Scott Allsop's Blog, page 35

24th May 1798: United Irishmen Rebellion, also known as the Irish Rebellion of 1798, begins in Ireland

The United Irishmen, a revolutionary republican organization inspired by Wolfe Tone, saw Irish Protestants join with the Catholic majority to achieve Irish independence and establish a ...

23rd May 1934: Bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde ambushed by police and killed in rural Louisiana

Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker were driving their stolen Ford V8 when they were engulfed in a hail of more than 100 ...

22nd May 1939: The Pact of Steel signed between Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy

The Pact of Steel stipulated that Germany and Italy would support each other militarily and politically in the event of war, promising mutual assistance and ...

21st May 1904: FIFA founded in Paris as the Fédération Internationale de Football Association

The founding members of FIFA included football associations from Belgium, Denmark, France, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland. England joined the following ...

20th May 1862: President Abraham Lincoln signs the Homestead Act into law

Approximately 270 million acres of land were claimed and settled under the provisions of the act, with parcels of land continuing to be claimed in Alaska as late as the ...

19th May 1962: Marilyn Monroe sings “Happy Birthday, Mr. President” to President John F. Kennedy

Kennedy joked that he could ‘retire after having had “Happy Birthday” sung to me in such a sweet, wholesome ...

18th May 1896: The Supreme Court delivers its verdict in Plessy v. Ferguson that approves the ‘separate but equal’ doctrine

Plessy v Ferguson effectively legalized racial segregation by permitting separate but supposedly equal ...

17th May 1792: The Buttonwood Agreement signed by 24 stockbrokers, establishing the New York Stock Exchange

These original New York stockbrokers traded from the Tontine Coffee House at 82 Wall Street before moving to their first dedicated trading space in ...

16th May 1771: The Battle of Alamance ends the Regulator Movement in Provincial North Carolina

The Battle of Alamance has since been seen by some as a precursor to the American ...

15th May 1943: Stalin dissolves the Communist International (Comintern) that aimed to promote worldwide communism

After Germany's invasion of the USSR, Stalin begin actively seeking to improve relations with capitalist powers in order to focus on the war effort against the Axis forces so made the decision to dissolve the Comintern as a gesture of goodwill towards the Western ...