1940
US:
Former US President Herbert Hoover is campaigning to send 400,000 tons of American food to Nazi-occupied Europe, to ward off prophesied famine. British blockade bans all food imports.
World:
The Somaliland Camel Corps- defenders of British Somaliland- are making a stand against Italian invaders at Tug Argan Gap. It’s a mountain pass en route to vital port of Berbera. 4000 Somalians (& 14 British officers) with rifles & machine-guns are facing an invasion force of 20,000+ Italians with tanks & artillery. Their only advantage: the high ground.
Source: @RealTimeWWII
1968
US: another Democratic candidate stepped up to challenge the incumbent Vice President Humphrey, who became the heir apparent after LBJ stepped back from the race. Senator McGovern entered the race after RFK was assassinated and the anti-war faction in the Democratic Party lost a firm champion.
World: "President Tito of Yugoslavia, the leader of the first Communist country to break with the Soviet Union, received a publicly jubilant but officially reticent welcome today when he arrived on a visit to Czechoslovakia.
Source: timesmachine.nytimes.com/
2024
US:
U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris selected as her Democratic running mate for president Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, a former geography teacher and pheasant hunter; and independent U.S. presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. admitted to finding a dead black bear on the side of the road during a falconry outing, and then loading it into his trunk, driving to a New York steakhouse for dinner, and dumping the corpse in Central Park next to a bicycle so as to make it appear as if a cyclist ran over and killed the animal.
Source: Harper's Week in Review
World:
A Ukrainian security source says that by Saturday August 10th, some units had moved a full 40km inside Russia towards the regional capital of Kursk. The attack, shrouded in secrecy, caught the Kremlin off-guard. Some 76,000 locals have fled and the Russian authorities have declared a state of emergency there.
Source: The Economist
