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8 AUGUST
CHURCHILL ADVOCATES A NUCLEAR STRIKE AGAINST MOSCOW. On 8 August 1946, over lunch with his physician Lord Moran at Chartwell, Winston Churchill enthusiastically answered Moran’s question regarding how a nuclear war might be waged against the Soviet Union. “We ought not to wait until Russia is ready,” Churchill explained, adding “America knows that fifty-two per…
14 APRIL
BRITISH MILITIA MASSACRE HUNDREDS OF BARBADIAN SLAVES [ 14 April 1816 ] On Easter Sunday, 14 April 1816, the slaves of Barbados rose up against their British masters. THE R.A.F. STRAFE AND BOMB A SCHOOL AND CROWDS AT GUJRANWALA [ 14 April 1919 ] Today in 1919, Michael O’Dwyer, Lieutenant Governor of the Punjab,…
11 FEBRUARY
MINISTER IN PHOTO OP WITH COLOMBIAN DEATH SQUADS GENERAL [ 11 February 2008 ] On 11 February 2008, The Guardian published a photo of a smiling Foreign Office Minister, Kim Howells, posing alongside General Mario Montoya, head of the Colombian Army, along with soldiers from the High Mountains Battalions (HMB). These were infamous elite units…
20 FEBRUARY
CHANCELLOR ECSTATIC AS ‘INDIA’S HORDES’ FORCED TO SELL GOLD [ 20 February 1932 ] Today in 1932, Neville Chamberlain, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in a letter to his sister, happily acknowledged that ‘the astonishing gold mine we have discovered in India’s hordes has put us in clover.’ Please feel welcome to post comments below. …
7 OCTOBER
BRITISH TROOPS COMMENCE THE LOOTING AND DESTRUCTION OF BEIJING’S SUMMER PALACE [ 7 Ocobter 1860 ] On this day in 1860, British officers joined French troops in looting Peking’s legendary Summer Palace. The complex might however have been more accurately described as palaces, as there were over two hundred summer houses and pavilions within eighty…