On the 5th April 1621, the Mayflower – the boat that carried the Pilgrim fathers to America – returned to England from the settlement at Plymouth.
11th October 1975: Saturday Night Live is broadcast for the first time
11th October 2019
The raid by the Royal Navy and British Commandos was overseen by Combined Operations Headquarters.
Exxon Valdez had only recently departed the Valdez Marine Terminal when the captain, Joseph Hazelwood, left Third Mate Gregory Cousins in charge of steering the vessel while he retired to his quarters.
By the start of the 17th century merchants from the Dutch Republic had begun to undertake voyages to the ‘Spice Islands’ of the Indian Ocean.
Mary Celeste had departed New York on 7 November.
The British pirate Edward Teach, better known as Blackbeard, was killed during a battle with British sailors under the command of Lieutenant Robert Maynard.
On the 31st July 1970, the British Royal Navy issued the last daily rum ration, or “tot”, to sailors.
The crew of the Russian battleship Potemkin mutinied on the 27th June 1905, an uprising that was immortalized in Sergei Eisenstein’s 1925 silent film.
On the 21st June 1919, Admiral Ludwig von Reuter ordered the scuttling of the German High Seas naval fleet in Scapa Flow, a large natural harbor in the Orkney Islands in Scotland.
The British ship RMS Lusitania sank after being attacked by the German U-boat U-20 off the coast of Ireland.
6th April 1896: The first modern Olympic Games take place
6th April 2020
5th April 1621: The Mayflower returns to England
5th April 2020
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2018
1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
1st September 2018
