|
1st |
In 836;
Viking Raiders
sailed up the Thames and sacked London
|
|
2nd |
Thomas Hardy,
English novelist and poet born today in .1840. |
|
3rd |
In China in 1989,
People's Army tanks moved into
Tiananmen Square
in Beijing, killing 2,000 pro-democracy protesters. |
|
4th |
Gruffydd ap Llewellyn, King of Gwynedd and Powys,
defeated an English attack in 1039. Read more @
Welsh Rulers through the Ages.
|
|
5th |
Pancho Villa,
Mexican revolutionary born today in 1876. |
|
6th |
The
1844 Factory Act
in Britain restricted female workers to a 12-hour day; children between
eight and 13 years were limited to six-and-a-half hours.
|
|
7th |
Robert 1 'Bruce ' King of Scotland,
died
today in 1329 |
|
8th |
Sir Oswald Mosley
Oswald Mosley addressed a mass meeting of the
British Union of Fascists at Olympia Londan today in 1934 |
|
9th |
In 1997 at the
tenth Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES)
convention in Harare, Zimbabwe, the elephant was down listed to CITES
Appendix II (vulnerable) and the ban on ivory exportation in Botswana,
Namibia, and Zimbabwe was lifted. Full
Text of the Convention
here. |
|
10th |
The former
Black Panther
Elmer 'Geronimo' Pratt,
convicted for the killing of a white schoolmistress in 1972, was
released from prison in 1997 USA due to new evidence (commonly referred
to as having been framed). |
|
11th |
US president
Eisenhower proposed financial and technical aid to all non-communist
countries to develop atomic energy in 1955, and started a nice bit of
Nuclear Proliferation
|
|
12th |
In 1667, The
Dutch fleet under Admiral de Ruyter burned Sheerness, sailed up the
River Medway, raided Chatham dockyard, and escaped with the royal barge,
the Royal Charles; the nadir of English naval power. details @
The Dutch in the Medway. |
|
13th |
Members of the
Freemen of Montana
militia were arrested
after an 81-day siege of their remote Western ranch in 1996. They were
charged with a $1.8 million fraud scheme. |
|
14th |
Owen Glendower;
having won control of Wales,
assumed the title of Prince of Wales and held a Welsh parliament in 1404.
|
|
15th |
In 1381, Wat
Tyler, English rebel leader or social reformer (choice is yours) killed
by the kings men in what was to become known as
Wat Tyler's Rebellion |
|
16th |
Burglars were
caught breaking into the Democratic Party headquarters in the Watergate
Building, Washington DC, in 1972 Report by the
Washington Post. |
|
17th |
Eugene
Terreblanche, leader
of the white Afrikaaner Resistance Movement (AWB) in South Africa, was
sentenced to six years in jail in 1997, for the attempted murder of a black farm
hand. |
|
18th |
Vikings from Russia were
repulsed in an attack as far south as Constantinople in 860. Read about the
Vikings called:
The Pechenegs.
|
|
19th |
1829: Robert
Peel's Act was passed, to establish a new police force in London and its
suburbs originally called: The
Peelers. |
|
20th |
1756: In India,
over 140 British subjects were imprisoned in a cell called the
Black hole of Calcutta');
only 23 came out
alive. |
|
21st |
The German fleet was scuttled in
Scapa
Flow, in the Orkneys this day in 1919.
|
|
22nd |
In 1826, the Pan-American Congress
met in Panama under the influence of
Simón
Bolívar in an unsuccessful effort
to unite the American Republics. |
|
23rd |
1999:
World Disasters Report 1999 , published by the Red Cross, revealed that refugees from
environmental disasters such as drought, floods, and deforestation totalled
25 million in 1998, outnumbering war refugees for the first time.
|
|
24th |
1314: Robert the Bruce defeated
Edward II at
Bannockburn and so completed his expulsion of the English from
Scotland. |
|
25th |
1876: US soldier George Custer
and his 264 men were killed by Sioux Indians at the
Battle of the Little Bighorn Montana.
|
|
26th |
1963: While addressing a crowd of
150,000 Berliners, President Kennedy made the statement 'All free men ...
are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the
words, Ich bin ein Berliner'. What he really said was :'I
am a Jelly Doughnut'. |
|
27th |
Charles Stewart Parnell:
Born on this day in 1846, he was later to become an Irish nationalist leader. |
|
28th |
1914:
Archduke Francis Ferdinandof Austria and his wife were assassinated at Sarajevo by Gavrilo Princip, a
Bosnian revolutionary. This was to be the catalyst for WW1. |
|
29th |
South African Citizenship Act of 1949
suspended the automatic granting of citizenship to
Commonwealth immigrants after five years, and imposed a ban on mixed
marriages between Europeans and non-Europeans – the beginning of the
Apartheid program. |
|
30th |
Montezuma 11,:
Aztec ruler, assassinated by his own people this day in 1520 |
