Scott Allsop's Blog, page 79
April 3, 2023
4th April 1968: Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee at the age of 39
King was standing on the balcony outside his room at the Lorrain Motel in Memphis when he was hit by a single bullet that shattered his jaw and several ...
April 2, 2023
3rd April 1860: The first Pony Express service goes into operation
The first Pony Express service left the American city of St Joseph in Missouri destined for Sacramento in ...
April 1, 2023
2nd April 1982: Falklands War begins with an amphibious invasion of the Falkland Islands by Argentina
On 5 April the British Government, led by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, ordered a naval task force that numbered more than 100 ships to retake the Falkland ...
March 31, 2023
1st April 1938: Francisco Franco announces the end of the Spanish Civil War
The Spanish Civil War began in July 1936 after a military coup by Spanish forces in North Africa failed to secure complete control over the ...
March 30, 2023
31st March 1909: The end of the Bosnian Crisis
The Bosnian Crisis came to end with Serbia’s acceptance of the annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina by ...
March 29, 2023
30th March 1939: Batman makes his first appearance when Detective Comics #27 went goes on sale
Batman was created by Bob Kane and Bill Finger, and first appeared in a story called ‘The Case of the Chemical Syndicate’ along with Commissioner ...
March 28, 2023
29th March 1974: Discovery of the Terracotta Army in Xi’an, China
The Terracotta Army was discovered in Shaanxi province, ...
March 27, 2023
28th March 1942: Operation Chariot and the St. Nazaire raid by British forces in WW2
The raid by the Royal Navy and British Commandos was overseen by Combined Operations ...
March 26, 2023
27th March 1915: Typhoid Mary placed in permanent quarantine in New York
Mary Mallon, better known as Typhoid Mary, was confined to permanent quarantine on North Brother Island in New ...
March 25, 2023
26th March 1945: Battle of Iwo Jima ends after US Marines officially secure the island from the Japanese Imperial Army during the War in the Pacific
The US invasion of Iwo Jima, known as ‘Operation Detachment’, led to five weeks of fierce fighting between around 21,000 Japanese troops and 110,000 ...
