Scott Allsop's Blog, page 76
May 3, 2023
4th May 1932: Al Capone begins life as a convict in Atlanta Federal Penitentiary
Capone was found guilty on 17 October 1931 of Federal Income Tax Evasion and was sentenced to eleven years imprisonment by Judge James Herbert ...
May 2, 2023
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 ...
May 1, 2023
2nd May 1945: The Battle of Berlin ends with the German surrender to the USSR
The Battle of Berlin ended after German General Helmuth Weidling surrendered to Soviet General Vasily ...
April 30, 2023
1st May 1952: The first Mr Potato Head ‘funny face toy’ goes on sale
The day before Mr Potato Head was released by Hasbro he featured in the first ever television advert for a toy that was aimed directly at ...
April 29, 2023
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 ...
April 28, 2023
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 ...
April 27, 2023
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 ...
April 26, 2023
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 ...
April 25, 2023
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’ ...
April 24, 2023
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 ...
