Charles I himself entered the House of Commons chamber – an act that was a huge violation of Parliamentary privilege – and sat in the Speaker’s chair to demand the Five Members be handed over to him.
Every New Zealand woman over the age of 21 was able to vote in the world’s first general election in a self-governing colony.
Although directed against the Communist International, the organisation that sought to create a worldwide communist republic, the Anti-Comintern Pact was in reality against the Soviet Union.
When Kennedy’s motorcade was barely five minutes away from its destination, gunshots rang out as it passed the Texas School Book Depository.
Elizabeth was the daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn and, despite being declared illegitimate following the annulment of her parents’ marriage, came to the throne as the next in line behind her Catholic half-sister under the terms of the Third Act of Succession.
Thatcher became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom following the General Election of 1979 but by the late 1980s her popularity, along with that of her party, was plummeting.
The first United States presidential debate took place between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon.
The talks concluded with the signing of two separate agreements – ‘A Framework for Peace in the Middle East’ and ‘A Framework for the Conclusion of a Peace Treaty between Egypt and Israel’.
Despite members of the army not being permitted to have membership of a political party, Hitler had been given special permission to join the DAP as a military intelligence officer.
The Peterloo Massacre took place at St Peter’s Field in Manchester, when a group of over 60,000 protesters were charged by cavalry.
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