30 JUNE

BRITISH AND FRENCH IN SECRET AGREEMENT TO DIVIDE THE MIDDLE EAST [ 3 January 1916 ] Today in 1916, during the First World War, a line was drawn on the map from Acre on the coast of Palestine to Kirkuk in northern Iraq, dividing much of the Middle East into what were planned as post-war…

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…

BRITISH FLEET BOMBARDS ALEXANDRIA KILLING AND INJURING 2000 11 July 1882 – At 7 am a British fleet of eight warships began the bombardment of Alexandria, after Egypt’s government refused to accept Britain’s supposed right to oversee and manage the country’s budget, which included huge payments in debt to the Suez Canal Company, in which…

LABOUR GOVERNMENT APPROVES USING DEPLETED URANIUM IN AMMUNITION [ 22 January 1979 ] On 22 January 1979, the Labour Cabinet almost unanimously approved the use of depleted uranium in anti-tank ammunition.  Please feel welcome to post comments below.  If you have any questions please email alisdare@gmail.com © 2020 Alisdare Hickson All rights reserved

THE LORD MAYOR OF CORK DIES FROM HIS HUNGER STRIKE IN BRIXTON PRISON Terence MacSwiney, Lord Mayor of Cork, died at 5.40 am on Monday 25 October 1920 on the seventy fourth day of his hunger strike at Brixton prison.  His biographer, Francis Costello, remarked that the MacSwiney’s “solitary protest would be seen, in the…