The Salad Bowl Strike, the largest farm worker strike in U.S. history, began in California’s Salinas Valley.
1st February 1960: Start of the Greensboro sit-ins to protest segregation
1st February 2021
The industrial revolution, combined with the first of the Enclosure Acts, had seen the earnings of poor farmers plummet.
On the 21st July 1970, construction was completed on the Aswan High Dam in Egypt.
On the 1st October 1928, the Soviet Union introduced Joseph Stalin’s first five-year plan.
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2020
1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
1st September 2018
9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
9th November 2019