Scott Allsop's Blog, page 130

2nd October 1187: Saladin captures Jerusalem from the Crusaders after a lengthy siege

In return for the crusaders’ unconditional surrender, Saladin agreed that anyone who paid a ransom would be able to leave the city in ...

1st October 1928: The USSR introduces the first five-year plan under Joseph Stalin

Although the targets were constantly revised to the point where they could never be achieved, the first five-year plan firmly set the USSR on the road to becoming a world ...

29th September 1789: Congress formally establishes the United States Army on the final day of its first session

President George Washington wrote to Congress, stating that the military was something on which the “honor, safety and well being of our Country so evidently and essentially ...

26th September 1923: Gustav Stresemann of Germany ends passive resistance in the Ruhr

Despite the anger from some Germans, Stresemann’s actions laid the foundation for the economic recovery that Germany experienced up until the onset of the Great ...

24th September 1946: ‘Containment’ first suggested to President Truman in a report by Clark Clifford and George Elsey

Truman later ordered all copies to be brought to him and locked away since the content was a serious threat to US-Soviet ...

23rd September 1974: BBC launches Ceefax, the world’s first teletext service

Teletext was the dominant medium for accessing breaking news until the arrival of the World Wide ...

22nd September 1980: Start of the Iran-Iraq War that lasted on for nearly eight years

The war persisted for nearly eight long and bloody years, leading to the deaths of an estimated half a million soldiers and the same number of ...

18th September 1931: The Manchurian Crisis begins after Japanese forces bomb the South Manchuria Railway

The Chinese government appealed to the League of Nations for assistance, and the League promptly passed a resolution calling for the withdrawal of Japanese ...

15th September 1935: Nazi Germany introduces the discriminatory ‘Nuremberg Laws’

The Nuremberg Laws enshrined anti-semitic discrimination in the legal framework of the country through two pieces of ...

13th September 1985: Super Mario Bros. video game first released in Japan

Originally only available for the Japanese Family Computer, it took nearly another two years for the game to be available ...