How Americaâs Daily COVID-19 Death Toll Compares To Historical Tragedies
We re living through a Pearl Harbor, a Hurricane Maria and a Sept. 11 every day.
By Jeffrey Young and Rebecca Zisser
A year has passed since the first two recorded fatalities from COVID-19 in the United States. More than 460,000 Americans have fallen to the pandemic since then.
The death toll is already higher than that of the Civil War and World War II. The U.S. is at risk of surpassing the grim milestone set by the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918-1919: 675,000 deaths.
This degree of death and suffering is hard to comprehend. The ongoing, contagious nature of this pandemic has left friends and families to mourn in isolation, out of sight from the rest of us. In many ways, we have become numb to its carnage.
When Mardi Gras was last canceled: World War II and the return of frivolity in 1946
Updated Feb 11, 2021;
Posted Feb 11, 2021
A picture of the 1946 Kings Parade hangs on the wall at the Mobile Carnival Museum in downtown, Mobile, Ala.
The parades during the 1946 Mardi Gras were the first to take place along the Alabama Gulf Coast since 1941. For four years, from 1942-1945, Mardi Gras events like parades were canceled due to World War II. The next time there was widespread cancellations during Mardi Gras in Mobile was in 2021, due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The original photo of this image holds a place is in the holdings of the Doy Leale McCall Rare Book and Manuscript Collection at the University of South Alabama.
Commemorating International Holocaust Remembrance Day in New Orleans The couple met after World War II when Vera was searching for her brother after liberation. Misha had lost his wife and all other close family. Vera had lost her husband, daughter and father. She and her mother were reunited with her brother. (Source: U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum) By Nicondra Norwood | January 27, 2021 at 2:25 PM CST - Updated January 27 at 2:25 PM
NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - The United Nations declared January 27th International Holocaust Remembrance Day in 2005.
Set on the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz in 1945 the day is meant as a time to memorialize the 6 million Jews and 11 million others killed in Nazi-occupied Europe during World War II.
The True Story Of The Last Brit Executed For Treason Pna rota/Getty Images
By Allen McDuffee/Jan. 22, 2021 10:05 am EDT
On January 3, 1946, one of the most infamous men in Britain s World War II history found himself in a hangman s noose. William Joyce, better known to the British public as Lord Haw-Haw, was found to have betrayed his country by broadcasting anti-British propaganda on behalf of Nazi Germany and was executed for it, making him the last British man sentenced to death for treason.
Joyce was born on April 24, 1906 in New York, and raised in Galway, Ireland from the time he was three years old. In 1921, still a teenager, Joyce was recruited by the British Army as a courier during the Irish War of Independence, and was almost killed by the IRA on his way home from school one day, according to
Eight known sailors still live from the Naval Academy Class of 1940. Two are healthy enough to travel: Kaufman, of McLean, Virginia; and retired Capt. Edward Rodgers, of Castine, Maine. They met Friday in Annapolis: their 75th and last class reunion.