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The Gnadenhutten massacre, also known as the Moravian massacre, was the killing of 96 pacifist Moravian Christian Indians (primarily Lenape and Mohican) by U.S. militiamen from Pennsylvania, under the command of David Williamson, on March 8, 1782, at the Moravian missionary village of Gnadenhutten, Ohio Country, during the American Revolutionary War.
Sam's Club will be open shortened hours on Memorial Day, from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. for Plus members and from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. for Club members, according to its website. Does the mail run on Memorial ...
Cleveland, Ohio: A 12-foot-high (3.7 m) stone Celtic cross, located in Heritage Park on the east bank of the Cuyahoga River. Fairfield, Connecticut: a memorial to the Famine victims stands in the chapel of Fairfield University.
Circleville Memorial Hall is a historic community center and war memorial in the city of Circleville, Ohio, United States.Built in the years after the Civil War to remember the victims of the war, it has been named a historic site.
A Remembrance Day parade and service in Bridgetown, Barbados, 2019. In Barbados, Remembrance Day is not a public holiday. It is recognised as 11 November, but the parade and ceremonial events are carried out on Remembrance Sunday. [13] The day is commemorated to recognise the Barbadian soldiers who died fighting in the First and Second World Wars.
Today is Veteran’s Day in America. The original reason for this holiday was to commemorate the end of World War I on the eleventh hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918.
In the United States, President Woodrow Wilson hailed the first Armistice Day celebration on 11 November 1919, although it would not be formalised by Congress until 1926. France followed suit in ...
Remembrance Day, a commemorative day observed by many Commonwealth countries; Remembrance of the Dead, held annually on May 4 in the Netherlands; Remembrance Sunday (UK), is the second Sunday in November, the Sunday nearest to 11 November (Armistice Day) Remembrance Day bombing, took place on 8 November 1987 in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh ...