Tuesday, November 02, 2021

2nd 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

Analysis of published statistics on COVID in the world shows the Victorian death rate, in relation to the Australian death rate, is 147% more likely that a Victorian with COVID dies than an Australian with COVID. That result is entirely due to public policy, not geography. The Victorian response to COVID has been lock down and curfew, with crime tape on swings and slides to prevent children from using them. Face masks indoors and out doors. Vaccinations, but denial of other medications known to be efficacious. HCQ has been listed as a poison. Neither Ivermectin nor Fenofibrate are approved treatments. And the result is people in Victoria who are sick and denied treatment will die, while Dan Andrews jockeys for more power, and so called independents give it to him. Remember that next election, in 2022, when independents say "Vote for us to keep ALP honest." To be fair, the ALP did not lie about their naked ambition for power. The independents lied for them. 

Only now is the Victorian conservative party becoming more strident in their opposition to these draconian measures. In my case, my school employer has been required to see that I've been double vaccinated, but they've not been allowed to hire me because schools were closed. Children are being vaccinated in large numbers to meet government demands "for freedom" but each time 'freedom' is achieved, restrictions appear. With 80% of Victoria vaccinated, businesses were allowed to open. Only my tutoring school cannot because it is not considered a school but a business, and businesses have restrictions. Worldwide, the statistics on school child transmissions are consistent. Children are not spreading COVID at schools, neither are they falling sick at school. So why insist on vaccinations? Masks? 

Vaccination mandates are not addressing COVID spread issues. World statistics show that vaccinations do not prevent spread and do not prevent deaths. Neither do masks. That does not mean no one should take it, neither does it mean everyone should. Governments have not outlawed deaths with their hysterical over reactions to COVID, they have restricted freedom. SCOTUS was recently asked to provide an injunction against vaccine mandates. SCOTUS has so far said it is not up to them to decide. Public health authorities are confused, most claiming erroneously that vaccination is for the public good. Masks are for the public good. Lockdowns are for the public good. But the science does not show that.  

It is Halloween and confused Christian zealots are feeling free to denounce those enjoying the celebrations as serving the devil. It was similar with the hysteria over Harry Potter books. However, those who once burned witches were wrong then, as they who burn Harry Potter books are now. It is worth remembering that Jesus, in casting out demons, those demons yet testified He was lord. And they do so today. And it isn't the Halloween participants who form the analog. 

=== From recent years ===

One rumour going around the internet is that JFK was erudite, smart, capable and visionary. JFK died on Nov 22nd 1963 when Lee Harvey Oswald shot him, and in response a secret service agent accidentally sent a dum dum round into JFK's head. The enormity of the cover up should be noted. At least one secret service agent ended his days a drunk. LHO was killed before facing justice, as was his killer, Jack Ruby. And the brain of JFK, filled with dum dum shrapnel disappeared during surgery. Anyway, the meme goes JFK was killed for a speech he gave about censorship and dangers facing democracy. Only the speech was not the last one JFK gave, but had been given in April 27th 1961. To put the speech in perspective, JFK had lost the 1960 election to Nixon, but Nixon, rather than doing what Al Gore did and threaten the union, conceded. Kennedy had approved the Bay of Pigs plan on April 4th. It was before a U2 plane took pictures of Soviet missiles on Cuba. Castro had lied to his backers about taking over Cuba to restore freedoms, but had aligned himself with communists (or revealed himself to be one) and so Kennedy was doing what the fox like Malcolm Turnbull does, putting his foot in his mouth. Kennedy proclaimed and declared openness while planning secret deals, and the press gave him a free pass. Given an opportunity to illustrate his understanding of world affairs, JFK chose Karl Marx. Kennedy did not write the words, which are good words, but we know he didn't mean them either. Kennedy may have threatened Governor Wallace over Wallace's racist stance to segregation, in private. In public, Wallace and Kennedy served the same party. 

People seem to like abuse of power. A problem with abuse of power, beyond the abuse, is that it is recognised as legal by the foolish and hoodwinked. In the 1970's, an elderly German woman was interviewed regarding the leadership of the war. Shown pictures of senior Nazis, she smiled and said "All the old faces bring back memories." She wasn't a Nazi or a fan of them. But while they were imbued with power, they made promises to the people from a position of power they abused. It is sickening how average people gravitate to the abusers. During the weak years of Boris Yeltsin in Russia, one old timer opined for the glory days of Stalin. 

Australia has problems with abuse of power too. Being a modern democracy, it is harder for abuse of power to be sustained. But there is a danger of it being systematised too. So that before the NSW conservative party with Barry O'Farrell could be elected in '11, they had to assure those who corruptly ran NSW they would not shake the boat. Credit to O'Farrell and his front bench, they retained integrity and even resigned when the corruption lobby fingered them. The result has been new leadership unencumbered by pre election promises made in '11. The judiciary of NSW is corrupt. Not biased, but actively partisan in support of the ALP and the left. So that inquiries into corruption get sidelined by judges within the virtue of their powers. It is legal, but an abuse of power. The Heiner Affair is another such abuse. Anyone with sense recognises it is wrong to tear up evidence of a gang rape of an aboriginal girl in detention. Which is why Rudd obtained legal advice. There are supposed to be protections against the abuse of power by Rudd against that girl who was decades without compensation, and silenced when a paltry amount was given her. Australia's parliament could have opened an inquiry, but Steve Fielding, acting against advice from Family First, decided to embrace the abuse of power instead. 

Political fights can be bruising and confusing, making people bitter and lowering expectations of political process. But one outrageous, totally unacceptable practice has been endorsed by one side of the political divide and it is unacceptable from them. They must address the issue from their side, and not oppose those who would address it from the community. The issue referred to is child abuse, more specifically, raising children to hate and kill. Such child abuse is soul destroying. We have images of Palestinians marching for terror with kids in tow carrying toy guns. We have images of children's television shows in Palestine with puppet characters glorifying suicide. We have local ISIS spokespeople claiming Jews are responsible for terror through mythical atrocities. We have pictures of children holding severed heads and declaring their love for some terrorist group. We have child soldiers in Burma, Cambodia, Africa and the Middle East, except Israel. One common denominator is an excuse by the left of an imperative driving the behaviour. But there is no excuse for such damnation. It is child abuse. 

One hate preacher who has freedom in Australia has claimed he was taken out of context when he was quizzed over saying "Jews are filthy rapists" and claimed he had limited his statement to specific ones whom had raped his sisters. One doesn't mind free speech, so long as it can be acknowledged that a liar has lied. That hate preacher has lied and is lying. His sisters are safe, but for being siblings to a terrorist. JT is free to say what he likes, but his child abuse deserves to be addressed, and his hate preaching contradicted. In Australia, rapes have been described as cultural to the Islamic community by Islamic community leaders impotent to address the needs of their community under a secular administration. 

===

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. 

https://rumble.com/vohm7d-live-cast-voice-ddb-31st-october.html

===   ===   ===

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 ===

 

Via Spit Take Brigade

Many thought common core had no solutions

===


https://thenewamerican.com/in-trump-card-dinesh-dsouza-says-trump-is-the-political-general-in-the-fight-against-socialism/

In his new film — Trump Card — New York Times bestselling author Dinesh D’Souza argues the American Dream is not only at stake in this presidential election, but the Democratic Left wants to propel America headlong into socialism and tyranny.

As the 2020 presidential election looms, D’Souza told The New American that the country is divided between one party that wants to preserve our founding principles and another that wants to catapult America into what is “arguably the most discredited idea in history after slavery.”

===

The Nazi salute, 'Sieg heil' sounds really threatening when Nazi soldiers shouted it in unison. It translates from German to mean 'Be safe.' I'm reminded of that when I read how children have been kept from school over a disease that largely does not affect them and which may be treated with cheap, effective medications

https://rumble.com/vah6dp-plan-to-bring-teachers-students-back.html

===

James Woods Just Shared the Most Savage and Damaging Anti-Biden Ad You’ll Ever See…And It’s Viral

https://zonenews-24.com/2020/10/23/video-james-woods-just-shared-the-most-savage-and-damaging-anti-biden-ad-youll-ever-see-and-its-viral/

Weekend at Bidens

===

https://fb.watch/1v7wb0Fm7w/

===



https://fb.watch/1v9J5KBjZu/

===

https://fb.watch/1va180aM9C/

===

https://fb.watch/1va8kiH4Z8/

===


https://fb.watch/1va_yHUEIQ/

MSNBC's STUNNING Socialist Math Fail Says It ALL About the Media
Remember folks, you are the uneducated "deplorables." These are the media "elites" who know better than you!

===


This Video of Democrat DESTROYING a MSNBC Host Might Be Greatest Thing Ever

I could barely keep it together watching this!!! Absolute annihilation. SO good.

https://fb.watch/1vbamMjV3h/

===


https://fb.watch/1vbqC4WoJ0/

A Strange Encounter, Hunter Biden & the FBI

You've got to hear about the "very, very strange" encounter Bill O'Reilly had over the weekend. Here's a hint: Hunter Biden's laptop.
He's joined by former U.S. Attorney Brett Tolman for his reaction to the realization that the FBI has been sitting on the evidence for A YEAR.

===

https://fb.watch/1veR-gUJfp/

===


https://fb.watch/1vkJmgYNgz/

===


https://rumble.com/vawtp9-heres-why-the-polls-are-wrong-and-trump-will-cruise-to-victory.html

===


https://rumble.com/vavrtd-trump-stops-rally-to-play-savage-video-of-press-sec-on-massive-screens-as-s.html

===


https://parler.com/post/5dc7cdbd03384130bc1c1d5a2c213bc5

===


https://parler.com/post/4d24c7d2c2ae4015886a14ca3ade79de

Socialist seeks solace with God? 

=== From 2017 ===
Don't give up on hope. Astros won a thrilling seven game World Series Baseball game against the Los Angeles Dodgers. Game five will go down as one of the all time greats. The players were committed and played in the right spirit. LAD could have won, had their chances. But seriously, Los Angeles vs Houston? One almost expects marching vaginas demanding the result be upended and Astros disqualified for colluding with Russia in game 5. Who would have picked Keuchel to pitch twice and lose twice? That is baseball. Unpredictable and glorious. 

Malcolm Turnbull is still having fun. That is important to know as it transpires that months ago his colleague instructed an MP not to come forward  about being British until after the High Court ruled, but then publicly castigated the MP for not coming forward straight away.The Liberal Party needs Tony Abbott to heal the wounds left by Malcolm Turnbull. A study on SSM voting shows a knife edge with a more than likely 'no' result. The campaign for 'yes' has been appallingly bad. the 'election' has not been free and fair. The opportunity to test new polling methods has been squandered. Regardless of the results, to quote Malcolm Turnbull criticising John Howard over the failed republic campaign Howard opposed, the PM has broken the hearts of the nation. Turnbull has promised too much, delivered too little. Turnbull has failed every single criterion he nominated for rolling Tony Abbott. Liberals don't need Turnbull, Pyne or Bishop. And the worst aspect is those three, and a few others, are gifting the ALP the next election, and the Prime Minister's position to possibly the worst character who would ever had had the position. Turnbull has some capable members in party. There is none that is capable among the ALP. Rudd saved their furniture, but they have an unreformed party ready to make murderously bad policy. 

Turns out Trump's travel ban was too weak. It needed to include Uzbekistan. That would have prevented the latest atrocity in NYC. 
=== from 2016 ===
IPA Review features a Mikayla Novak article “Bourgeois Equality” review of Deirdre McClosky’s “Bourgeois Equality: How ideas, not capital or institutions enriched the world.” Today there is patchy growth within a material world of unprecedented growth. The world has never known it to be as good as it is now. Fewer people are in poverty worldwide than at any time in the past. We are producing more food than we ever have. We are educating more people than we ever have. Yet leading economies are struggling. The article does a facile survey of the past, but word count is an issue and clearly the book covers the material with rigour.

One observation that is never made is that the economies struggling most are led by the left. Obama is dismissed by those who want to portray the US as struggling as being a figurehead who is impotent to effect positive change because the position of President can’t do much. In fact GOP Presidents manage to achieve much, and are criticised for it. Obama has been a real presence in damaging the economy, limiting the defence forces and dividing the nation on race and income. Any decent review of history would show similar with Clinton, Carter, LBJ and Kennedy. Any decent review would show strong responses from Nixon, Reagan, Bush (41) and Bush (43). Bush (43) is openly despised by Obama yet even as a lame duck Bush (43) achieved much more than O (44) with a troop surge and spending increase in financial crisis.

Instead of making the observation, economic theory is presented which fails to tell the story or address apparent facts. Libertarians seem hung up on examining the cutting edge between conservatives and leftists in the great dialog. But the problem is conservatives (if they are competent) address the issue of institutional asset maintenance, and leftists try to tear down those institutions. There is currently no intellectual coherence to leftist action, so studying them is unproductive. In Australia, there is a need for a strong Labor Party which stands on values which support the struggling workers. But it currently is a corrupt organisation which exploits the poorest workers in a parody of what it should be. The world needs conservatives to have government in France, Greece, Italy, Japan, Canada and USA. The Great exhaustion can be dealt with if just some of them have effective government.

Australia is poorly positioned to capitalise on a Trump Presidency with both the foreign affairs Minister Julie Bishop and the Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull talking out to personalise antipathy to Trump. One understands they prefer Hillary Clinton because they prefer working with corruption. They had insisted Abbott give over $10 million aid to the Clinton Foundation in 2014, and rolled Abbott after he stopped the payments. But neither Bishop nor Turnbull has explained how Australia will be better off with a corrupt Clinton as President, compared to a GOP backed Trump. Trump is not Reagan. Trump is very good at negotiations and knows how to run an executive team. Reagan was more reliant on insiders from GOP. Trump can deliver on promises better than Turnbull can. Turnbull has portrayed himself as being a good business executive. With Trump as President we will see a real one. Trump would never have put himself in the ridiculous position Turnbull has. All Turnbull can do now, constructively, is resign.


Meanwhile Trump’s progressive opponent is loved by the press and demonstrably corrupt. And the Libertarian candidate is trying to find Aleppo. Or a head of state.
Rumour now runs internationally that the apparent Saudi Spy who partners Hillary Clinton kept a life insurance policy of emails left in her ex husband’s computer. And the FBI found it. And so the insurance policy has been cashed in early. And the FBI investigating a witch on Halloween have found incriminating evidence on her familiar’s Weiner.

One person who knows how to profit from central planning is Hillary Clinton. The Chicago Tribune is withdrawing support from her, and suggesting that Democrats replace Hillary. But corrupt news, like the Tribune, knew everything now known about Hillary as they supported her days ago. Maybe they are only backing a tribe, but not a policy? And Maybe they want to find another crook. I note that press, who had accepted Hillary's corruption, are now denouncing her Saudi Spy Handler

Donald Trump's speech at Gettysburg is frightening media. They have supported and protected insider corruption for a long time. Trump will clean up the festering wound, and make America great again. 
=== from 2015 ===
Abuse of power is legal unless called out. Shredding evidence of a gang rape of an under age Aboriginal girl in detention is illegal (There is no legal age for sex, she was under the age of consent too). However, Rudd will not be prosecuted for it. He had the power of authority that allowed him to do the act, although he did not possess the authority to do it. His authority was not his position as cabinet secretary, because another cabinet secretary, were they working for the LNP would have been both persecuted and prosecuted for doing it. Rudd's authority was the ALP badge. It is not the sole instance of that badge allowing abuse of power. When Gillard allegedly gave her client union powers to extort money from business, that was an abuse of power too which wasn't fully prosecuted. Or when Shorten allegedly abused work choices to steal member money that has not been fully prosecuted. Or in contrast, Thomson has not been prosecuted in the same way Jackson is being persecuted and the big difference is the ALP badge. Jackson lost her badge. 

Internationally, it is not the ALP badge, but the media support of a leftwing agenda which allows abuse of power. Otherwise Truman would have faced hard questions over dropping two atomic bombs on civilians. Or Kennedy would face hard questions over selling out his partner for peace in the Cuban Missile Crisis. Or Johnson would have faced hard questions over his assassination of allies, or supporting corrupt allies. Or Carter would face tough questions for giving chemical weapons to Iraq. Or Bill Clinton would have to explain the deaths of former friends who could finger him for corruption, or his dropping bombs on civilians in Yugoslavia. Or Obama would have to explain how he came to sacrifice for no reason his people in Benghazi while dancing with Beyonce. 

For some, at the moment, the Sex Party has more credibility.
From 2014 
ICAC desperate to be dismantled before it has to investigate ALP. The investigation into Margaret Cuneen is arguably an abuse of power. The allegation is that the senior crown prosecutor counselled her son's girlfriend to pretend to have chest pains so as to avoid being breathalysed at the scene of an accident. It is documented the girl had her blood tested and was found to have no alcohol in her. But someone has been able to interest the ICAC to investigate when they have previously accepted a former Attorney General walking out of hospital with his own blood samples. The difference being that the former AG who later died as a drunk and was smashed as he crashed his car was an ALP member and the ICAC only investigates 2% of cases sent its way. Even had Cuneen's son's girlfriend been drunk, and the allegation true, the ICAC's charter isn't for it to investigate public figures on private matters. Cuneen denies even giving the unnecessary advice. Clearly the ICAC has a significant faction wanting to have the organisation busted. The investigation into the Liberal Party resembles a witch hunt in which the Liberals appear to be clean, but with a few new members making naive mistakes. Meanwhile the unreformed ALP is still dripping with corruption.
Art is?
Art and how others see it is dependent on who sees it. ISIL planted their flag on top of a dirt mountain in Syria. It was bombed. The image of the explosion is a work of art that Tim Blairs notes is better than Sydney Council's many attempts at spending big on art. The ABC has suggested using humour to combat terrorism, by looking at acts of terror and carrying on normally. Almost as if they don't have a stake in what is taken and lost. Maybe they will grieve the ISIL flag on top of that dirt mountain.
Islamic Art 
Feminists might note ISIL killing seven women, or women fighting ISIL. Among those murdered were a lawyer who had not gone to school in her first eighteen years, but studied and became senior enough that she could refuse to charge families of Iraqi detainees in US military institutions. Certainly ironic then that she was killed by those she defended. Female warriors among the Kurds have been effective against ISIL monsters.

Multiple marriages by Boko Haram of their captured school girls shows Michelle Obama's awareness raising is working to raise awareness. It certainly hasn't helped the female hostages. Brothers for Life gang finished. Jailed or killed by their own. A gang of Lebanese and Afghan refugees. We can thank the ALP who have deemed it important for their electoral success to import radical Islam. But the most elevated art work is that of a former Gosford Anglican Minister whose bigotry has seen the membership of his church plummet, but Rod Bower is now Arch Deacon. Rod likes drowning new migrants who have been subjected to piracy. He also likes taxes on plant food and would limit plant food around the world if he could. He doesn't seem to know much about God, but that might not have anything to do with his occupation of social activism.
ALP art
Bracket creep is to do with income tax. As inflation drives up prices and wages, a larger portion of wages are claimed. The answer to bracket creep is tax reform. But the ALP has blocked spending cuts. So the government will need to use the extra funds from bracket creep to fuel the budget. Meanwhile ALP in Victoria still protects CFMEU from investigation and criticism where it can. The Royal Commission into Union Corruption has found the union boss should be charged with blackmail. But the Victorian ALP leader has kept the CFMEU embedded in the ALP. 
Left wing art
Preachy Age piece ignores two salient facts that contradict it. The issue is AGW and the Age presents an impressive list of facts and figures, but fails to mention that warming has paused for sixteen years and there is nothing that can responsibly be done about it at the moment. 

Stolen Generation myths are challenged by primary research in Adelaide where letters from the eighteen hundreds and early nineteen hundreds are being transcribed and posted online. The evidence shows nothing consistent with the stolen generation myth. 

Sport achievements
Western Sydney Wanderers win marred by sober crowds rioting. The Wanderers did not even exist as a team a few years ago, and now have risen to win the Asia Cup for soccer. A great achievement. However, the fans have marred it with poor behaviour. 
From 2013
"US President Barack Obama views lies as legitimate political tools. He uses lies strategically to accomplish through mendacity what he could never achieve through honest means.

Obama lies in both domestic and foreign policy.

On the domestic front, despite Obama’s repeated promises that Obamacare would not threaten anyone’s existing health insurance policies, over the past two weeks, millions Americans have received notices from their health insurance companies that their policies have been canceled because they don’t abide by Obamacare’s requirements.

The Wall Street Journal’s editorial board explained that Obama’s repetition of this lie was not an oversight. It was a deliberate means of lulling into complacency these Americans who opted to buy their insurance themselves on the open market, in order to stick them with the burden of underwriting Obamacare.

In the editorialist’s words, “The [healthcare] exchanges need these customers [whose private policies are being canceled] to finance Obamacare’s balance sheet and stabilize its risk pools. On the exchanges, individuals earning more than $46,000 or a family of four above $94,000 don’t qualify for subsidies and must buy overpriced insurance. If these middle-class Obamacare losers can be forced into the exchanges, they become financiers of the new pay-as-yougo entitlement.”

Sure there is an outcry now about Obama’s dishonesty and the way he has used lying to take away from an unwilling public a right it would never have knowingly surrendered, but it is too late. There is no chance of revoking the law until at 2017, when Obama leaves office.

And by then, everyone will have been forced to accept what they consider unacceptable or be fined and lose all health coverage." from Caroline Glick. I suggest you read her full column
Historical perspective on this day
619 – A qaghan of the Western Turkic Khaganate is assassinated in a Chinese palace by Eastern Turkic rivals after the approval of Tangemperor Gaozu.
1410 – The Peace of Bicêtre suspends hostilities in the Armagnac–Burgundian Civil War.
1675 – Plymouth Colony governor Josiah Winslow leads a colonial militia against the Narragansett during King Philip's War.
1795 – The French Directory, a five-man revolutionary government, is created.

1868 – Time zone: New Zealand officially adopts a standard time to be observed nationally.
1889 – North Dakota and South Dakota are admitted as the 39th and 40th U.S. states.
1899 – The Boers begin their 118-day siege of British-held Ladysmith during the Second Boer War.

1912 – Bulgaria defeats the Ottoman Empire in the Battle of Lule Burgas, the bloodiest battle of the First Balkan War, which opens her way to Constantinople.
1914 – World War I: The Russian Empire declares war on the Ottoman Empire and the Dardanellesare subsequently closed.
1917 – The Balfour Declaration proclaims British support for the "establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people" with the clear understanding "that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities".
1917 – The Military Revolutionary Committee of the Petrograd Soviet, in charge of preparation and carrying out the Russian Revolution, holds its first meeting.
1920 – In the United States, KDKA of Pittsburgh starts broadcasting as the first commercial radio station. The first broadcast is the result of the United States presidential election, 1920.

1930 – Haile Selassie is crowned emperor of Ethiopia.
1936 – The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is established.
1936 – The British Broadcasting Corporation initiates the BBC Television Service, the world's first regular, "high-definition" (then defined as at least 200 lines) service. Renamed BBC1 in 1964, the channel still runs to this day.

1940 – World War II: First day of Battle of Elaia–Kalamas between the Greeks and the Italians.
1947 – In California, designer Howard Hughes performs the maiden (and only) flight of the Spruce Goose or H-4 The Hercules; the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built.
1949 – The Dutch–Indonesian Round Table Conference ends with the Netherlands agreeing to transfer sovereignty of the Dutch East Indies to the United States of Indonesia.

1951 – Canada in the Korean War: A platoon of The Royal Canadian Regiment defends a vital area against a full battalion of Chinese troops in the Battle of the Song-gok Spur. The engagement lasts into the early hours of November 3.
1953 – The Constituent Assembly of Pakistan names the country The Islamic Republic of Pakistan.
1959 – Quiz show scandalsTwenty One game show contestant Charles Van Doren admits to a Congressional committee that he had been given questions and answers in advance.
1959 – The first section of the M1 motorway, the first inter-urban motorway in the United Kingdom, is opened between the present junctions 5 and 18, along with the M10 motorway and M45 motorway.

1960 – Penguin Books is found not guilty of obscenity in the trial R v Penguin Books Ltd, the Lady Chatterley's Lover case.
1963 – South Vietnamese President Ngô Đình Diệm is assassinated following a military coup.
1964 – King Saud of Saudi Arabia is deposed by a family coup, and replaced by his half-brother Faisal.
1965 – Norman Morrison, a 31-year-old Quaker, sets himself on fire in front of the river entrance to the Pentagon to protest the use of napalm in the Vietnam war.
1966 – The Cuban Adjustment Act comes into force, allowing 123,000 Cubans the opportunity to apply for permanent residence in the United States.
1967 – Vietnam War: US President Lyndon B. Johnson and "The Wise Men" conclude that the American people should be given more optimistic reports on the progress of the war.

1983 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill creating Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
1984 – Capital punishmentVelma Barfield becomes the first woman executed in the United States since 1962.
1988 – The Morris worm, the first Internet-distributed computer worm to gain significant mainstream media attention, is launched from MIT.

1990 – British Satellite Broadcasting and Sky Television plc merge to form BSkyB as a result of massive losses.

===

 

No comments: