Over 500,000 protesters marched on Washington D.C. as part of the national Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam.
12th April 1917: The Canadian Corps successfully capture Vimy Ridge
12th April 2020
The Greenwich Meridian became the international standard for zero degrees longitude, ensuring continuity with most existing nautical charts.
On the 28th August 1963, American Civil Rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his iconic ‘I Have a Dream’ speech from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC.
It had taken Congress eight years to agree on how to fulfil James Smithson’s desire to establish and institution ‘for the increase and diffusion of knowledge’.
Tens of thousands of Ku Klux Klan members took part in an organised march through Washington D.C.
Bonus Marchers in Washington D.C. were forcibly removed by the U.S. Army under General Douglas MacArthur.
James A. Garfield, the 20th President of the United States, was shot by Charles J. Guiteau at the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station in Washington, D.C.
4th December 1956: Million Dollar Quartet record at Sun Studios
4th December 2020
2nd December 1804: Napoleon crowns himelf Emperor of the French
2nd December 2020
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2020
1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
1st September 2018
9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
9th November 2019