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... The priests followers beat up the boys whose parents arrived to defend them. A mob was then incited to attack the ghetto. Thousands were slaughtered, the synagogue and the cemetery were destroyed, and homes were pillaged. King Wenceslaus insisted that the responsibility rested with the Jews for venturing outside during Holy Week.
1423. április 18. Zsigmond király kivál... |
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... recognition of the way in which the Maltese people had stood up to more than 2,000 bombing raids and constant shortages over the past twelve month.
1942: The British begin to destroy the oil wells at Yenangyuang. The 1st Burma Division with the help of the 38th Chinese Division, manages to extricate itself from a pocket south of Yenangyuang, before being completely sur... |
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| ... Christian child (for the baking of matzos), though not of killing him. Fifteen "culprits" were arrested. The next day a mob broke into the synagogue. Tney killed some of the worshippers, destroyed some fifty scrolls, and demolished the synagogue. The fifteen were soon released with no convictions, yet the government refused to allow the synagogue to be rebuilt for nearly twenty ye... |
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... whom were young.
1940: A fierce engagement between German and British naval forces in the second battle of Narvik at Jössing Fjord, which results in the sinking of 8 German destroyers and a U-Boat whose surviving crews join Gebirgsjäger units defending isolated Narvik.
1941: British Naval forces, this time supported by the Battleship HMS Warspite, again en... |
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... of a huge bribe saved the community from expulsion, but it left them destitute.
1882 April 10, PODALIA (Russia)
A pogrom left 40 dead, 170 wounded, and 1,250 dwellings destroyed. Fifteen thousand Jews were reduced to total poverty.
1904. április 10. A francia képviselőházban Maurice Allard szocialista képviselő beszédet mond a keresztény vallás ellen.... |
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... there have no success because of the stubborn German defense.
1942: Mahatma Gandhi arrested in India.
1942: Japanese aircraft sink the British carrier Hermes, the destroyer Vampire and three other warships in Indian Ocean.
1942: US-Filipino forces surrender on Bataan Peninsula in the Philippines. 78,000 troops are captured, including 12,000 Amer... |
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... naplójába Móricz Zsigmond a zsidótörvény benyújtásának napján. (Vö. 1945. március 25.)
1939: Italy invades Albania.
1940: British submarines torpedo three German ships. Destroyer Glowworm is sunk after reporting German fleet movements and ramming cruiser Hipper. British naval vessels lay mines in Norwegian waters in preparation for landings by British and Fr... |
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1945: The U.S. fleet off Okinawa is hit by the first suicide raid, code named 'Floating Chrysanthemum I'. During this attack, three destroyers are sunk, while 116 Japanese aircraft are destroyed.... |
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| ... from five aircraft carriers attack the Royal Navy's base at Colombo in Ceylon. These came from Admiral Nagumo's 1st Air Fleet under Admiral Kondo's Southern Force which was tasked with destroying the Royal Navy's Fleet in the Indian Ocean. However, the British received prior warning and sailed the bulk of their fleet to the Maldives, although the armed merchant cruiser Hector and ... |
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... captures the British held town of Benghazi in North Africa. Addis Ababa, capital of Ethiopia, is abandoned by Italians.
1943: Mrs. Thomas E. Sullivan christens the USS Sullivans, a destroyer named in honor of her five sons, who perished aboard the USS Juneau. After the tragedy, the Navy makes a point of not allowing brothers to be posted together on its warships.
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