Dozens were killed or injured when Pinkerton agents working on behalf of the Carnegie Steel Company fought striking steelworkers in Homestead, Pennsylvania.
10th April 1971: US table tennis team ushers in ping pong diplomacy
10th April 2020
The Brunner Mond chemical factory had been built in 1893 to manufacture caustic soda and soda crystals.
American inventor Samuel Colt received the first government order for his revolver firearms from Captain Samuel Walker of the Texas Rangers.
On the 10th April 1858 Big Ben – the bell inside the clocktower at the Palace of Westminster in Britain – was cast.
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.
15th July 1975: The Apollo Soyuz Test Project lifted off
15th July 2020
14th July 1789: Storming of the Bastille
14th July 2020
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2018
9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
9th November 2019
1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
1st September 2018