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11th June 1837: Broad Street Riot takes place in Boston, Massachusetts, between Irish immigrants and existing American citizens

11th June 2023
Tagged as: America, Boston, Emigration, Immigration, Ireland, Irish, Massachusetts, Riot, United States, USA

The violence grew to involve around 1,000 people on both sides who also broke into houses and destroyed property.

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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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11th June 1837: Broad Street Riot takes place in Boston, Massachusetts, between Irish immigrants and existing American citizens

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

28th September 1781: The Siege of Yorktown begins in the American Revolutionary War

27th September 1777: The city of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, became the capital of the United States for a single day

26th September 1983: Nuclear war avoided after Soviet detection system wrongly identifies incoming ballistic missile

25th September 1066: Battle of Stamford Bridge fought between King Harold Godwinson of England and the Norwegian King Harald Hardrada

28th June 1914 & 1919: Trigger and end of the First World War

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland

8th July 1932: Dow Jones falls to lowest point in the Great Depression

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