Scott Allsop's Blog, page 65
July 17, 2023
18th July 1925: Adolf Hitler publishes the first volume of his book ‘Mein Kampf’
Despite its initially poor reception, Mein Kampf became a popular book with hundreds of thousands of copies sold each year after Hitler became Chanceller of Germany in ...
July 16, 2023
17th July 1453: The Battle of Castillon, widely accepted as last conflict of the Hundred Years’ War
The Battle of Castillon, considered to be the last battle of the Hundred Years’ War, was fought between France and ...
July 15, 2023
16th July 1945: USA detonates the first nuclear bomb under the codename ‘Trinity’
The explosion was equivalent to about 20 kilotons of TNT, and the blast-wave was felt by civilians up to 160 miles ...
July 14, 2023
15th July 1975: The Apollo Soyuz Test Project lifted off
The two rockets of the Apollo–Soyuz Test Project launched from the USA and the USSR in the first international collaborative space ...
July 13, 2023
14th July 1789: Storming of the Bastille marks the start of the French Revolution
The Bastille had long been a symbol of tyranny as a place for the imprisonment of people without trial, but when it was stormed it only contained seven ...
July 12, 2023
13th July 1793: Jean-Paul Marat attacked in his bathtub by Charlotte Corday
The radical French journalist Jean-Paul Marat was stabbed to death in his bathtub by Charlotte ...
July 11, 2023
12th July 927: Earliest date for the founded of England under Æthelstan
Æthelstan was the son of Edward the Elder and the grandson of Alfred the Great. His ancestors had already carved large chunks from Viking lands as far north as the River Humber which led them to refer to themselves as ‘king of the Saxons’ or ‘king of the ...
July 10, 2023
11th July 1922: The Hollywood Bowl opens in Los Angeles
The Hollywood Bowl opened in Bolton Canyon near Los ...
July 9, 2023
10th July 1553: Lady Jane Grey proclaimed Queen of England after the death of Edward VI
Parliament declared Jane a usurper. She was tried on charges of high treason and found to be guilty for having signed official documents as ‘Jane the Queen’. She was beheaded the following ...
July 8, 2023
9th July 1971: Henry Kissinger makes a secret diplomatic trip to China
Henry Kissinger, Richard Nixon’s National Security Advisor, made a secret trip to China to meet with Premier Zhou ...
