THE WORLD FAMOUS HISTORY AND PAST EVENTS

EARLY YEAR OF 2022 A NINETEEN YEAR OLD BOY  NAILED TO A TREE FOR ALLEGEDLY STEALING A RADIO This incident happens in Kenya where the Police has rescued the 19-year-old Collins Sambaya who was nailed to a tree on suspicion of stealing a radio in his local community, Chamasili village. Collins was injured by one Elvis Irime, who used two roofing nails and  nailed both his palms to a tree on Friday, February 18. The Chief of the village, Evans Endesha later reported the matter to the police via a phone call.  Upon visiting the scene, the police found the young man in great pain. A report came out that the assailant suspect ran away when he heard the police were on their way. Sambaya was rescued and rushed to a nearby clinic where he is in stable condition. A statement issued by the Directorate of Criminal Investigation, DCI, says the police have launched manhunt for the suspect responsible for this inhuman act. What are your thoughts on this?

The most brutal shark attacks ever recorded Shark Attack on Shirley Ann Durdin.  Shirley Ann Durdin was a shark attack victim who was killed in Australia by a great white shark. One of the most horrifying shark attacks in history, it remains one of the very few incidences where a great white killed and ate a human. Shirley Ann Durdin, a 33-year-old mother of four, went snorkeling with her husband and another man in 7-foot deep water near Port Lincoln in Peake Bay, South Australia for scallops.  The three snorkelers were on their way to shore when Shirley was savagely attacked by a great white estimated to be around 20 feet long by eyewitnesses. In a spray of froth and blood, the shark proceeded to bite Mrs. Durdin in half.  Fisherman on shore tried to rescue her, but by the time they reached her, all that was left of Shirley Ann was her headless torso. As they watched in horror, the shark reclaimed the remainder of Durdin's body and disappeared. Aftermath Shirley Ann Durd...

Execution Of The Last Incan Emperor, Atahuallpa Founded in AD 1438, the Inca Empire was the largest empire in pre-Columbian America. With its capital at Cusco, the empire ruled over lands in present-day Peru, Argentina, Chile, Bolivia and Ecuador.  In May 1532, following a civil war that resulted in him defeating his rivals, Atahualpa became the new Inca emperor. But his moment in the sun was brief because in the same year the threat of a Spanish invasion became a reality.  In November, with tensions growing between the Incas and the Spanish, Atahualpa camped outside the city of Cajamarca with a huge army. He had heard word that a small Spanish force, led by Francisco Pizarro, was marching through his territory, so he sent one of his men to their camp. News soon returned informing the emperor that the Spanish force comprised 106 foot soldiers and 62 cavalry. On hearing this, Atahualpa requested that they should come and meet him. He believed that their inferior numbers posed n...

Hideki Tojo, who was executed with a secret message engraved on his false teeth. Tojo was the man behind the attack on Pearl Harbor, millions of civilian deaths and war crimes against enemy soldiers.  He was Prime Minister of Japan during WWII, and a proponent of pre-emptive attacks on Japan's enemies, including America. The wholesale slaughter of Chinese civilians, and the terrible treatment of Allied POWs were carried out on his watch.  Upon his arrest by American GIs he shot himself in the chest, but missed his heart and was revived. Whilst awaiting trial he was issued new dentures by American medical staff. What he didn't know was that 'REMEMBER PEARL HARBOR' had been engraved on the inside of them in Morse code. During his trial he was unrepentant, claiming Japan was righteous and brave. He did request that the Americans treat the Japanese with dignity and respect in defeat - unusual considering the Japanese treatment of their enemies. They were fans of things like...

20,000 Watched the Last Public Hanging 78 Years Ago Writing today about the last public execution in the United States. It occurred 78 years ago yesterday. In Owensboro, Kentucky. The hanging was attended by nearly 20,000 people and it looked like this. The defendant, Rainey Bethea, raped and murdered Lischia Edwards on June 7, 1936. Bethea was an early suspect and confessed. Fingerprint evidence (that was new) linked him to the crime. As his trial was to begin, Bethea pled guilty.  He had been charged only with rape (not murder) which then permitted a sentence of public hanging. Had he been convicted of murder, the death penalty would have been carried out in Eddyville by electric chair. The trial started before the month of June was over. The jury was selected from a pool of 111 names. The FIRST 12 names drawn served on the jury. All were white. All were men. The victim was white. Bethea was black. The Owensboro jury that heard this case deliberated Bethea's penalty only. It...

Villagers Kill Gigantic Swollen Snake They Thought Had Eaten Livestock…  Only To Discover It Was Filled With Scores Of Eggs  Locals k.i.lled a massive snake after accusing it of eating a cow due to its enormous tummy and discovering it was pregnant with hundreds of eggs. The event occurred in Nigeria, where local media said that the snake was s.l.a.in after reports that it had been preying on farmers’ animals. However, as these photographs reveal, the snake was not overweight as a result of its last meal; rather, it was pregnant. After being sliced open, hundreds of eggs were found and retrieved by locals who see them as a unique delicacy. Although it was unclear what species of snake it was, several snakes may lay up to 100 eggs at once. Most online users appear to have little compassion for the snake, pointing out that it was a good thing that about a hundred young snakes would no longer be produced. The snake seems to be an anaconda based on its size, which appears to be al...

European Atrocities In Africa Congo Genocide by Belgium King Leopold 1885 – 1908 After the Berlin Conference of 1884 the 905,000 square miles of the Belgian Congo, now the Democratic Republic of the Congo, became the personal property of King Leopold II of Belgium. His genocidal exploitation of the territory, particularly the rubber trade, caused many deaths and much suffering. Murder and mutilation were common. Failure to meet the rubber collection quotas was punishable by death. The Force Publique were required to provide a hand of their victims as proof when they had shot and killed someone, as it was believed that they would otherwise use the munitions for hunting food. As a consequence, the rubber quotas were in part paid off in chopped-off hands. Sometimes the hands were collected by the soldiers of the Force Publique, sometimes by the villages themselves. There were even small wars where villages attacked neighbouring villages to gather hands, since their rubber quotas were too ...

Australian soldiers walking on duckboards through the shell-torn Château Wood, October 29, 1917. This photograph is perhaps one of the most iconic and famous from the First World War, and was captured today 106 years ago by Australian Second Lieutenant Hubert Wilkins - but often, and wrongly, credited to the other and more well-known Australian war photographer Frank Hurley. The photograph shows five Australian soldiers from the 110th Howitzer Battery of the 10th Field Artillery Brigade of the Australian 4th Division walking on duckboards inside the Château Wood near Hooge in Flanders, during the Third Battle of Ypres. Four of the five soldiers have since been identified, with two of them confirmed. The soldier leading the party is Gunner James Macrea Fulton and the man to the right of him, staring into the camera, is Lieutenant Antony Devine. It's speculated the two next men behind are  brothers - Gunner Hubert Lionel Nichols and Gunner Douglas Roy Nichols. The soldier at the back...

"I just wanted to know what it felt like to kill someone." Showing disturbed signs from at least the age of 10, 15-year-old Alyssa Bustamante premeditated the murder of her 9-year-old neighbor, Elizabeth Olten, on the 21st of October, 2009 in St. Martins, Missouri. Alyssa was born to a teenage mother, who has a criminal record for petty crimes, drug possession, and a DUI. Alyssa's father was in prison serving a 10-year sentence for assault. Alyssa was described as a violent, depressed, and angry child, always speaking to her friends about the darker side of life: gothic poetry, cutting herself, numerous suicide attempts, and even stated to one friend "I would love to know how it feels to kill someone." It seemed as if the fantasy wasn't enough and she wanted the real thing, so one Friday evening, while other teenagers were out doing what teens do, Alyssa began to dig two graves. That opportunity for murder came to fruition 4 days later, when she spotted her ...

25 OCT 1944 Part 3 Battle of Samar While the Johnston was making its epic fight, Lieutenant Commander Robert W. Copeland’s Samuel B. Roberts got into the fight. The Sammy B was a Butler class destroyer escort. She was armed with 2 5 inch as opposed to the 5 5 inch guns on the destroyers. Instead of 10 she had 3 torpedoes.  It was intended as an antisubmarine platform but it would sail into harm’s way like a battleship. Sizing up the situation he told his crew "This will be a fight against overwhelming odds from which survival cannot be expected. We will do what damage we can." With that announcement he turned to the attack. Dodging from smoke screen to smoke screen he launched his torpedoes at the cruiser Chokai at 4,000 yards. He turned away and headed back to cover the carriers.  One torpedo hit and the Chokai rapidly lost speed and fell out of column. At 0810- as he neared the carrier formation he observed the heavy cruiser Chikuma firing into the carriers. Roberts charged...

Raymond Henry Bousquet - aka Del Fontaine. 30 year old Bousquet was a French Canadian citizen and professional boxer.  As Del Fontaine he had won the Canadian middleweight boxing championship in 1926 and again in 1931.  In 1932 he moved to London to continue his career, leaving his wife in Canada. In 1933 Bousquet struck up a relationship with Hilda A. Meek whose age was given as 18 or 19.  They met at the Locarno dancehall in Streatham.  The relationship would continue for two years, until Bousquet decided to return to his wife in Winnipeg.  Hilda pleaded with him to come back and this he did.  However, he soon found out that Hilda was seeing other men and on July the 10th 1935 he wrote Hilda a letter in which he threatened to kill her if she persisted with the other relationships.  He arranged to meet her at the Redcap Pub in Camberwell, where he gave her the letter.  They visited other pubs before Hilda went home to see her mother, Alice. ...

The Face of War A striking image of a soldier kneeling over a comrade at Omaha Beach, Normandy, on 7 June 1944.   The drenched soldier stares despairingly into the distance, while his hand rests tenderly on his comrade’s body.   The dead soldier’s boots protruding from the blanket adds to the image’s poignancy.   For me, the photograph conjures up emotive images in my mind, such as Mary cradling Jesus’ mortal body, after he’d been taken down from the cross.   Despite a battlefield littered with graphic scenes of wrecked hulks, scorched vehicles, and scores of dead, it’s this most human-of-photographs that remains with us eighty years on.   The image of Second Lieutenant Walter Sidlowski was captured moments after his squad had rescued drowning men from a sinking landing craft.  ‘We swam out and took a few each time and brought them back to shore,’ remembered Sidlowski.  Sidlowski didn’t recall Walter Rosenblum snapping photogra...

James Johnson - for the murder of his wife. 43 year old James Johnson lived in lodgings at 68 Cannon Street in Newcastle upon Tyne with his wife 35 year old Mary Annie and daughters, 13 year old Nancy, 8 year old Jenifer and 3 year old Irene and five year old son James.  He was a bookmaker but was also well known to the police for gambling offences, drunkenness, assault and petty theft.  He began a two month prison sentence for the latter two offences in December of 1928. While he was incarcerated Mary had been seeing one William “Billy” Ridley.  She denied that the relationship was anything more that platonic but the two older daughters told a different story.  This inevitably led to friction between Johnson and Mary.  On the evening of the 9th of May 1929 Mary left the house after a row and sought out a policeman.  Constable George Urwin accompanied her back to Cannon Street and “had a word” with Johnson, as was the typical procedure of the time.  Jo...

WE MUST NEVER FORGET!!! MAJI MAJI   UPRISING   1905 - 1907 The Maji Maji Rebellion, was a violent AFRICAN RESISTANCE by several African indigenous communities against the German rule. The uprising in Tanganyika was the most significant African challenge to German colonial rule during the brief period when Germany had African colonies. In response to a German policy designed to force African peoples to grow cotton for export, the war lasted two years and involved people over 10,000 square miles.  During the "scramble for Africa" that began with the Treaty of Berlin in 1885, European powers dominated much of Africa, carving out vast territories as their own and establishing often brutal regimes to enforce their rule. Four major regions had been colonized by Germany, including Tanganyika (modern-day Tanzania), Togo, Cameroon, and Namibia. Tanzania had been acquired largely through the efforts of the German Colonization Society, founded by Dr. Karl Peters.  ...

After Hiroshima and Nagasaki: Tragedy and Humiliation.  U.S. and Australian brutalisation of women on the Japanese mainland.   (Excerpt From Pages 66-69) All references are provided in the book itself.  “There was a far darker side to the U.S. and allied occupation of Japan, one which is little mentioned in the vast majority of histories – American or otherwise. When Japan surrendered in August 1945, mass rapes by occupying forces were expected… [despite setting up of a comfort women which recruited or otherwise trafficked desperate women to brothels] such crimes were still common and several of them were extremely brutal and resulted in the deaths of the victims. Political science professor Eiji Takemae wrote regard- ing the conduct of American soldiers occupying Japan: ‘U.S. troops comported themselves like conquerors, especially in the early weeks and months of occupation. Misbehavior ranged from black-marketeering, petty theft, reckless driving and disorderly con...

Robert Hubert – for the Great Fire of London. On Sunday the 2nd of September 1666 the Great Fire of London started in a bakery in Pudding Lane owned by Thomas Farriner or Farynor.  It burned for three days before being finally extinguished on the Wednesday.   As sometimes happened people confessed to high profile crimes they did not commit and Robert Hubert, the 26 year old son of a watchmaker from Rouen in France did just that.  He was arrested in Essex, apparently trying to flee the country. Initially he claimed that he started the fire in Westminster but when it was pointed out to him that the fire never reached there, he changed his story and claimed that the fire bombed the baker’s shop in Pudding Lane.   The baker, Thomas Farriner, said that the window through which the fire bomb had allegedly been thrown didn’t actually exist.  Hubert hadn’t arrived in London until the Tuesday, two days after the fire started. In fact he was aboard a Swedish shi...

Photo: Ore teams in Idaho Springs, Colorado c.1894 In January 1859, during the Colorado gold rush, a prospector named George A. Jackson made a significant discovery of placer gold at the present-day site of Idaho Springs. This event marked the first substantial gold find in Colorado. Jackson, a native of Missouri with prior experience in the California goldfields, was drawn to the region due to the sight of steam rising from nearby hot springs.  He initially kept his discovery a secret for several months. However, when he used gold dust to pay for supplies, word spread, and others hurried to Jackson's diggings. The location was initially referred to as "Jackson's Diggings." As it evolved into a permanent settlement, it underwent various name changes, including "Sacramento City," "Idahoe," "Idaho," "Idaho City," and finally "Idaho Springs." The identification of gold veins within the canyon walls on both sides of Clear ...

🇬🇧WWII uncovered: Sergeant Thomas Frank Durrant Posthumously Honored with the Victoria Cross for St Nazaire Raid "In February 1937 Thomas Durrant, age 18, enlisted with the Royal Engineers. After basic training Tommy specialised in explosives and demolition at Shorncliffe Camp, Kent. In September of 1939 Durrant volunteered for the Special Service Independent Companies and went with No 2 Special Independent Company on the excursion to Norway in the spring of 1940. It was during this time in Norway that he was promoted to Sergeant." "On the return from Norway, the Companies were reformed into Commando units, and Tommy Durrant found himself in No 1 Commando under Lieutenant Colonel William Glendinning but, when the raid on St Nazaire was mooted, he became attached to Lieutenant Colonel Newman's No 2 Commando. With the other volunteers he underwent intensive training in Scotland and elsewhere before eventually boarding Motor Launch 306, bound for France in March 1942....