With the cry of ‘bread or blood!’ the women marched to the city’s market district where they broke into government storehouses and nearby businesses.
21st November 1974: The Birmingham pub bombings kill 21 people and injure 182
21st November 2020
In a program that won broad support, America committed to providing $400 million in assistance to Greece and Turkey.
As Star of the West approached Fort Sumter on the morning of 9 January it was met with cannon shots from cadet George E. Haynsworth on nearby Morris Island.
On the 30th December 1922, the USSR – the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics – was founded.
Other states soon followed South Carolina’s lead, setting the stage for the American Civil War.
When news of the interception of a neutral ship reached Britain at the end of November, the government responded angrily.
During the operation, two Black Hawk helicopters were shot down and 19 Americans lost their lives, while at least 200 Somali militiamen were killed as well as hundreds of civilians.
The Revenue Act of 1861 was signed into law by Abraham Lincoln, imposing U.S. federal income tax for the first time.
On the 9th April 1865, after four years of Civil War, approximately 630,000 deaths and over 1 million casualties, Confederate States Army General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant.
Pedro Lascuráin began the shortest presidential term in history when he became President of Mexico for less than an hour.
10th April 1858: The ‘Big Ben’ bell cast in Whitechapel
10th April 2021
8th April 1904: France and Britain sign the Entente Cordiale
8th April 2021
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