The record set by the LNER’s Mallard locomotive on 3 July 1938 looks set to remain unbroken well into the future.
Continue reading 3 July 1938: Mallard Became the Fastest Steam Locomotive
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The record set by the LNER’s Mallard locomotive on 3 July 1938 looks set to remain unbroken well into the future. Continue reading 3 July 1938: Mallard Became the Fastest Steam Locomotive On 2 July 1900 the first rigid airship built by Count Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin flew over Lake Constance in Southern Germany. Although the test was not a complete success, it marked the start of a new era in powered flight. Continue reading 2 July 1900: First Flight of a Zeppelin Airship The first thirteen articles in my Kings and Queens of England series have been moved to pages on this site from their old home at Triond. Continue reading Kings and Queens of England Articles Moved Nicolas Fouquet Nicolas Fouquet was born in Paris on 27 January 1615, the son of a royal administrator and shipowner. His family’s wealth enabled him to purchase several posts in the government of Louis XIV. Fouquet was a supporter of Cardinal Mazarin and gained through him two posts that increased his wealth and Continue reading 23 March 1680: Death of Nicolas Fouquet, French Minister On 21 March 1960 in the township of Sharpeville, South Africa, 69 black men, women and children were shot dead when police officers opened fire on unarmed demonstrators. The shootings shocked the world and were condemned by the United Nations, but none of the police officers involved have ever been convicted of an offence Continue reading 21 March 1960: The Sharpeville Massacre When the Belgian people voted in a referendum on the return of their king in March 1950 he had been in exile in Switzerland for five years. The question of King Leopold III’s return to Belgium had remained unanswered since the end of the Second World War and a settlement of the matter was Continue reading 18 March 1950: Collapse of the Belgian Government On the night of 16 March 1190, the Jewish feast of Shabbat ha-Gadol, 150 men, women and children died at the royal castle at York, where Clifford’s Tower now stands. Many died following a mass-suicide and the rest at the hands of a mob waiting outside. Jewish communities had been established in London in Continue reading 16 March 1190: The Massacre of the Jews of York The State of Maine Prior to the American War of Independence the territory that comprises the present day state of Maine, USA, formed part of the county of Sunbury in the Province of Nova Scotia. Following the Peace of Paris at end of the war in 1783, Maine was confirmed as being part Continue reading 15 March 1820: Maine Became the 23rd US State The Battle of Ivry by Rubens On 14 March 1590 the Protestant forces of the new French king, Henry IV, faced the armies of the Catholic League, led by the Duke of Mayenne, on the plain of Épieds near Ivry, Normandy. The end of the battle, which was one of many during the Continue reading 14 March 1590: The Battle of Ivry At 6:30am on 12 March 1930 seventy-eight Indian National Congress volunteers joined Mahatma Gandhi at the start of a march from Ahmedabad to Dandi on the Indian Ocean. Organised as the first part of Gandhi’s non-violent protest, Satyagraha, the Dandi March was an act of civil disobedience against the British salt tax. The Salt Continue reading 12 March 1930: Gandhi and the Dandi Salt March |
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