He suffered constant headaches during the On October 2, 1835, the growing tensions between Mexico and Texas erupt into violence when Mexican soldiers attempt to disarm the people of Gonzales, sparking the Texan war for independence. 3: How would diplomatic relations go?

I imagine that there would be a lot of border gore and very weird border lines. I had that thought a few-ish minutes ago and I always wondered what would happen if the proposal of New Afrika succeeded.Relations would be crazy. It replaced the flag that had been used since 1928, and was chosen to represent multiculturalism and ethnic diversity in the country's new, post-apartheid democratic society.

More than 100,000 South African men, women and children of all races sang and danced with joy.

The Democratic Republic of Congo is Africa's second-largest country and covers a total of 2,344,858 square kilometers, which makes it slightly larger than Mexico and about a quarter the size of the United States.

As Guinea and other former colonies achieved independence during the post-The Cold War comes to Africa, as Guinea gains its independence The Warsaw Uprising ends on October 2, 1944, with the surrender of the surviving Polish rebels to German forces. There would be a conflict, and possibly a war. Republic of South Africa flag; Use: Civil and state flag, civil and state ensign: Design: The flag of Republic of South Africa was adopted on 27 April 1994. When the new president, flanked by First Deputy President Thabo Mbeki and Second Deputy President FW de Klerk, appeared on the Botha Lawn beneath the Union Buildings the crowd went wild.

All Rights Reserved. As chief counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in the 1940s and ’50s, Marshall was the architect and executor of the legal On October 2, 1985, actor Rock Hudson, 59, becomes the first major U.S. celebrity to die of complications from AIDS. The former French colony of Guinea declares its independence on October 2, 1958, with Sekou Toure as the new nation’s first leader. It is rich in diamonds, gold, oil and uranium but has one of the world's poorest populations. The tour’s intense schedule–8,000 miles in 22 days–cost Wilson his health. He was fiercely nationalistic and anti-imperialist, and much of his wrath and indignation was aimed at the United States for its alliances with colonial powers such as Great Britain and France and its refusal to openly condemn the white minority government of South Africa. More troubling for U.S. officials, however, was Guinea’s open courting of Soviet aid and money and signing of a military assistance agreement with the Toure played the Soviet Union and the United States against one another to get the aid and trade he desired. First off, people in the South who still supported the Confederacy would definitely propose a nation of their own, or downright secede from the US. Hitler’s forces had invaded the Soviet Union in June, and early on it had become one President Woodrow Wilson, who had just cut short a tour of the country to promote the formation of the League of Nations, suffers a stroke on October 2, 1919. South Africa had made a peaceful political transition from an apartheid police state to a democratic republic. Hudson’s death raised public awareness of the epidemic, which until that time had been ignored by many in the mainstream as a “gay plague.” Hudson, born Leroy On October 2, 1941, the Germans begin their surge to Moscow, led by the 1st Army Group and Gen. Fedor von Bock. edit: Added those 3 questions. The former French colony of Guinea declares its independence on October 2, 1958, with Sekou Toure as the new nation’s first leader.

Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts There he sided with the moderates against Pres. If the NC won, they would take Florida, and the carolinas, leaving the RNA with a little of North Carolina, the Virginias, and maybe some Tenn/Kentucky land.New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be castWelcome to HistoryWhatIf! The rebels, who Chief Justice Earl Warren swears in Thurgood Marshall, the first black justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Texas–or Tejas as the Mexicans called it–had technically been a part of the Spanish Sign up now to learn about This Day in History straight from your inbox.Charles Roberts enters the West Nickel Mines Amish School in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania, where he fatally shoots five female students and wounds five more before turning his gun on himself and committing suicide.

Paul Kruger ’s hostile policy toward the Uitlanders (non-Boer, mostly English, settlers).

In 1975, Toure changed course and allowed Soviet and Cuban aircraft to use Guinea’s airfields during the Angolan civil war, then he again reversed position by revoking the privileges in 1977 and moving closer to France and the United States.The concerns of U.S. officials over communist influences in Guinea, and the up-and-down relationship with Guinea were but precursors of other difficulties the United States would face in postcolonial Africa.

1: What would it's government be like? At the time of the stroke, Wilson had poured all his © 2020 A&E Television Networks, LLC. There would be a war between them and the territory lines would be drawn after that. Two months earlier, the approach of the Red Army to Warsaw prompted Polish resistance forces to launch a rebellion against the Nazi occupation.