Scott Allsop's Blog, page 182
June 27, 2019
28th June 1880: Australian outlaw Ned Kelly arrested following a violent shoot out
The Australian outlaw Ned Kelly was arrested following a violent shoot-out with police at Glenrowan in ...
June 26, 2019
27th June 1905: Russian sailors mutiny on the battleship Potemkin
The crew of the Russian battleship Potemkin mutinied on the 27th June 1905, an uprising that was immortalized in Sergei Eisenstein’s 1925 silent ...
June 25, 2019
26th June 1974: World’s first barcode scanned on a pack of Wrigley’s Juicy Fruit gum
Sharon Buchanan, a cashier at the Marsh supermarket in Troy, Ohio, scanned the world’s first Universal Product Code (better known as a barcode) on a 10-pack of Wrigley's Juicy Fruit ...
June 24, 2019
25th June 1876: Battle of Little Bighorn & Custer’s Last Stand
On the 25th June 1876, the Battle of Little Bighorn began when American Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer led federal troops against the combined forces of the Lakota Sioux, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho Plains ...
June 23, 2019
24th June 1812: Napoleon begins his failed invasion of Russia
Napoleon's Grande Armée began its failed invasion of Russia when it crossed the Neman River in what Russians refer to as the Patriotic War of ...
June 22, 2019
23rd June 1314: Scottish victory at the Battle of Bannockburn
The Battle of Bannockburn began on the 23rd June 1314, leading to one of the most important Scottish victories of the First War of Scottish Independence that was fought intermittently from 1296 until ...
June 21, 2019
22nd June 1948: MV Empire Windrush arrives at Tilbury Docks in London from Jamaica
MV Empire Windrush arrived at Tilbury Docks in London carrying 492 West Indian ...
June 20, 2019
21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow
On the 21st June 1919, Admiral Ludwig von Reuter ordered the scuttling of the German High Seas naval fleet in Scapa Flow, a large natural harbor in the Orkney Islands in ...
June 19, 2019
20th June 1756: British prisoners locked in the ‘Black Hole of Calcutta’
British prisoners of war were imprisoned in the ‘Black Hole of Calcutta’ after the Bengali army captured Fort William from the East India ...
June 18, 2019
19th June 1978: Garfield cartoon strip first published
On the 19th June 1978, the Garfield comic strip was first ...
