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31 January – National Health Service prescription charges end. 1 February – The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh arrive in Ethiopia on a state visit. 4 February – Confederation of British Industry founded. [3] 6 February – Stanley Matthews plays his final First Division game, at the record age of 50 years and 5 days.
2012 – Two people are killed and six more are injured in a shooting at a hair Salon in Bucharest, Romania. [19] 2018 – Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) pause the Deir ez-Zor campaign due to the Turkish-led invasion of Afrin. [20] [21] [22] 2021 – Pope Francis begins a historical visit to Iraq [23] amidst the COVID-19 ...
Events. Forth Road Bridge. 1 January – Top of the Pops first airs on BBC TV. 11 January – The teen girls magazine Jackie is first published. [ 1 ] 20 January – Eleven men go on trial at Buckinghamshire Assizes in Aylesbury charged in connection with the Great Train Robbery five months ago. 21 January – Government figures show that the ...
1603. 24 March. England – Death of Queen Elizabeth I. James VI of Scotland crowned King of England (as James I of England). 1605. 5 November. England and Scotland – The Gunpowder plot is uncovered, in which Guy Fawkes and others attempted to blow up the king, James VI and I and the Parliament of England. 1606.
31 January–1 February – The North Sea flood of 1953 kills 307 people on the east coast of Britain, with more at sea. [3] A corvette and a submarine sink at their moorings in HM Dockyard Sheerness. 1 February – Pool petrol, introduced during World War II, is replaced by individual brands.
Pictures can provide insights into the past that words can’t even begin to describe. The post 87 Historical Photos That Tell Stories From Days Gone By (New Pics) first appeared on Bored Panda.
The Boston Massacre (known in Great Britain as the Incident on King Street) [ 1 ] was a confrontation in Boston on March 5, 1770, in which nine British soldiers shot several of a crowd of three or four hundred who were harassing them verbally and throwing various projectiles. The event was heavily publicized as "a massacre" by leading Patriots ...
29 year old Pfc. Ivan Babcock of the US Army’s 165th Signal Photo Company poses with the crown of the Holy Roman Empire in a cave during WW2. Siegan, Germany. 3 April 1945. The cave was used by ...