Nobody doesn't like a Swedish Dansband! Fun fact: stage clothes were tax deductible in Sweden if you could prove they couldn't be worn as ordinary normal daywear. From such laws an age of glamour sprang...

Ethiopia was one of the poorest countries on earth in 1950. Fifteen years earlier, it had been invaded by Mussolini while the League of Nations did almost nothing to stop it. So when the UN called for help in Korea, Emperor Haile Selassie answered. He said Ethiopia knew exactly what it meant when the world looks away from an invaded country. He sent men from his own Imperial Bodyguard, his elite. They were called the Kagnew Battalion, named after the warhorse that carried an Ethiopian commander to victory over the Italians at Adwa in 1896. They fought with the US 7th Infantry Division through some of the worst battles of the war, including Triangle Hill and Pork Chop Hill. They became famous for night patrols and close-quarters fighting. And they built a reputation no one else matched. Across three years of rotations, the Kagnew Battalion is credited with never having a single man taken prisoner and never leaving one of their dead behind on the battlefield. Roughly 120 of them never came home. When they did go home, many of the veterans ended up persecuted under Ethiopia's communist regime in the 1970s, partly for having fought against communists in Korea. South Korea never forgot them. The Kagnew men are still honored there as some of the bravest soldiers who ever fought for that country.

The Professionals - 1-2-3

Ahhhh, that explains it. IYKYK

A wealth of topflight debut albums from the 1980s, but you can only choose *two*. Which albums will you select? 🎤 📀

Kas Product - "Never Come Back". (1981).Hailing from Nancy, this duo (Spatsz on machines, Mona Soyoc on vocals) delivers a cold wave / synth-punk sound of wild intensity.

“Britain´s Hindenburg” September 5 1930: Airship R101 crashes in Beauvais (France) 48 of 54 aboard die. On its maiden voyage, ship was at low altitude when it suddenly dived, hit ground and caught fire. Inquiry pointed most likely cause was a gas leak due to severe weather, resulting in loss of altitude, impacting the ground and causing a severe fire. However, the investigation also hinted the airship hadn´t been properly tested before its debut overseas flight, a lengthy crossing from England to Pakistan. At the time, R101 was the largest airship in the world. Among the dead on the accident were key staff on the British airship program, effectively ending the country´s project in this aviation field. 🎥 is from the excellent channel "Oceanliner Designs" feature on the crash, titled "Incredible Negligence" More info on the thread below 1/7 ⬇️🧵

On December 31, 192 AD, Roman Emperor Commodus was assassinated after conspirators first tried to poison his food. When he vomited up the poison and went to take a bath, his personal trainer, Narcissus, was sent in to strangle him to death. Learn more: bit.ly/4gXgJ5o

#OnThisDay in 1713, Denis Diderot was born. Read Philipp Blom on the importance of the French thinker's philosophical writings and how they offer a pertinent alternative to the Enlightenment cult of reason spearheaded by Rousseau and Voltaire: publicdomainreview.org/essay… #OTD

Female Bucket England and Wales, Death Registration Index 1837-2007

As a boy Jeffrey Archer moved to a house in Weston-super-Mare which his family had bought from John Cleese’s family. Archer occupied Cleese’s old bedroom.

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Today in 1973, Egypt and Syria launch a surprise attack on Israel during the Jewish Yom Kippur holiday. The onslaught nearly overwhelms the Israelis, who soon rally for a devastating counter offensive. A ceasefire ends the three-week war amid fears of a superpower intervention.

October 5, 1963 — The United States suspends the Commercial Import Program in response to repression of the Buddhist majority by the regime of President Ngo Dinh Diem.

Halley's comet

Is your surname here? Your family may have come from the Border Reiver clans, which you could class as Britain’s first “gangs”. They were renowned as fearless, strong raiding families from both sides of the Scottish-English border. 1300s - 1600s

The 1st episode of cult BBC comedy series Monty Python’s Flying Circus was broadcast #OTD in 1969.

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