THAI army troops fired live rounds at anti-government Red Shirt protesters in the heart of Thailand’s capital yesterday, injuring more than 70 in a dramatic escalation of the month-long stand-off between demonstrators and security forces. That quote is from the Sydney Morning Herald. Apparently 93 people (22 of which were soldiers) had to be transported [...]
Thailand is being watched by media around the globe again because of turmoil in the country. This weekend saw continued violence in the country after a month long standoff between the Thai government of Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva and the many Red Shirt protesters. In fact there are hundreds of thousands of them. Most of [...]
On the afternoon of April 12, US President Roosevelt died. He said, “I have a terrific pain in the back of my head.” And then he slumped forward in his chair, unconscious, and was carried into his bedroom. The president’s attending doctor, Dr. Howard Bruenn, diagnosed a massive stroke. At 3:35 p.m. that day, Roosevelt [...]
Johann Georg Elser, born on January 4 1903, was a German opponent of the Nazis. He will be forever remembered for the unsuccessful attempt to kill Hitler in 1939. He died on this day in 1945. He was killed by gunshot at the Dachau concentration camp only a couple of weeks before the end of [...]
On April 8, 1950 Pakistan and India signed the Liaquat–Nehru Pact. It was signed between Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and Pakistan’s Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan in New Delhi. At the time of independence, many communal riots broke out in different areas of Pakistan and India. These riots had a great impact on the [...]
On this day in 1917, US President Woodrow Wilson urges the US Congress to declare on Germany during World War I. Gentlemen of the Congress: I have called the Congress into extraordinary session because there are serious, very serious, choices of policy to be made, and made immediately, which it was neither right nor constitutionally [...]
These aren’t made. If you want silly April Fools news head to be one of the other sites. These are all political events that happend on the 1st of April though: In 1318 Berwick-upon-Tweed is captured by the Scotland from England. In 1789 the United States House of Representatives elects Frederick Muhlenberg of Pennsylvania as [...]
