Uroš Drenović (1911–1944) was a Bosnian Serb officer of the Royal
Yugoslav Army who became a Chetnik commander during World War II. He
was one of the leaders of the popular uprising in mid-1941 against the
Ustaše, a fascist organization that governed the Independent State of
Croatia, a puppet state of the Axis powers. However, he eventually
betrayed the communist-led Partisans and sided with the royalist and
Serbian nationalist Chetniks, whose ideology more closely matched his
own. He was defeated by the Partisans and fled to Ustaše-held territory
where, out of military and political necessity, he concluded a
collaboration agreement with them on 27 April 1942. He later
collaborated with the Italian and German occupiers against the
Partisans. Drenović was killed in an Allied air raid in May 1944.
Despite his extensive collaboration, he and his Chetniks are celebrated
in Republika Srpska, the Serb-majority entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina,
creating significant controversy.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uro%C5%A1_Drenovi%C4%87>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1865:
An explosion (depicted) destroyed the steamboat Sultana on the
Mississippi River, killing an estimated 1,700 of her 2,400 passengers.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sultana_%28steamboat%29>
1961:
Prime Minister Milton Margai led the Sierra Leone Colony and
Protectorate to independence from the United Kingdom.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton_Margai>
1985:
The World Snooker Championship final, one of the most famous
snooker matches in history, began between Steve Davis and Dennis Taylor,
helping to fuel a surge in the sport's popularity.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_World_Snooker_Championship_final>
2012:
Unknown perpetrators carried out a series of four bombings in
Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Dnipropetrovsk_explosions>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
recrudescence:
1. The condition or state being recrudescent; the condition of something
(often undesirable) breaking out again, or re-emerging after temporary
abatement or suppression.
2. (medicine, by extension) The acute recurrence of a disease, or its
symptoms, after a period of improvement.
3. (botany) The production of a fresh shoot from a ripened spike.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/recrudescence>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
We want to see Ukraine remain a sovereign country, a democratic
country able to protect its sovereign territory. We want to see Russia
weakened to the degree that it can’t do the kinds of things that it
has done in invading Ukraine … it has already lost a lot of military
capability, and a lot of its troops, quite frankly. And we want to see
them not have the capability to very quickly reproduce that capability.
--Lloyd Austin
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Lloyd_Austin>