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24/08/2025

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

August 24th, 1944:

After more than two months since D-Day, the Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied Western Europe, the French capital of Paris is finally liberated. The American, British, Canadian, and Free French forces had plowed their way through fierce German resistance, fighting from town to town, and sent the occupiers on the run. The battle for France was not yet over, however, and it would be another 8 months until the Allies made it to Berlin.

07/08/2025

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

August 7th, 1959:
The “Paddlewheel” satellite, also known as Explorer 6, is launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida to become the first U.S. satellite to photograph the Earth. At a distance of 17,000 miles from the surface of Earth, the picture was funky with its transmission to Hawaii, which took 40 minutes, but for its time it was the most advanced technology. Part of the Space Race, this was a major breakthrough for NASA, and we would see the United States overtake the Soviet Union in space advancement over the coming decades.

07/08/2025

THIS DAY IN HISTORY

August 6th, 1945:

With an invasion of Mainland Japan projected to cause more casualties than any previous battle of World War II, U.S. President Harry Truman orders the unthinkable-a nuclear attack on Hiroshima, one of Japan’s most important industrial cities. This was the first of only two nuclear attacks in history, with the other coming just days later in Nagasaki. Japan soon surrendered, preventing a horrific death toll that would have certainly come from an amphibious invasion, but make no mistake, the loss of life and destruction from these two strikes was on a scale never before seen. Truman’s decision remains a controversial topic of discussion because of the horror unleashed by these weapons. The peace agreement was signed on September 2nd, 1945, 6 years and a day since the war in Europe had begun, but despite this peace the world entered into the atomic age, and has been in fear of nuclear catastrophe ever since.

05/08/2025

The moment we’ve all been waiting for is here. It’s time for a relaunch of THIS DAY IN HISTORY!

August 5th, 1963:
The United States, United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union sign the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, which prohibited the test of nuclear weapons in space, underwater, and in Earth’s atmosphere. A direct result of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, this was touted to be a great first step toward controlling nuclear weapons at an international level after the world came the closest it had ever been to a nuclear war in its history. To this day, denuclearization remains a hot topic in international relations, and despite many more treaties (like SALT I & II) the world is still in fear of nuclear war with many nuclear nations either at war or having tension between one another, namely the United States and, of course, Russia. Sometimes, the more things change, the more they stay the same (Not my lyric, credit to Tom Keifer and Cinderella). That is all for today, stay tuned for tomorrow’s post!

04/08/2025

Finally: I Am Back.

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