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.

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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

_____________________________ 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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