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4th May 1970: Ohio National Guardsmen shoot Kent State University students

4th May 2022
Tagged as: Cambodia, Kent State, Massacre, National Guard, Nixon, Ohio, Protest, Shooting, Student, University, Vietnam

Ohio National Guardsmen shot and killed four Kent State University students.

Einstein, who was Jewish, was undertaking a visiting professorship at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena when Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor on 30 January 1933.

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

10th February 2020
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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4th May 1970: Ohio National Guardsmen shoot Kent State University students

17th October 1933: Einstein moves to the USA after Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany

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

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21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow

HistoryPod Extra: The Myth of Gavrilo Princip’s Sandwich

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

2nd August 1934: Hitler becomes Führer after President Hindenburg dies

19th May 1536: The execution of Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII’s second wife and mother of the future Elizabeth I

18th May 1291: The Siege of Acre saw the Muslim forces of the Mamluk Sultan Al-Ashraf Khalil seize control of the Crusader-controlled city

17th May 1943: Royal Air Force No. 617 Squadron carries out the ‘Dambusters’ raids

16th May 1966: Start of the Cultural Revolution in China when Mao releases the ‘May 16th Notification’

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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