The Waterloo Bay massacre was a clash between European settlers and
Aboriginal Australians that took place on the cliffs of Waterloo Bay
near Elliston, South Australia, in late May 1849. Part of the
Australian frontier wars, it is likely that it resulted in the deaths of
tens or scores of Aboriginal people. In the lead-up, three European
settlers were killed by Aboriginal people, and one Aboriginal person was
killed and five others were poisoned by European settlers. Local
Aboriginal people have oral history traditions that a large-scale
massacre occurred. While older European accounts suggest that the event
was exaggerated into a myth over time, it has now been concluded that
the stories are founded in fact, and that some form of punitive action
did take place. In 2017, the District Council of Elliston erected a
memorial (pictured) to acknowledge what occurred, and received a
national award for their work in memorialising the massacre.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterloo_Bay_massacre>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1889:
The Treaty of Wuchale was signed, ending the Italo-Ethiopian
War, but differences in translation later led to another war.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italo-Ethiopian_War_of_1887%E2%80%931889>
1945:
World War II: General Helmuth Weidling, the German commander of
Berlin, surrendered to Soviet forces led by Marshal Georgy Zhukov,
ending the Battle of Berlin (aftermath pictured).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Berlin>
1995:
Croatian War of Independence: Serb forces began rocket attacks
on the Croatian capital Zagreb, killing 7 people and injuring around 200
others.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zagreb_rocket_attacks>
2011:
The Conservative Party of Canada won enough seats in the
federal election to establish their first majority government.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Canadian_federal_election>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
turn turtle:
1. (intransitive) Especially of a boat or ship, or some other vehicle:
to turn upside down.
2. (intransitive, figuratively) To fail; to go belly up.
3. (intransitive, surfing) To roll upside down with one's surfboard
(usually a longboard) to allow a wave, especially a wave that has
already broken, to pass over.
4. (intransitive, historical) To capture a turtle by turning it on to
its back.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/turn_turtle>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Realists are, as a rule, only men in the rut of routine who are
incapable of transcending a narrow circle of antiquated notions. But
their adverse opinion does carry some weight and can do great harm to a
new project — at least until the innovation is strong enough to push
the "realists" and their moldy notions aside.
--Theodore Herzl
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Theodore_Herzl>