Independence Restoration Day, also known as the Day of National Unity, is a public holiday observed annually on April 9th in the country of Georgia. It commemorates the Tbilisi Massacre—a day when an anti-Soviet demonstration on Rustaveli Avenue was violently dispersed by Soviet troops.
During the 1980s, the anti-Soviet movement in Georgia began to take off, with strikes and worker meetings occurring regularly in Tbilisi. On April 4, 1989, thousands of protesters gathered before the Government House on Rustaveli Avenue in Tbilisi to protest Soviet rule. The Soviet authorities tried to gain control of the protests but were unable to, and so on April 8, 1989, the Soviet Army was mobilized to deal with the situation.
On April 9th at 4 am, the Soviet Army attempted to put down the protests. Sixteen protesters were killed at the scene, and four other protesters would die later from their injuries. Hundreds of other protesters were also injured and required medical care.
It was later proven that the Soviets used toxic chemical agents against the demonstrators, and that was the main cause of the deaths. Two years after this event, on April 9, 1991, the Georgian legislature passed a declaration of independence based on the March 31, 1991, referendum in which most Georgians voted to secede from the Soviet Union.
Bada Bingggggg!
Would everyone here for yodeling lessons please form an orderly orderly orderly line?
Our cat knocked over the laundry basket full of freshly ironed clothes. I watched it all unfold.
I remember the first time I made love to my wife and I asked her: “Am I the first one?” She said: “Why does everyone always ask me that?”
I hate when I wake up in the middle of the night to get a quick drink of water and then accidentally eat a whole pizza.
What was it like before the crowbar was invented? Crows drank at home.
Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what the hell happened. (This gets truer and truer as time goes on.)
My desire to be well-informed is currently at odds with my desire to remain sane.
April 8th, the Sun is getting Mooned.
I started jogging today. I didn’t want to, but the ice cream truck didn’t stop.
SPOILER ALERT: Rice cakes do not contain any actual cake.
April Fools Day is over! Everything on the internet is true again!
Today is the birthday, in 1999, of American rapper, singer and songwriter Lil Nas X, (born Montero Lamar Hill). He came to international attention for his 2019 country rap single ‘Old Town Road’, which reached No.1 on the US Billboard chart and remained there for nineteen weeks, the only song to do so since the chart started in 1958. In June 2019, Nas X came out as gay, the only artist ever to have done so while having a No.1 record. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7qovpFAGrQ
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