Scott Allsop's Blog, page 168
November 13, 2019
14th November 1960: Ruby Bridges, first African-American to desegregate an elementary school
Bridges was born in 1954, the same year that the Supreme Court unanimously ruled in the landmark case of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas that racially segregated schools were ...
November 12, 2019
13th November 1002: Æthelred the Unready orders the St Brice’s Day Massacre
On the 13th November 1002, the St Brice’s Day Massacre took place when king Æthelred the Unready “ordered slain all the Danish men who were in ...
November 11, 2019
12th November 1927: Leon Trotsky expelled from the Communist Party of the USSR
Trotsky had been a key figure in the Bolshevik Revolution of ...
November 10, 2019
11th November 1865: Dr Mary Walker becomes the first (and only) woman to receive the Medal of Honor
American surgeon Dr Mary Walker became the first, and so far only, woman to receive the Medal of ...
November 9, 2019
10th November 1871: Henry Morton Stanley locates Dr David Livingstone in Africa
Henry Morton Stanley, a Welsh-American journalist and explorer, allegedly greeted the missing Scottish missionary David Livingstone with the phrase, “Dr Livingston, I ...
November 8, 2019
9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
In the evening of the 9th November 1989, the East German government opened the Berlin Wall after central committee spokesman Guenter Schabowski mistakenly announced that GDR citizens could cross into West Berlin with immediate ...
November 7, 2019
8th November 1520: The Stockholm Bloodbath begins under Denmark’s Christian II
Christian II had invaded Sweden in an attempt to preserve the Kalmar Union that joined the Scandinavian countries of Denmark, Sweden and Norway under a single ...
November 6, 2019
7th November 1917: The Bolshevik Revolution
On the 7th November 1917, Red Guards entered the Winter Palace in St Petersburg in a defining event of the Bolshevik ...
November 5, 2019
6th November 1860: Abraham Lincoln elected as the 16th President of the USA
Abraham Lincoln was elected barely five months before the outbreak of the American Civil War, and was assassinated less than a month before its ...
November 4, 2019
5th November 1605: Guy Fawkes discovered during Gunpowder Plot
On the 5th November 1605, the Gunpowder Plot was foiled when Guy or Guido Fawkes was discovered guarding 36 barrels of gunpowder that had been placed in an undercroft below the House of Lords in ...
