Browsing: September 29

A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on September 29th.  For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On September 29, 522 B.C., following two years of bizarre and bloody political intrigue, King Darius I the Great of Persia killed a Magian (think of the magi or wise men of the Bible) usurper, thereby securing Darius’s hold as great king of the Persian Empire. On September 29, 1714, Cossacks from the Russian Empire slaughtered 800 Finns on the island of…

A Brief History On September 29, 1714, Cossacks from the Russian Empire slaughtered 800 Finns on the island of Hailuoto during the Russian invasion of Finland, then part of the Swedish Empire, known as The Great Wrath. Digging Deeper Russia has long had a tumultuous relationship with their neighbors, Finland and Sweden, and this time the Russians had the upper hand, defeating Sweden in battles leading up to the massacre at Hailuoto. During 1714, Russia managed to occupy virtually all of Finland, until the end of the Great Northern War, which finally ended by the treaty of Nystad in 1721.…

A Brief History On September 29, 2011, a special court convened in India convicted a staggering 269 police and government officials of complicity in an atrocity called the “Vachathi case,” including 17 of those convictions for rape. Digging Deeper On June 20, 1992, almost 2 decades before the eventual convictions a large group of officials, including 108 police officera, 155 forestry agents and 6 revenue agents conducted a raid on Vachathi village, a community suspected of smuggling sandalwood. The so called “search team” ransacked private property, looted what they could, destroyed property and livestock, and assaulted scores of villagers, including…

A Brief History Supernatural horror fans, here is your chance to be among the first in Cleveland, Ohio to see My Best Friend’s Exorcism on Thursday, September 29th, 2022 at 7:30 PM Eastern!  For your chance to watch a virtual screening, please log on to https://amazonscreenings.com/MBFEhistoryheadlines.  The link is good for the first 100 people who click on it. Digging Deeper In My Best Friend’s Exorcism, the year is 1988. High school sophomores Abby and Gretchen have been best friends since fourth grade, but after an evening of skinny-dipping goes disastrously wrong, Gretchen begins to act…different. She is moody, she is…

A Brief History On September 29, 1789, the United States Department of War established a regular US Army for the first time, a modest force of only several hundred men.  My, how things have changed!  Today we take a brief look at the US Army, just a few words on its history and its current status. Digging Deeper The United States was never a country to rely on a large standing army, at least not until the period after World War II when we stood ready to defend the US and the Western allied countries against communist expansionism, notably in…