The Salad Bowl Strike, the largest farm worker strike in U.S. history, began in California’s Salinas Valley.
HistoryPod Extra: Centenary of the Representation of the People Act 1918
6th February 2018
Dozens were killed or injured when Pinkerton agents working on behalf of the Carnegie Steel Company fought striking steelworkers in Homestead, Pennsylvania.
The industrial revolution, combined with the first of the Enclosure Acts, had seen the earnings of poor farmers plummet.
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
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1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
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9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
9th November 2019