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Some of the 12 million Poles on the morning of March 27th. Government officials were alarmed to learn that a huge proportion of Communist Party members took part in the strike. (Teller Report) At 8 AM on this day in 1981, 12 million Poles laid down their tools and walked away from their jobs. Armbands…
One of the many battles of the Reconquista, painted in 1837 by Charles Auguste Guillaume Steuben. (History Net) On this day in 1342, Muslim defenders in the city of Al-Jazeera Al-Khadra surrendered to the attacking Castilian Christians. The city - located on the southern coast of modern-day Spain - was a stronghold in the Muslim…
Continue reading ➞ 03/26 – The Siege of Al-Jazeera Al-Khadra
Ginsberg in San Francisco - site of a variety of American counter-culture movements - in the 1950s. (The Times of Israel) On this day in 1957, United States Customs authorities confiscated 520 print copies of Howl, a poem by American writer Allen Ginsberg. Howl - a groundbreaking poem written in "breath-length" form, a new style…
The Quebec flag flies near Parliament Hill, Ottawa - the centre of Canadian Federal government. (QMI Agency) On this day in 1961, the The Quebec Board of the French Language (or Office québécois de la langue française, OQLF) was established in Montreal, Canada. Officially, the OQLF's mandate was to ensure that French remained the primary…
Continue reading ➞ 03/24 – The Quebec Board of the French Language
Members of the pro-RUF "West Side Boyz" on the move in Sierra Leone. This group - and many of the other belligerents - recruited children extensively and indoctrinated them with extreme doses of drugs and violence. (ThingLink) On this day in 1991, rebel forces of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) entered Sierra Leone, a diamond-rich…
One of the first encounters between the Vikings and the Saxons in Wessex. (Pinterest) On this day in 871, hundreds of armed men under the command of King Æthelred I formed up for battle in a field somewhere in Wessex (in the south of the modern-day United Kingdom). Across the field from Æthelred's Saxon men…
A West Bank school like the one where the 1983 Fainting Epidemic began. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed) On this day in 1983, a group of Palestinian children were attending class in Arraba, a town in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Suddenly, at about 8 AM, a girl jumped up from her desk and ran to the window,…
Because of its unique status as a company-state, the VOC had its own flag - closely modeled after the Dutch flag. (Wikimedia Commons) On this day in 1602, the Dutch East India Company - or Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie, VOC) was established in the Netherlands. A combination of several trading companies, the VOC was created at…
The coup in 1964. (Bloomberg) On this day in 1964, roughly 500,000 Brazilians took to the streets of São Paulo on St. Joseph's Day. The demonstrations, known as the March of the Family with God for Liberty, were in response to president João Goulart's planned governmental and economic reforms. According to the Catholic Women's Campaign…
Continue reading ➞ 03/19 – The March of the Family with God for Liberty
Popular unrest in Algiers during the Algerian War. (Magnum Photos) On this day in 1962, representatives from the French government and the Algerian Front de Libération Nationale (FLN) signed a ceasefire agreement in Évian-les-Bains, thus ending the Algerian War. A result of Algerian frustrations with the French colonial administration, the conflict exploded in 1954 as…
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