20 SEPTEMBER

THE EDITOR OF THE DAILY HERALD APOLOGIZES FOR INSULTING HITLER Cartoon by Will Dyson (1880-1938) in the Daily Herald, 1 December 1937, p. 10 [ 1 December 1937 ] The left leaning Daily Herald, was arguably the most progressive of Britain’s mainstream newspapers in the thirties. Unlike The Times, the Daily Telegraph, the Daily Express and the Daily Mail, it would…

BRITISH TROOPS MURDER 24 UNARMED CIVILIANS 12 December 1948 – British troops executed 24 unarmed men, after separating them from the women and children at a Malayan rubber plantation at Sungai Rimoh near the small town of Batang Kali. The men had been subjected to mock executions before being herded into a hut where they were…

EXPRESS INTERVIEWS HITLER AND BLAMES REDS FOR REICHSTAG FIRE [ 27 February 1933 ] On 27 February 1933,  the Reichstag ( the German parliament ) was set alight. Even today we still do not know for sure who was responsible. Neither German socialists nor communists had ever resorted to such an act of terrorism previously….

LAST ‘FULL-BLOODED’ ABORIGINAL TASMANIAN MAN’S DEATH AND DISSECTION [ 3 March 1869 ] Today in 1869, William Lanne, who at the time was believed to be the last ‘full-blooded’ Tasmanian man, died of cholera and dysentery, aged just 34 years.  ELEVEN KENYAN POLITICAL DETAINEES MURDERED [ 3 March 1959 ] On 3 March 1959, prison…

BRITISH CLUSTER BOMBS KILL 38 AND INJURE 156 IRAQI CIVILIANS 31 March 2003 – British artillery fired cluster munitions during operations in the Iraqi city of Hillah, 100 km south of Baghdad. According to Human Rights Watch – “In the neighborhood of Nadir, a slum on the south side of the city, every household Human…

WALL STREET’S WORRIES AND THE WEATHER CITED AS REASONS FOR THE IRAQ WAR. [ 24 November 2006 ] On this day in 2006, Sir Jeremy Greenstock, who had been British ambassador to the United Nations in the run up to the Iraq war, explained to a conference at Churchill College Cambridge, that Britain had no…