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1281 - ◆Battle of Koan.
(Koki 1941)
The Mongols attempt to land Kyushu Island on August 12. But the invasion of Japan is foiled, as a large typhoon – famously called a kamikaze, or divine wind – destroys much of the combined Chinese and Korean fleet and forces, numbering over 140,000 men and 4,000 ships on August 15.
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1534 – ★Saint Ignatius of Loyola and six classmates take initial vows, leading to the creation of the Society of Jesus in September 1540.
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1549 – ★Jesuit priest Saint Francis Xavier comes ashore at Kagoshima.
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1769 – ★(birth) Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of France.
(legal birth August 14, 1769)
(birth August 15, 1769)
(birth Japan time August 16, 1769)
(Julian calendar) August 4,1769
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1852 – ★Assassination attempt on Nasser-al-Din Shah by three Babis (Persia).
Three Babis attempted to assassinate Nasser-al-Din Shah as he was returning from the chase to his palace at Niyavarfin. Notwithstanding the assassins' claim that they were working alone, the entire Babi community was blamed, and a slaughter of several thousand Babis followed.
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Bahaullah was one of the persecuted Babis. He founded the Bahai Faith. But he was imprisoned by the Ottoman Empire.
There are an estimated five to six million Bahais around the world in more than 200 countries and territories. The supreme governing institution of the Bahai Faith is the Universal House of Justice, situated in Haifa, Israel. The amount of the assets is beyond imagination.
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1863 - ◇"Bombardment of Kagoshima".
A battle fought between Britain and the Satsuma Domain in Kagoshima.
The day is the 2,640th's anniversary of The First Olympic games of Ancient Greece.
Britain and Kagoshima shares a Sun cross symbol since Ancient times. 1 2
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1869 – ★The Meiji government in Japan establishes six new ministries, including one for Reclamation of Hokkaido (where Ainu live).
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1871 - ◆"Albert Pike" sends a reply to Giuseppe Mazzini about "Global War Plan".
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1914 – ★The Panama Canal opens to traffic with the transit of the cargo ship Ancon.
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1914 – ★A male servant of American architect Frank Lloyd Wright sets fire to the living quarters of the architect's Wisconsin home, Taliesin, murders seven people and burns the living quarters to the ground.
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1914 – ★The First Russian Army, led by Pavel Rennenkampf, enters Eastern Prussia.
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1941 - ◆Panzer Group Africa is activated with General Erwin Rommel in command.
August 15, 1281 (Koki 1941) - The second attempt to invade Japan by Mongol forces is foiled by a large typhoon - famously called a kamikaze, or divine wind.
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1945 – ◆(death) Korechika Anami, general in the Imperial Japanese Army.
Anami is War Minister at the surrender of Japan. Preferring to die rather than see Japan surrender, he commits seppuku at 5:30 a.m., on August 15.
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Anami should have died after a little more than 10 minutes. In fact, however, his suicide was a critical moment in the Japanese war history.
In 1995, the Japanese government maneuvered the earthquake in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the surrender of Japan. Because the surrender was a camouflaged surrender. World War II was a fake war, and the US forces had been secretly controlled by the Japanese military.
The earthquake was created on January 17, 1995 (August 15, 1415 in the Islamic calendar). And the first impact of the earthquake hit the Japanese archipelago at 5:46 a.m., which was arranged in accordance with the estimated last breath of General Anami.
Fortunately or unfortunately, Anami's suicidal seppuku was a fake performance. Naturally he didn't die. In addition, all the Japanese war criminals survived after the war though they were formally reported to have been executed by the allied forces.
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1945 – ◆Victory over Japan Day – Japan surrenders (World War II).
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1945 – ◆Sub-Lt Fred Hockley Incident
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At the end of World War II, the air campaign by the Allied forces continued right to the very end. It was quite reasonable because the Imperial Japanese Army didn't know when to give up.
But the result was nothing short of disastrous.
About 9:00 AM, a US F6F Hellcat from the USS Yorktown was shot down.
At 10:00 AM, a British Seafire from the HMS Indefatigable engaged in a dogfight with a Zeke (Mitsubishi A6M Zero) ended in a tie, and the Seafire crashed in a rice paddy.
Fortunately, the pilot, Sub-Lt. Fred Hockley, bailed out and landed on a small village.
But unfortunately, he was taken prisoner by civil defense guards and turned over to the military.
But fortunately at noon, the Emperor made the de facto surrender speech.
Unfortunately after dark however, Fred Hockley was taken to the mountains and was executed.
Though belatedly, but as a matter of course, the related Japanese military staff officers were sentenced to death by hanging at the War Crimes Trial in Hong Kong.
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1947 – ★India gains independence from the United Kingdom and becomes an independent nation within the Commonwealth.
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1947 – ★Muhammad Ali Jinnah is sworn in as first Governor General of Pakistan at Karachi.
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1960 – ★Republic of the Congo (Brazzaville) becomes independent from France.
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1971 – ◆President Richard Nixon completes the break from the gold standard by ending convertibility of the United States dollar into gold by foreign investors.
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1974 – ★Yuk Young-soo, First Lady of South Korea, is killed during an apparent assassination attempt upon President of South Korea, Park Chung-hee.
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1975 - ◆Miki Takeo makes an official pilgrimage to Yasukuni Shrine.
It is the first official pilgrimage by an incumbent prime minister on the anniversary of the end of World War II.
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1975 - ◆(death) Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Bangladesh's founder.
Mujibur is assassinated during a military coup.
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1982 - ★The Japanese government decided to hold the memorial service for the war dead on August 15 every year. August 15 was Napoleon's birthday.
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1985 - ◆On the fortieth anniversary of the end of World War II in Japan, Prime Minister Nakasone Yasuhiro and members of his cabinet visited the Yasukuni Shrine in an official capacity, an action viewed as a renewed conservative effort, outside the Diet, to invest the shrine with official status.
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1986 - ★The New Liberal Club, a political party in Japan, rejoined the Liberal Democratic Party.
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2011 - ◆A fire breaks out from my neighboring house.
The house has been vacant. But the house has been frequently used for annoying the family of the editor. We had not time to call the fire department. We tried to extinguish the fire by bucket brigade in order to prevent the fire from spreading toward my house.
A few minutes later, fire engines arrived and began to spray water by water cannons. However, the first spray was targeted not at the burning house but directly at me. I was trying to spray the bucket water. I stumbled and was injured a little. The next spray was targeted directly toward the window of my house. A glass window was broken by the water spray. The firemen didn't apologize to me.
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The fire and the erratic fire extinguishing activities are obviously the government's conspiracy. The day is Japan's important anniversary, "Victory over Japan Day".
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September 20, 1336 - ★Emperor Komyo ascends the throne (Nanboku-cho period).
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October 2, 1857 - ★(birth) Kunihiko Iwadare, one of the founders of NEC.
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September 12, 1848 - ★Switzerland becomes a Federal state. (timeline)
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September 28, 1928 - ▲Sir Alexander Fleming discovers what is later known as penicillin.
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The discovery date was probably arranged with the birthday of Tateo Kato, a Japanese ace army aviator (September 28, 1903 [1928/09/28]).
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September 28, 1928 - ▲The U.K. Parliament passes the Dangerous Drugs Act.
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September 15, 1970 - ★Margaret Thatcher pushes through cuts to her department's bill (UK).
Thatcher gave priority to academic needs in schools, and imposed public expenditure cuts on the state education system, resulting in the abolition of free milk for schoolchildren aged seven to eleven. Her decision provoked a storm of protest from the Labour party and the press, and led to the moniker "Margaret Thatcher, Milk Snatcher".
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September 11, 1973 - ★A coup in Chile headed by General Augusto Pinochet topples the democratically elected president Salvador Allende. Pinochet remains in power for almost 17 years.
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October 3, 2009 - ▲Rio de Janeiro wins the rights to host the 2016 Summer Olympics.
The bids take place in Copenhagen, Denmark (local time on October 2).
Tokyo fails to win the bid. But the miserable news is covered up in Japan by the breaking news of the death of Financial Minister Shoichi Nakagawa.
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October 3, 2009 - ▲(death) Shoichi Nakagawa, Minister of Finance (Japan).
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October 3, 2009 - ▲Mt. Sakurajima erupts. The columns of smoke rise 3,000 meters high.
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January 17, 1995 (August 15, 1415 in the Islamic calendar)
◆The Great Hanshin earthquake.
A magnitude 7.3 earthquake hits near Kobe, Japan, causing extensive property damage and killing 6,434 people.
To attend the damp forces exerted on the bridge, the Akashi kaikyo Bridge has a pendulum system that operates at the resonance frequency. At the time of the earthquake, the bridge was under construction almost over the epicenter. In fact, the earthquake occurred at a good timing for testing the pendulum system. The tower structures experienced no structural damage. The only effect was the 1m relative movement of the towers and anchorage.
※ Korechika Anami, a general in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II, and War Minister at the surrender of Japan, preferring to die rather than see Japan surrender, committed seppuku at 5:30 a.m., on August 15, 1945. He should have died after a little more than 10 minutes. In fact, however, his suicide was a critical moment in the Japanese war history.
In 1995, the Japanese government maneuvered the earthquake in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the surrender of Japan. Because the surrender was a camouflaged surrender. World War II was a fake war, and the US forces had been secretly controlled by the Japanese military.
The earthquake was created on January 17, 1995 (August 15, 1415 in the Islamic calendar). And the first impact of the earthquake hit the Japanese archipelago at 5:46 a.m., which was arranged in accordance with the estimated last breath of General Anami.
Fortunately or unfortunately, Anami's suicidal seppuku was a fake performance. Naturally he didn't die. In addition, all the Japanese war criminals survived after the war though they were formally reported to have been executed by the allied forces.
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