6 SEPTEMBER

BRITISH “BLACK AND TANS” AUXILIARY POLICE SACK THE CITY OF CORK. During a few hours of indiscriminate arson and looting, on the evening of Saturday 11 December 1920, the British Black and Tans auxiliary police force burned down three hundred homes and forty business premises in the city of Cork where the vast majority of…

34 CONSERVATIVE MPS HOLD INVESTMENTS IN APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA [ 22 0ctober 1985 ] On this day in 1985, a Labour Party press release revealed that 34 Conservative MPs held investments in Apartheid South Africa and the previous year at least nine had visited South Africa as guests of the South African government. Even the…

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SIX CIVILIANS SHOT DEAD BY BRITISH TROOPS IN WEST BELFAST [ 9 August 1971 ] On this day in 1971, six civilians varying in age from 19 to 50 years, including Father Hugh Mullan, a Catholic priest who was trying to help a wounded man and Joan Connolly, a 45 year old grandmother, were shot…

  BRITISH TROOPS SACK SAN SEBASTIAN, RAPING MANY OF THE WOMEN. [ 1 September 1813 ] [ Some of the fires and killings may have started on 31 August ] On this day in 1813, British troops, under the command of the legendary Arthur Wellesley, Marquess of Wellington, ransacked and burned the Basque city of…

CHURCHILL URGES POISON GAS ATTACKS ON GERMAN CITIES Writing a memo to General Sir Hastings Ismay on 6 July 1944, Winston Churchill urged the Chiefs of Staff to urgently consider the use of poison gas against German towns and cities. A YEMENI CIVIL SERVANT’S BRIEF ENCOUNTER WITH BRITAIN’S GUANTANAMO. At about 2 am on 6…