huawei's chief financial officer and the daughter of CEO Ren Zhangfei, from late 2018 to September 24, 2021 for allegedly violating the USA's sanctions on Iran, and there are questions about Aafia Siddiqui, considered a political prisoner by many Pakistanis, among other high-profile prisoners.
The Civil War sea and land Battle of Mobile Bay was August 5, 1864. US admiral Farragut is supposed to have ordered "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!," but that might not have actually happened. Torpedoes referred to naval mines at the time.
Friedrich Engels died August 5, 1895 in London, UK of throat cancer. His ashes were spread in the English Channel off of the high white chalk sea cliffs of Beachy Head in East Sussex, England.
Gratien Fernando was executed August 5 for leading the Cocos Islands Mutiny, May 8-9, 1942, for Sri Lankan independence. Two others were also executed, the only such executions of British Commonwealth soldiers during WWII. Fernando was apparently influenced by a Sri Lankan Trotskyist party and tried to contact Imperial Japanese forces. The Cocos Islands are islands in the Indian Ocean near Indonesia, now held by Australia, and were apparently uninhabited when they were discovered by the East India Company in 1609.
The US dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima a little after 8am on August 6, 1945. The UK consented under the Quebec Agreement.
[Jonathan Peter Jackson was killed August 7, 1970 trying to liberate the Soledad Brothers in an attack on the Marin County Civic Center, containing the courthouse for San Rafael, California.]: www.struggle-la-lucha.org/2023/08/20/long-live-the-spirit-of-jonathan-jackson/
The USSR and Mongolia entered the war against Japan very early on August 9th, as had long been requested by the other Allies, and quickly advanced deep into Japanese-held areas.
The second atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki August 9, 1945 after 11am when the cloud cover that would have saved the city broke (Wikipedia articles say that the primary target August 9th was Kokura and that it had been the alternative target on August 6th). The bomb used on Hiroshima was set to explode as it fell, while the bomb used on Nagasaki exploded at ground level, but hills deflected some of the force. Unlike in Hiroshima there wasn't a firestorm. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were both hit by atomic bombs (as opposed to more destructive hydrogen or thermonuclear bombs based on nuclear fusion and first developed by the USA for use during the Cold War), but the designs differed. A recent article claims that the bombing targeted a cathedral and killed many of Japan's Christians: www.globalresearch.ca/77th-anniversary-bombing-nagasaki-unwelcome-truths-church-state/5789189
August 9th is the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples: www.un.org/en/observances/indigenous-day
The first post on My Bush-Cheney impeachment blog Downing Street Action NC was August 9, 2005 and the so far last post was January 22, 2009. I had thought that I had posted here later. The name refers to the July 23 item.
[The FBI killed rightist Craig DeLeeuw Robertson August 9th in conducting a search in Provo, Utah.]
[Jeffrey Epstein is supposed to have committed suicide in the NYC's Metropolitan Correctional Center August 10, 2019]
[August 10th the Russian Luna 25 robotic mission to the Moon's south pole launched from the Vostochny Cosmodrome; apparently Russia is no longer dependent on its Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, though Vostochny borders China, an enemy not that many decades ago. There are apparently several locations other than Baikonur. Russia used to want a warm-water port, and now it lacks a spaceport near the equator, where it is easier to get into orbit.]
The beginning date of the Long Count calendar used by the Maya is usually thought to have been August 11, 3114 BCE in the Gregorian calendar, though this could be inaccurate. Another date in the Long Count was the origin of the December 21, 2012 end of the world claims. A metaphorical world ending or apocalypse can also be seen as the prelude to the creation of a new and maybe different world.
The Unite the Right Rally was August 11-12, 2017 in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Several meteor showers are visible now; the Perseids peak August 12-13, and fall from July 14 to September 1st, originating from Comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle: amsmeteors.org/meteor-showers/meteor-shower-calendar/
The last captive quagga, thought to be a subspecies of the plains zebra, native to South Africa, died August 12, 1883 at the Natura Artis Magistra zoo in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
An August 12, 1898 armistice ended the Spanish-American War, with a peace treaty signed in Paris December 10th and ratified by the US Senate February 6th.
International Youth Day is August 12th: www.un.org/en/observances/youth-day
[A "Great American" solar eclipse on August 12, 2045 visible from California to Florida will have 6 minutes, 6 seconds of totality.]
The Mexican capital Tenochtitlan fell to a force of several hundred Spaniards and thousands of Indian allies under Hernando Cortés around August 13, 1521 [the data in the Julian calendar, the corrected date could be August 21st], following a long siege and attack by land and water (the city was set in a large lake, Lake Texcoco, and crossed by many canals). Aztec emperor Cuauhtémoc (his predecessor Cuitláhuac, who replaced Moctezuma II, had died of disease in 1520) was captured as a flotilla attempted to escape the last assault in Tlatelolco, Tenochtitlan's connected sister city. Tens to hundreds of thousands of its inhabitants were killed in battle and by massacres (also involving rape and looting), disease epidemics, and starvation, similar to the numbers killed by atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Much of Tenochtitlan was levelled during the war and modern Mexico City sits on the ruins. In all, several thousand Spanish and native allies (the majority of casualties were allies), were killed. The Spanish force included some non-Spaniards and women.
Societies might not have known about Tenochtitlan and the rest of the Valley of Mexico, but populous Tenochtitlan and the surrounding region could be considered a cultural and political capital of North America in its time, similar to New York City, Washington, and Los Angeles today. It was the capital of one of the most politically and culturally powerful states in pre-Columbian North America. I think objects from Mesoamerican cultures have been found as far away as the Southwest and Eastern US, though it is an open question what people there knew about the objects. It seems to be less popular in archaeology today to discuss mutual influence between Mesoamerica and cities such as Cahokia, across the Mississippi from what is today St. Louis, and Pueblo Bonito in northwest New Mexico. Maize formed the basis of the economy over much of the Pre-Columbian Americas and is thought to have been domesticated in what is now Mexico, though that was long before the Mexica and might have started in a different region.
[Amateur astronomer David Fabricus is credited with discovering the variability in brightness of the star Mira, "the Wonderful," or Omicron Ceti, in the neck of the monster Cetus, a massive but dim constellation visible in the south early in the morning now, called the "Whale." He first observed Mira August 13, 1596 and soon thought that it was a nova. This was the first known discovery of a variable star and Mira or long-period variables are a class of variable. Mira received its name from Johannes Hevelius in 1662. Cetus is inconspicuous, but right now very bright Jupiter is positioned between Aries, also inconspicuous, and Cetus' head, in the southern sky; apparently planets, etc. can appear in Cetus, though it isn't classified as a member of the zodiac. The constellations Andromeda, Pegasus, Pisces, Aquarius, Piscis Austrinus, Taurus, Perseus, and Eridanus are nearby and Cepheus and Cassiopeia are visible by the north celestial pole. Saturn is relatively bright further west in Aquarius, I think having moved from very dim Capricornus; Saturn will be opposite to the Sun August 27th and at maximum brightness by the 16th, and the Moon will be full twice in the month, August 1st and 30th. Uranus is in Aries and Neptune is in Pisces – penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Topics/astronomy/_Texts/secondary/ALLSTA/Cetus*.html ]
[A year ago: The planet Jupiter will be at opposition September 26, 2022, and also happens to be close to the Sun in its orbit now, so it is physically close to the Earth, at 367 million miles, the closest since October 8, 1963. The next time will be October 7, 2129. Jupiter is easy to see, a bright object visible for much of the night on the celestial equator in the otherwise very dim constellation Pisces, in the southern sky below the rectangle of Pegasus the Winged Horse. Saturn is not as bright, further west in also dim Capricornus, with the relatively bright star Fomalhaut in Piscis Austrinus, the Southern Fish, in between. There aren't many bright stars low in the south for much of the night at this time of year. Mars is bright in Taurus, east of Jupiter. Neptune reached opposition September 16th in Aquarius. Asteroid 3 Juno, discovered by Karl Ludwig Harding September 1, 1804, is nearby and shines with the same low magnitude as Neptune, and reached opposition September 8th. Uranus, a future destination for NASA probes, is in Aries and will reach opposition in November. Venus might still be visible in the morning at the end of September while the new Moon will be up in the evening.
German socialist Ferdinand August Bebel passed away August 13, 1913 at a sanatorium in Passugg, Switzerland and is buried in Zurich. Lenin wrote a eulogy. Bebel was born February 22, 1840 in Deutz, Germany, now part of the large city of Cologne.
Cuban revolutionary and statesman Fidel Castro was born August 13, 1926 in Birán, Oriente Province, in eastern Cuba.
[Happenings near the Chilbolton Observatory, a radio astronomy hub, in Hampshire, England, on the UK's south coast around August 13, 2001?]
Karl Liebknecht was born August 14, 1871 in Leipzig, Saxony, Germany and was a founder of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (which he represented in Prussia's parliament and later in the German Reichstag), the Spartacist League, and the Communist Party of Germany. Along with Rosa Luxemburg he was tortured and executed by Freikorps rightists, supporting the Social-Democratic German government at the end of WWI.
[The Rabaa
Massacre was August
14, 2013 I Egypt, following the July 3rd
miltary coup. Hundreds to over 1000 protesters were killed
and more injured, at two locations in Cairo where they were peacefully protesting the coup against President
Mohamed Morsi (August
8, 1951 – June 17, 2019; he died during a trial conducted by the new coup
government of el-Sisi). Morsi was a member of the Muslim Brotherhood.]
Sunday, August 14, 2022 shortly before 4am Richard A York III, 29, from Delaware, reportedly drove into a barricade at the US Capitol, might have set his car on fire, fired in the air, and then killed himself: www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/man-dead-after-driving-car-into-us-capitol-barricade-overnight/3132851/ , www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2022-08-14/police-man-killed-himself-after-ramming-us-capitol-barrier
[Hardial Bains, August 15, 1939 – August, 24, 1997, founder of the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist) and other organizations in a few countries: cpcml.ca/230812-hardial-bains/ ]
In a recorded radio broadcast at noon on August 15, 1945 Emperor Hirohito announced domestically that Japan had surrendered to the Allies . [This is a holiday in in the DPRK and ROK.]
British colonial India was partitioned into India and Pakistan (at the time Bangladesh was East Pakistan) and they gained independence at midnight August 15, 1947, leading to sectarian violence and territorial disputes.
[The SETI “Wow! signal” was detected
August 15, 1977 by Ohio State University's Big
Ear radio telescope
and might have come from a location in the direction of the
relatively bright star Tau
Sagittarii, thought to
be 122 light years away. If the constellation Sagittarius the Archer,
visible low in the southern sky for much of the night now, is seen as
a teacup, Tau Sagittarii is in the lower or middle part of the
handle, on the east side. On the anniversary in 2012 about 10,000
tweets, and celebrity videos, were collected by the National
Geographic Channel and sent towards possible sources of the Wow! signal by Puerto Rico's Arecibo
Observatory. The
Arecibo
Observatory
formally opened November 1, 1963, under the DoD, and came under
National Science Foundation ownership October 1, 1969. The 1000
foot wide Arecibo Telescope suffered major structural failures in
August and November 2020 and collapsed around 7:56am December 1st
that year. The NSF had planned to build a new large radio telescope
at the Observatory, but that was cancelled by 2022. Other
astronomical and educational facilities are still in use at the
Observatory, which is valued by both locals and visitors. China's
500 meter or 1600 foot wide FAST
or Tianyan came
online in 2016 and
opened in 2020, the world's largest single dish radio telescope,
though there are far larger arrays composed of many small radio
telescopes. The OSU Radio Observatory or Big Ear, in Delaware, Ohio,
was sold and used for golf course expansion in 1998.]
The Taliban seized Kabul August 15, 2021.
[A supernova was seen
in the Andromeda
Galaxy August
17, 1885, the first supernova seen in another galaxy
and the only one seen
in the Andromeda
Galaxy;
it peaked August
21st.]
[The USSR's Venera
7 probe was
launched toward Venus August 17, 1970.]
[The Soviet nuclear-powered
icebreaker Arktika
became the first surface vessel to reach the North Pole, August 17,
1977.]
KPD leader Ernst Thalmann was killed August 18, 1944.
The US Constitution's 19th (XIX) Amendment, giving women the right to vote, was ratified by enough states to be adopted, August 18, 1920.
[August 21, 1521 could be the corrected date in the Gregorian calendar of the fall of Aztec capital Tenochtitlan to the Spanish and allied Indian army of Hernando Cortés.]
[Russian chemist Dimitri Mendeleev, famous for his work on the Periodic Table, observed the August 19, 1887 solar eclipse from a hot air balloon about two miles up.]
[Gorbachev was overthrown in the August Coup, August 19-22, 1991, but it failed and the USSR was dissolved at the end of the year.]
World Humanitarian Day is August 19th: www.un.org/en/observances/humanitarian-day
Russian journalist Darya Aleksandrovna Dugina, 29, daughter of rightist author Aleksandr Dugin, was killed in a car bombing August 20, 2022 around 9:45pm local time near Moscow. Her father was in another car and it is possible that he was the intended target. They both supported Russia attacking Ukraine. Russia accuses Ukraine of responsibility and says that the culprit fled to Estonia. I got the impression of glee or at least lack of concern from NPR staff, and that is probably true of other mainstream media. Imagine if vocal supporters of US aggression against countries such as Iraq, Libya, and Syria; their family members; and pro-government journalists were targets for terrorism. Even non-violent protests outside the homes of US officials are being condemned. The mainstream media gives the impression that Russians have done more to oppose the war in Ukraine than many in the US have done to oppose recent American wars of aggression. In 1989 there seems to have been an attempt at retaliation against the family of the captain of the USS Vincennes for the downing of civilian Iran Air Flight 655 in July 3, 1988. It could be asked if Ukraine or others will start assassinating people in "Western" countries opposed to NATO involvement as the war drags on. Americans are already on Ukraine's blacklist: consortiumnews.com/2022/07/27/us-should-not-fund-ukrainian-blacklist/ Roger Waters joins a 13 year old Ukrainian girl, Scott Ritter, Henry Kissinger, the assassinated Dugina, assassinated Italian journalist Andrea Rocchelli (September 27, 1983 - May 24, 2014, killed with others near Sloviansk), and thousands of others on Ukraine's doxxing and killing list: covertactionmagazine.com/2022/08/29/roger-waters-added-to-ukrainian-hit-list/
The Hopkinsville Goblins, Kelly Little Green Men, or the Kelly-Hopkinsville UFO encounter was in southwestern Kentucky near Hopkinsville and Kelly August 21, 1955. Some have attributed the events, including gun fire and a perceived siege, to a meteor, a family of irate great horned owls, and bioluminescent fungi, but did they even check whether there is such a bioluminescent fungi present in the area [and would owls, apparently impervious to bullets, beseige a house?]? There is or was a festival commemorating the event, possibly a victim of the pandemic: www.kellyky.com/
[George Lester Jackson was killed at California's San Quentin State Prison August 21, 1971 , an event that possibly helped spark the uprising at the Attica prison in New York state in mid-September of that year: www.struggle-la-lucha.org/2023/08/20/long-live-the-spirit-of-jonathan-jackson/ ]
The International Day of Remembrance of and Tribute to the Victims of Terrorism Day is August 21st: www.un.org/en/observances/terrorism-victims-day
The International Day Commemorating the Victims of Violence Based on Religion or Belief is August 22nd: www.un.org/en/observances/religious-based-violence-victims-day
The International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and Its Abolition is August 23rd, commemorating the beginning the Haitian Revolution on the night of August 22 - 23, 1791 in what is now Haiti and the Dominican Republic on the Caribbean island of Santo Domingo: www.unesco.org/en/days/slave-trade-remembrance
The Treaty of Non-Aggression between Germany and the USSR was signed August 23, 1939, following the failure of negotiations with the UK and other European states to deter Germany, giving the USSR more time to prepare for a German attack and survive WWII: ml-review.ca/aml/AllianceIssues/WBBJVSNaziPact.htm Today several imperialist countries and organizations, such as the EU and Canada, equate socialism and fascism every August 23rd, while collaborating with US wars of aggression, disappearances, and torture; Zionist aggression; fascists in Ukraine; Islamist terrorists in Afghanistan and Syria; rightist coups in Latin America; etc.
[India's Chandrayaan-3 mission successfully landed at the lunar south pole August 23, 2023, making India the 4th country to perform a soft landing on the Moon and the first to land at the south pole, where there might be valuable water ice. The media was probably more congratulatory and open minded than if the Russian mission had succeeded or if the DPRK had successfully launched its reconnaissance satellite, though the DPRK has another launch scheduled.]
[The Wagner Group was allegedly decapitated in an airplane crash near Kuzhenkino, Tver Oblast, Russia August 23, 2023.]
France tested a thermonuclear device August 24, 1968 at the Fangataufa atoll in French Polynesia.
[Samantha Reed Smith, born June 29, 1972 in Houlton, Maine and famous for her correspondence with Soviet leader Yuri Andropov, was killed in an airplane crash August 25, 1985 in Auburn, Maine.]
German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was born August 27, 1770 in Stuttgart, Germany; his thought was a major influence in the later development of Marxism.
[Saturn, in dim Aquarius to the south, will be opposite the Sun August 27th and was already at maximum brightness by the 16th.]
[National Hunger Strike Commemoration for the events around 1981 will be in Cork City, Ireland this Sunday August 27th, at 2pm at Kennedy Quay, according to a Sinn Féin email.]
Naturalist, author, and illustrator Roger Tory Peterson, famous for the series of Peterson field guides, was born 114 years ago, August 28, 1908, in Jamestown, New York and passed away July 28, 1996 in Old Lyme, Connecticut. There are events at the Roger Tory Peterson Institute in Jamestown: rtpi.org/
The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom was August 28, 1963.
The USSR's first nuclear test, RDS-1, was early on August 29, 1949 in Semipalatinsk in the Kazakh SSR, ending the USA's nuclear monopoly and blackmail.
The International Day Against Nuclear Tests is August 29th: www.un.org/en/observances/end-nuclear-tests-day , established December 2, 2009 by an unanimous vote of the UN's General Assembly. I was surprised to learn that the US detonated nuclear weapons as recently as 1992 and France and China in 1996, among other countries: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States%27_nuclear_weapons_tests
The International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances is August 30th: www.un.org/en/observances/victims-enforced-disappearance
Gennadiy Borisov, an amateur astronomer using a home-made telescope in Crimea, discovered 2I/Borisov August 30, 2019, the first known interstellar comet and the second known interstellar object observed travelling through our solar system. It is possible that the first meteor from outside the Solar System was recently discovered. Comet Borisov isn't expected to return. The first interstellar object, 'Oumuamua, thought to be natural, though some have suggested that it could be artificial, was discovered October 19, 2017, and there was been discussion of sending a probe after it.
The US and allied military forces withdrew from Afghanistan by the end of August 2022, but the US continues to bomb the country and cause economic hardship and death for Afghan civilians.
August 31st is the International Day for People of African Descent and the International Decade for People of African Descent is 2015-2024: un.org/en/observances/african-descent-day
Asteroid 3 Juno was discovered September 1, 1804 by German astronomer Karl Ludwig Harding (September 29, 1765 in Lauenburg – August 31, 1834 in Göttingen).
The Communist Party USA was founded September 1, 1919.
Martha, a captive passenger pigeon at the Cincinnati Zoo, the last known member of her species, died September 1st, 1914 early in the afternoon. Passenger pigeons may have been the most abundant bird ever known, their flocks darkening the sky, but they were exterminated by habitat loss and wanton hunting.
Using false flag attacks to create a justification for war, Germany invaded Poland September 1, 1939, which the US-UK media portraying as the start of WWII, though other regional wars that later merged with the world war had already begun. If humanity exists much longer, might future historians will say that we are at the beginning of a global war now, and what will they say about the USA and NATO's decades of continuous war, over much of the world?
[Qaddafi's Free Officer Movement overthrew the Libyan monarchy September 1, 1969.]
Japan Dolphin Day, presumably protesting the killing of dolphins, is supposed to be September 1st.
[Sirte was the capital of Libya September 1-October 2011, when Qaddafi was killed.]
Imperial Japan formally surrendered September 2, 1945 on the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay. There were other surrenders elsewhere.
[September 2nd is Vietnam's National Day, marking independence in 1945: cpcml.ca/Tmlm2023/M53009.HTM#10 ]
Vietnamese revolutionary and national liberation leader Ho Chi Minh passed away September 2, 1969.
Labor Day, is Monday, September 4th in the USA and Canada. Unions called for the creation of a day for workers in the late 19th century, with some advocating a date in September, and the government supported a September date instead of May 1st, associated with revolutionary labor movements. Around the world May Day is labor day or an official holiday in many countries, such as Mexico, and that date also has roots in the American labor movement. Beginning under Eisenhower May 1st has been called Loyalty Day and Law Day and previously it was Child Health Day. The ROK seems to entirely lack a labor day.
The US-mediated Treaty of Portsmouth, negotiated at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Maine, ended the Russo-Japanese War, September 5, 1905.
[Anti-Cop City RICO September 5th: durhamspark.blogspot.com/2023/09/bap-atlanta-says-free-them-all.html and www.counterpunch.org/2023/09/17/the-racketeering-of-state-violence/ ]
The last captive Tasmanian tiger or Thylacine, a male called Benjamin, died at Australia's Hobart Zoo September 7, 1936. Tasmanian tigers, large, striped predatory marsupials, are considered extinct, though sightings are still reported.
[International Manatee Day is September 7th.]
Annual International Vulture Awareness Day is September 7th [the 2nd, the first Saturday in September]: www.vultureday.org , celebrating these majestic, interesting, ecologically vital, and in many cases threatened birds.
Around here there are two species, turkey and black vultures. They look and act somewhat differently, but they can easily be distinguished by the light and dark patterns on the undersides of their wings and the way they hold their wings in flight. The trailing side of a larger turkey vulture's wing is whitish, while black vultures have whitish triangles at their wingtips. Turkey vultures find carrion by smell, while black vultures rely on sight. A few decades ago if not today there were concerns that black vultures were in decline in North Carolina, and both species have become less common with land use changes and changes in sanitation. They often nest in abandoned rural buildings. [A few more species live south of the US today, including king vultures, and apparently New World and Old World vultures aren't very related.]
The International Day of Clean Air for Blue Skies is September 7th, with the theme "Together for Clean Air:" un.org/en/observances/clean-air-day
International Literacy Day is September 8th: www.un.org/en/observances/international-days-and-weeks The success of Cuba's 1961 literacy campaign and later initiatives both in Cuba and as aid to other countries have often been noted.
The International Day of Journalists' Solidarity (generally excluding journalists from or sympathetic to non-"Western" countries, especially countries whose governments the US seeks to overthrow) is September 8th: ingaza.wordpress.com/2022/09/11/western-media-continues-to-ignore-ukraines-public-kill-list-aimed-at-those-who-question-the-kiev-regime/ I'm surprised that the mainstream media occasionally brought up Shireen Abu Akleh, a Palestinian-American journalist with Al-Jazeera who was shot to death May 11, 2022 in Jenin in the West Bank, most likely by the Israeli military, for several months.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea, the DPRK, was established September 9, 1948. The Republic of Korea had been established earlier that year, cementing the post-WWII division of Korea and helping to create a cold war with the threat of total destruction where there had been an alliance between the USA and USSR.
World Suicide Prevention Day was September 10th: www.un.org/en/observances/international-days-and-weeks
The Chilean military overthrew elected president Salvador Allende September 11, 1973 with the heavy involvement of the US government (far more than Russia was alleged to have done in 2016). Allende died in the defense of the presidential palace or by suicide. In the coup and later years tens of thousands of people were arrested, tortured, or killed, and the dead include US citizens and a car bombing in Washington, DC September 21, 1976. There was some armed popular resistance on and after September 11th. Following the coup Augusto Pinochet came to power and this era is praised by neoliberal economists and rightists in the USA and EU even today. See also this article from A Verdade: durhamspark.blogspot.com/2019/08/a-verdade-financed-by-us-dictatorships.html
This year is the 22nd anniversary of the 9/11/2001 attacks, the justification for decades of war, torture, attacks on constitutional rights and international law, etc. So much has changed since the summer of 2001 and it continues, with attacks on Afghanistan, the prisoners in Gitmo, etc., though now the US government is focusing on Russia, China, and information warfare, and climate change is making itself ever more clearly.
The Benghazi attack in Libya was September 11, 2012.
[The Flatwoods Monster UFO encounter was September 12, 1952, starting around 7:15pm, in Braxton County, in central West Virginia, and again has been attributed to a meteor, a passing airplane, an owl, etc. There is a museum in Sutton, WV and there is or was a festival: braxtonwv.org/things-to-do/attractions/all-things-paranormal/flatwoodsmonsterhome/ ]
[Apparently Point Pleasant, WV's Mothman Festival will be September 16 – 17, though the original flap of sightings was something like November 15, 1966 – December 15, 1967, when the Silver Bridge over the Ohio River collapsed; note the 2002 movie and John Keel's 1975 book; people still report sightings in various places: www.mothmanfestival.com/ ][Wikipedia notes belled buzzards in Western NC around November 20, 1855, etc., new to me: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belled_buzzard ]
National Estuaries Week will be September 14 - 21.
International Day of Democracy is September 15th: www.un.org/en/observances/democracy-day
Mexico's Independence Day is September 16th, commemorating Miguel Hidalgo's Grito de Dolores (Cry of Dolores) in 1810.
[Libya's Lion of the Desert, Omar al-Mukhṭār Muḥammad bin Farḥāṭ al-Manifī, August 20, 1858 – September 16, 1931, fought Italian, French, and British colonialism in the Sahara.]
The International Day for Preservation of the Ozone Layer is September 16th: www.un.org/en/observances/international-days-and-weeks September 16, 2009 agreements protecting the ozone layer became the first universally ratified UN treaties. The ozone layer (made of a form of oxygen) absorbs some ultraviolet light, but is depleted by industrial chemicals, such as CFCs, which are also potent greenhouse gases.
[World Water Monitoring Day September 18th: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_environmental_dates ?]
[Betty and Barney Hill, a multiracial couple [it has been suggested that this is relevant information], are supposed to have been abducted by a UFO the night of September 19-20, 1961 in rural New Hampshire. A chart recalled under hypnosis led to the idea that there is a gray alien presence around Zeta Reticuli, a binary star in Reticulum, a small and dim far southern constellation near the south celestial pole, not visible from here [on second thought, maybe part of it comes above the horizon here]. Ufonauts have been claimed to come from many planets in this solar system and elsewhere. I wonder if China or another country will have a similar "Space Age," and would the term "astronaut" become outdated if human spaceflight were more extensive.]
The Petrozavodsk phenomenon was seen from Denmark to the Soviet Far East September 20, 1977, but is named for the capital of the Karelian ASSR, bordering Finland. Some have attributed it to the launch of Kosmos-955 the same day; the satellite returned to Earth September 8, 2000.
The Soviet probe Zond 5 was the first spacecraft to travel around the Moon, and carried several plants and animals. There was also a fake radio transmission, as if cosmonauts were onboard. The mission was September 14 - 2l, 1968.
The International Day of Peace is September 21st: www.un.org/en/observances/international-day-peace
In the Vela Incident on September 22, 1979 a possible nuclear test was detected in the Indian Ocean between South Africa and Antarctica. There were many theories, including that it was a joint test by South Africa and Israel. Israel is generally thought to have hundreds of nuclear weapons today and South Africa developed and then dismantled its nuclear weapons.
[German astronomer Joann Gottfried Galle, at the Berlin Observatory, discovered the planet Neptune September 23-25, 1846, when it was close to the star Deneb Algedi (meaning tail of the goat), at the east corner of Capricornus the Sea Goat, visible near Aquila the Eagle and Aquarius (marked by Saturn) for much of the night now. Neptune is currently in or near Pisces the Fish, visible around early morning, bordered by Pegasus, Andromeda, and Cetus, and Neptune will be at opposition September 19th. It is apparently the windiest planet and many "sub-Neptunes" have been discovered. Astronomers can crow that Neptune's existence had been predicted mathematically based on perturbations in the orbit of newly discovered Uranus, another ice giant. Apparently Neptune had been noted by Galileo December 28, 1612 and January 27, 1613; by the Paris Observatory May 8 and 10, 1795; and by John Herschel July 14, 1830.
Deneb Algedi: penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Topics/astronomy/_Texts/secondary/ALLSTA/Capricornus*.html ]
[The northern hemisphere's fall equinox will be September 23rd in 2023, also the first day of the traditional Libra astrological period.]
Ken Burns' The Civil War was first aired on PBS September 23 – 27, 1990; it was aired September 7– 11, 2015 for its 25th anniversary and the 150th anniversary of the War.
The Mukden Incident was September 18, 1931, leading to the Japanese seizure of Manchuria from the Republic of China.
National Hunting and Fishing Day is September 24th [September 23rd NC WRC events: www.ncwildlife.org/nhfd?utm_source=iContact&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nc-wildlife-update&utm_content=Copy+of+September+NC+Wildlife+Update ].
[World Rivers Day, the last Sunday in September, the 24th: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_environmental_dates and www.americanrivers.org/ ]
[OSIRIS-REx returns with a sample of asteroid Bennu September 24th: www.planetary.org/space-missions/osiris-rex ]
The International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons is September 26th: www.un.org/en/observances/nuclear-weapons-elimination-day The USA, Russia, and other major nuclear powers demand that smaller countries completely and unilaterally denuclearize, and not develop rockets that could carry nuclear weapons, while they have thousands of nuclear weapons ready to destroy humanity and instead of beginning to get rid of them, they spend huge amounts to maintain their current weapons and develop new ones. The US also engages in a large amount of nuclear proliferation, by giving other countries nuclear weapons and by shielding weapon development by its allies. The use of nuclear-powered submarines is also seen as threatening, though they might not be better weapons than conventional submarines.
Iraq was falsely accused of developing nuclear weapons, and was invaded in 2003, killing many civilians and leading to sectarian conflict and the creation of ISIS.
Libya gave up its weapons program and was then attacked [by NATO countries] in 2011, creating a "failed state" and a flood of migrants through Libya to the EU [and a literal flood September 10-11, 2023 in Derna, also a center of violent Islamists].
Democrats and Republicans accuse Iran of seeking nuclear weapons and it is under severe pressure and faces war, despite not developing nuclear weapons while under threat from nuclear powers. Iran agreed to abide by the JCPOA, which Trump unilaterally rendered void and Biden refuses restore it, though trading with Iran might reduce fuel costs and improve the Democrats' electoral prospects. Iran has the right to develop peaceful nuclear technology under the Non-Proliferation Treaty.
The DPRK developed nuclear weapons and long-range ballistic missiles [and soon missile submarines], and now seems relatively safe from attack by the USA and other countries, though that is not only because of its nuclear status, and nuclear weapons give the US another justification for its Korean policies. On the other hand, the US doesn't mind when its allies, such as the UK, Israel, India, develop nuclear weapons and even helps them.
World Maritime Day is also September 26th: www.un.org/en/events/maritimeday/
Toughie, the last known Rabbs' fringe-limbed treefrog, died September 26, 2016 at the Atlanta Botanical Garden. The species had been scientifically discovered in 2005 in a small area of cloud forest on the Pacific side of Panama.
The border between Colombia and Venezuela reopened September 26, 2022, after being closed due to the US and Colombian attempts to start a coup in Venezuela during the Trump years, not that the Biden administration doesn't want to overthrow the "communist" Bolivarian social-democrats. Even Bernie Sanders on the left of the Democratic Party called Hugo Chavez a "communist dictator." NPR blamed all of the border problems on Venezuelan 'authoritarianism,' rather than foreign powers led by the USA trying to impose a rightist puppet government on Venezuela, as Trump and Obama attempted with varying degrees of success in Cuba, Bolivia, and Honduras.
NASA moved an asteroid slightly (DART), to test a method of "planetary defense," September 26, 2022. On the one hand, a large asteroid hitting the Earth would probably cause a mass extinction, but humans are currently causing a mass extinction and not very interested in stopping it. Humanity probably couldn't have evolved without the extraterrestrial impact about 65 million years ago, or whatever caused the mass extinction that ended the age of the dinosaurs, an impact being the leading "American" Space Age theory. What if we were unlucky and something much larger was hurtling towards the Earth? Supposedly just Comet Hale-Bopp would be far worse. I read that if an alien civilization, perhaps upset by an intentional human signal, could fire off a weapon the size of a car, traveling near the speed of light, the force of the impact would devastate the Earth. I'm not sure if the claim was that the Earth would be destroyed or just damaged. At some point China or some other new superpower might claim to be the defender of the Earth from cosmic dangers and the new representative of humanity. Asteroid Dimorphos was discovered November 20, 2003.
Italian photojournalist Andrea Rocchelli (September 27, 1983 – May 24, 2014) and Andrei Mironov (March 31, 1954 – May 24, 2014) were killed, maybe with others, near Sloviansk in Donetsk; in the end a Ukrainian National Guard soldier and Italian citizen was acquitted on appeal: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_Rocchelli
Japanese leftist Fusako Shigenobu was born September 28, 1945 in Setagaya, Tokyo: thefunambulist.net/magazine/decentering-the-us/fusako-shigenobu-an-open-ended-revolution See also throwoutyourbooks.wordpress.com/2022/06/17/reflecting-legacy-fusako-shigenobu/
[Gamal Abdel Nasser Hussein January 15, 1918-September 28, 1970]
World Rabies Day was September 28th: www.who.int/rabies/WRD_landing_page/en/ I heard from a local licensed wildlife rehabilitator that vaccination against this almost universally fatal virus is offered by the Durham County Health Department, and immunity usually lasts a long time, but the vaccination is expensive.
September 28th is the International Day for Universal Access to Information: www.un.org/en/observances/information-access-day
[The Libyan Great Man-Made River has several anniversaries on or near August 28th and September 28th; for example Qaddafi placed a foundation stone August 28, 1984, one of two plants making the pipes was inaugurated by Qaddafi August 28, 1986 in Brega, and water first reached Gharyan in the NW September 28, 2007. The Brega plant was bombed by NATO July 22, 2011.]
[Michaelmas is September 29th, a British quarter day, or November 8th.]
[The Italo-Turkish War was September 29, 1911-October 18, 1912.]
Mao proclaimed the PRC October 1, 1949 in Tiananmen.
The legendary founding of Gojoseon October 3, 2333 BCE is a holiday in the ROK and marked in the DPRK.
World Space Week is October 4th - 10th: www.un.org/en/observances/world-space-week
[Sarah York visited Panama as a guest of President Manuel Noriega October 5-11, 1988 and again on a family vacation October 8-17, 1989, shortly before the US invaded the country in December 1989.]
[Derna, Libya was taken over by ISIS October 5, 2014, overthrown by the anti-ISIS Shura Council of Mujahideen in Derna, allegedly linked to al Qaida, followed by the Derna Protection Force, defeated by Khalifa Haftar's Libyan National Army in February 2019.]
Nebuchadnezzar the Great, the second ruler of the Neo-Babylonian or Chaldean Empire, is supposed to have passed away around October 7, 562 BCE in ancient Babylon.
[The Weather Underground bombed the Marin County Civic Center in San Rafael, California October 8, 1970.]
[A supernova was
noticed near theta Ophiuchi, a star visible
now, around
October 10, 1604; this was
the last supernova
in our galaxy
that was definitely seen,
it is sometimes
called Kepler's Supernova.
There was one in Cassiopeia
in the late
1600's
and in Sagittarius
around 1890-1908.]
[Charles Hickson and Calvin Parker claimed that they were abducted by a UFO while fishing in the Pascagoula River near US 90 in coastal Mississippi October 11, 1973. A very small USO, an unidentified submerged object, was seen and chased around without success near a Coast Guard station in the Pascagoula area November 6th of that year and there are accounts of strange sounds coming from waterways in the region around Pascagoula and Biloxi, MS.][Parker passed away August 24th at 8:15am due to kidney cancer, with a private memorial September 2nd: www.fatemag.com/post/gone-fishing-calvin-parker? ]
[Solar eclipses will be visible from the US October 14, 2023 and April 8, 2024.]
The first Crimean War began October 16, 1853.
Niche Gardens, a pioneering native plant nursery a few miles southwest of Carrboro went out of business October 18, 2019. Besides the retail nursery there were display gardens. NCSU graduate Kim Hawks founded Niche Gardens on Dawson Road in 1986, when gardening with native plants was a more unusual concept. The nursery was also a pioneer in selling plants online.
[International Observe the Moon Night is October 21: moon.nasa.gov/observe-the-moon-night/ ]
[National Reptile Awareness Day October 21st: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_environmental_dates ?]
Disarmament Week is October 24th – 30th: www.un.org/en/observances/disarmament-week
Global Media and Information Literacy Week is October 24th – 31st: www.un.org/en/observances/media-information-literacy-week
The last known Labrador duck was a male killed in the fall of 1875 off Long Island, now preserved in Washington, DC. Another specimen was supposed to have been killed December 2, 1878 in Elmira, New York, but the remains have since been lost: web.archive.org/web/20150215071011/http://www.petermaas.nl/extinct/speciesinfo/labradorduck.htm
Nature writer Edwin Way Teale passed away October 18, 1980. He was born June 2, 1899 in Joliet, Illinois.
The first interstellar object, 'Oumuamua, thought to be a natural object, though some have suggested that it could be artificial, was discovered October 19, 2017, and there was discussion of sending a probe after it.
[The Great
Comet of 1577 reached perihelion
round October 27th and was noted 5 days later
in Peru. It was
noted in the native Mexican Codex
Aubin Wednesday,
November 6th. It was seen
around the world,
but it isn't expected to ever return.]
The Turkestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, with Tashkent as its capital, was created within the RSFSR April 30, 1918. The name varied. It was abolished October 27, 1924 and ultimately divided into the Central Asian republics of the USSR, today independent countries.
[A supernova in Cassiopeia in
our galaxy was seen from about November 2, 1572 into 1574
and peaked around November 16th; sometimes
called Tycho's Supernova.]
[Travis Walton is supposed to have been abducted by a UFO November 5, 1975 near Snowflake, Arizona, and was missing for a few days.]
[Cortés
and part of his
army were met by emperor Moctezuma II and peacefully entered the
Aztec capital
Tenochtitlan
November
8, 1519.]
[The Arecibo
Message was beamed
towards globular star cluster M13, about 125,000 light years away, on
November 16, 1974. A reciprocal crop circle was found at the south
end of the UK in August 2001.]
Fidel Castro, retired at the time, passed away November 25, 2016, outlasting numerous US administrations that tried to assassinate him or overturn the Cuban revolution.
[Artist and music collector Harry Everett Smith, known for compiling the Anthology of American Folk Music, released August 9, 1952, passed away November 27, 1991 in New York City: americanroutes.wwno.org/archives/show/1341/Who-was-Harry-Smith-The-Great-Delineator-and-his-Anthology-of-American-Folk-Music ; folkways.si.edu/anthology-of-american-folk-music/african-american-music-blues-old-time/music/album/smithsonian ]
[The Myrotvorets website, alleged to be a Ukrainian SBU and CIA operation, was created December 15, 2014, according to Wikipedia.]
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