Milorad Petrović (18 April 1882 – 12 June 1981) was a lieutenant
general in the Royal Yugoslav Army who commanded the 1st Army Group
during World War II. He was commissioned into the Royal Serbian Army in
1901 and served in staff positions during the Balkan Wars and the
Serbian campaign of World War I. After the 27 March 1941 Yugoslav
coup d'état, he was appointed to command the 1st Army Group,
responsible for the northern borders of Yugoslavia with Italy, Germany
and Hungary. His formations were only partially mobilised when the
German-led invasion of Yugoslavia began on 6 April. Significant fifth
column activities affected the Yugoslav units from the outset. On
10 April, two determined armoured thrusts by the Germans caused the 1st
Army Group to disintegrate, and the following day Petrović was captured
by fifth columnists. He was soon handed over to the Germans and spent
the rest of the war in a prisoner of war camp in Germany. After the war,
he chose to return to communist-led Yugoslavia, living in Belgrade, and
remaining active, swimming daily in the Sava well into his nineties.
(This article is part of a featured topic: 1st Army Group (Kingdom of
Yugoslavia).).
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1954:
Dominic Savio (portrait shown), who was 14 years old when he
died, was canonised by Pope Pius XII, making him one of the youngest
non-martyred saints in the Catholic Church.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominic_Savio>
1967:
The U.S. Supreme Court struck down laws restricting interracial
marriage in the landmark civil rights case Loving v. Virginia.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loving_v._Virginia>
1994:
The Boeing 777, the world's largest twinjet, made its maiden
flight.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_777>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
tokamak:
(nuclear physics) A torus-shaped chamber used in nuclear fusion research
in which a plasma is magnetically confined.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/tokamak>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Now, those who were killed and injured here were gunned down by
a single killer with a powerful assault weapon. The motives of this
killer may have been different than the mass shooters in Aurora or
Newtown. But the instruments of death were so similar. And now another
49 innocent people are dead; another 53 are injured; some are still
fighting for their lives; some will have wounds that will last a
lifetime. We can’t anticipate or catch every single deranged person
that may wish to do harm to his neighbors or his friends or his
coworkers or strangers. But we can do something about the amount of
damage that they do. Unfortunately, our politics have conspired to make
it as easy as possible for a terrorist or just a disturbed individual
like those in Aurora and Newtown to buy extraordinarily powerful
weapons, and they can do so legally.
--Barack Obama
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