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
Religion
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
November 26, 1922 — Carter and Carnavon find King Tut’s tomb
If not the greatest archaeological find of the Twentieth Century, certainly the best known. King Tut – well, Tutankhamen really...
August 14, 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
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 3, 1941 — Zyklon B is first used at Auschwitz
One of the deadliest chemicals ever invented, Zyklon B is a derivative of Prussic acid. It was invented in 1922...
January 14, 2019
December 12, 1941 — Hitler announces the destruction of the Jews
Of all things, it was the entry of the United States into the war that prompted Hitler to move the...
January 4, 2019
May 9, 1950 — L. Ron Hubbard publishes “Dianetics”
“Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health” was first published by L. Ron Hubbard in 1950. It is a canonical...
July 24, 2018
June 2, 1953 — Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom
Technically, Elizabeth Windsor became the Queen of England as soon as her father, King George VI died on February 2...
April 24, 2018
March 10, 1957 — Osama bin Laden born
The mastermind of the 9/11 World Trade Center attack was born in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (although some sources, notably the...
February 13, 2018
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