Thursday, November 18, 2021

18th Nov Review of Historical and Current Affairs

My name is David Daniel Ball and I am Voice DDB dot locals dot com a voice of freedom supporting freedom around the world for all peoples. I write on historical and current affairs. I look for the conservative voice where mainstream media eschews it. Around the world media espouses liberalism orthodoxy and proclaims a history of liberalism that never happened. Liberalism of today is based on repeated lies that have been accepted from the past.

Consider these recent truths

There is hope. Today we have the gloomy subject matter of the Kyle Rittenhouse trial, nearing an end, and, the ongoing Presidency of Joe Biden, and, the ongoing corruption of the FBI. And yet there is hope.

This week saw the defense mistake of placing Rittenhouse on the stand and giving a corrupt Prosecution carte blanche to lie. A desperate, exposed judge fought valiantly to preserve justice while Rittenhouse was betrayed by those charged to defend him, and denounced by those charged with upholding justice denied Rittenhouse. Along the way, we heard the Presidential candidate Joe Biden call Rittenhouse a white supremacist. We discovered the riot which forced Rittenhouse to act in self defence was a machination of the FBI to facilitate a coup which was part of the 2020 election fraud. What did Biden achieve by calling Rittenhouse a white supremacist? What did the FBI achieve by facilitating a murderous riot?

The press have not told you. They largely, have not reported on aspects of the Rittenhouse trial shown publicly. Rittenhouse acted in self defence. Three times he needed to apply deadly force that night, before he managed to secure safety from a local police armed response group acting as neutral observers. A longstanding Democrat, the local mayor has been among those persecuting Rittenhouse who prevented rioters from setting fire to a gas station and blowing up a neighbourhood. We saw Rittenhouse attacked thanks in part to FBI surveillance which seemed to be keeping tabs on their operatives running amok. Rittenhouse was kicked in the face and he did not kill the unidentified assailant. Rittenhouse was assaulted and a now dead man tried to take Rittenhouse’ gun. The chief persecutor asked why Rittenhouse brought a gun, saying it was merely to kill rioters. One guesses that that is what the persecutor would have done. Rittenhouse used it to defend his life from those who charged and assailed him. One assailant, who survived because Rittenhouse is not some mere killer, charged Rittenhouse and raised his gun to him before Rittenhouse shot him, disabling him from killing Rittenhouse.That surviving assailant has demanded ten million dollars for his testimony. Following his testimony, mainstream media lauded him and wrote of his resilience and interviewed him as a victim and survivor.

Those who know Rittenhouse is innocent of murder through self defence can see that that is the fact, in the trial. But, what of those who believe Rittenhouse is a white supremacist who brought a gun to a ‘peaceful’ riot? The chief persecutor is sticking to script. By ignoring law and focusing what divides Americans, the persecutor is merely doing the job given him by the likes of Joe Biden . Biden did not call Rittenhouse a white supremacist because Rittenhouse is racist. Rittenhouse is not racist. Biden is racist, but that is not the reason for the policy statement. A narrative is being painted to convince actual racists that Rittenhouse should be persecuted. And, we saw on the stand a lone, undefended boy, having a panic attack as bothe his defence and the persecutor publicly assailed and denied him succour. Rittenhouse is innocent, but he may still be convicted by jury. He is still fighting for his life.

Some are saying Joe Biden is the worst President ever. It is not a competition. Biden is mounting a strong argument for the accolade, and he is not yet done. But, an unseemly parade of awful precedes him. What of the claims of Johnson who ended reconstruction and established resistance to freedom through the KKK? What of person who facilitated modern poverty and inequity through their new deal, exploiting Americans by race and gifting them single, unemployed parents? What of the guy who nuked a civilian population twice? What of the guy who restarted a cold war to solve the policy vacuum created by their poor foreign policy?

Some are saying the FBI must be disbanded because they facilitated a violent coup. But then, what was Watergate? Why was Weather Underground protected by the FBI? What is the FBI’s role in the drug distribution networks and the faux arms management crises that sees cities like Boston and Detroit vie for the epithet ‘murder capitals.’?

Biden looks awful because Trump is so good. But also Carter and Reagan played similar roles. I liken the problem with fighting the Devil. Don’t do it. In fighting the Devil, one may well dance to the Devil’s tune. Instead, hold to the Lord. The Lord has already defeated the Devil, and the only future the Devil has is in a black pit of despair, eternally separated from God. But, that is not your future if you hold to the Lord.

We have hope. It is incumbent on us to win back the freedom denied us. And to protect that freedom. We will do that democratically. We will take back our legislature. We will get our courts to return to protecting our constitution.

I have lost everything several times. And yet here I am. Behind me is an Australian flag and a MAGA cap. On my MAGA cap is an American flag. I will die, one day. But, I pledge allegiance to the flag (of Australia and) the United States of America. And to the republics for which they stand. One nation. Indivisible. Under God. With liberty, and justice, for all.

We are being lied to. But not by everyone. Our nations and their justice machinery are not broken, but damaged. Things are bad, but they are supposed to be bad, rather than merely breaking. We can't give up. We must reject the liars, and remove them from public office, and prosecute them lawfully. Things can get better, but we must persevere or risk losing hope. We must not fight the Devil by playing the Devil's game. Rather we must resist the Devil by being free. There is no law against doing what is right. Their utter depravity kills us. They target us and they seek to restrain us. But while the greatest among us a hundred years ago has died, their legacy has not. That which we are, we are. Lockdowns were ineffective in dealing with COVID. Effective medication has been denied whole populations. Herd immunity will prevail. Fraud deleteriously affected recent elections around the world. But, Democracy will prevail. Our oppressors will pass. For us to win, we must assert our freedoms. For us to lose, we must willingly surrender our freedoms forever. Our children will have to pay back our debt. We must sacrifice now so that they can. That means telling truth to power. That means pointing up when when some get confused and lose their way. Stand by the one who sacrificed their pension and freedoms to speak out. Prosecute the ones forgiven by a debauched and self interested administration. Vote for those who help you exercise your freedom. Don't wait for free speech. Exercise free speech.

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Intro to Locals.com

My name is David Daniel Ball I'm a teacher with three decades experience teaching math to high school kids.I also work with first graders and kids in between first grade and high school. I know the legends of why Hypatia's dad is remembered through his contribution to Math theory. And I know the legend of why followers of Godel had thought he had disproved God's existence. 

I'm not a preacher, but I am a Christian who has written over 28 books all of which include some reference to my faith. Twelve blog books on world history and current affairs, detailing world events , births and marriages on each day of the year, organised by month. Twelve books on the background to and history of Bible Quotes. One Bible quote per day for a year. An intro to a science fiction series I'm planning, post apocalyptic cyber punk. An autobiography with short story collections. 

I'm known in Australia for my failure as a whistleblower over the negligence death of a school boy. I had reported the issue responsibly and had not known I'd blown the whistle. The embarrassed left wing government had responded by imposition of a nationwide ban on the use of peanut butter in canteens, despite failing to address the issue of peanut allergy appropriately. 

I've been de-platformed on Facebook and twitter despite not being an activist. Twitter did not like me asking for Obama to face justice in 2011. FB gave no specific reason for removing me following Jan 6th 2021 in Washington DC where a policeman killed an unarmed woman, so a crowd would know he was in control.

https://voiceddb.locals.com/post/1018405/intro-to-locals-for-the-conservative-voice

=== From 2020 ===

Trump cycle has it Trump is on his knees, before ... Media is cheering expected partisan court decisions to not support inquiry into voting fraud. However, they overstate the meaning of the shortfalls. The Trump campaign to have their electoral win restored was never going to be straightforward. They have the evidence. It points to multiple elections and undermines the credibility of US Democracy. Ultimately, aspects of it will be decided by SCOTUS. We do not yet know how SCOTUS will decide, or even what exact evidence they will face. But we know the evidence is substantial, and in an effort to suppress the will of conservative resistance, media are claiming that the evidence is not substantive and so the evidence is yet to be addressed. Maybe there is a good reason for a CIA asset being deployed to fraudulently control the US election. Let us hear what it is.

It is apparent that Dems committed fraud to steal the 2020 election. They may well have done similar in 2016. In 2016, Fox declared Pennsylvania early to HRC. The demand was made for Trump to concede. Trump won in 2016, but it surprised the establishment that did similar in their voter suppression as they have done in 2020. HRC had organised a victory party, but blessed marching vagina instead. Even her book did not say what happened. Trump has been very good at mobilising ordinary, decent Americans to support him in numbers greater than any GOP ever. Trump does not court race, or gender, like his racist, bigoted opposition have. Yet Trump has extraordinary minority support for a GOP, possibly the highest since Eleanor Roosevelt courted the Black vote as her husband exploited them. The Dem voting pattern and issues echo the Obama wins too. How long have Dems been using these fraudulent methods to obtain votes? Did they use them to bodgy the 2006 mid terms? It is not that the mysterious support of vapour for Dems is so clearly fraudulent, but, other than violent rioters, and #FakeNews, where is their support, really? How come there is no policy platform for Democrats? Why does Big Tech have to censor the truth? How many millions of Trump supporting votes have been given to Biden? The corruption is so apparent, and so pervasive, that if Trump concedes 2020, he will be conceding all elections that follow, and the flame of liberty will be extinguished in America.

https://fb.watch/1PONaY6hje/
FB append their warning to the post? 
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Ep. 1395 More Troubling Questions Emerge About the Election - The Dan Bongino Show
https://rumble.com/vb6vp7-ep.-1395-more-troubling-questions-emerge-about-the-election-the-dan-bongino.html

In this episode, I discuss the stunning new information emerging about the use of Dominion Voting Systems in the 2020 elections. I also address the interesting election developments in Nevada and Georgia.

News Picks:


New Report Examines Statistical Irregularities in PA Voting
Biden Transition Team Members Were Involved in Handling Intel Related to Michael Flynn
California Governor Apologizes for Breaking His Own Coronavirus Rules at Lavish Party
Michigan Republican Rep Calls for Meeting to Discuss Impeachment Hearings for Governor Whitmer
Arizona Congressmen Call for Vote Audit in Maricopa County
Trump Legal Team Prepares to Challenge Hundreds of Thousands of Votes
Dominion Confirms They Donated to the Clinton Foundation
Nevada’s Largest County Throws Out Local Race Results Over Voter Discrepancies
Ilhan Omar Cuts Ties With Husband’s Firm After Paying It $2.8 Million

=== Via Newsmax===
Georgia Sec. of State: Sen. Graham Suggested Auditing Signatures
Rep. Babin: Trump Can Still Win This in Court
Rep.-elect Young Kim, R-CA, to Newsmax: 'GOP Stands for Great Opportunity Party'
Ga. County's Uncounted Ballots Will Boost Trump
Most and Least Accurate Polls From Presidential Election 
Gizzi: Biden to Find Position for 'Mayor Pete'
Roger Stone: Trump Deniers Running 'Psy-op' for Biden | 
Sen. Graham Denies Pressuring Georgia to Toss Ballots
Dick Morris to Newsmax TV: Confident Election Stolen, Not About Fixing It | 
Peter Navarro to Newsmax TV: Trump Likely Won Once 'Abnormalities' Taken Into Account | 
Rep. Jody Hice to Newsmax TV: Ga. Sec. of State to Blame for Chaos | 
His murder came at the hands of a Democrat volunteer campaign worker. Why do Democrats not get held to a standard for their rhetoric?

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COVID hysteria goes far

Clinton sparked second intifada?
https://rumble.com/vajl2t-mid-east-war-second-intifada.html
=== From 2017 ===
Don't give up on hope. There are no competent ALP members, although there are liked ones. It is easy to demonstrate there are no competent ALP members because they vote as a block on issues that hurt their constituents. A highly lauded ALP member died from cancer recently, leaving a by election in Melbourne's Northcote. The member had trashed her seat and brand before dying, and now the seat has left the ALP for the first time in a hundred years, going to Greens. Greens don't have credible policies. But then neither do ALP. Greens candidate ran on an AGW platform, as does ALP. They promised to do something about public transport. Who will hold them to their promise? Only Matthew Guy of the Liberal Party. 

=== from 2016 ===
I'm angry. Someone I love could have innocently gone to that Springvale Melbourne bank and possibly been killed. All because someone inexplicably doused themselves with petrol and lit it in the bank. We don’t know why. Maybe the person was mentally ill. Maybe it was a terrorist act gone awry? Maybe someone was upset with the bank and wanted to settle a score? Each possible scenario has a risk factor. And what has the government done to make us safer or prevent such a thing? Dan Andrews opposes effective policing, promotes youth unemployment and youth crime. Dan Andrews promotes poverty by making small business struggle against green red tape. It is lucky for Dan this did not happen in a country area where volunteers would have been needed because Dan Andrews has undermined the volunteer CFA. A hero was there, a tradie who used a fire extinguisher from an adjacent shop, running into the burning building. Even the perpetrator looks to have survived, although apparently they and five others are in critical condition, while some thirty have required treatment.

IPA Review (Nov 2016) features a Matthew Lesh article on “Australian Tax Mutineers” and it includes the 1850 South Australia Anti Dray and Land Tax rebellion. South Australia was settled without convicts. But the legislature decided to unfairly tax poor farmers and small business who used cargo ‘drays’ (ancient trucks). The voting gentry and upper class did not have to pay the bulk of the imposition. It was designed to pay for roads in a state that is now bigger than Tanzania and almost the size of Egypt. The tax was overturned and universal suffrage was introduced for males over the age of 21 in 1857. South Australia still does not have roads, a big population or industry that can profitably build them. Bad government prevents growth.
=== from 2015 ===
News media has to sell its product. And so the terrible atrocity of Paris on the sabbath of 13th November is echoed with headlines saying there are more shootings in Paris with at least two dead. Only the current round of activity follows the finding of the leader of the Massacres last Friday and security forces closing in inexorably. Two have been arrested. Some have been killed. One woman employed a suicide vest. A police woman is reported as having been killed. Some security forces have been wounded. I mourn the loss of the police. ISIL terrorists will not prosper. Meanwhile there is a powerful backlash against emergency measures to help refugees. The same refugees as were celebrating the slaughter in Paris a few days ago. 

For some, at the moment, the Sex Party has more credibility.
From 2014  
Israel on front line against jihadism
A new book, Nazi Palestine: The Plans for the Extermination of the Jews in Palestine (Klaus-Michael Mallmann (Author), Martin Cüppers (Author), Krista Smith (Translator)) provides excellent new research on the activity of Nazis in WW2 in Palestine. I am proud that their plans were foiled partly by my grandfather, who was a bombardier in Roden Cutler's mob who made it as far as Jacob's Well, Be'er Ya'akov. After success, they were sent home by an ALP administration which scattered many across the pacific, some in Singapore, some, like my grandad, made it back to Sydney. Cutler went on to fight in PNG. 

The work of the Nazis did not end in WW2. Many antagonists of the Jews survived in post war governments and went on with their plans. Palestinian leaders of today have their heritage with those Nazi plans. Overnight, it is reported 
"Four Israelis were killed and several others wounded in a terror attack on Tuesday morning in a synagogue in the western Jerusalem neighborhood of Har Nof.
Two assailants were killed at the scene by police, with a third possibly on the loose in the area.

Eight people were wounded in the assault, including four seriously, two moderately and two lightly…
Israel Police spokeswoman Luba Samri said two assailants entered the synagogue on Tuesday with knives, axes and guns and attacked worshipers… Samri said the attackers were Palestinians from East Jerusalem. "
The day before, 
"A Jewish resident of Jerusalem was stabbed in the back on Sunday evening, apparently with a screwdriver.

Police are treating the incident as a possible terrorist attack. The man, aged about 35, was stabbed near the Damascus Gate entrance to Jerusalem’s Old City."
The attacks are not against soldiers. They are against western type families. Israel does a magnificent job defending herself, but there are things she cannot do, and still be a Western Democracy. To be fair, so called Palestine would be bundled into Jordan and the lad given to Israel to use as she wishes. But too many Nazi sympathisers in world governments oppose such a fair outcome. 

Warmism - It is good people who make good places
An unbiased report on Obama's climate deal which would probably not be posted in most mainstream newspapers 
"AT a historic joint press conference with Barack Obama in Beijing last week Chinese President Xi Jinping signalled that China would continue to increase CO2 emissions until 2030."
Unlike Australia's target which through Abbott's Direct Action policy is bound, Obama's plan is not bound to any figure. It promises that Obama will fail to get past GOP, and that China can do as she pleases domestically. In climate terms, if one believed the lies about plant food, Australia's Liberal party is promising more and better than Obama. But the truth is nothing promised so far will change the climate. 

We have been warned lightning will get stronger with climate change. Prepare for better pictures. Australian journalists are five times more likely to ask warmist questions than international journalists. Applaus in Texas for warmists influencing publishers to drop skepticism of AGW alarmism from school text books. 
Freedom lies in being bold
Abbott government must be committed to change, or die. The polls are too strongly against the government. It doesn't matter if they are competent and effective if they can't sell their success. It doesn't matter if effective ministers are not rewarded. The media have been responsible for the disparity between the polls and the effectiveness of the government. As appallingly bad as Mr Obama's activity was at the G20, as graceful as Putin's, as effective as Mr Abbott was, none would know from the reporting.SMH advises Mr Abbott to be part of their fantasy. Peter Hartcher, SMH editor, has focused on the words of an old colleague in LA and used those words to advise Mr Abbott that he should strike a global warming deal with China. In the spirit of Obama's success, Mr Abbott could agree for Australia to do nothing until 2030. Hartcher clearly does not see it that way, but his fantasy is a report on reality. 

Abbott deserves kudos for success. Looking back in time, many journalists have placed very high standards on his administration he has met and excelled. And that is just on a free trade pact with China. The government is doing very well, but for the obstructive senate, but the media have not reported it. 

Meanwhile MSNBC suggests that killing migrants through depraved neglect is similar to GOP Presidents who compassionately welcomed migrants in the past. GOP have let in Chinese students after China murdered some, or Hispanics fleeing government sponsored hit squads at home. But Obama is keen to create a pull factor which encourages people smugglers to use piracy to fleece desperate people and possibly kill them in the process. This would, according to Obama, be compassionate and extend their rights. 

'unbiased' ABC declares war on conservatives, verbals a Liberal to embarrass a Liberal. Greg Hunt was talking o the direct action climate policy on ABC radio and Fran Kelly, interviewer, falsely claimed WA Premier Barnett opposed it. Hunt did not fall for it, but Kelly will not be corrected. 

I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends

China's President is a better friend than the US one. China's President came bearing gifts and speaking as a good friend. Obama tried to twist the agenda of the G20 to suit his positioning in front of a US audience. Obama savaged Russia and made unbelievable promises regarding global warming. India is a great friend too, and their free trade agreement will be welcome. 

The only true wisdom is knowing you know nothing
Gillard challenges a judge to trust her reputation. 
"JULIA Gillard has formally asked the union corruption inquiry to “give significant weight to (her) good character and reputation” and urged it to reject evidence she received wads of cash from a corrupt union boss boyfriend."
Greens support Clive Palmer in Victoria, supporting the miner in politics where they oppose him in policy.
When FGM is morally grey, but a male choosing a shirt is indicative of moral turpitude. Feminists are trying to preserve a sense of mystique by being absurd. 

Judging a teacher who follows mainstream media. She likes listening to Rush Limbaugh at home, so outraged vigilantes want her sacked. 
From 2013
Notice, tomorrow I will be unable to produce a column. I'll still produce a birthday listing.

I'm not ashamed of having failed. Only if I hadn't tried. I must vacate my premises soon so the decontaminators can load it with poison gas .. they call it a bio sweep .. Visitors will be welcome when I get back .. but I won't have the books, DVDs, videos, CDs and such. Then in coming weeks I'll get new carpet, new paint and maybe a new owner? Be blessed, my friends. Know that God loves you even when you don't feel it. I surrender my past, but will fight for my future. If asked, my public agenda is to establish a high tech production studio in Cabramatta Fairfield. It is to allow locals to film in HD broadcast ready material, be it cultural performances, martial arts or international needs. I hope to allow it to be accessible for local schools to send kids to learn production broadcast techniques and to maintain a digital cultural museum. Making money by showing/licensing use of clips. I know lots of people involved in MMA who might benefit from having steady work. There is a market for clips. And clips can be converted to features .. I have never yet lost a fight to the death. I may one day, but being a quick learner, it won't happen twice. 

Syrian justice is not ahead of the rest of the world. Julia Gillard was indeed treated to a double standard, and still is, by the fawning media. Global Warming activists gather in Sydney, sending temperatures tumbling and bringing flooding rains. Did Flannery make a prediction recently? Is Gore in town? Who was the worse PM, Rudd or Gillard. We might never know for certain, each having impeccable credentials, but whomever it is, is probably the worst thus far. Apologies to Whitlam who probably felt his position was unassailable.
Historical perspective on this day
In 326, the old St. Peter's Basilica was consecrated. In 401, the Visigoths, led by king Alaric I, crossed the Alps and invaded northern Italy. In 1105, Maginulfo was elected the Antipopeas Sylvester IV. In 1180, Phillip II became king of France. In 1210, Pope Innocent IIIexcommunicated Holy Roman Emperor Otto IV. In 1302, Pope Boniface VIII issued the Papal bull Unam sanctam (One Faith). In 1307, William Tell shot an apple off his son's head. In 1421, a seawall at the Zuiderzee dike in the Netherlands broke, flooding 72 villages and killing about 10,000 people. This event will be known as Sint-Elisabethsvloed. In 1493, Christopher Columbus first sighted the island now known as Puerto Rico. In 1494, French King Charles VIII occupied Florence, Italy. In 1601, Tiryaki Hasan Pasha, provincial governor of Ottoman Empire, utterly defeated Habsburg forces, commanded by Ferdinand the Archduke of Austria during the Siege of Nagykanizsa. In 1626, St. Peter's Basilica was consecrated. In 1730, the future Frederick II (known as Frederick the Great), King of Prussia, was granted a royal pardon and released from confinement. 

In 1803, the Battle of Vertières, the last major battle of the Haitian Revolution, was fought, leading to the establishment of the Republic of Haiti, the first black republic in the Western Hemisphere. In 1809, in a naval action during the Napoleonic Wars, French frigates defeated British East Indiamen in the Bay of Bengal. In 1812, Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Krasnoiended in French defeat, but Marshal of France Michel Ney's leadership leads to him becoming known as "the bravest of the brave". In 1863, King Christian IX of Denmark signed the November constitution that declared Schleswig to be part of Denmark. This was seen by the German Confederation as a violation of the London Protocol and led to the German–Danish war of 1864. In 1865, Mark Twain's short story The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County was published in the New York Saturday Press. In 1883, American and Canadian railroads instituted five standard continental time zones, ending the confusion of thousands of local times. 

In 1903, the Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty was signed by the United States and Panama, giving the United States exclusive rights over the Panama Canal Zone. In 1904, General Esteban Huertas stepped down after the government of Panama feared he wanted to stage a coup. 1905, Prince Carl of Denmark became King Haakon VII of Norway. In 1909, two United States warships were sent to Nicaragua after 500 revolutionaries (including two Americans) were executed by order of José Santos Zelaya. In 1916, World War I: First Battle of the Somme – in France, British Expeditionary Force commander Douglas Haig called off the battle which started on July 1, 1916. In 1918, Latvia declared its independence from Russia. In 1926, George Bernard Shaw refused to accept the money for his Nobel Prize, saying, "I can forgive Alfred Nobel for inventing dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize." In 1928, release of the animated short Steamboat Willie, the first fully synchronized sound cartoon, directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks, featuring the third appearances of cartoon characters Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse. This is considered by the Disney corporation to be Mickey's birthday. In 1929, 1929 Grand Banks earthquake: off the south coast of Newfoundland in the Atlantic Ocean, a Richter magnitude 7.2 submarine earthquake, centered on Grand Banks, broke 12 submarine transatlantic telegraph cablesand triggered a tsunami that destroyed many south coast communities in the Burin Peninsula. 

In 1930, Soka Kyoiku Gakkai, a Buddhist association later renamed Soka Gakkai, was founded by Japanese educators Tsunesaburo Makiguchiand Josei Toda. In 1938, Trade union members elected John L. Lewis as the first president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations. In 1940, World War II: German leader Adolf Hitler and Italian Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano meet to discuss Benito Mussolini's disastrous invasion of Greece. In 1943, World War II: Battle of Berlin – 440 Royal Air Force planes bomb Berlin causing only light damage and killing 131. The RAF lost nine aircraft and 53 air crew. In 1944, the Popular Socialist Youth was founded in Cuba. In 1947, the Ballantyne's Department Store fire in Christchurch, New Zealand, killed 41; it is the worst fire disaster in the history of New Zealand. In 1949, the Iva Valley Shooting occurs after the coal miners of Enugu in Nigeria go on strike over withheld wages; 21 miners were shot dead and 51 were wounded by police under the supervision of the British colonial administration of Nigeria.

In 1961, United States President John F. Kennedy sent 18,000 military advisors to South Vietnam. In 1963, the first push-button telephone went into service. In 1970, U.S. President Richard Nixon asked the U.S. Congress for $155 million in supplemental aid for the Cambodian government. In 1978, in Jonestown, Guyana, Jim Jones led his Peoples Templeto a mass murder-suicide that claimed 918 lives in all, 909 of them in Jonestown itself, including over 270 children. Congressman Leo J. Ryan was murdered by members of the Peoples Temple hours earlier. In 1987, King's Cross fire: In London, 31 people died in a fire at the city's busiest underground station, King's Cross St Pancras. In 1988, War on Drugs: U.S. President Ronald Reagan signed a bill into law allowing the death penalty for drug traffickers.

In 1991, Shiite Muslim kidnappers in Lebanon releasde Anglican Church envoys Terry Waiteand Thomas Sutherland. Also, after an 87-day siege, the Croatian city of Vukovar capitulated to the besieging Yugoslav People's Army and allied Serb paramilitary forces. In 1993, in the United States, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was approved by the House of Representatives. Also, in South Africa, 21 political parties approved a new constitution, expanding voting rights and ending white minority rule. In 1996, a fire occured on a train travelling through the Channel Tunnel from France to England causing several injuries and damaging approximately 500 metres (1,600 ft) of tunnel. In 2002, Iraq disarmament crisis: United Nations weapons inspectors led by Hans Blix arrived in Iraq. In 2003, in the United Kingdom, the Local Government Act 2003, repealing controversial anti-gay amendment Section 28, became effective. Also, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court rules 4 to 3 in Goodridge v. Department of Public Health that the state's ban on same-sex marriage was unconstitutional and gave the state legislature 180 days to change the law making Massachusetts the first state in the United States to grant marriage rights to same-sex couples. In 2013, NASA launched the MAVEN probe to Mars. 

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