April 13 - Bavarian Soviet Republic proclaimed

13 April is the 103rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (104th in leap years). There are 262 days remaining. It is also the Ides of April.


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1598    The Edict of Nantes grants political rights to French Huguenots.

1775    Lord North extends the New England Restraining Act to South Carolina, Virginia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Maryland. The act forbids trade with any country other than Britain and Ireland.

1861    After 34 hours of bombardment, Union-held Fort Sumter surrenders to Confederates.

1865    Union forces under Gen. Sherman begin their devastating march through Georgia.

1902    J.C. Penny opens his first store in Kemmerer, Wyoming.

1919    British forces kill hundreds of Indian nationalists in the Amritsar Massacre.

1933    The first flight over Mount Everest is completed by Lord Clydesdale.

1941    German troops capture Belgrade, Yugoslavia.

1943    Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates the Jefferson Memorial.

1945    Vienna falls to Soviet troops.

1960    The first navigational satellite is launched into Earth's orbit.

1961    The U.N. General Assembly condemns South Africa because of apartheid.

1964    Sidney Poitier becomes the first black to win an Oscar for best actor.

1970    An oxygen tank explodes on Apollo 13, preventing a planned moon landing and jeopardizing the lives of the three-man crew.

1976    The U.S. Federal Reserve begins issuing $2 bicentennial notes.

1979    The world's longest doubles ping-pong match ends after 101 hours.


Born on April 13

1721    John Hanson, first U.S. President under the Articles of Confederation.
1732     Frederick Lord North, British prime minister (1770-82).
1743     Thomas Jefferson, third President of the United States (1801-09)
1852    Frank W. Woolworth, American retailer.
1866    Butch Cassidy [Robert LeRoy Parker], American outlaw and leader of the Wild Bunch.
1899    Alfred Butts, inventor of the board game Scrabble.
1906    Samuel Beckett, playwright, Nobel Prize winner (Waiting for Godot).
1909    Eudora Welty, Southern writer (Delta Wedding, The Optimist's Daughter).
1922    John Gerard Braine, British novelist (Room at the Top).
1939    Seamus Heaney, Irish poet, Nobel laureate.

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Originally posted by Komnenos One of the few laudable episodes in Bavarian history. Need to tell the story, when I have time.

Even tough the declaration of a socialist republic that protects property rights by Kurt Eisner is appreciable,dont you think that The German Revolution of 1918-89 partly paved they way for the rize of the Nazis?

To begin with,The Nazis were funded by the big german industrialists thanks to their anti-Marxist and anti-Bolshevik discourse.Given the fact that money is central to play politics,we can understand to what extend the German failed Revolution of 1918-19 shape the course of german political culture for the following 2 decades.

If you read about the genral mood of Volkdeutsche during the twenties,you will happen to know that one of the main reasons why people voted for the Nazis was the preceived Bolshevik threat.

Given the fact that Lenin himself was sent to Russia by German Military command,it is not funny,nor suprising...Plus,The Second Reich had gained enormously thanks to her treaty with the Bolsheviks:Treaty of Brest-Litovsk..For this treay Germany pormised not to take place against teh Reds in the Russial Civil war,which costed 1 million human lifes and was more devastating for Russia than the war with Germany.

History,the history of Europe in particlar, is full of ironies.

I think that makes history more enjoyable