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23rd July 1943: Archibald Brown blown up by an anti-tank grenade placed under his seat

23rd July 2023
Tagged as: Britain, England, Essex, Explosion, Murder, Patricide, Second World War, Tanks

Archibald Brown was murdered by his son, who placed an anti-tank grenade under the seat of his bath chair.

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23rd March 1540: Waltham Abbey in Essex became the last abbey to be dissolved under Henry VIII

23rd March 2022
Tagged as: Catholicism, Christianity, Church, Dissolution of the monasteries, Essex, Henry VIII, Monastery, Reformation, Tudor, Waltham Abbey

Abbot Robert Fuller surrendered the abbey and its property on 23 March 1540, and within just a few years all the buildings except for the parish nave had been demolished or had collapsed due to neglect.

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23rd July 1943: Archibald Brown blown up by an anti-tank grenade placed under his seat

23rd March 1540: Waltham Abbey in Essex became the last abbey to be dissolved under Henry VIII

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21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow

HistoryPod Extra: The Myth of Gavrilo Princip’s Sandwich

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

2nd August 1934: Hitler becomes Führer after President Hindenburg dies

6th December 1648: “Pride’s Purge” stops MPs sympathetic to King Charles I of England from entering the House of Commons

5th December 1848: President James K. Polk sparks the California Gold Rush as a result of his State of the Union Address

4th December 1971: A fire during a concert at the Montreux Casino inspires the song “Smoke on the Water” by Deep Purple

3rd December 1775: The first national US Grand Union Flag flown for the first time on the ship ‘Alfred’

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

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

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