The Salad Bowl Strike, the largest farm worker strike in U.S. history, began in California’s Salinas Valley.
12th October 1915: British nurse Edith Cavell was executed by a German firing squad
12th October 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.
26th October 1881: The gunfight at the O.K. Corral involving Wyatt Earp
26th October 2020
25th October 1415: The Battle of Agincourt is fought
25th October 2020
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2018
9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
9th November 2019
1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
1st September 2018