The Battle of Cable Street saw demonstrators block a march by Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists.
21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow
21st June 2019
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 English writer Daniel Defoe was put in the pillory for seditious libel after publishing a politically satirical pamphlet.
The 9th July 1877 saw the world’s first official lawn tennis tournament begin at Wimbledon in London.
Colonel Thomas Blood attempted to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London.
On the 2nd February 1852, the world’s first modern public toilets opened in London.
On the 17th October 1814 eight people were killed when nearly one and a half million litres of beer swept out of London’s Horse Shoe Brewery and formed an alcoholic tidal wave that swept down Tottenham Court Road.
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.
Find out more at http://www.josefjakobs.info/
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.
HistoryPod Extra: The Myth of Gavrilo Princip’s Sandwich
28th June 2015
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2020
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2020
1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
1st September 2018
