January 19, 1920 — Construction of the permanent Cenotaph in London begins
Edwin Lutyens was one of the greatest British architects, possibly the greatest of his era. His design for the Cenotaph...
September 4, 2019
Politics & War
July 29, 1921 — Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of the Nazi Party
Hitler was the 55th person to join the German Worker’s Party – the same party that later re-named itself the...
August 29, 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
July 2, 1925 — Patrice Lumumba born
A Congolese freedom fighter, Patrice Lumumba was one of the leaders of the independence movement that overthrew Belgian colonial rule...
July 29, 2019
July 16, 1927 — Henry Ford publicly apologises for his anti-Semitism
Henry Ford, famously the founder of the Ford Motor Company, was also something of an anti-Semite. The kind of something...
July 9, 2019
January 31, 1928 — Leon Trotsky exiled from the Soviet Union
Trotsky was Lenin’s second-in-command during the Russian Revolution, and later the first leader of the Red Army and a high-ranking...
July 4, 2019
January 30, 1933 — Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany
It’s often overlooked, what the enormity of his crimes afterwards, but Hitler came to power more or less legally, elected...
May 19, 2019
September 29, 1933 — Samora Machel born
The son of farmers, Samora Machel was born in the village of Madragoa (now Chilembene), in Portuguese East Africa (now...
May 9, 2019
April 12, 1937 — Dennis Banks born
The co-founder of the American Indian Movement – a major ‘Red Power’ group in the civil rights struggles of native...
April 14, 2019
September 1, 1939 — Germany invades Poland
It was the opening gambit of World War Two in Europe. After trying to press its geographical claims (especially to...
March 4, 2019
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