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11th June 1837: Broad Street Riot breaks out in Boston, MA

11th June 2019
Tagged as: Boston, Immigration, Ireland, Riot, Street Fighting, USA, Violence, Yankees

On June 11^th 1837, the Broad Street Riot broke out in Boston, Massachusetts, between Irish immigrants and existing American citizens known as Yankees.

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10th February 1355: St Scholastica’s Day Riot began in Oxford between ‘town and gown’

10th February 2018
Tagged as: Edward III, Fighting, Medieval, Mob, Oxford, Riot, Student, University, Violence

Tensions between university students and the locals of Oxford had been building for some time before violence broke out.

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24th December 1826: The Eggnog Riot broke out at West Point Military Academy, New York

24th December 2017
Tagged as: Alcohol, Christmas, Jefferson Davis, Military, New York, Riot

Cadets sought to continue the annual tradition of drinking homemade eggnog on Christmas Eve.

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11th June 1837: Broad Street Riot breaks out in Boston, MA

10th February 1355: St Scholastica’s Day Riot began in Oxford between ‘town and gown’

24th December 1826: The Eggnog Riot broke out at West Point Military Academy, New York

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30th November 1786: Tuscany becomes the first modern state to abolish the death penalty

11th April 1950: Stone of Scone rediscovered 4 months after its disappearance

12th November 1927: Leon Trotsky expelled from the Communist Party of the USSR

29th September 1829: The Metropolitan Police begins operating in London

19th July 1799: Discovery of the Rosetta Stone reported in Egypt

18th July 1976: Nadia Comăneci scores the first ever Olympic gymnastic ‘perfect 10’

17th July 1918: Romanov family shot dead by the Bosheviks

16th July 622: Start date of the Islamic calendar

28th June 1914 & 1919: Trigger and end of the First World War

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

8th July 1932: Dow Jones falls to lowest point in the Great Depression

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

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