Sada Shree

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Techie from Hyderabad, Amateur Historian

Author of City of Victory a book on the rise and fall of the Vijayanagara Empire

Interests in movies, music, books, blogging, history.

Conservative but not RW

Wordpress Bloghttps://historyunderyourfeet.wordpress.com/
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Sada ShreeMar 1, 2023
#TodayInHistory Klaus Fuchs is convicted of spying for the Soviet Union in 1950 for 9 years in prison, sharing critical information about the Manhattan Project both during and after WWII. He was behind many theoretical calculations relating to early models of the hydrogen bomb.
Sada ShreeMar 1, 2023
#TodayInHistory The March 1st Movement begins in Korea in 1910, as students in Korea begin protests against Japanese occupation. Also called the Sam-Il movement,it was brutally suppressed with 7500 killed, 16,000 injured and 46,000 arrested.
Sada ShreeMar 1, 2023

#TodayInHistory The Zimmermann Telegram is published in major newspapers in US in 1917, a secret communication between Germany and Mexico, that stated if the US were to enter WW1, they would help Mexico to recover Arizona, Texas and New Mexico.

The Zimmermann Telegram so named after the then German Foreign Secretary, was decrypted by the British intelligence. It's publication helped to drive support for US entry into WWI.

Sada ShreeMar 1, 2023
#TodayInHistory Henri Becquerel discovers radioactivity for the first time in 1896 by accident, when he finds a fogged image on the photographic plate, he had left in a desk drawer, and had placed a phosphorent uranium compound on top of it.
Sada ShreeMar 1, 2023
#TodayInHistory Nebraska becomes the 37th state of US in 1867, nicknamed the Cornhusker State, it's largest city is Omaha. Known for it's prairies, a major corn producer, home to Kool-Aid, Warren Buffet, it's capital is located at Lincoln.
Sada ShreeMar 1, 2023

#TodayInHistory Muhammad Ali the Ottoman Governor of Egypt, invites all the elite Mamluk leaders in 1811, for a military parade, and massacres them en masse, around 3000 of them. This was done to enforce the Ottoman hold on Egypt.

The Mamluks were originally slaves, who later went on to become reputed warriors, like the knights of England. Primarily of Turkish origin, however they came later from Georgia, Central Asia, the Balkans too.

Sada ShreeMar 1, 2023
#TodayInHistory Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne and Tituba are bought before the magistrate in Salem, MA in 1692, accused of witchcraft, beginning the notorious Salem Witch Trials, that would see 19 people executed on allegations of practicing witch craft.
Sada ShreeFeb 27, 2023
#TodayInHistory Allied forces( Dutch, American, British, Australian) suffer a heavy defeat at the Battle of the Java Sea in 1942, at the hands of the Imperial Japanese navy, losing 3 destroyers and around 2300 sailors., as the entire Dutch East Indies is occupied by Japanese.
Sada ShreeFeb 27, 2023
#TodayInHistory Martin Kamen and Samuel Ruben discover Carbon-14 in 1940 by blasting a graphite target with sub-atomic particles from the 60-inch cyclotron. This would later be used to determine age of any objects containing organic material, especially fossils.
Sada ShreeFeb 27, 2023
#TodayInHistory The Reichstag in Berlin is set on fire in 1933, 4 weeks after Hitler is sworn in as Chancellor. The Nazis, used the event to create a conspiracy of Communists plotting against the State, that would lead to the establishment of the Nazi dictatorship.