21 JUNE

IRISH REBEL POET JOSEPH PLUNKETT SHOT BY THE BRITISH ON HIS WEDDING DAY. Joseph Plunkett, a poet, playwright and rebel who left a hospital bed to participate in the 1916 Easter Uprising in Dublin, was executed by a British firing squad at Kilmainham jail at dawn on Thursday 4 May, less than two hours after…

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THE FIRST CONVICTS ARRIVE AT BOTANY BAY [ 19 January 1788 ] On this day in 1788, the first batch of British convicts, about 498 men in three ships, arrived at Botany Bay, on the remote south eastern coast of Australia. BRITISH NAVAL SHIPS REDUCE ADEN TO RUBBLE [ 19 January 1839 ] On the…

BRITISH CHAPLAIN SHOCKED BY THE BARBARITY OF HIS OWN ARMY [ 28 August 1842 ] On this day in 1842, during the advance of a British punitive expedition led by Major General Sir William Nott, the Reverend Isaac Allen recalled the indiscriminate slaughter of men in a fortified Afghan village, deemed to have been responsible…

BLAIR FRUSTRATED AT LEGAL CONCERNS OVER KILLING INNOCENT AFGHANS. [ 19 October 2001 ] On 19 October 2001, during the American and British bombing of the Taliban in Afghanistan, Tony Blair became agitated over legal objections to some of the targeting on the basis that innocent civilians might be killed. MEMBERS OF SINN FEIN BANNED…