On the 2nd January 1981, serial killer Peter Sutcliffe – otherwise known as the Yorkshire Ripper – was arrested by police.
21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow
21st June 2019
On the 13th December 1937, the Nanking Massacre began at the end of the Battle of Nanking – part of the Second Sino-Japanese War.
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.
The Australian outlaw Ned Kelly was arrested following a violent shoot-out with police at Glenrowan in Victoria.
Giacomo Matteotti, an Italian socialist politician, was kidnapped and then murdered by members of the Fascist party.
On the 13th July 1793, the radical French journalist Jean-Paul Marat was stabbed to death in his bathtub by Charlotte Corday.
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11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2020
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2020
9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
9th November 2019