Some modern-day Massachusetts National Guard regiments are able to trace their history back to the Massachusetts Bay Colony of 1636.
16th October 1846: First public demonstration of ether anaesthesia
16th October 2020
Some modern-day Massachusetts National Guard regiments are able to trace their history back to the Massachusetts Bay Colony of 1636.
President Harry S. Truman issued Executive Order 9981 that abolished racial segregation in the U.S. military.
Operation Dynamo, better known as the evacuation of Dunkirk, began.
Troops from the British Indian Army committed the Amritsar Massacre when they opened fire on nonviolent protesters and pilgrims at Jallianwala Bagh.
The armed insurrection began on Easter Monday which, due to Easter being a moveable feast as a result of its relationship to the lunar calendar, in 1916 fell on the 24th April.