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24 FEBRUARY
785 REFUGEES DROWN AFTER BRITAIN INSISTS TURKEY REFUSE THEM OVERLAND PASSAGE [ 24 February 1942 ] On 24 February 1942, the S.S. Struma, a small 240 ton vessel crammed with 786 Jewish refugees, including over one hundred children, was sunk by a torpedo in the Black Sea. All but one of the passengers drowned. JOURNALISTS FORBIDDEN…
13 JANUARY
CYPRIOT BOYS BIRCHED UNDER EMERGENCY REGULATIONS [ 13 January 1956 ] On 13 January 1956, six Greek Cypriot boys from Famagusta were birched under one of several emergency regulations introduced the previous month to stamp out an island wide rebellion against British rule. Please feel welcome to post comments below. If you have any questions…
2 MAY
ARGENTINE SHIP SUNK OUTSIDE FALKLAND ISLANDS EXCLUSION ZONE, KILLING 323. 2 May 1982 – At 15.57 a British nuclear powered submarine, HMS Conqueror, torpedoed and sank the Argentine cruiser General Belgrano, even though the ship was thirty six nautical miles outside Britain’s declared two hundred nautical mile military exclusion zone around the Falkland Islands and…
19 JUNE
BRITISH TROOPS SUMMARILY EXECUTE TORTURED MAU MAU SUSPECT KVENJI NJOKA 19 June 1953 – Five days earlier, on 13 June, Captain Gerald S.L. Griffiths had led a company of British soldiers into the Chuka region of Kenya to flush out Kenyan Mau Mau rebels hiding in the forests. Two Mau Mau suspects, Njeru Ndwega and Kvenji…
13 JUNE
DAY AND NIGHT CURFEW IMPOSED IN NICOSIA [ 13 June 1958 ] On 13 June 1958, during an insurgency against British rule in Cyprus which had also exacerbated tensions between the Greek and Turkish communities, Major General Douglas Kendrew decided to order a day and night curfew on the entire population of Nicosia ‘until further…