This Day In History

APRIL 4TH 1841: PRESIDENT WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON DIES On this day in 1841, the 9th President of the United States, William Henry Harrison, died in office. Harrison’s time in office was the sho...

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APRIL 3RD 1968: KING’S LAST SPEECH On this day in 1968, the American civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. made his last speech, the day before his assassination. King was one of many lea...

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APRIL 2ND 1982: ARGENTINA INVADES THE FALKLAND ISLANDS On this day in 1982, Argentine forces landed on the Falkland Islands and occupied the area, which marked the beginning of the Falklands Wa...

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MARCH 31ST 1492: SPANISH EXPULSION On this day in 1492, the joint Catholic monarchs of Spain - Ferdinand and Isabella - issued the Alhambra Decree. This decree ordered the expulsion of all Jews...

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MARCH 30TH 1979: AIREY NEAVE KILLED On this day in 1979, the Shadow Secretary for Northern Ireland Airey Neave was assassinated by a car bomb aged 63. Neave was elected as a Conservative Member...

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MARCH 29TH 1879: BATTLE OF KAMBULA On this day in 1879, the Battle of Kambula occurred, marking a decisive moment in the Anglo-Zulu War. The war in South Africa began in 1878 after the murder o...

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MARCH 28TH 1871: PARIS COMMUNE DECLARED On this day in 1871, following elections held two days prior, the Paris Commune was officially proclaimed. The Commune seized power in opposition to the ...

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MARCH 27TH 1958: KHRUSHCHEV BECOMES SOVIET PREMIER On this day in 1958, Nikita Khrushchev became head of the government of the Soviet Union. Khrushchev served as Premier of the world’s first ...

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MARCH 26TH 1830: THE BOOK OF MORMON PUBLISHED On this day in 1830, the Book of Mormon was first published at E.B Grandin’s New York bookstore. The founder of Mormonism, Joseph Smith Jr, claim...

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MARCH 25TH 1811: SHELLEY EXPELLED FROM OXFORD On this day in 1811, Percy Bysshe Shelley was expelled from the University of Oxford for publishing a pamphlet entitled ‘The Necessity of Atheism...

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MARCH 24TH 1944: THE ‘GREAT ESCAPE’ On this day in 1944, a group of Allied prisoners of war staged a daring escape attempt from the German prisoner of war camp at Stalag Luft III. This camp...

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MARCH 23RD 1933: ENABLING ACT PASSED On this day in 1933, the German Reichstag passed the Enabling Act, which essentially secured Adolf Hitler’s position as dictator of Germany. The law gave ...

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MARCH 22ND 1963: ‘PLEASE PLEASE ME’ RELEASED On this day in 1963, the first album by the Beatles, ‘Please Please Me’, was released in the UK by Parlophone Records. The Beatles formed in ...

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MARCH 21ST 1960: SHARPEVILLE MASSACRE On this day in 1960, police opened fire on peaceful anti-apartheid protestors in the South African township of Sharpeville, killing 69. The over 5,000 stro...

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MARCH 20TH 1852: UNCLE TOM’S CABIN PUBLISHED On this day in 1852, American author Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin was published. Previously published as a serial in the ant...

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MARCH 19TH 1932: SYDNEY HARBOUR BRIDGE OPENS On this day in 1932, the Sydney Harbour Bridge was opened. There had been discussions of building a bridge to connect the northern and southern shor...

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MARCH 18TH 1314: JACQUES DE MOLAY KILLED On this day in 1314, Jacques de Molay, the twenty-third and last Grand Master of the Knights Templar, was burned at the stake. The Templar knights were a...

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MARCH 17TH 1959: DALAI LAMA FLEES TIBET On this day in 1959, Tenzin Gyatso - the fourteenth Dalai Lama, a central figure of Vajrayana Buddhism - fled Tibet for India. He fled following the 1959...

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MARCH 16TH 1912: LAWRENCE OATES DIES On this day in 1912 Lawrence Oates, a member of Robert Falcon Scott’s British team to the South Pole, left his tent never to be seen again. Scott’s Terr...

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MARCH 15TH 1848: HUNGARIAN REVOLUTION BEGINS On this day in 1848, a revolution broke out in Hungary, one of many in the ‘Year of Revolutions’. There had been a growing reform movement in Hu...

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