Scott Allsop's Blog, page 84
February 12, 2023
13th February 1542: Execution of Catherine Howard, the fifth wife of Henry VIII
Catherine Howard, the fifth wife of King Henry VIII of England, was executed in the Tower of ...
February 11, 2023
12th February 1429: Battle of the Herrings in the Hundred Years’ War fought between French and English forces near the French village of Rouvray
The English arranged carts containing barrels of herring into a defensive wagon fort, with sharpened stakes similar to those used at the Battle of Agincourt positioned around the ...
February 10, 2023
11th February 1812: Elbridge Gerry signs the first bill to authorise ‘gerrymandering’
Massachusetts Governor Elbridge Gerry signed a bill that redrew electoral boundaries in the first example of ...
February 9, 2023
10th February 1355: St Scholastica’s Day Riot began in Oxford between ‘town and gown’
Tensions between university students and the locals of Oxford had been building for some time before violence broke ...
February 8, 2023
9th February 1969: First test flight of the Boeing 747 ‘Jumbo Jet’ at Paine Field in Washington State
The plane, named the City of Everett, left the Paine Field runway near Everett in Washington State – about 30 miles north of Seattle – and successfully performed a number of tests before landing at ...
February 7, 2023
8th February 1904: Russo-Japanese War triggered by Japanese torpedo attack on Port Arthur
Port Arthur was a fortified naval base in the south of Manchuria that had been leased to Russia since ...
February 6, 2023
7th February 1495: Savonarola’s Bonfire of the Vanities
Dominican friar Girolamo Savonarola led the burning of thousands of objects in the Bonfire of the ...
February 5, 2023
6th February 1958: Munich Air Disaster kills 23 members of the Manchester United football team after BEA flight 609 crashes at Munich-Riem airport
Flight 609 hit slush on the runway, causing the plane to skid off the end of the runway before crashing through the airport fence, speeding across a road, and losing its port wing after catching on a ...
February 4, 2023
5th February 1958: Nuclear bomb lost off Tybee Island in Georgia, USA after an in-air collision
An American Mark 15 thermonuclear bomb was lost off Tybee Island near Savannah, Georgia following an in-air ...
February 3, 2023
4th February 1945: Yalta Conference begins, attended by the ‘Big Three’ of Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin
The conference saw Allied leaders United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin meet to discuss the government of post-war ...
