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17th March 1766: The first recorded Saint Patrick’s Day parade took place in the city of New York

17th March 2022
Tagged as: America, Ireland, Irish, New York, St Patrick, United States

Irish soldiers serving in the British Army led the first recorded Saint Patrick’s Day parade which, due to the high number of Irish immigrants in New York, quickly became an annual tradition.

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21st June 1877: Ten Irish immigrants hanged for murder, having been accused of membership of the Molly Maguires secret society

21st June 2021
Tagged as: America, Business, coal, Immigration, Ireland, Irish, Molly Maguires, United States, USA, Workers

Historians have since questioned the convictions, which saw ten men hanged for murder – six in the prison at Pottsville, and four at Mauch Chunk in Carbon County.

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17th March 1766: The first recorded Saint Patrick’s Day parade took place in the city of New York

21st June 1877: Ten Irish immigrants hanged for murder, having been accused of membership of the Molly Maguires secret society

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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

2nd April 1982: Falklands War begins with an amphibious invasion of the Falkland Islands by Argentina

1st April 1938: Francisco Franco announces the end of the Spanish Civil War

31st March 1909: The end of the Bosnian Crisis

30th March 1939: Batman makes his first appearance when Detective Comics #27 went goes on sale

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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