The Bay of Pigs Invasion was launched by the CIA-sponsored paramilitary group Brigade 2506.
21st January 1981: First DeLorean sports car produced (famous as the ‘Back to the Future’ car)
21st January 2018
On the 3rd January 1961, the United States of America severed its diplomatic relationship with Cuba and closed the American embassy in Havana.
A U-2 spy plane captured images of the construction of a missile site on Cuba, triggering the Cuban Missile Crisis.
On the 9th October 1967 the Marxist revolutionary icon, Ernesto “Che” Guevara was executed in Bolivia after being caught by CIA-assisted forces during his attempt to provoke a revolution.
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.
24th October 1929: Wall Street Crash begins on ‘Black Thursday’
24th October 2019
21st October 1966: 144 people killed in the Aberfan disaster
21st October 2019
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2018
1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
1st September 2018
9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
9th November 2017