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14 JULY
IDI AMIN GUEST OF HONOUR AT THE PALACE 14 July 1971 – Ruthless Ugandan dictator Idi Amin had lunch with the Queen at Buckingham Palace. A brief from the Foreign Office declares that “General Amin has abandoned Obote’s radical pan-African policies for a more moderate and pro-Western policy.” The following day after the Amin’s lunch…
20 JANUARY
WINSTON CHURCHILL SUGGESTS ‘KEEP ENGLAND WHITE’ AS AN ELECTION SLOGAN [ 20 January 1955 ] On 20 January 1955, Defence Minister Harold Macmillan noted that at a Cabinet meeting there had been ‘more discussions about the West Indian immigrants. A bill is being drafted but it is not an easy problem. P.M. (Winston Churchill) thinks…
2 SEPTEMBER
SHOOT THE PRISONERS AND THE WOUNDED ! [ 2 September 1892 ] On this day in 1892, the army of the Mahdi, a Sudanese religious figure, was massacred at the so called battle of Omdurman. About sixteen thousand Dervishes were killed for the loss of just 48 British soldiers British soldiers were then ordered to…
3 MAY
BRITISH REDCOATS SHOOT DEAD UP TO FIFTY ABORIGINAL TASMANIANS [ 3 May 1804 ] On 3 May 1804, a group of about three hundred Aboriginal Tasmanian men, women and children were hunting kangaroos at Risdon Cove, on the outskirts of the first British settlement on the island, which had been established the previous autumn. Edward…
4 JULY
BRITISH SLAUGHTER THE ZULU WOUNDED AND BURN DOWN THE CITY OF ULUNDI [ 4 July 1879 ] On this day in 1879 British troops, part of a massive invasion force intended to subjugate the Zulu nation, slaughtered many hundreds of wounded warriors after the battle of Ulundi. The Honourable William Drummond, an intelligence officer, tried…