The Partisan Congress riots were attacks on Jews in Bratislava and other towns in the Slovak part of Czechoslovakia between 1 and 6 August 1946. After World War II, former Slovak partisans were often appointed as administrators of property and businesses that had been confiscated from Jews by the previous regime. In May 1946 a law mandating the restitution of these was passed and antisemitic leaflets and attacks on Jews increased. A national congress of former partisans was held in Bratislava on 2–4 August 1946. Rioting began on 1 August and occurred over six days (scene of one attack pictured). Despite police attempts to maintain order, ten apartments were broken into, nineteen people were injured (four seriously), and the Jewish community kitchen was ransacked. Attacks and riots occurred in other Slovak towns. The contemporary press played down the involvement of partisans. In response, the government launched a crackdown on antisemitic incitement and suspended restitution to Jews.

Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partisan_Congress_riots

_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1774:

British scientist Joseph Priestley liberated oxygen gas, corroborating the discovery of this element by German-Swedish chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen

1971:

The Concert for Bangladesh, a pair of benefit concerts organised by Ravi Shankar and George Harrison for refugees of the Bangladesh genocide, took place at Madison Square Garden in New York City. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Concert_for_Bangladesh

1991:

U.S. president George H. W. Bush delivered a speech in the Ukrainian parliament in Kiev warning against independence from the Soviet Union. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_Kiev_speech

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

scouthouse: (Scouting, US) A building where members of the Scout Movement hold their meetings. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/scouthouse

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

Familiarity with danger makes a brave man braver, but less daring. Thus with seamen: he who goes the oftenest round Cape Horn goes the most circumspectly.   --Herman Melville https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Herman_Melville