Christopher Columbus used knowledge of a forthcoming lunar eclipse to fool Jamaican natives into providing his stranded crew with provisions.
12th October 1915: British nurse Edith Cavell was executed by a German firing squad
12th October 2018
On the 29th November 1781, the crew of the slave ship Zong threw the first of at least 132 African slaves overboard in a massacre intended to allow them to cash in their insurance policy.
MV Empire Windrush arrived at Tilbury Docks in London carrying 492 West Indian immigrants.
27th October 1960: Ben E. King records Stand By Me
27th October 2020
26th October 1881: The gunfight at the O.K. Corral involving Wyatt Earp
26th October 2020
25th October 1415: The Battle of Agincourt is fought
25th October 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