The Battle of Cable Street saw demonstrators block a march by Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists.
3rd May 1915: John McCrae composes the war poem ‘In Flanders Fields’
3rd May 2017
On the 31st August 1888, Mary Ann Nichols – commonly known as Polly – became the first confirmed victim of Jack the Ripper in the Whitechapel area of London.
The last execution at the Tower of London took place on the 15th August 1941. Josef Jakobs was a German spy who was arrested after he signalled for help after breaking his ankle when he parachuted into Britain.
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The English writer Daniel Defoe was put in the pillory for seditious libel after publishing a politically satirical pamphlet.
The Globe Theatre in London burned to the ground during a performance of Henry VIII.
On the 31st May 1669, Samuel Pepys wrote the final entry of his famous diary.
On the 19th May 1536, Anne Boleyn – Henry VIII’s second wife and mother of the future Elizabeth I – was beheaded in the Tower of London, having been found guilty of adultery, treason, and incest.
John Rogers became the first English Protestant martyr under Mary I after he was burnt at the stake.
The Brunner Mond chemical factory had been built in 1893 to manufacture caustic soda and soda crystals.
The first traveller’s cheques, in the form of a ‘circular note’ issued by a bank, went on sale in London.
15th October 1923: Rentenmark introduced in Weimar Germany
15th October 2018
14th October 1962: U-2 spy plane captures images of Cuban missile sites
14th October 2018
13th October 54: Emperor Claudius dies in mysterious circumstances
13th October 2018
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2017
9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
9th November 2017