Gold records were originally presented to artists by their own label, primarily as a form of self-congratulatory publicity.
19th June 1949: The first NASCAR ‘Strictly Stock’ race takes place at Charlotte Speedway
19th June 2018
On the 13th March 1881, Tsar Alexander II of Russia was assassinated in a St Petersburg street by a member of the People’s Will revolutionary movement.
Andrew Watson’s father, Peter Miller Watson, was the manager of a sugar plantation in British Guiana while his mother was a local woman called Anna (or Hannah) Rose.
On the 11th March 1918 the first confirmed case of what was to become known as Spanish Flu was identified at Camp Funston in Fort Riley, a huge military facility in Kansas.
The economic bubble that is also referred to as the ‘dot-com boom’ was the result of investors speculatively pouring money into the numerous internet companies that were founded in the mid- to late-1990s.
On the 9th March 1841, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that captive Africans who had seized control of the Amistad ship had been taken into slavery illegally and were therefore free under American law.
Elise Raymonde Deroche was the daughter of a Parisian plumber.
On the 7th March 1936, the German Army under control of Adolf Hitler violated international agreements by remilitarising the Rhineland.
Dred Scott was a slave owned by John Emerson, an army surgeon from the slave state of Missouri.
On the 5th March 1946, Winston Churchill described the post-war division of Europe as an “iron curtain” in his “Sinews of Peace” address at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri.
3rd April 1882: Outlaw Jesse James shot by Robert Ford
3rd April 2020
2nd April 1982: Falklands War begins with Argentine invasion
2nd April 2020
31st March 1905: Wilhelm II provokes the First Moroccan Crisis
31st March 2020
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2018
1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
1st September 2018
