On the 10th April 1858 Big Ben – the bell inside the clocktower at the Palace of Westminster in Britain – was cast.
30th November 1786: Tuscany becomes the first modern state to abolish the death penalty
30th November 2017
American inventor Samuel Colt received the first government order for his revolver firearms from Captain Samuel Walker of the Texas Rangers.
On the 1st October 1928, the Soviet Union introduced Joseph Stalin’s first five-year plan.
On the 27th September 1908, the first Model T Ford automobile rolled out of the Piquette Avenue factory in Detroit.
The Brunner Mond chemical factory had been built in 1893 to manufacture caustic soda and soda crystals.
17th July 1918: Romanov family shot dead by the Bosheviks
17th July 2019
16th July 622: Start date of the Islamic calendar
16th July 2019
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2018
9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
9th November 2017