self-appointed Chetnik commander in the Herzegovina region of Yugoslavia
during the Second World War. He was a member of the inter–war Chetnik
Association and the Organisation of Yugoslav Nationalists party in the
Kingdom of Yugoslavia, a Yugoslav National Party member of the National
Assembly, and a leader of the opposition during King Alexander's
dictatorship. Following the invasion of Yugoslavia by the Axis in April
1941, he became a Chetnik leader in Herzegovina and joined the Chetnik
movement of Draža Mihailović, although he often operated independently
from Mihailović. Jevđević collaborated with the Italians and later
the Germans in actions against the Yugoslav Partisans. During a joint
Italian-Chetnik Operation Alfa, Jevđević's Chetniks, along with other
Chetnik forces, were responsible for killing between 500 and
1,700 Bosnian Muslim and Catholic civilians in the Prozor region in
October 1942. His force also participated in one of the largest Axis
anti-Partisan operations of the war, Case White, in the winter of 1943.
In the spring of 1945, he fled to Italy where he resided until his
death.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dobroslav_Jev%C4%91evi%C4%87>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1842:
Nabucco, an opera by Italian Romantic composer Giuseppe Verdi
that established his reputation as a composer, premiered at the Teatro
alla Scala in Milan.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nabucco>
1910:
A massive seventeen-month-long strike action, which at its peak
involved 15,000 coal miners represented by the United Mine Workers
across 65 mines, began in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westmoreland_County_coal_strike_of_1910%E2%80%931911>
1915 - The Panama–California Exposition (guide book pictured) opened
in San Diego's Balboa Park, celebrating the opening of the Panama Canal.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama%E2%80%93California_Exposition>
1925:
The Royal Air Force began a bombardment and strafing campaign
against the mountain strongholds of Mahsud tribesmen in South
Waziristan.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink%27s_War>
1956:
In Tbilisi, Georgia, Soviet military troops suppressed mass
demonstrations against Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev's de-
Stalinization policy.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1956_Georgian_demonstrations>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
win-win:
Of a situation or outcome that benefits two parties, or that has two
distinct benefits.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/win-win>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
I have come to the conclusion, after many years of sometimes sad
experience, that you cannot come to any conclusion at all.
--Vita Sackville-West
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Vita_Sackville-West>
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