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1 DECEMBER
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…
13 SEPTEMBER
BRITISH TROOPS ADVANCING ON KABUL EXECUTE ALL MALES OVER 14 YEARS OLD [ 13 September 1842 ] On this day in 1842, having defeated Afghan forces ranged against them at Tezin Pass, the victorious British troops began several days of appalling retribution against Afghan villagers for the massacre nine months earlier of a British army of…
15 AUGUST
BIRMINGHAM AIRPORT IN COVERT ARMS AIRLIFT TO NIGERIAN JUNTA [ 15 August 1967 ] Today in 1967, the Birmingham Post broke the news that hangar number two at Birmingham Airport was being used to store a consignment of 186 cases of rifles which was due to be airlifted to the Nigerian junta. The federal government’s…
7 DECEMBER
RELIEF WORKS FOR FAMINE STRUCK IRISH VILLAGERS SUSPENDED [ 7 December 1846 ] In December 1846 Ireland was in the grip of a potato famine as well as one of the worst winters in many years and wherever a few people could be offered employment at a local public works, it provided the sole possible…
5 MAY
BOBBY SANDS MP DIES AFTER 66 DAYS ON HUNGER STRIKE 5 May 1981 – The Sinn Fein MP and Irish Republican prisoner Bobby Sands died after 66 days of his hunger strike at the H-Block Prison hospital at Long Kesh. At the age of ten Sands and his family had been forced to leave their…