On This Day In History

ANYTHING that happened on any present date in history, that has a stamp for it.

For example...

George Washington was born on this day in 1732.

US Scott No. 706



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On February 23rd (tomorrow) in history, the Marines raised the American flag atop Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima, making this photograph famous...



Any number of stamps, US and worldwide, that are concerned with this event can be posted. (Lets just not do repeat posting of the same stamp.)


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Happy Birthday George!

Dear Member 'I Brake for Stamps', You introduced a new Thread yesterday titled "On this Day in History". I have enjoyed contributing to your other thread titled "History on Stamps" which you opened some months ago. Now I am confused as to what the basic difference is between the two threads. Please let me know where I can post stamps with historical topics next time. Greetings, K.

23 February 1954






http://www.history.com/this-day-in-...olio-vaccine

The difference between the threads that I see is that this one is for events that happened "on this day" and the other one is for any event in history. "On this day" history may take a little more work but I think it's a fun idea! Check out the website I used-- there are others too.

Kris-- kehess is right.


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On this day in history, The Marines raised the American flag atop Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima.

Over 6800 marines died, and over 19,000 were wounded in the battle to take the Island. After that it was only used as an emergency landing field for planes bombing the islands of Japan.

US Scott No. 929



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U.S. President Andrew Johnson was impeached on February 24, 1868



All the info you need here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Johnson
and here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeac...drew_Johnson

Wilhelm Grimm was born on this day,February 24,1786.

On this day in history, Chester Nimitz was born in 1885. (He was Commander in Chief of the Pacific Ocean Areas (CinCPOA), for U.S. and Allied air, land, and sea forces during World War II.)




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On February 25 1964 in Miami Beach, Florida. Cassius Clay beat Sonny Liston when the latter gave up at the opening of the seventh round.



Two of the Boxer series of labels engraved by Czeslaw Slania

On Feb 25 1831 the battle of Olszynka Grochowska was fought between the armies of Poland and Russia in the woods near Grochów, at the eastern outskirts of Warsaw. It was the largest battle of the November Uprising and the biggest in Europe since the battle of Waterloo. The result was a tactical victory for the Poles but the Russians eventually crushed the uprising & Poland didn't gain her independence until the end of WWI.


Poland 1980, Scott 2424. Commemorating the 150th anniv of the November Uprising.


1886 painting by Wojciech Kossak of the battle of Olszynka Grochowska.

On 25 February 1948 Communists took power in Czechoslovakia.



http://www.history.com/this-day-in-...echoslovakia

Edit: I just realized that this stamp is related but does not exactly represent this event. This stamp celebrates the friendly relationship between Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union that began with the secession of the Carpatho-Ukraine region from Czechoslovakia to the USSR in 1943. On this date in 1948 Czechoslovakia became the Czechoslovakian Socialist Republic (CSR noted on the cover). It seems to me to be unlikely that a country would issue a stamp to celebrate the secession of part of its territory. I didn't notice a better stamp to represent today's event but this stamp/cover may be appropriate seeing as it probably wouldn't have been issued if the Communists hadn't taken power and was also probably part of a propaganda effort to convince the population that it was a good thing.

Just to be precise here, there was no Czechoslovakia in 1943.
That treaty to hand over Carpathian-Ukraine was signed
in June 1945 under pressure by the occupying
Russian/Soviet Union.

To be really precise, this agreement was the exchange: Czechoslovakia back Sudetenland, inhabited by Czechs, and gave Carpatho-Ukraine, where Ukrainians lived. But the truth the Carpatho-Ukraine was occupied by Hungary in 1939 ...
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Wow! Thanks guys! When I looked up background on this topic I obviously misunderstood some of what I read. I appreciate the corrections. I should have just posted the link!