THE WORLD FAMOUS HISTORY AND PAST EVENTS

  During Operation Varsity, paratroopers of the 17th Airborne Division take a ride on a Churchill Tank through Münster, Germany in March of 1945.  The 17th Airborne participated in its first and only airborne operation dropping alongside the British 6th Airborne Division as part of Operation Varsity. Their mission was to capture the village of Diersfordt and clear the rest of the Diersfordter Wald of any remaining German forces in order to aid the Allied ground forces in their advancement.  The “Golden Talons” of the 17th Airborne completed their mission and helped make Operation Varsity a success, but the cost of their first jump would be high with these brave paratroopers suffering a total of 1,346 casualties in five days of fighting…including 430 killed in action….Gone, but not forgotten 🇺🇸 The 746th FEAF Band recorded the only known album by a frontline band unit in the jungles of the Pacific. Stream and add/create a WW2 music playlist with these veterans’ music on your Spotify a

Captain Elliot Pflaum’s sacred duty before returning home Before returning to Australia in 1919, Captain Elliot ‘Tab’ Pflaum attended to an important personal matter.  He journeyed beyond the wrecked village of Poperinghe in Belgium to a vast cemetery that contained an endless vista of white crosses.  He walked along the rows until he found his brother, Theo’s grave. Tab stood behind the cross while a caretaker snapped a photograph.  Tab hoped this photograph would provide his mother Mary Jane some solace, after she had suffered the loss of her son Theo in 1917.  Yet Tab also knew there was no comfort for the unresolved grief that Mary Jane harboured for her other son, Ray, who had disappeared without trace at Fromelles in 1916.  Tab, who had departed Australia with his beloved ‘little’ brothers in 1915, returned home alone in May 1919.  As he walked up the family homestead’s winding drive and past the spreading oaks, he saw the empire flag that fluttered from the flagpole.  It was the

Richard Smith – the last man to hang for rape. 45 year old Richard Smith came to trial before Mr. Justice John Bosanquet at the Town Hall in Nottingham on the 14th of March 1835, charged with the rape of Mary Green in the Parish of St. Peter on the 24th of July 1835. 13 year old Mary was a servant to Smith who ran a drapery business in Carrington Street in Nottingham.  On the night of the 23rd of July, Smith sent Mary out to fetch some beer.  When she returned with it, he gave her a glass of it.  He also gave her some brandy and water and Mary was beginning to feel the effects of the alcohol.  She went to her room feeling ill and soon fell asleep, only to be woken by Smith getting into bed with her.   She alleged that intercourse had taken place.  She begged to be allowed to go home which was refused but Smith did allow her to go for a walk and she managed to get back to her parent’s house in Paradise Street.  Later in the day of the 24th her parents had her examined by surgeon, Mr. Jo

Man dies after sex romp with married lover A father of four children, Chikwado Obiyor, has been reported dead after a sex romp with his married lover, identified as Chidinma. Naija News learnt that the two lovers were said to have gone to a guest house in the commercial area of Mbieri community, Owerri, the Imo State Capital. Obiyor slumped and died immediately after the sex romp, while his lover, who is married to another man, fell into a coma. According to TRIBUNE, the incident happened on Tuesday and resulted in Chidinma being rushed to the hospital for urgent medical attention, where she is yet to regain consciousness. The duo were said to be in an amorous relationship, and Chidinma is still living with her husband at Umuchoke Obazu with two children. A leader of the community, Nokey Ebikam, condemned the development and advised married women to be very careful. He said: “Be careful, married women. It happened in Mbieri just yesterday.”

Israel justifies arrests of Palestinians after images showing stripped men detained in Gaza Israel responded to the fierce criticism provoked by degrading photographs and videos showing dozens of naked men, some of them blindfolded, captured by the Israeli army on December 7.  The government took responsibility for the mass arrests carried out by the army in the Gaza Strip the previous day. This clarification came as human rights organizations reported the disappearance of civilians in Gaza while the army extended its control in the north of the enclave. Israel was responding to fierce criticism, provoked by the release of degrading photographs and videos showing dozens of men, young and old, in their underwear, hands tied, sometimes blindfolded, rounded up in the north of Gaza and, for some, transported in a military vehicle to an unknown destination. "We're talking about military-age men who were discovered in areas that civilians were supposed to have evacuated weeks

On May 30, 1832 a duel took place in Paris in which a young man — barely twenty years old — was lethally wounded. Much later, he turned out to be one of the greatest mathematical minds in history. Although it was clear during his lifetime that he had “some” talent as a mathematician, nobody really understood what most of the “gibberish” Galois wrote was really about. His papers and ideas were often rejected, he wasn’t allowed to enter the highly prestigious École Normale Supérieure, and he was a bit of a hothead as well — especially when not understood yet again. He simply was too much ahead of his time. To add insult to injury, he was also deeply involved in the French revolution, and was used to spending time in jail if the action required this. Galois was a rebel, on the streets, and also in the mathematical mist. Unfortunately, he was talked into a duel for unknown reasons, but most probably the cause of the dual was a broken love — some say she was a prostitute, others claims she