TODAY IN THE HISTORY OF PSYCHOLOGY
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The first Nubian pharaoh of Egypt, the founding pharaoh of the 25th dynasty, was named Piye. He successfully invaded and conquered Egypt around 730 BCE. After consolidating his new territory, Piye returned to Nubia where he ruled until his death 722 BCE. He asked to be buried, not in the traditional Nubian fashion, but with a pyramid, like the ancient rulers of the people he had conquered. Piye was the first pharaoh in more than 500 years to be entombed this way.
In the early 1900s, when people realized that kraft paper shopping bags were handy to carry lunches, manufacturers realized making bags which were intentionally lunch-sized might be quite profitable. The iconic brown paper bag, mass-produced since 1852 by Pennsylvanian Francis Wolle, is still in wide use.
The Xiaohe ‘Little River’ Tomb complex, or Ördek’s Necropolis, is a bronze-age burial site located near Lop Nur, in Xinjiang, Western China. The oblong sand dune contains over 30 well-preserved mummies. The entire complex has over 330 tombs, about 160 of which have been looted. That is the largest number of human mummies found at a single site in the world. The earliest of the mummies date back to 4,000 years ago. No human settlement has been found near the tomb complex; the bodies were therefore likely to have been transported from elsewhere for burial at this site.
On this day in 1941, during the Second World War, the Battle of Hong Kong began. The attack on the then British colony of Hong Kong began just hours after the Japanese attacked the American base of Pearl Harbor, marking the beginning of Japan’s quest for domination in Asia. The British government was sceptical of their chances of defending the outpost, but in September 1941 drafted Canadian troops to Hong Kong. The Battle of Hong Kong lasted 17 days, seeing heavy bombardment and fierce fighting, including a massacre at an Allied hostpital. The 12,000 Allied troops - comprising Canadians, Britons, Indians, and locals - were vastly outnumbered by the 50,000 Japanese. Ultimately, over 2,000 Allied troops died trying to defend Hong Kong, and the British governor surrendered on December 25th. The Japanese occupied Hong Kong until August 1945; after the war, the Japanese governor was executed for war crimes. The battle of Hong Kong remains an important moment in Canadian and Commonwealth history, for, despite overwhelming odds and little military training, the Allied forces refused to surrender, and many subsequently endured brutal conditions as prisoners of war.
75 years ago today
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