Saturday, 25 November 2017

World Record on November25

Evacuation Day in New York (1783)

Holodomor Remembrance Day in Ukraine (2017)

885 – A fleet of Viking ships sailed up the Seine to lay siege to Paris.

1759 – The second of two strong earthquakes struck the Levant and destroyed all the villages in the Beqaa Valley.

1917 – World War I: German troops invaded Portuguese East Africa (fighting pictured) in an attempt to escape superior British forces to the north and resupply from captured Portuguese materiel.

1947 – McCarthyism: Executives from movie studios agreed to blacklist ten screenwriters and directors who were jailed for refusing to give testimony to the House Un-American Activities Committee.

1960 – The Mirabal sisters, who opposed the dictatorship of military strongman Rafael Trujillo in the Dominican Republic, were beaten and strangled to death.

UCJ, UNILORIN.

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