Missed #OTD for the past week or so. A selected few ... <Thread>
15 August 1920: #Poland halts the advancing #Soviet army at Warsaw, the "Miracle on the Vistula". Had the Soviets broken through, they would have captured Germany, where a Red rising had only just been defeated, and with its people and resources Communized all of Europe. 
19 August:
43 BC: Octavian forces the Senate to make him a Consul
1953: Iran's lawless Prime Minister Mossadeq is deposed a counter-coup assisted by SIS and CIA
1991: KGB-led coup attempt in the Soviet Union begins
2010: Last combat troops leave Iraq after seven years
43 BC: Octavian forces the Senate to make him a Consul
1953: Iran's lawless Prime Minister Mossadeq is deposed a counter-coup assisted by SIS and CIA
1991: KGB-led coup attempt in the Soviet Union begins
2010: Last combat troops leave Iraq after seven years
20 August 1083: Canonization of #Hungary's first Christian King, Stephen I, who had been born a pagan, named Vajk of the Arpad. Stephen's coronation, with a crown from the Pope, was probably on 25 DEC 1000, following Charlemagne, who chose Christ's birth date in 800 to be Emperor
21 August 1968: The #Soviet_Union invades #Czechoslovakia, supported by troops from several of the Captive Nations, to "normalize" a Communist regime that had begun experimenting with liberalizing reforms.
22 August 1572: Adm. Gaspard de Coligny, the leader of the Huguenots, is nearly assassinated while in Paris for a wedding that is supposed to compose the sectarian differences of France. Instead, it is used by the ultra-Catholics for a decapitation strike against the Protestants.
The initial massacre of the Huguenot leaders ignites into a wholesale slaughter of Protestants in Paris and soon well beyond, an infamous atrocity known as the Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre, hailed by the Roman Pope as a victory equivalent to Lepanto
https://twitter.com/KyleWOrton/status/1429772874424979461
• • •
Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to
force a refresh
