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May 9, 2017
10th May 1941: Rudolf Hess secretly flies to Scotland to seek peace
On the 10th May 1941 Deputy Fuhrer of the German Party, Rudolf Hess, flew from Germany to Scotland on a mission to strike a peace deal with the British government. Other than a couple of...
May 8, 2017
9th May 1671: Colonel Thomas Blood attempts to steal the Crown Jewels
Colonel Thomas Blood attempted to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London. Blood was born in Ireland but travelled to England in 1642 following the outbreak of the English Civil War. Having originally...
May 7, 2017
8th May 1945: Victory in Europe Day after Germany surrenders
The 8th May 1945 was Victory in Europe Day – a public holiday to celebrate the end of the Second World War. The act of military surrender was authorised by Nazi leader Karl Dönitz, who...
May 6, 2017
7th May 1915: RMS Lusitania sunk by the German U-Boat, U-20
The British ship RMS Lusitania sank after being attacked by the German U-boat U-20 off the coast of Ireland. The Lusitania was launched by the Cunard Line in 1906 and was one of the largest...
May 5, 2017
6th May 1937: The Hindenburg airship disaster in New Jersey
On the 6th May 1937, the German passenger airship LZ 129 Hindenburg experienced a mid-air explosion at Lakehurst, New Jersey and was engulfed in flames in just 32 seconds. At the time, the Hindenburg was...
May 4, 2017
5th May 1912: Russian Communist newspaper Pravda first published
Pravda, the official newspaper of what became the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, was first published. Prior to the foundation of the CPSU many revolutionary socialists belonged to the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party....
May 3, 2017
4th May 1932: Al Capone imprisoned for income tax evasion
On the 4th May 1932, Al Capone began life as a convict in Atlanta Federal Penitentiary. Found guilty on October 17th 1931 of Federal Income Tax Evasion, he was sentenced to 11 years imprisonment. Capone...
May 2, 2017
3rd May 1915: John McCrae composes the war poem ‘In Flanders Fields’
Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae, a Canadian doctor, wrote the war poem ‘In Flanders Fields’, which inspired the symbol of the poppy to commemorate members of the military killed in war. McCrae had published his first poems...
May 1, 2017
2nd May 1952: World’s first passenger jet plane takes off from London
On 2nd May 1952, the world’s first passenger jet aircraft took off to carry 36 passengers from London to Johannesburg. The de Havilland DH 106 Comet operated by the British Overseas Airways Corporation reduced the...
April 30, 2017
1st May 1776: The forerunner of the Bavarian Illuminati founded
The Covenant of Perfectibility, the forerunner of the original Bavarian Illuminati, was founded by Adam Weishaupt in Ingolstadt. Weishaupt had become a professor of Canon Law at the University of Ingolstadt in 1773, having graduated...
