In the early hours of 8 August 1963 an armed gang of 15 men held up the overnight Glasgow-to-London Travelling Post Office train in what…
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Site of a peace demonstration on public land near Newbury, Berkshire, UK, outside a US airbase. The women-only camp was established in September 1981 in…
The United States Government sent 6,000 troops to invade Grenada in October 1983 after leaders of a local ”Revolutionary Military Council” (RMC) ousted and killed…
Iraq invaded Kuwait in August 1990, declaring that Kuwait was now the 19th province of Iraq. The justification was an old territorial claim on the…
Halley’s Comet has been observed by our ancestors since 240 BC. The comet is significant in that it can be seen from the earth by…
On Sunday 25 May 1986, Americans were asked to simultaneously hold hands across a 4,137-mile route stretching from California’s Santa Monica Pier to New York’s…
In October 1956, Hungary rose in revolt against Soviet domination. Thousands of protesters took to the streets demanding a more democratic political system and freedom…
The term “Irangate” was used to describe the 1987 US political scandal involving senior members of the Reagan administration (the name echoes the Nixon administration’s Watergate). Congressional hearings in 1986…
Iraq had, since 1970, enjoyed a fluctuating relationship with Syria, sometimes distant and sometimes close enough to contemplate a complete political and economic union. By…
A small island separated from the UK mainland by the waters of the Solent, the Isle of Wight at the end of the 1960s was…
On 4 May 1970, four students, two of them girls, were killed by shots fired by the National Guard who were called in to control…
At the end of World War II, Korea – formerly occupied by Japan – was divided along the 38th Parallel. In the north, the Russians installed…
The Greek cruise ship TSMS Lakonia left Southampton on 19 December 1963 for an 11-day Christmas cruise of the Canary Islands. She carried 646 passengers…
On 25 November 1984, 36 British recording artists gathered at a studio in Notting Hill, London to donate their time and talent to a song…
Pan Am flight 103 – a Boeing 747-121 named Clipper Maid of the Seas – left London Heathrow Airport at 6:25 pm on 21 December 1988 en…
The Mandela Day Concert staged on 11 June 1988 at London’s Wembley Stadium was organised by Special AKA main man Jerry Dammers and Britain’s Artists…
In February 1954, actress Marilyn Monroe travelled to Korea to entertain the American troops stationed over there. Marilyn was asked if she wanted to do…
“There will be neither rest nor tranquility in America until the coloured citizen is granted his citizenship rights. The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to…
British strike against pit closures that lasted almost a year from April 1984. The National Union of Miners (NUM), led by its Marxist president, Arthur…
The most memorable musical event of 1967 was the Monterey International Pop Festival, held in the Californian sunshine over three days between June 16th -…
