
1859
Sep 9
1859 • Austro-Sardinian War – Battle of Magenta: The French and Sardinians defeat the Austrians. |
1887
Feb 17
Age: 27y
birth of childJerome Philip Fogwell |
1887 • Bloody Sunday: Police in London clash with radical and Irish nationalist protesters. |
1938
Jun 22
Age: 78y
1938 • Winston Churchill, still believing France and Britain mean to honor their promises to defend Czechoslovakia against Nazi aggression, suggests in a personal note to Neville Chamberlain that His Majesty's Government may want to set up a broad international alliance including the United States (specifically mentioning U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt as possibly receptive to the idea) and the Soviet Union. |