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6th July 1892: The Homestead Strike sees Pinkerton agents fight striking steelworkers

6th July 2020
Tagged as: Industry, Pennsylvania, Strike, Unionisation, United States, USA

Dozens were killed or injured when Pinkerton agents working on behalf of the Carnegie Steel Company fought striking steelworkers in Homestead, Pennsylvania.

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18th March 1834: Tolpuddle Martyrs sentenced to transportation to Australia

18th March 2020
Tagged as: Agriculture, Australia, England, Law, Tolpuddle Martyrs, Transportation, Unionisation, Workers

The industrial revolution, combined with the first of the Enclosure Acts, had seen the earnings of poor farmers plummet.

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6th July 1892: The Homestead Strike sees Pinkerton agents fight striking steelworkers

18th March 1834: Tolpuddle Martyrs sentenced to transportation to Australia

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6th February 1778: France and the US sign the first treaties that recognise American independence

30th July 762: Construction begins on the city of Baghdad under Caliph Al-Mansur

17th July 1453: The Battle of Castillon, widely accepted as last conflict of the Hundred Years’ War

17th June 1631: Mumtaz Mahal’s death prompts construction of the Taj Mahal

15th August 1941: Last execution takes place at the Tower of London

14th August 1980: Lech Wałęsa leads strike in Gdańsk shipyard

13th August 1918: Opha May Johnson becomes the first woman to enlist in the US Marine Corps

12th August 1990: Sue, the most complete Tyrannosaurus rex ever unearthed, discovered by Susan Hendrickson

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

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland

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