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Allied logistics in the Kokoda Track campaign played a crucial role in bringing the 1942 World War II campaign to a conclusion. To transform Port Moresby into a major base, engineers built airfields, wharves, roads, and warehouses. The interior was covered with dense rainforest and rugged mountains that wheeled vehicles could not traverse. Few aircraft were available, and they were restricted by the weather and subject to destruction on the ground by Japanese air raids. The loss of the airstrip at Kokoda led to the adoption of airdropping (pictured). Due to a shortage of parachutes, supplies were often dropped without them, with attendant losses and breakages. Trucks, jeeps, and pack animals carried stores, ammunition, and rations only part of the way. The rest of the journey over the Kokoda Track was on the backs of Papuan carriers, who struggled over the mountains lugging heavy loads. They often carried the wounded too, which earned them the sobriquet of "Fuzzy Wuzzy Angels". (Full article...)
Did you know ...
- ... that the 2022 French protests (pictured) against the rising cost of living have been called French president Emmanuel Macron's "stiffest challenge" since his re-election?
- ... that the TV series Mad Men inspired Taylor Swift's hit song "Lavender Haze"?
- ... that the ancient Roman tourist destination of Baiae was infamous for its hedonism?
- ... that What Hath God Wrought, the 2007 history of Jacksonian America written by Daniel Walker Howe, is dedicated to Andrew Jackson's "political nemesis" John Quincy Adams?
- ... that with the help of Turkish and Azerbaijani agents, Muslims in Armenia revolted in 1919–1920 and massacred over 10,000 Armenians?
- ... that The Breakwater Light was the first newspaper in the first town in the first state?
- ... that Mexican poet Francisco de Terrazas was praised by Don Quixote author Miguel de Cervantes?
- ... that as a young midshipman Martin Wemyss, arriving late at a function and using the wrong entrance, bumped into George VI and was invited to dance with the Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret?
In the news
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- In motorcycle racing, Francesco Bagnaia (pictured) wins the MotoGP World Championship.
- Precision Air Flight 494 crashes into Lake Victoria in Tanzania, killing 19 of the 43 people onboard.
- In baseball, the Houston Astros defeat the Philadelphia Phillies in the World Series.
- The Ethiopian government and Tigrayan forces sign a peace treaty, agreeing to end the Tigray War.
- In the Israeli legislative election, the national camp, led by the Likud party and Benjamin Netanyahu, wins a majority of seats.
On this day
November 10: Noor Hossain Day in Bangladesh (1987)
- 1937 – Brazilian president Getúlio Vargas led a coup against his own constitutional government, establishing the dictatorial Estado Novo regime.
- 1945 – Indonesian National Revolution: Following the killing of Brigadier A. W. S. Mallaby a few weeks earlier, British forces retaliated by attacking Surabaya.
- 1969 – The children's television series Sesame Street premiered in the United States.
- 1975 – SS Edmund Fitzgerald (pictured), the largest ship on North America's Great Lakes, sank in Lake Superior with the loss of 29 lives.
- 1995 – Writer and environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight others from the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People were executed by the Nigerian military government.
- Guðrøðr Óláfsson (d. 1187)
- Afzal Khan (d. 1659)
- Leona Woods (d. 1986)
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Seth P. Waxman presents oral arguments before the US Supreme Court in the case Franchise Tax Board of California v. Hyatt, a United States Supreme Court case that determined that unless they consent, states have sovereign immunity from private suits filed against them in the courts of another state. The 5–4 decision overturned precedent set in a 1979 Supreme Court case, Nevada v. Hall. This was the third time that the litigants had presented their case to the Court, as the Court had already ruled on the issue in 2003 and 2016. Illustration credit: Arthur Lien
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