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Feb 22, 2024 · 422 bc, Amphipolis, Macedonia. Role In: Peloponnesian War. Cleon (died 422 bc, Amphipolis, Macedonia) was the first prominent representative of the commercial class in Athenian politics, he became leader of the Athenian democracy in 429 after the death of his political enemy, Pericles. In the Peloponnesian War he strongly advocated an offensive ...
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Before the day that would “live in infamy,” both men grew up in a nation unapologetic in its racist restrictions against Japanese Americans. Born in Redlands, California in 1921, Frank Wada remembers being allowed to swim in the public pool only on Mondays, along with the Mexican American children. That was the day the city drained and cleaned the ...
Don was almost 18 when his parents gave up on Hawaii. “My parents decided to leave for Japan—for good. They wanted to take me, but I said, ‘not me!’” Three days after they said their good-byes, Pearl Harbor was attacked. Staying behind, says Seki, “was the greatest decision I ever made. Had I gone with them, I’d be in their military, I’d have been ...
About one year into his internment, says Wada, Army recruiters visited Poston, asking men like him to volunteer for the 442nd—an all-Nisei regiment. How was it even conceivable for Wada to lay his life on the line for the very nation that had imprisoned him as an untrustworthy alien? “You would have done the same thing,” he says. “You look around i...
By summer, the men were neck-deep in their first combat experiences. For Assistant Squad Leader Wada, the first taste of enemy gunfire came at a location called Hill 140, just east of Livorno. It was around midnight on an early July night when he heard digging that he knew was the Germans. I told the men, lay low, don’t move… We were laying there a...
In mid-October of 1944, after about a month of combat in Italy, Wada, Seki and the rest of the 442nd were reassigned to support the Seventh Army in the push across the Vosges Mountains west of the Rhine River. Their mission: Liberate Bruyères, a small, strategic town on the southwestern German-French border that had been occupied by the Germans sin...
In Bruyères, the more than 200 enemy troops the 442nd captured offered a glimpse into the global reaches of the war. On the German side, there were the conscripts from Poland and Russia who had fallen into the hands of the invading Wehrmacht and had met Nazi Germany’s racial standards. Conscripts from Croatia had collaborated with Germany under the...
Following the capture of Bruyères on October 18th, 1944, Don Seki’s company was tasked with breaking the encirclement of the 1st Battalion of 141st Infantry “Alamo Regiment” from Texas—the so-called “Lost Battalion.” Combat was fierce, lasted to the end of October, and casualties were high. Of almost 200 men in K Company, which bore much of the bru...
The amputation of his left arm sent Seki on a two-year odyssey of recovery. At the time he was shot, he thought, “How am I going to fish now?” He was relieved when rehabilitation and prosthesis training at a hospital in Brigham City, Utah included not just eating and grooming, but horse riding and fishing. On his long trek through various hospitals...
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Valamir, king of the Ostrogoths (he is also thought to have been born in 425 AD) Yuan Can, high official of the Liu Song Dynasty (d. 477) 422. August 8 – Casper, ruler of the Maya city of Palenque; Genevieve, patron saint of Paris (approximate date) Licinia Eudoxia, Roman empress (d. 493) 423
New Catholic Encyclopedia. CELESTINE I, POPE, ST. Pontificate: Sept. 10, 422 to July 27, 432. The Liber Pontificalis says that he was by birth a Campanian, son of Priscus; he was probably born between 375 and 380. He apparently migrated to Rome and became a member of the city clergy, serving as deacon under Innocent I (401–417).
Medieval Popes. Gregory I. Gregory XIII. Julius II. Julius III. Leo X. Pius V. Historical events in 422 AD. See what famous, scandalous and important events happened in 422 AD or search by date or keyword.
AD 442. Year 442 ( CDXLII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Dioscorus and Eudoxius (or, less frequently, year 1195 Ab urbe condita ). The denomination 442 for this year has been used since the early medieval period ...
