Korean War on July 16, 1950, on a mountain above the village of Tunam,
South Korea. Operating at the Kum River during the Battle of Taejon,
troops of the US Army's 19th Infantry Regiment were cut off from
resupply by a roadblock established by North Korean troops of the NK 3rd
Division. The roadblock proved difficult to break, and forced US troops
to move through nearby mountains to evacuate their wounded. Thirty
unarmed and critically wounded US troops were stranded at the top of a
mountain along with a chaplain (Herman G. Felhoelter, pictured) and a
medic. They were discovered by a North Korean patrol. Though the medic
was able to escape, the North Koreans executed Felhoelter as he prayed
over the wounded, then killed the rest of them. The massacre was one of
several incidents that led US commanders to establish a commission in
July to look into war crimes during the war. The same month, the North
Korean commanders, concerned about the way their soldiers were treating
prisoners of war, laid out stricter guidelines for handling enemy
captives.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaplain%E2%80%93Medic_massacre>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1782:
Mozart's opera Die Entführung aus dem Serail made its
premiere, after which Emperor Joseph II anecdotally made the comment
that it had "too many notes".
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Entf%C3%BChrung_aus_dem_Serail>
1862:
David Farragut became the first person to be promoted to the
rank of rear admiral in the United States Navy.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Farragut>
1981:
Mahathir Mohamad was sworn in as Malaysia's fourth prime
minister, a post which he held for 22 years, making him the country's
longest-serving one.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahathir_Mohamad>
1994:
Fragments of Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 began hitting the planet
Jupiter, with the first one causing a fireball which reached a peak
temperature of about 24,000 K.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_Shoemaker%E2%80%93Levy_9>
2004:
Chicago's Millennium Park (pictured), currently the world's
largest rooftop garden, opened.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Park>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
quisling:
(pejorative) A traitor who collaborates with the enemy.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/quisling>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
 Creation has the truth written all over it — the age of the
universe, the history of the world — but nine-tenths of mankind either
don't know it or think it's a sham, because it isn't what their book or
their prophet says, and it isn't cozy or manipulable enough.
--Sheri S. Tepper
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sheri_S._Tepper>
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