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Topic: OT - Weird History

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FearlessF

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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #6790 on: August 10, 2026, 09:00:57 AM »
10 August 1842. British parliament passed the Mines Act. It stopped women and children under the age of 10 from working underground. Many children, as young as 6, had previously worked shifts of up to 12 hours.

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« Reply #6791 on: August 10, 2026, 04:36:40 PM »
August 10, 1945, the Japanese inform the allies that they intend unconditional surrender. The Emperor's public, formal statement was made August 15, and the surrender was signed September 2, but August 10 was the day Japan acknowledged it could not continue, and the day the western allies began to restrict their troop movements because of the anticipated surrender.

At the same time, the Soviet Union was sweeping through Japanese occupied Manchuria, and began attacking the Japanese Navy in and around Korea, setting the conditions for the Soviet invasion in Korea, which would result in establishing the 38th parallel as the boundary of Soviet vs. western controlled Korea. Not that anything important ever happened as a result of that.
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« Reply #6792 on: Today at 08:55:17 AM »
It is well-known that Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865. But less than a year earlier, the Lincoln family had reason to praise the Booth name.

While standing on a train platform, Edwin Booth, brother of the assassin, saw a young man fall onto the tracks just as a train was moving off, and managed to pull him to safety. He had just saved Robert Todd Lincoln, the president’s son – not that he knew that. If anything, Robert was the one in awe, as his rescuer (pictured) was one of the most celebrated Shakespearean actors of his day.


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« Reply #6793 on: Today at 09:34:35 AM »
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 

"Malaysian Haze" Prompts State of Emergency Declaration (2005)
For a week in 2005, a choking, smog-like haze brought the central part of peninsular Malaysia to a standstill. Air quality was so poor that a state of emergency was declared in the district of Kuala Selangor and the country's major shipping center, Port Klang. Residents were instructed to stay home, and schools were closed. Only supermarkets and essential services remained open. Miraculously, Kuala Lumpur's main airport was unaffected.
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