Today in history . . .

[indianasmith]

It's April 30.

On this day in 1945, Adolf Hitler killed himself in his bombproof "Fuhrerbunker," 40 feet below the ruins of the Reich Chancellory building. The man who made the world tremble died cowering in a hole in the ground; the "thousand year Reich" he created survived him by 8 days.

But the war he launched claimed some 66 million lives and sowed a legacy of hatred and suffering that lasts to this day. This cold-blooded murderer, who urged his soldiers to "abandon all thought of pity," lives on as a synonym for tyranny, genocide, and the depths to which humanity can sink when demagogues unleash our darkest impulses.

Seventy-four years have passed since that spring day in Germany, when utter military defeat drove Hitler to take the coward's way out. The veterans of that war are all in their nineties now, and soon will be no more. As the Greatest Generation leaves the stage of this life, all of us should pause a moment to thank them for delivering the world from the unspeakable horror of global fascist domination.

[Svengoolie 3]

As an add on  to this that is little known, hitler killed himself on April 30th because May 1 was a national holiday in the soviet union known as mayday. It was a celebration of the worker and the struggle for better conditions for the working class.  Hitler did not want to risk being killed or captured by advance ding society forces on mayday.


https://www.marxists.org/subject/mayday/articles/tracht.html

[claws]

May 1st

1954 - Ray Parker, Jr. Birthday
1982 - I Love Rock 'N' Roll - Joan Jett & the Blackhearts is #1 at the Billboard Charts.
1994 - No Escape starring Ray Liotta and Lance Henriksen is the #1 Movie at the Box Office.
1999 - The body of British climber George Mallory is found on Mount Everest, 75 years after his disappearance in 1924.