November 9, 1888 — Jack the Ripper kills Mary Jane Kelly
The last victim of Jack the Ripper – at least as far as everyone agrees upon – Mary Jane Kelly...
June 14, 2020
Crime & Law
December 29, 1890 — The Lakota are massacred at Wounded Knee
Colonel James Forsyth of the US Cavalry led a force of approximately 500 soldiers into the Lakota camp at the...
May 24, 2020
August 4, 1892 — Lizzie Borden murders her parents
They say she done all of ’em in. They say she done it with an axe. They are, in this...
April 14, 2020
August 19, 1895 — John Wesley Hardin shot and killed
Reputed to be one of the deadliest men in the whole of the West, John Wesley Hardin claimed to have...
March 19, 2020
October 18, 1908 — Belgium annexes the Congo
The so-called Congo Free State was a Belgian colony in Africa whose name provided the merest figleaf to the truth:...
January 14, 2020
April 20, 1914 — Striking coal miners are massacred by the Colorado National Guard in Ludlow, Colorado
Miners had been striking for a number of basic rights – an eight hour work day, the right to shop...
December 4, 2019
April 24, 1916 — The Easter Rising commences
In 1916, with the hated English overlords distracted by the First World War, a group of Irish revolutionaries decided that...
November 9, 2019
June 29, 1916 — Roger Casement is sentenced to death for treason
Sir Roger Casement was still a young man when he toured colonial Africa and South America in the early years...
October 29, 2019
December 16, 1916 — Rasputin is murdered
Rasputin is one of the legends of the Twentieth Century. He was definitely real, but has been imputed with supernatural...
October 14, 2019
August 23, 1921 — Sacco and Vanzetti are executed
Ferdinando Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were two Italian-born labourers and anarchists resident on Massachusetts. On May 5, 1920, they...
August 24, 2019
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