My names 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 historical truths
Who opposed slavery in Biblical times? Who opposed slavery in Great Britain? Who opposed Slavery in USA? Who gave votes to women in NZ? Who gave votes to women in Great Britain? Who gave votes to women in USA? Who brought in civil rights in England? Who brought in civil rights in USA? Who brought in civil rights in Australia?
If your answer to these truths is conservatives over liberals, you miss the point. Conservatism and Leftism are modern concepts. The ancient dialog of Plato was not between conservatism and leftism. However the dialog has morphed and flipped over time, coming to be that today. And the so called centre point is the cutting edge. Whomever owns the centre point has an advantage. It is rhetoric today that attributes that to leftism. But, leftists oppose progress and embrace reflexive activism.
Conservatism versus leftism evolved from the English civil wars between puritans like Cromwell and royalists. Tories and Whigs each supported the crown. Over time, however, Tories would broadly support the Crown, while Whigs became more enamoured with so called progressive ideas. The French Revolution would formalise the concept of leftism and rightism. The revolutionary council of France had had conservatives on the right, and radicals on the left.
In the last two hundred years, we have had progressives embracing slavery and killing conservatives who opposed it. Progressives opposed votes for women as they did votes for blacks. Progressive parties would exploit minorities as they claimed to serve them. Black support for Democrats today dates back to FDR promising them more than he delivered with his 'new deal.' Who thinks now that fatherless unemployed families leads to prosperity? My father, coming to NYC in 1963 would catch taxi cabs often driven by Jewish dads who proudly displayed images of their children studying to be in University, often becoming doctors or lawyers. Meeting a black beggar, he might ask why they don't drive a taxi. "Taxis don't pay enough. We want real jobs." "But if you work in a taxi, your children could go to university and get those jobs." "If they want to drive taxis, they can."
So think on these historical truths, who bungled WW2 and firebombed Berlin and nuked cities twice? Who left us an unending war in a divided Korea? Who bombed Yugoslavia rather than sending in troops? Who arrested Noriega the drug dealer? Who overthrows dictators to let the people run their own government? Who gives arms to terrorists? Who endorsed Ho Chi Minh or Pol Pot? Not every GOP is worthy of respect, many are RINO. But whom among Dems has not supported terrorism? Which Dem has not supported crippling corruption which steals $trillions from the world economy? Which Dem has not called baby killing a virtue?
Whenever GOP do well, press claim that everyone is corrupt. When GOP stumble, press claim that Dem are strong. We need a free voice to discover nuance. Welcome to Voice DDB.
Today is the anniversary of an unfair fight which changed the world forever. The Battle of Karbala in 680 AD pitted a caravan of 110 being slaughtered by some thirty thousand. The thirty thousand were following the established but illegitimate rule of Yazidi. Husayn ibn Ali was a descendent of Mohammed and a son of Fatimah, Mohammed's daughter who was the only one to survive to adulthood. Yazidi was the son of a usurper whom had promised to not promote his son. But the guy with all the men won. Husayn had had a six month old son who was also beheaded following the battle. It is said by some that an angel intervened and replaced Husayn with another. The result of the battle is the schism between Sunni and Shia.
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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 2017 ===
Don't give up on hope. A friend has asked the question "How many harassed Weinstein “victims” ended up rich and famous eh?" Which explains why evil festers. We live on hope. Weinstein was an open secret, yet someone like George Clooney can say he did not know and would not condone it. Also it turns out a comic who joked in an award ceremony had known and barbed home. Many of those marching vaginas against Trump may have known, but did not care because Weinstein is not a known conservative. Weinstein may yet be forgiven by the likes of Whoopi Goldberg who famously endorsed Roman Polanski. I bet Weinstein destroyed more careers than were made by him. I also bet that any actress that prospered, did so despite Weinstein. I once read that serial killers could get their victims to comply with their murder by 'offering hope' that by taking an action they can do better. So they would dig a ditch, tie themselves up, and allow what they might otherwise have fought for, because of hope. Fatty Arbuckle did not create the casting couch, neither will it end with Weinstein.
There is hope even for those lost seeking it. 1 Thessalonians 13-18 "Brothers and sisters, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death,so that you do not grieve like the rest of mankind, who have no hope. For we believe that Jesus died and rose again, and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him. According to the Lord’s word, we tell you that we who are still alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep.For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever. Therefore encourage one another with these words."
I loved the Joe Michael Straczynski Babylon 5 Season 3 ending "G'Quon wrote, 'There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope, the death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender. The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.'"
The Australian Liberal Party will experience all sorts of pain until Tony Abbott, or a suitable inheritor, is leader. The US GOP will experience lots of pain until they realise that Trump is an excellent President. The US Dems will suffer until they realise HRC was a lousy candidate. The one who offers hope is not the one, like Shorten or Obama, who claim that AGW threatens the world. The one who offers hope is the one who like Abbott and Trump point out that the world must turn as we seek to do what we can.
There is hope even for those lost seeking it. 1 Thessalonians 13-18 "Brothers and sisters, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death,so that you do not grieve like the rest of mankind, who have no hope. For we believe that Jesus died and rose again, and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him. According to the Lord’s word, we tell you that we who are still alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep.For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever. Therefore encourage one another with these words."
I loved the Joe Michael Straczynski Babylon 5 Season 3 ending "G'Quon wrote, 'There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope, the death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender. The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.'"
The Australian Liberal Party will experience all sorts of pain until Tony Abbott, or a suitable inheritor, is leader. The US GOP will experience lots of pain until they realise that Trump is an excellent President. The US Dems will suffer until they realise HRC was a lousy candidate. The one who offers hope is not the one, like Shorten or Obama, who claim that AGW threatens the world. The one who offers hope is the one who like Abbott and Trump point out that the world must turn as we seek to do what we can.
=== from 2016 ===
The death of a NZ woman who fell from a balcony while on a Tinder date with a creep is being heard in a QLD court. She was drunk and high and allegedly belligerent when the creep locked her on a balcony of his high rise apartment. It is natural to focus on the prurient detail. But the salient one is that he locked her on the balcony of his home when she was drunk and, in his defence testimony, acting irrationally. And she acted irrationally and died. I don't care that he is addicted to Tinder sex. I don't judge him for that. I am concerned at his depraved indifference to the welfare of someone in his home. Nothing I have heard of this guy leads me to want him to be free.
Meanwhile NSW has arrested two suspected of planning jihad with rifle bayonets. They were called 'brothers' by a hate preacher who has done time in a super max prison. One has to be cautious not to link the two alleged extremists with Islam they allegedly follow. The truth is we need the Islamic community to deny all three claims of faith. I love God, and were I to attempt something similar, I would want my church to disown me.
I am running on a secular platform because I want everyone to prosper. I oppose the almost religious fervour of environmentalists, but I like sound ideas that environmentalists might have. There are places in Dandenong where wind breaks, like trees, would be very good. Dandenong Council would not need WaterSeer, but a product which extracts water from the air and requires no power would be useful for some residents. It apparently can extract 37 litres a day and is scalable. They would be very useful in humid areas. The tiles outside Dandenong Plaza are beginning to be trip hazards. Whomever s in charge of the maintenance needs to maintain it.
In NSW, Premier Mike Baird has adjusted hours for sale of alcohol, extending it from 10pm to 12pm. Press are calling it an embarrassing back flip. Maybe the press has had too much sauce?
I suggest Red Gum ward vote for David Daniel Ball. And, after asking your local councillor about their views on Trump, Same Sex Marriage and Greyhounds, try and find out what it is they will do to make garbage collection cheaper and more efficient. Ask how they will make business more profitable. Ask what they will do to help address crime. Ask what they will do to improve public transport issues locally.
=== from 2015 ===
Senator Day is moving for amendments to section 18C of the racial vilification act. If there is any benefit for Turnbull's backstabbing it is that this legislation, which was stopped because of Turnbull's back stabbing, can be passed. What will Turnbull do now?
For some, at the moment, the Sex Party has more credibility.
For some, at the moment, the Sex Party has more credibility.
From 2014
A few years ago I made Picking Cotton ( http://youtu.be/4udS8SsnH_s ) as an attempt to raise awareness of youth dissociation from police. The left wing narrative that prizes anti social behaviour gets people killed. The subject I would focus on was a young police woman, Nicola Cotton from Louisiana, who had joined the force after Cyclone Katrina. She was a successful young constable, engaged and pregnant when she was tasked to arrest a suspected offender on her own. He overpowered her and took her gun and killed her with her sidearm and waited to be arrested by another policeman. I attempted to access seed funding for the project and was refused by a left wing local council which claimed the issue was not a youth problem in their locale. I made the video anyway, although it was not as good as what I might have achieved with backing. The video was appreciated by one US Police department. But the issue is not well addressed in international, Western world circles. Recently a drunk kid bullied a black officer on a train in Brisbane and the officer handled the racist abuse very well, but the giggling foul mouthed kid had a friend who filmed the abuse and posted it. The upshot is the kid says he could not remember what he had done, but he apologised for doing it and regretted it. No one has died from it. But it is ugly and unbecoming and not something to be prized.
Anti social behaviour is not always without pain. People are dying from drug and drunken fuelled single punch attacks. The issue of racial abuse was considered so serious that in Australia a provision was made in law, 18c, which can have people charged with racial vilification. Only it doesn't work that way. Journalist Andrew Bolt made a simple observation and was charged under 18c, and convicted of writing an article which had errors. The law had been misapplied to secure the conviction, Bolt could have appealed but did not have the money or the time to devote to it. But then nobody died from it. All that has happened is that people desperately in need have been denied funds by sponges who feel entitled. It really is the Labor way.
Reality TV gets it wrong over The Bachelor. A decent guy gave a girl he didn't love a $58k ring. He didn't sleep with her. He told her in person he wouldn't pursue a relationship with her. He seems a stand up guy. But the vagaries of reality tv means he will be fielding hate mail for a long time to come. On the other hand, Respect those who serve. Maybe they need you to help them hang up their coat full of medals on your aircraft. Smile, do your job, and thank them for their service. In a recent case, a stewardess got snippy with a soldier who made that request. Nobody has died, but the idea of respect for people seems .. lost.
The ALP created 18c in its current form and will not allow change to it. Neither will greens or PUP, so the legislation, although flawed, remains. Some have claimed that the legislation is needed to curb the activity of Rupert Murdoch, whom the legislation has never been employed against. So clearly the legislation is effective in preventing whatever it is that Murdoch does. One supporter of the legislation is Albanese. Albanese has come out in opposition to beefed up terror laws. Albanese feels that it is not necessary to curb terrorist recruiters from their activity the same way he feels it is important to prevent news journalists commenting on current issues. And then there is Hizb Ut-Tahrir, which promotes dangerous ideas like the morality behind killing women for honour code, and also promotes practice like female genital mutilation, preventing women from attending to school, or being seen in public. Hizb Ut-Tahrir opposes Australian military action in the Middle East supporting Islamic peoples fighting ISIS which has killed many Muslims, as well as others. They are terrorist supporters but, as has been noted, although the terrorists they support have killed, tortured and raped many, including non combatants, Hizb Ut-Tahrir has not been seen to have killed anyone. Satisfying Albanese that they need protections that they would be denied were Australia to adopt anti terror legislation.
The ALP created 18c in its current form and will not allow change to it. Neither will greens or PUP, so the legislation, although flawed, remains. Some have claimed that the legislation is needed to curb the activity of Rupert Murdoch, whom the legislation has never been employed against. So clearly the legislation is effective in preventing whatever it is that Murdoch does. One supporter of the legislation is Albanese. Albanese has come out in opposition to beefed up terror laws. Albanese feels that it is not necessary to curb terrorist recruiters from their activity the same way he feels it is important to prevent news journalists commenting on current issues. And then there is Hizb Ut-Tahrir, which promotes dangerous ideas like the morality behind killing women for honour code, and also promotes practice like female genital mutilation, preventing women from attending to school, or being seen in public. Hizb Ut-Tahrir opposes Australian military action in the Middle East supporting Islamic peoples fighting ISIS which has killed many Muslims, as well as others. They are terrorist supporters but, as has been noted, although the terrorists they support have killed, tortured and raped many, including non combatants, Hizb Ut-Tahrir has not been seen to have killed anyone. Satisfying Albanese that they need protections that they would be denied were Australia to adopt anti terror legislation.
From 2013
Child soldiers? Does the UN really believe that they have cool judgement with a rifle and ammo? Does the media really applaud their issue? An article I have linked below gives an example from Syria. It isn't the religion, (I'm told) but the culture that is sick. I guess it isn't good to have a dictator overlord backed by religious authorities. It doesn't build a community.
Nobel peace prize given to those who accepted the chemical attacks in Syria, having first denied they really existed. A young girl who has become the international spokesperson or female education misses out as the shot that wounded her didn't kill her and some feel she needs to do more. But she wasn't very old when Saddam's chemical weapons passed to Syria ..
Weather conditions confound AGW scientists. Terror around the world at unseasonal cooling. Sydney temperatures collapsed 12 degrees centigrade in a day. I asked an old lady who said she thought the cold would never leave. Nobody knows why. Modelling doesn't explain it. I asked a model who looked forward to skiing in the Alps. When I asked 'why,' she said she just liked people and felt the world should simply get along. I smiled and she said "Ew, not you!"
Obama seems to have less ability and charm than that model. He believes in global warming, money growing on trees, but nothing of a strongly religious nature. So why is he hitting Jews? Gillard blamed Jews for not having a strong lobby. Maybe Obama feels the same? Abbott has policies that are working. But the press are focused on who will be the next opposition leader. Neither contender has a policy different to what failed at election. But they are beginning to say they want the Libs to ditch an election promise and bring back Work Choices. It would be a responsible, adult thing to do.
Nobel peace prize given to those who accepted the chemical attacks in Syria, having first denied they really existed. A young girl who has become the international spokesperson or female education misses out as the shot that wounded her didn't kill her and some feel she needs to do more. But she wasn't very old when Saddam's chemical weapons passed to Syria ..
Weather conditions confound AGW scientists. Terror around the world at unseasonal cooling. Sydney temperatures collapsed 12 degrees centigrade in a day. I asked an old lady who said she thought the cold would never leave. Nobody knows why. Modelling doesn't explain it. I asked a model who looked forward to skiing in the Alps. When I asked 'why,' she said she just liked people and felt the world should simply get along. I smiled and she said "Ew, not you!"
Obama seems to have less ability and charm than that model. He believes in global warming, money growing on trees, but nothing of a strongly religious nature. So why is he hitting Jews? Gillard blamed Jews for not having a strong lobby. Maybe Obama feels the same? Abbott has policies that are working. But the press are focused on who will be the next opposition leader. Neither contender has a policy different to what failed at election. But they are beginning to say they want the Libs to ditch an election promise and bring back Work Choices. It would be a responsible, adult thing to do.
Historical perspective on this day
539 BC – The army of Cyrus the Great of Persia takes Babylon (Julian calendar)
633 – Battle of Hatfield Chase: King Edwin of Northumbria is defeated and killed by the British under Penda of Mercia and Cadwallon of Gwynedd.
1113 – The city of Oradea is first mentioned under the Latin name Varadinum ("vár" means fortress in Hungarian).
1279 – Nichiren, a Japanese Buddhist monk founder of Nichiren Buddhism, is said to have inscribed the Dai Gohonzon.
633 – Battle of Hatfield Chase: King Edwin of Northumbria is defeated and killed by the British under Penda of Mercia and Cadwallon of Gwynedd.
1113 – The city of Oradea is first mentioned under the Latin name Varadinum ("vár" means fortress in Hungarian).
1279 – Nichiren, a Japanese Buddhist monk founder of Nichiren Buddhism, is said to have inscribed the Dai Gohonzon.
1398 – The Treaty of Salynas is signed between Grand Duke of LithuaniaVytautas the Great and the Teutonic Knights, who received Samogitia.
1492 – Christopher Columbus's expedition makes landfall in the Caribbean, specifically in The Bahamas. The explorer believes he has reached the Indies.
1582 – Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
1654 – The Delft Explosion devastates the city in the Netherlands, killing more than 100 people.
1692 – The Salem witch trials are ended by a letter from Massachusetts Governor Sir William Phips.
1748 – British and Spanish naval forces engage at the Battle of Havana during the War of Jenkins' Ear.
1773 – America's first insane asylum opens.
1792 – The first celebration of Columbus Day is held in New York City.
1793 – The cornerstone of Old East, the oldest state university building in the United States, is laid on the campus of the University of North Carolina.
1798 – Flemish and Luxembourgish peasants launch the rebellion against French rule known as the Peasants' War.
1799 – Jeanne Geneviève Labrosse was the first woman to jump from a balloon with a parachute, from an altitude of 900 meters.
1810 – First Oktoberfest: The Bavarian royalty invites the citizens of Munich to join the celebration of the marriage of Crown Prince Ludwig of Bavaria to Princess Therese von Sachsen-Hildburghausen.
1822 – Pedro I of Brazil is proclaimed the emperor of the Empire of Brazil.
1823 – Charles Macintosh of Scotland sells the first raincoat.
1847 – German inventor and industrialist Werner von Siemens founds Siemens & Halske, which later becomes Siemens AG.
1871 – Criminal Tribes Act (CTA) enacted by British rule in India, which named over 160 local communities 'Criminal Tribes', i.e. hereditary criminals. Repealed in 1949, after Independence of India.
1890 – Uddevalla Suffrage Association is formed.
1892 – The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited by students in many US public schools, as part of a celebration marking the 400th anniversary of Columbus's voyage.
1901 – President Theodore Roosevelt officially renames the "Executive Mansion" to the White House.
1915 – World War I: British nurse Edith Cavell is executed by a German firing squad for helping Alliedsoldiers escape from Belgium
1917 – World War I: The First Battle of Passchendaele takes place resulting in the largest single day loss of life in New Zealand history.
1918 – A massive forest fire kills 453 people in Cloquet, Minnesota.
1928 – An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Children's Hospital, Boston.
1933 – The military Alcatraz Citadel becomes the civilian Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary.
1942 – World War II: Japanese ships retreat after their defeat in the Battle of Cape Esperance.
1944 – World War II: The Axis occupation of Athens comes to an end.
1945 – World War II: Desmond Doss is the first conscientious objector to receive the U.S. Medal of Honor.
1959 – At the national congress of APRA in Peru a group of leftist radicals are expelled from the party who later form APRA Rebelde.
1960 – Cold War: Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe on a desk at United Nations General Assembly meeting to protest a Philippine assertion of Soviet Union colonial policy being conducted in Eastern Europe.
1960 – Television viewers in Japan unexpectedly witness the assassination of Inejiro Asanuma, leader of the Japan Socialist Party, when he is stabbed to death during a live broadcast.
1962 – The Columbus Day Storm strikes the U.S. Pacific Northwest with record wind velocities; 46 dead and at least U.S. $230 million in damages.
1963 – After nearly 23 years of imprisonment, Reverend Walter Ciszek, a Jesuit missionary, was released from the Soviet Union.
1964 – The Soviet Union launches the Voskhod 1 into Earth orbit as the first spacecraft with a multi-person crew and the first flight without space suits.
1967 – Vietnam War: US Secretary of State Dean Rusk states during a news conference that proposals by the U.S. Congress for peace initiatives are futile because of North Vietnam's opposition.
1968 – Equatorial Guinea becomes independent from Spain.
1970 – Vietnam War: US President Richard Nixon announces that the United States will withdraw 40,000 more troops before Christmas
1971 – The 2,500 year celebration of the Persian Empire is held (until October 16).
1979 – The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the first of five books in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxycomedy science fiction series by Douglas Adams is published.
1979 – The lowest recorded non-tornadic atmospheric pressure, 87.0 kPa (870 mbar or 25.69 inHg), occurred in the Western Pacific during Typhoon Tip.
1983 – Japan's former Prime Minister Tanaka Kakuei is found guilty of taking a $2 million bribe from Lockheed and is sentenced to four years in jail.
1984 – Brighton hotel bombing: The Provisional Irish Republican Army attempt to assassinate Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet. Thatcher escapes but the bomb kills five people and wounds 31.
1986 – Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh visit the People's Republic of China.
1988 – Two officers of the Victoria Police are gunned down execution-style in the Walsh Street police shootings, Australia.
1992 – A 5.8 earthquake occurred in Cairo, Egypt. At least 510 died.
1994 – The Magellan spacecraft burns up in the atmosphere of Venus.
1997 – Sidi Daoud massacre in Algeria that killed 43 at a fake roadblock.
1998 – Matthew Shepard, a gay student at University of Wyoming, dies five days after he was beaten, robbed and left tied to a wooden fence post outside of Laramie, Wyoming.
1999 – Pervez Musharraf takes power in Pakistan from Nawaz Sharif through a bloodless coup.
1999 – The former Autonomous Soviet Republic of Abkhazia declares its independence from Georgia
2000 – The USS Cole is badly damaged in Aden, Yemen, by two suicide bombers, killing 17 crew members and wounding at least 39.
2002 – Terrorists detonate bombs in the Sari Club in Kuta, Bali, killing 202 and wounding over 300.
2005 – The second Chinese human spaceflight Shenzhou 6 launched carrying Fèi Jùnlóng and Niè Hǎishèng for five days in orbit.
2013 – Fifty-one people are killed after a truck veers off a cliff in La Convención Province, Peru.
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539 BC – The army of Cyrus the Great of Persia takes Babylon (Julian calendar)
633 – Battle of Hatfield Chase: King Edwin of Northumbria is defeated and killed by the British under Penda of Mercia and Cadwallon of Gwynedd.
1113 – The city of Oradea is first mentioned under the Latin name Varadinum ("vár" means fortress in Hungarian).
1279 – Nichiren, a Japanese Buddhist monk founder of Nichiren Buddhism, is said to have inscribed the Dai Gohonzon.
633 – Battle of Hatfield Chase: King Edwin of Northumbria is defeated and killed by the British under Penda of Mercia and Cadwallon of Gwynedd.
1113 – The city of Oradea is first mentioned under the Latin name Varadinum ("vár" means fortress in Hungarian).
1279 – Nichiren, a Japanese Buddhist monk founder of Nichiren Buddhism, is said to have inscribed the Dai Gohonzon.
1398 – The Treaty of Salynas is signed between Grand Duke of LithuaniaVytautas the Great and the Teutonic Knights, who received Samogitia.
1492 – Christopher Columbus's expedition makes landfall in the Caribbean, specifically in The Bahamas. The explorer believes he has reached the Indies.
1582 – Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
1654 – The Delft Explosion devastates the city in the Netherlands, killing more than 100 people.
1692 – The Salem witch trials are ended by a letter from Massachusetts Governor Sir William Phips.
1748 – British and Spanish naval forces engage at the Battle of Havana during the War of Jenkins' Ear.
1773 – America's first insane asylum opens.
1792 – The first celebration of Columbus Day is held in New York City.
1798 – Flemish and Luxembourgish peasants launch the rebellion against French rule known as the Peasants' War.
1799 – Jeanne Geneviève Labrosse was the first woman to jump from a balloon with a parachute, from an altitude of 900 meters.
1810 – First Oktoberfest: The Bavarian royalty invites the citizens of Munich to join the celebration of the marriage of Crown Prince Ludwig of Bavaria to Princess Therese von Sachsen-Hildburghausen.
1822 – Pedro I of Brazil is proclaimed the emperor of the Empire of Brazil.
1823 – Charles Macintosh of Scotland sells the first raincoat.
1847 – German inventor and industrialist Werner von Siemens founds Siemens & Halske, which later becomes Siemens AG.
1871 – Criminal Tribes Act (CTA) enacted by British rule in India, which named over 160 local communities 'Criminal Tribes', i.e. hereditary criminals. Repealed in 1949, after Independence of India.
1892 – The Pledge of Allegiance is first recited by students in many US public schools, as part of a celebration marking the 400th anniversary of Columbus's voyage.
1901 – President Theodore Roosevelt officially renames the "Executive Mansion" to the White House.
1915 – World War I: British nurse Edith Cavell is executed by a German firing squad for helping Allied soldiers escape from Belgium
1917 – World War I: The First Battle of Passchendaele takes place resulting in the largest single day loss of life in New Zealand history.
1928 – An iron lung respirator is used for the first time at Children's Hospital, Boston.
1933 – The military Alcatraz Citadel becomes the civilian Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary.
1942 – World War II: Japanese ships retreat after their defeat in the Battle of Cape Esperance.
1944 – World War II: The Axis occupation of Athens comes to an end.
1945 – World War II: Desmond Doss is the first conscientious objector to receive the U.S. Medal of Honor.
1960 – Cold War: Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe on a desk at United Nations General Assembly meeting to protest a Philippine assertion of Soviet Union colonial policy being conducted in Eastern Europe.
1960 – Television viewers in Japan unexpectedly witness the assassination of Inejiro Asanuma, leader of the Japan Socialist Party, when he is stabbed to death during a live broadcast.
1963 – After nearly 23 years of imprisonment, Reverend Walter Ciszek, a Jesuit missionary, was released from the Soviet Union.
1964 – The Soviet Union launches the Voskhod 1 into Earth orbit as the first spacecraft with a multi-person crew and the first flight without space suits.
1967 – Vietnam War: US Secretary of State Dean Rusk states during a news conference that proposals by the U.S. Congress for peace initiatives are futile because of North Vietnam's opposition.
1970 – Vietnam War: US President Richard Nixon announces that the United States will withdraw 40,000 more troops before Christmas
1971 – The 2,500 year celebration of the Persian Empire is held (until October 16).
1979 – The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the first of five books in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy comedy science fiction series by Douglas Adams is published.
1979 – The lowest recorded non-tornadic atmospheric pressure, 87.0 kPa (870 mbar or 25.69 inHg), occurred in the Western Pacific during Typhoon Tip.
1983 – Japan's former Prime Minister Tanaka Kakuei is found guilty of taking a $2 million bribe from Lockheed and is sentenced to four years in jail.
1984 – Brighton hotel bombing: The Provisional Irish Republican Army attempt to assassinate Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet. Thatcher escapes but the bomb kills five people and wounds 31.
1986 – Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh visit the People's Republic of China.
1988 – Two officers of the Victoria Police are gunned down execution-style in the Walsh Street police shootings, Australia.
1992 – A 5.8 earthquake occurred in Cairo, Egypt. At least 510 died.
1994 – The Magellan spacecraft burns up in the atmosphere of Venus.
1997 – Sidi Daoud massacre in Algeria that killed 43 at a fake roadblock.
1998 – Matthew Shepard, a gay student at University of Wyoming, dies five days after he was beaten, robbed and left tied to a wooden fence post outside of Laramie, Wyoming.
2000 – The USS Cole is badly damaged in Aden, Yemen, by two suicide bombers, killing 17 crew members and wounding at least 39.
2002 – Terrorists detonate bombs in the Sari Club in Kuta, Bali, killing 202 and wounding over 300.
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