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 'Hirohito Centennial' by Guest Historian Chris Oakley
Guest Historian Guest Historian Chris Oakley says, Emperor Hirohito of Japan celebrates his hundredth birthday. If you're interested in viewing samples of my other work why not visit the Changing the Times web site.
Hirohito
September 16

Emperor Hirohito

In 2001, Emperor Hirohito visited New York City to pay his respects to the victims and survivors of the 9/11 attacks.

Emperor Hirohito - of Japan
of Japan

This visit reciprocated a similar journey former US President Bill Clinton had made to Japan six years earlier following the Tokyo subway gas attack.


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April 29

In 2001, Japan's longest-reigning emperor, Hirohito, celebrated his 100th birthday. Hirohito, who was crowned emperor in 1926, first presided over Japan's transition from semi-feudal kingdom to modern democracy and later played a key role in the global environmental movement (a role some of his biographers felt his interest in marine biology might have inspired him to take on).

Emperor Hirohito
Emperor Hirohito - of Japan
of Japan

In fact, Hirohito gave the concluding address at the 1995 Kyoto climate summit.


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In 2003 on this first of day of his candidacy for Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger received a searing barrage of abuse from a long-term critic, the real Conan the Barbarian. The previous night Schwarzenegger had appeared on the The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.Arnie announced that he was adding his name to the crowded field of candidates in the recall election precipiated by Governor Gray Davis handling of the Californian budget crisis. The following morning during the work-out feaure of Breakfast with America Conan dubbed him the "Governator" and "The Running Man" ridiculing the recall election as "Total Recall". Arnie receives a barrage of abuse in "The Governator".In 1951 under immense pressure with Communists smashing across much of the Korean front, President Douglas MacArthur announced his proposals for a major spring counter-offensive at the US Congress on this day.In "No Substitute for Victory" US President Douglas Macarthur declares that all is not lost in Korea.In 2001 this day marked the beginning of the first foreign policy crisis in the presidency of George W. Bush. A J-8D fighter jet owned by the Peoples Republic of China collided with a U.S. EP-3 reconnaissance aircraft flying over disputed waters. The news was bad, and it got worse in a hurry. Because the Chinese pilot Wang Wei was missing, presumed dead and the EP-3 crew of twenty-four Americans were forced to make an emergency landing on Chinas Hainan Island where they were held captive.In "Act of War" Dubya confronts his first foreign policy crisis.
In the year 2564 of the Cyrus era on this day in Rome the alphabetic ordering of leaders during the funeral of Pope John Paul II resulted in the Grand Vizier, Moshe Katsav sitting near his fellow Persian, Mohammad Khatami (pictured). The Chairman of the Central Council of the Assembly of Combatant Clerics, Khatami was the head of a reformist political party which sought to overthrow the Shahanshah (the "King of Kings"), replacing the ruling House of Pahlavi with a Revolutionary Islamic Committee.A gesture of brotherly peace embarrasses and angers many at "Pope John Paul II's Funeral".In 1964 on this day White Citizens Councils received copies of "Counterinsurgency Warfare: Theory and Practice" as the US Government braced the country for a fresh wave of negro insurgency code-named "Freedom Summer".The segregationist USG prepare the country for "Freedom Summer".In 1934 on this day in Vienna, Austrian Head of State Engelbert Dollfuss was murdered in the offices of the chancellor at Ballhausplatz.The dying Engelbert Dolfuss defeats Nazidom to maintain "Austrian" independence.
In 1975 while shaking hands in Sacramento, California on this day President Gerald Ford was gunned down by a female assassin with an automatic pistol. She was later identified as Lynette Fromme, also known as "Squeaky" of the infamous Manson Family. President Ford assassinated by "Squeaky" FrommeIn 1901 President and Mrs. McKinley attended the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. He delivered a speech about his positions on tariffs and foreign trade. On the second day, McKinley was at the Temple of Music, greeting the public. Leon Frank Czolgosz waited in line with a pistol in his right hand concealed by a handkerchief. At 4:07 P.M. Czolgosz fired twice at the president. The first bullet grazed the presidents shoulder. The second, however, went through McKinleys stomach, colon, and kidney, and finally lodged in the muscles of his back.Technology saves President McKinley's life at the "Pan-American Exposition" in Buffalo.In 1763 on this day the signing of the Treaty of Paris by the Kingdoms of Great Britain, France and Spain (with Portugal in agreement) marked the beginning of an extensive period of Catholic dominance outside Europe. Because in combination with the separate Treaty of Hubertusburg signed by Prussia, Austria and Saxony, the so-called "Peace of Paris" concluded the world-wide conflict known as the Seven Years War, an outcome which particularly favoured the French and Spanish.Protestant Europe crashes to defeat at the carthaginian "Peace of Paris".
In 2009 senior ministers of the cabinet of Prime Minister Stephen Harper arrived by helicopter in Ottawas new "Green Zone". This Baghdad-style maximum security cordoned area had been hastily constructed over the previous forty-eight hours by elements of Canadian Special Operations Forces Command utilising robot technology.Events are unravelling fast for Health Canada in "Operation Citadel".In 1945 wisely disregarding the howling protests of the French Union, US President John Nance Garner recognised the Sovereign Nation of Vietnam just one hour after the new Head of State Nguyen Ai Qoc (pictured) issued a declaration of independence in Saigon. Assisting imperialists to put down revolts in former colonies was not only un-American, said Garner, it was surely the quickest route to fast-tracking nations into the Communist World.President Garner finds a true partner for his grand strategy of "Exporting Democracy".In 1963 on this day US President John F. Kennedy signed Executive Order No. 11110 in the Oval Office. Accordingly the force of law was given to the planned withdrawal of all American personnel absolutely no later than the end of 1965. Because just four months after a Vietnamese Buddhist by the name of Thich Quang Duc set himself on fire in a Saigon street (pictured), the security situation in the country was rapidly deteriorating.US pull out of Vietnam in "Bear any burden, pay any price".




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