Scott Allsop's Blog, page 72
June 12, 2023
13th June 1944: First Nazi attack on Britain using the V-1 flying bomb, otherwise known as the ‘doodlebug’
The very first V-1 flying bomb exploded near a railway bridge in Mile End, London, killing eight ...
June 11, 2023
12th June 1987: Ronald Reagan calls on Mikhail Gorbachev to ‘Tear down this wall!’
US President Ronald Reagan made a speech in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin in which he called on the USSR’s leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, to ‘Tear down this ...
June 10, 2023
11th June 1837: Broad Street Riot takes place in Boston, Massachusetts, between Irish immigrants and existing American citizens
The violence grew to involve around 1,000 people on both sides who also broke into houses and destroyed ...
June 9, 2023
10th June 1924: Italian politician Matteotti kidnapped and murdered by Fascists
Giacomo Matteotti, an Italian socialist politician, was kidnapped and then murdered by members of the Fascist ...
June 8, 2023
9th June 1815: ‘Final Act’ of the Congress of Vienna signed, nine days before Napoleon’s final defeat at the Battle of Waterloo
The Final Act of the Congress set in place a map of Europe that remained largely unchanged for the next forty years, and which laid the foundations for the First World ...
June 7, 2023
8th June 1972: Nick Ut takes his harrowing photo of Vietnamese girl, Phan Thị Kim Phúc, running from napalm
On the 8th June 1972 one of the most iconic photographs of the Vietnam War was taken of Phan Thị Kim Phúc, a nine-year-old girl from the South Vietnamese village of Trang ...
June 6, 2023
7th June 1520: Henry VIII and Francis I meet at the Field of Cloth of Gold
In 1518 the English Cardinal Wolsey had negotiated the Treaty of London, a non-aggression pact that was signed by the twenty major European powers of the ...
June 5, 2023
6th June 1944: D-Day landings launched by the Allied forces of the Second World War in Normandy
The amphibious landings in Normandy are still the largest seaborne invasion ever to be staged, and marked the start of the Allied invasion of Nazi-held Western ...
June 4, 2023
5th June 1883: First Orient Express train departs Paris
The first Orient Express train, known at the time as Express d'Orient, departed ...
June 3, 2023
4th June 1913: Suffragette Emily Wilding Davison knocked down by a racehorse at the Epsom Derby after she stepped onto the track
The majority of commentators hold the view that Davison did not intend to martyr herself, but rather wished to attach a ‘Votes For Women’ scarf to the horse as a way to gain publicity for the ...
