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Mass

In Christianity, the celebration of the Eucharist.


From the Hutchinson Encyclopedia of World History. © Research Machines plc [2006] All Rights Reserved, Helicon Publishing is a division of Research Machines.
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2 January 1960

Massachusetts Senator, John F. Kennedy announces his candidacy for the Democratic Presidential nomination.

6 January 1971

A further four US Army officers have charges dropped against them with regard to the massacre of Vietnamese civilians at My Lai. Lieutenant William Calley will be the only soldier ever convicted for the massacre.

9 January 1905

According to the Julian calendar, which was in use at the time, Russian workers stage a march on the Winter Palace, which ends in a massacre of the workers, signalling the beginning of 1905 Russian Revolution. The day came to be known as 'Bloody Sunday'.

13 January 1874

A British army doctor reaches the British sentry post at Jalalabad, Afghanistan, the only survivor of a 16,000-strong Anglo-Indian expeditionary force that was massacred during its retreat from Kabul.

17 January 1995
A massive earthquake hits Japan. The city of Kobe is worst hit, with hundreds of people feared dead. 
20 January 1942

World War II: The Wannsee Conference sets the basis for the Nazi’s "final solution" – effectively instigating the mass industrial slaughter of Jews.

26 January 2001

A massive earthquake hits western India and parts of Pakistan. Thousands of people are killed.

5 February 2003
US secretary of state Colin Powell addresses the UN Security Council, putting forward America’s case that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction.
9 February 1996
In England, the IRA ends its ceasefire with a massive bomb at London's Canary Wharf, killing two people.
10 February 1983
In England, police launch a mass murder investigation after discovering the remains of 16 people in drains, in London. Later in 1983, Dennis Andrew Nilsen was convicted and sentenced to life in prison for the crimes. 
13 February 1692

Massacre of Glencoe: Roughly 78 Macdonalds in Scotland re killed for not pledging allegiance to King William of Orange

14 February 1929

St. Valentine's Day Massacre: Seven gangster rivals of Al Capone are murdered in Chicago, Illinois.

15 February 1898

A massive explosion sinks the American battleship USS Maine in Cuba's Havana harbour. It is not known how the explosion occurred, 260 people died.

25 February 1994

Jewish settler Meir Kahane, shoots dead between 30 to 50 Arabs in the Hebron mosque massacre.

27 February 1973

Sioux Native Americans, led by members of the American Indian Movement (AIM), occupy Wounded Knee, the site of the infamous 1890 massacre of 300 Sioux by the U.S. Seventh Cavalry.

28 February 1997

In North Hollywood, U.S.A bank robbers Larry Eugene Phillips Jr, and Emil Dechebal Matasareanu start a mass shootout with Los Angeles Police after robbing a bank. Both robbers are killed.

4 March 2001
The dissent republican group, the Real IRA, explode a massive car bomb outside the BBC Television Centre in London.
5 March 1940
The Second World War: The Soviet politburo signs an order for the execution of thousands of Polish citizens, known as the Katyn massacre.
14 March 2005
Mass protests take place on the streets of Beirut, Lebanon against Syrian control of the Lebanese government.
16 March 1190
In England, 150 Jews are massacred at York Castle.
17 March 1906
A massive earthquake and series of after shocks rock Taiwan, killing 1.200 people.
22 March 1622
In America, 347 English settlers in Jamestown, Virginia are killed by Algonquian Indians in what is known as the Jamestown massacre.
26 March 1998
In Algeria, 59 people are massacred by fifteen men wielding axes and knives, in what is known as the Oued Bouaicha massacre.
28 March 2005
A massive earthquake hits the Indonesian Island of Sumatra.
29 March 1971
The Vietnam War: In America, Lieutenant William Calley is found guilty of murder at a court martial for his part in the My Lai massacre in South Vietnam.
10 April 1972
A massive earthquake hits the south of Iran, killing 4,000 people.
13 April 1990

The Soviet government officially accepts blame for the Katyn Massacre, an incident that occurred during the Second World War, when nearly 5,000 Polish military officers were murdered and buried in mass graves in the Katyn Forest.

14 April 1968
In West Germany, a mass student protest ends in violent clashes with the police. The protests were sparked by the killing of student leader Rudi Dutschke.
19 April 1902
A massive earthquake hits western Guatemala, killing more 2,000 people.
23 April 1997
42 people are killed in the Omaria massacre in the Algerian village of Omaria, south of Algiers.
29 April 1991
A massive cyclone hits Bangladesh killing more than 135,000 people.
6 May 1976
A massive earthquake rocks north-east Italy, killing at least 60 people.
8 May 1945
Thousands of Algerians are massacred by French troops at Setif, in northern Algeria.
13 May 2005
In Andijan, Uzbekistan government troops seal off the town firing upon crowds of protesters committing an alleged massacre.
17 May 2004
Massachusetts becomes the first American state to legally hold a same-sex marriage.
27 May 2006
More than 3,000 people are killed when a massive earthquake strikes the Indonesian island of Java.
7 June 1692
A massive earthquake devastates the infamous pirate town of Port Royal in Jamaica, killing thousands of people.
10 June 1692
In America, Bridget Bishop becomes the first of the ‘Salem Witches’ to be hanged - wrongly accused of witchcraft by a hysterical group of young girls in an isolated Puritan community in Massachusetts.
12 June 1978
American mass murderer David Berkowitz is sentenced to 25 years in prison, the maximum penalty allowed, with a recommendation that he is never released.
15 June 1996
The IRA explodes a massive bomb in the centre of a busy shopping centre in Manchester, England.
16 June 1998
Judges in America uphold the decision to convict British au pair Louise Woodward of manslaughter and the passing of a reduced sentence - the number of days already spent in custody awaiting trial for the killing of Matthew Eappen - the young boy left in her care in Massachussets.
17 June 1775
American War of Independence: The Battle of Bunker Hill begins north of Boston, Massachussets, which ends in victory for the British.
21 June 1990
A massive earthquake near the Caspian Sea in Iran kills more than 50,000 people and injures another 135,000 people.
24 June 1675
In colonial New England, King Philip’s War begins when a band of Wampanoag warriors raid the border settlement of Swansee, Massachusetts and massacre the English colonists there.
25 June 2001
In England, the town of Burnley recovers from a weekend of mass rioting between white and Asian youths.
26 June 1948
In response to the Soviet blockade of West Berlin the United States begins a massive airlift of food, water and medicine to the citizens of the besieged city.
29 June 1989
America passes sanctions against China in response to the Tiananmen Square massacre.
3 July 1775
During the American Revolution, General George Washington takes command of the Continental Army at Cambridge, Massachusetts.
5 July 2000
A mass airlift of Jackass penguins from Dassen Island, 50 miles north of Cape Town, South Africa is carried out following an oil slick from a Panamanian tanker.
11 July 1656
Ann Austin and Mary Fisher, two Englishwomen, become the first Quakers to immigrate to the American colonies, arriving in a ship at Boston in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
13 July 1977
Police arrest more than 4,000 looters during a massive blackout caused by a power failure in the city of New York, America.
16 July 1999
In America, John F Kennedy Jr - son of assassinated President John Kennedy - his wife and her sister, are killed in a plane crash off the Massachusetts resort island of Martha's Vineyard.
18 July 1984
On a Wednesday in America, a gunman massacres 20 people at a MacDonalds' restaurant in California - blaming it on the fact that 'I don't like Mondays'.
26 July 1963
A massive earthquake hits the Yugoslavian city of Skopje killing more than 1000 people.
29 July 2004
U.S. Senator John F. Kerry accepts the Democratic nomination for President at the Democratic National Convention in Boston, Massachusetts.
9 August 1483
In Italy, the first mass takes place at the Sistine Chapel.
14 August 2003
Massive power cuts hit the eastern United States and Canada causing chaos.
16 August 1819
British militia are used to break up a mass meeting demanding reform of Parliament at St Peter's Field, Manchester. At least 11 protestors are killed - the incident becomes known as the Peterloo Massacre.
21 August 2005
Pope Benedict XVI ends World Youth Day in Cologne, Germany by holding Mass in front of 800,000 people.
24 August 1572
The St Bartholomew’s Day massacre is ordered by Charles IX - the killing of thousands of French Huguenots.
2 September 1792
During the French Revolution, the September Massacres begin – violent mobs attack mainly Catholic targets throughout France. 
3 September 1984
A massive storm batters the south of the Philippines, when it finishes 4,353 are killed. 
5 September 1969
The Vietnam War: Lieutenant Calley, of the U.S. Army, is charged with murder with regard to massacre of 109 South Vietnamese civilians by U.S. troops under his command at My Lai in Vietnam.
11 September
English troops, commanded by Oliver Cromwell, besiege Drogheda in Ireland. When the town is finally captured, most of the inhabitants are massacred.
18 September 1634
Anne Hutchinson, an Englishwoman who would become an outspoken religious thinker in the American colonies, arrives at the Massachusetts Bay Colony with her family.
29 September 1941
The Second World War: The Babi Yar massacre of nearly 34,000 Jewish men, women and children carried out the SS begins on the outskirts of Kiev in the Nazi-occupied Ukraine.
2 October 1968
Days before the Olympic Games were due to begin in Mexico City, students and the military clash in the capital city. The students were protesting for democratic reform but the government quickly suppressed the demonstration and in what is thought to have been a massacre killed 200 - 300 of the protesters.   
5 October 1994
In Switzerland, 48 members of the Order of the Solar Temple sect commit mass suicide.
8 October 2005
A massive earthquake hits Pakistan, northern Indian and Afghanistan. It is thought that around 73,000 people are killed as a result of the quake. 
9 October 1963
A landslide in northern Italy kills more than 2,000 people when it causes a sudden and massive wave of water to overwhelm a dam.
16 October 1996

British Home Secretary Michael Howard announces stringent new gun controls following the mass shooting of children at a school in Dunblane, Scotland.

17 October 1961
Paris police massacre more than 200 Algerians marching in the city in support of peace talks to end their country’s war of independence against France.
27 October 1659
William Robinson and Marmaduke Stevenson, two Quakers who came from England in 1656 to escape religious persecution, are executed in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in America for their religious beliefs.
1 November 1755
A massive earthquake strikes Lisbon, Portugal killing approximately 50,000 people.
5 November 1978
Iranian Prime Minister Jaffer Sharif-Emami resigns following two day of mass rioting in the country.
7 November 1972
American President Richard Nixon is re-elected, scoring a massive electoral victory over Democratic Senator George McGovern.  
12 November 1969
The Vietnam War: American journalist Seymour Hersh breaks the story of the My Lai massacre.
13 November 1002
In England, King Ethelred orders the killing of all Danes in the country, known as the St. Brice's Day massacre.
17 November 1970
The Vietnam War: The court-martial hearing of 1st Lieutenant William Calley begins in America. Calley was to be the only U.S. soldier convicted with regard to the My Lai massacre in Vietnam. 
18 November 1421
In the Netherlands, a seawall at the Zuider Zee dike collapses, leading to mass flooding killing approximately 10,000 people.
26 November 1950
The Korean War: The start of the Battle of Chosin Reservoir, a massive counter-offensive by Chinese troops.
29 November 1864
U.S. cavalry troops, commanded by Colonel Chivington, massacre 150 unarmed Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians at Sand Creek in Colorado.
11 December 2005
One of Britain’s largest oil depots, the Buncefield oil depot in Hertfordshire, catches fire in a series of massive explosions spreading a cloud of smoke into the air visible across London. 
12 December 1969
16 people are killed in Milan, Italy, in what is known as the Piazza Fontana massacre, as a bomb planted the by the right wing group, Ordine Nuovo, explodes in a bank in Milan.
16 December 1920
One of the deadliest earthquakes in history hits the Gansu province of mid-western China, causing massive landslides and the deaths of an estimated 200,000 people.
17 December 1942
The Second World War: In the House of Commons British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden condemns the mass killing of Jews by Germany in Nazi occupied Europe.
18 December 1974
The British government announces that it will pay £42,000 in compensation to the families of those killed during the Bloody Sunday massacre in Northern Ireland.
23 December 1620
One week after the Mayflower arrived at Plymouth harbour in present-day Massachusetts, U.S.A. construction of the first permanent European settlement in New England begins.
26 December 2004
A massive tsunami strikes south Asia devastating the area and claiming the lives of more than 200,000 people in 13 countries.
30 December 1997
In Algeria, approximately 400 people are killed in the Wilaya of Relizane massacres.
 

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