stupid things you find on the internet when you're supposed to be home sick...
Here are some not-so-cheerful things that happened on my birthdate, November 20.
- 1407 - A solemn truce between John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy and Louis of Valois, Duke of Orléans is agreed under the auspices of John, Duke of Berry. Orléans would be assassinated three days later by Burgundy.
- 1695 - Zumbi, the last of the leaders of Quilombo dos Palmares in early Brazil, was executed.
- 1936 - Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera, founder of the Falange is killed by a republican execution squad.
- 1969 - Vietnam War: The Cleveland Plain Dealer publishes explicit photographs of dead villagers from the My Lai massacre in Vietnam.
- 1975 - Francisco Franco Caudillo of Spain dies after 36 years in power. He died, symbolically, on the 39th anniversary of the murder of Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera
- 1993 - An Avioimpex Yak 42D crashed near Ohrid, Macedonia. The aircraft was on a flight from Geneva, Switzerland to Skopje, but had been diverted to Ohrid due to poor weather conditions at the Skopje airport. On landing the aircraft crashed into Mount Trojani near Ohrid. All eight crew members and 115 of the 116 passengers were killed.
- 2003 - After the November 15 bombings, a second day of the 2003 Istanbul Bombings occurs in Istanbul, Turkey, destroying the Turkish head office of HSBC Bank AS and the British consulate.
- 1936 - Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera, Founder of the Falange. Executed by firing squad. (b. 1903)
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I guess there wern't enough depressing things happening that day so a repeat of the 1936 execution of Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera was called for. I found the info on Francisco Franco to be very interesting. I lived in Barcelona, Spain between 1977-1980, just two years after El Generalisimo's death, and as I was 9-12 years old at the time I really didn't have a clue about the post-Franco political climate. All I knew was that Juan Carlos I was the King of Spain and that he was supposed to have brought reform and that he was generally well-thought of.