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1813 – War of 1812: British–Canadian forces repelled an American attack at the Battle of Crysler's Farm, forcing the United States to give up their attempt to capture Montreal. 1934 – The Shrine of Remembrance (pictured), a memorial to all Australians who have served in war, opened in Melbourne. 1999 – The House of Lords Act was given ...
The Erie Canal opened Oct. 26, 1825 and proved one of the most successful public works projects in American history, reshaping large swaths of the national economy.
These events are today commemorated as May Day or Labour Day in most industrialized countries. 1893 - The World's Columbian Exposition opens in Chicago. 1894 - Coxey's Army, the first significant American protest march, arrives in Washington, D.C.
October 25. Charge of the Light Brigade. 1616 – Dutch explorer Dirk Hartog left a plate on an island in Shark Bay, the oldest-known artefact of European exploration in Australia still in existence. 1854 – Crimean War: The ill-fated Charge of the Light Brigade (pictured) was decisively repelled by Russian forces during the Battle of Balaclava.
e. English is a West Germanic language that originated from Ingvaeonic languages brought to Britain in the mid-5th to 7th centuries AD by Anglo-Saxon migrants from what is now northwest Germany, southern Denmark and the Netherlands. The Anglo-Saxons settled in the British Isles from the mid-5th century and came to dominate the bulk of southern ...
The St. Brice's Day massacre was a mass killing of Danes within England on 13 November 1002, on the order of King Æthelred the Unready of England. The Anglo-Saxon chronicle relates that the massacre was carried out in response to an accusation that the Danes would "beshrew [Æthelred] of his life, and afterwards all his council, and then have his kingdom without any resistance."
On This Day in History. On This Day In History was a feature on the BBC Radio 1 breakfast show in the UK between 1988 and 1993. It was devised by the programme's presenter at the time, Simon Mayo, and was broadcast at approximately 8.45am. [1] Mayo, a history graduate from University of Warwick, used the day's date each morning to regurgitate ...
1865 – Charles Spencelayh, English painter and academic (d. 1958) 1868 – William Gillies, Australian politician, 21st Premier of Queensland (d. 1928) 1877 – Walt Kuhn, American painter and academic (d. 1949) 1877 – George Thompson, English cricketer and umpire (d. 1943) 1884 – ShirÅ Takasu, Japanese admiral (d. 1944)