Scott Allsop's Blog, page 73

30th April 1963: The Bristol Bus Boycott against discriminatory recruitment begins

A boycott against the Bristol Omnibus Company in England was launched due to their racist employment ...

29th April 1975: Operation Frequent Wind evacuates over 1,000 American civilians and 6,000 Vietnamese from Saigon using helicopters

The largest ever helicopter evacuation lasted for 19 hours and involved 81 helicopters shuttling the evacuees to US Navy ships moored in the South China ...

28th April 1789: The crew of HMS Bounty mutiny against Captain William Bligh

23-year old Acting Lieutenant Fletcher Christian led a mutiny on the Royal Navy vessel HMS ...

27th April 1509: Pope Julius II excommunicates the entire population of Venice

The interdict deprived the Venetians of their spiritual salvation, and was therefore a formidable ...

26th April 1478: The Pazzi family launch their failed plot against the Medici family

The Pazzi family in Florence launched their unsuccessful plot to overthrow the Medici family with an assassination attempt against the brothers Lorenzo and Giuliano de’ ...

25th April 1792: First use of the guillotine as a method of execution in France

Nicolas Jacques Pelletier, a French highwayman who was found guilty of killing a man during one of his robberies, was the first victim of the French decapitation ...

24th April 1916: The Easter Rising begins in Dublin

The Easter Rising began in Dublin, with the aim of securing an independent Irish ...

23rd April 1985: Coca-Cola introduce New Coke as ‘the new taste of Coca-Cola’ as a replacement for the original formula

Marking the first major formula change in 99 years, ‘new Coke’ is widely heralded as one of the biggest marketing failures in ...

22nd April 1884: Thomas Stevens begins the first round-the-world cycle ride

Thomas Stevens departed San Francisco on a large-wheeled Ordinary, also known as a penny-farthing, to become the first person to cycle around the ...

21st April 753 BCE: The ancient city of Rome is founded

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