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13th April 1919: British troops commit the Amritsar Massacre

13th April 2019
Tagged as: Amritsar, Army, Britain, Independence, India, Massacre, Nationalism, Violence

Troops from the British Indian Army committed the Amritsar Massacre when they opened fire on nonviolent protesters and pilgrims at Jallianwala Bagh.

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26th May 1940: Start of the Dunkirk evacuation

26th May 2018
Tagged as: Army, Britain, Churchill, Evacuation, France, Germany, Navy, Nazi, Royal Air Force, Royal Navy, Second World War

Operation Dynamo, better known as the evacuation of Dunkirk, began.

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HistoryPod Extra: Centenary of the Easter Rising

26th March 2016
Tagged as: Army, Britain, Ireland, Rebellion, Republic, Uprising

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 24^th April.

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13th April 1919: British troops commit the Amritsar Massacre

26th May 1940: Start of the Dunkirk evacuation

HistoryPod Extra: Centenary of the Easter Rising

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4th September 1882: Thomas Edison opens the world’s first power plant on Pearl Street in New York

11th November 1865: Dr Mary Walker becomes the first (and only) woman to receive the Medal of Honor

19th October 202 BCE: Roman Republic defeats Carthage at the Battle of Zama

20th May 1882: Establishment of the Triple Alliance

7th December 1941: Attack on Pearl Harbor

6th December 1969: Meredith Hunter killed at the Altamont Speedway Free Festival

5th December 1934: Wal-Wal Incident between Italy and Abyssinia

4th December 1872: Deserted US merchant ship Mary Celeste found drifting in the Atlantic

28th June 1914 & 1919: Trigger and end of the First World War

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

8th July 1932: Dow Jones falls to lowest point in the Great Depression

1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland

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