American inventor Samuel Colt received the first government order for his revolver firearms from Captain Samuel Walker of the Texas Rangers.
22nd November 1718: The pirate Blackbeard killed by sailors under Robert Maynard
22nd November 2017
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.
On the 10th April 1858 Big Ben – the bell inside the clocktower at the Palace of Westminster in Britain – was cast.
23rd January 1556: Most destructive earthquake on record in Shaanxi
23rd January 2019
22nd January 1808: Portuguese royal court relocates to Brazil
22nd January 2019
21st January 1793: Louis XVI executed for high treason
21st January 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