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by Richard Frost » Mon Sep 19 2022 8:56am
19 September 1893
New Zealand becomes the first country to grant all women the right to vote
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by Richard Frost » Tue Sep 20 2022 10:10am
20 September 2019
Students from 185 countries stage the world's largest-ever protest on climate change culminating in a New York rally led by Greta Thunberg
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by Richard Frost » Thu Sep 22 2022 11:07am
22nd September 1991
Huntington Library makes the Dead Sea Scrolls available to the public for the first time.
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by macliam » Thu Sep 22 2022 6:15pm
22nd September 1913
12,000 Ulster Volunteers parade in Belfast threatening armed resistance to the Home Rule Bill passed by the UK Parliament.
The food ship "The Hare" arrives at Dublin port, bringing forty tons of food raised by British trade unionists to feed those affected by the Dublin Lockout.
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by Richard Frost » Fri Sep 23 2022 9:08am
23 September
1122 The Concordat of Worms is agreed between Pope Calixtus II and Holy Roman Emperor Henry V. The treaty settled a dispute between church and state about the power to appoint bishops.
1983 Gulf Air Flight 771 from Karachi, Pakistan, to Abu Dhabi, UAE, bombed; all 117 aboard die.
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by macliam » Sat Sep 24 2022 1:41pm
24 September
1661 - One of the oddest entries ever.... "Faithful Tadpole was admitted as a clerical vicar choral of Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin on this day". Son of John Tadpole Sr. and brother of John Tadpole Jr., all three formed part of the choir reassembled after the restoration, it having been suppressed during the commonweath.
1880 - The birth of a common term. A Co.Mayo land agent wrote in The Times: "...people collect in crowds upon my farm and order off all my workmen. The shopkeepers have been warned to stop all supplies to my house. My farm is public property, I can get no workmen to do anything...." The land-agent who was sent to this 'moral Coventry.' was Captain Charles Boycott.
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by Richard Frost » Mon Sep 26 2022 8:32am
1955 The New York Stock Exchange suffers a $44 million loss.
1969 The Beatles last album, Abbey Road, is released.
1984 The UK agrees to transfer sovereignty of Hong Kong to the People’s Republic of China.
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by Richard Frost » Tue Sep 27 2022 8:19am
Norman Conquest begun
On this day in 1066, after being delayed by bad weather, William, duke of Normandy, embarked his army and set sail for the south eastern coast of England in what would be known in history as the Norman Conquest.
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by macliam » Tue Sep 27 2022 10:36am
September 27 1662 - An "act for encouraging Protestant strangers and others to inhabit and plant in the kingdom of Ireland" is passed in the Dublin Parliament under Charles II. This was an "official" invitation after centuries of earlier plantations, aimed firstly at securing the Crown's dominance and secondly at suppressing the native Irish and Catholic populations.
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by Richard Frost » Wed Sep 28 2022 8:17am
28 September 1968
The Beatles’ single Hey Jude goes to the top of the US Billboard chart and stays there for nine consecutive weeks, from 28 September to 23 November. It was the longest time spent by a Beatles single at number one, and also set a record at the time for the longest US number one.
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