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27th March 1963: Dr Beeching publishes his first British Rail report

  • 27th March 2020
  • Tagged as: 1960s, Britain, Economics, Economy, Railways, Train, Transport

On the 27th March 1963, Chairman of the British Transport Commission Dr Richard Beeching published his report entitled The Reshaping of British Railways.

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20th March 1602: The Dutch East India Company established

  • 20th March 2020
  • Tagged as: Dutch East India Company, Dutch Republic, East India Company, Economics, Economy, Finance, India, Netherlands, Ship, Spices, Trade

By the start of the 17th century merchants from the Dutch Republic had begun to undertake voyages to the ‘Spice Islands’ of the Indian Ocean.

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10th March 2000: The NASDAQ index peaks at the height of the dot-com bubble

  • 10th March 2020
  • Tagged as: Computing, Economics, Economy, Finance, Investment, Money, NASDAQ, Shares, Stock Market, Technology

The economic bubble that is also referred to as the ‘dot-com boom’ was the result of investors speculatively pouring money into the numerous internet companies that were founded in the mid- to late-1990s.

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21st March 1921: The New Economic Policy introduced to the USSR by Vladimir Lenin

  • 21st March 2019
  • Tagged as: Communism, Economics, Lenin, New Economic Policy, Russian Civil War, Soviet Union, USSR

Vladimir Lenin introduced the New Economic Policy at the 10th Communist Party Congress.

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16th November 1945: Foundation of UNESCO

  • 16th November 2018
  • Tagged as: Economics, Politics, Society, United Nations

On the 16th November 1945, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation – otherwise known as UNESCO – was founded.

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