26 AUGUST

FA CHIEF APOLOGISES TO THE NAZIS AND TOASTS HITLER On Wednesday 4th December 1935, the visiting German national football team had been invited to an after the match dinner reception at the Hotel Victoria in London. William Pickford, the vice president of the Football Association and the man who first introduced markings on football pitches…

  BRITISH INTELLIGENCE SUCCEEDS IN ASSASSINATING THE UN GENERAL SECRETARY 17 September 1961 – Mounting evidence suggests the involvement of British intelligence services in the assassination of UN secretary general Dag Hammarskjold – who was killed along with 15 others – when his aircraft was downed shortly before midnight on its approach to Ndola in…

GENERAL ERSKINE WARNS AGAINST INQUIRY INTO BRITISH CRIMES IN KENYA 10 December 1953 – In a letter to the War Office, General Erskine admits that he is all too aware that the police and army in Kenya have frequently resorted to summary executions and torture against Mau Mau insurgency suspects. “There is no doubt that…

BRITISH CAPTAIN TORTURES AND EXECUTES MAU MAU SUSPECTS 14 June 1953 – 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 Njoka, were handed over…

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…

THOUSANDS MURDERED AFTER BRITISH LED IMPERIAL ARMY TAKES SUZHOU [ 9 December 1863 ] On this day in 1863, thousands of men and women in the Chinese rebel city of Suzhou were massacred,  four days after the town was seized by British and imperial Chinese forces. Colonel Charles Gordon (later to become legendary as General…