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Nation, Carry Amelia Moore (1846–1911)

US Temperance Movement crusader. Protesting against Kansas state's flagrant disregard for the prohibition law, she marched into illegal saloons with a hatchet, lecturing the patrons on the abuses of alcohol and smashing bottles and bar.

Born in Kentucky, she briefly worked as a teacher in Missouri. After the death of her alcoholic first husband, she became the country's most outspoken prohibitionist. She circulated Smasher's Mail as part of her campaign.

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11 July 1948

Britain’s railways are nationalised.

2 January 1980

British steel workers call a national strike for the first time in more than fifty years in an attempt to increase their pay.

3 January 1976
In Britain, the National Exhibition Centre (NEC) near Birmingham in the West Midlands opens.

4 January 1936

Billboard Magazine publishes the first popular music chart, with rankings based on national sales figures.

5 January 1971
Birth of 'One Day' international cricket - England v. Australia in Melbourne - after the planned five-day Test Match is abandoned because of rain.

6 January 1994
American figure-skater Nancy Kerrigan is attacked by a man wielding a crowbar. It later transpires that her rival for the American National Figure Skating Championships and Olympics, Tonya Harding, was implicated in the attack.

8 January 1961

A national referendum in France votes in favour of granting independence to Algeria.

10 January 1991

United Nations Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar sets off for Baghdad in a final diplomatic effort to avoid war with Iraq.

11 January 1945

A truce is negotiated between the British-backed Democratic National Army and the communist rebel National Liberation Front during the Greek Civil War.

13 January 1950

The Soviet Ambassador to the United Nations, Jacob Malik, storms out of a meeting of the UN Security Council, as a Soviet proposal to expel the Chinese Nationalist representative is rejected. Malik announces his intention to boycott future meetings of the Council.

15 January 1997
In Britain, Diana, Princess of Wales is criticised for becoming embroiled in international politics by calling for a ban on the production and sale of landmines during her four-day visit to Angola.

19 January 1946

The Charter for the International Military Tribunal for the Far East is proclaimed. The charter creates the legal foundations for the "Tokyo trails", the trials of Japanese war criminals.

20 January 1996

Yasser Arafat is elected president of the Palestinian National Council

21 January 1992

The United Nations orders Libya to hand over the intelligence agents accused of the Lockerbie and French airliner bombings.

24 January 1986

In London, Newspaper workers launch a strike against Rupert Murdoch's News International for wanting to move newspaper production away from Fleet Street. The action comes to be known as the Wapping dispute.

25 January 1999

Six members of the International Olympics Committee face expulsion as they are accused of accepting bribes.

26 January 1980

In response to the Soviet military invasion of Afghanistan and at the request of President Carter, the US Olympic Committee votes to ask the International Olympic Committee to cancel or move the Moscow Olympics.

1 February 1946
Norwegian politician Trygve Lie becomes the first United Nations Secretary General.

2 February 1990
South African President F.W. De Klerk lifts the Government ban on the African National Congress.

3 February 1989
In South Africa, after suffering a stroke, P.W. Botha resigns as leader of the National Party.

4 February 1988
Against the advice of their union - The National Union of Seamen - thousands of British seamen continue their strike action, closing many ports in Britain.

8 February 1915
In Los Angeles, director D.W. Griffth’s film 'Birth of a Nation' premieres. It is the first feature length film in American history.

10 February 1989
Ronald H. Brown is elected chairman of the Democratic Party National Committee. He was the first African American to hold the top position in a major political party in the US.

12 February 2002

The trial of former President of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milosevic begins at the United Nations war crimes tribunal in The Hague.

13 February 1920

The League of Nations recognises the perpetual neutrality of Switzerland.

14 February 1945

Chile, Ecuador, Paraguay and Peru join the United Nations.

15 February 1976

A national referendum endorses the 1976 Constitution of Cuba.

16 February 1987

In Israel, John Demjanjuk, who was accused of being a Nazi guard dubbed ‘Ivan the Terrible’ in the Treblinka extermination camp, goes on trail in Jerusalem.

20 February 2005

In a national referendum Spain votes in favour of endorsing the European Union Constitution.

21 February 1970

The Vietnam War: American National Security Advisor, Henry Kissinger begins secret peace talks with North Vietnamese representative Le Duc Tho, in Paris.

23 February 1861

In America, fearing an assassination attempt in Baltimore, president-elect Abraham Lincoln arrives secretly in Washington.

26 February 2006

In Jamaica, Portia Simpson Miller is elected leader of the governing People's National Party. She becomes the countries first female leader.

2 March 1919
In the Soviet Union, the first Communist International (Comintern) meets in Moscow.

3 March 2002
Switzerland votes in favour of joining the United Nations.

4 March 1824
Formation of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.

5 March 2006
Thousands of protesters take to the streets of Bangkok to demand the resignation of Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra.

12 March 2004
President of South Korea, Roh Moo-hyun, is impeached by the national assembly.

16 March 1976
In Britain, Harold Wilson announces his resignation as Prime Minister.

18 March 1950
The Belgian government collapses, in light of a national referendum which voted in favour of the return from exile of King Leopold III.

19 March 1982
A group of Argentines land at the British colony of the Falkland Islands and plant their nation's flag.

25 March 1975
2,000 members of the National Front, an extreme right-wing movement, march through the streets of London protesting against Britain establishing closer ties with Europe.

27 March 1871
The first international rugby union game is played between England and Scotland at Raeburn Place, Edinburgh, with Scotland emerge victorious.

30 March 1981
American President Ronald Reagan is shot by John Hinckley in Washington. Reagan survives the assassination attempt and makes a full recovery.

31 March 1492
In Spain, a royal edict is issued by the nation's Catholic rulers declaring that all Jews who refuse to convert to Christianity will be expelled from the country.

2 April 1977
In England, Red Rum wins the Grand National for the third time

3 April 1993
In England, the Grand National ends in farce and is declared a void as the majority of the riders run the race failing to realise that a false start had occurred.

6 April 1989
The British government announces plans to end the National Dock Labour Scheme, which had effectively given dockers “a job for life.”

7 April 1953
Dag Hammarskjold is elected secretary-general of the United Nations.

11 April 1951
General Douglas MacArthur is dismissed by President Truman as commander of the United Nations and US forces in the Far East after disagreements over American policy in Korea.

20 April 1953
During the Korean War, one hundred United Nations prisoners are freed under Operation “Little Switch.”

21 April 2005
John Negroponte is sworn as the first United States Director of National Intelligence.

23 April 1979
In England, police and anti National Front demonstrators clash in Southall, London. One man is killed in the violent exchange which occurred.

24 April 1955
The Bandung Conference, a meeting of 29 non-aligned nations in Asia and Africa, comes to an end.

25 April 1974
The Carnation Revolution in Portugal restores democracy to the country.

29 April 1946
Tojo Hideki, the war time Prime Minister of Japan, is indicted for war crimes by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East.

30 April 1999
Cambodia joins the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN).

1 May 1961
Fidel Castro proclaims that Cuba is a Socialist nation and bans elections.

3 May 1946
The International Military Tribunal for the Far East begins in Tokyo.

4 May 1970
The Vietnam War: at Kent State University in Ohio, America 4 students are killed by the National Guard as they try to quell a anti-Vietnam War protest.

5 May 1955
The world-famous American virologist, Dr Jonas Salk, witnesses a ceremonial polio vaccination in London, England.

9 May 1998
Sex change singer Dana International wins the Eurovision Song Contest for Israel with the song 'Diva'.

10 May 1824
National Gallery opens to the public in London, England.

11 May 1949
Israel joins the United Nations.

12 May 1937
The coronation of King George VI of England takes place at Westminster Abbey in London.

14 May 1995
The Dalai Lama, proclaims six-year-old Gedhun Choekyi Nyima as the eleventh reincarnation of the Panchen Lama.

15 May 1972
In America, the Governor of Alabama, George Wallace, is shot and crippled for life in an assassination attempt during his Presidential Campaign in Maryland.

18 May 1848
Founded as a result of the 1848 revolutions, the Frankfurt Parliament (German National Assembly) convenes for the first time.

19 May 1986
South African troops launch raids in Zambia, Zimbabwe and Botswana to destroy bases which were allegedly supporting the anti-apartheid African National Congress organisation.

21 May 1904
Football's international governing body, FIFA, is established in Paris.

23 May 2004
In Paris, part of the roof of Charles De Gaulle International Airport collapses, killing four people.

24 May 1958
Global news agency United Press International is formed.

25 May 1994
Camelot wins the contract to run Britain's first national lottery.

27 May 1999
Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic is indicted for war crimes by The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague.

29 May 2005
A national referendum in France rejects ratification of the European Union Constitution.

6 June 1975
In Britain’s first nationwide referendum the country votes in favour of maintaining membership of the European Economic Community.

8 June 1986
Former United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim is elected president of Austria.

9 June 1970
King Hussein of Jordan survives an assassination attempt. A gunman fired at his car but only injured the driver.

10 June 1980
In South Africa, the African National Congress releases a statement from its imprisoned leader Nelson Mandela calling upon anti-apartheid supporters to fight for the cause.

14 June 1970
Manchester United footballer Bobby Charlton plays his 106th and last international match for England against West Germany in the World Cup in Mexico.

16 June 1982
England international Bryan Robson scores a goal against France in Bilbao after just 27 seconds of the game - the quickest World Cup goal in history until this record was broken in the 2002 World Cup.

17 June 1972
Five men are arrested for breaking into the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate complex in Washington D.C., America.

19 June 1856
In Philadelphia, the first national convention of the Republican Party comes to an end.

20 June 1990
British Prime Minister John Major proposes the “hard Ecu”, a parallel European currency to circulate alongside existing national currencies.

22 June 1911
The coronation of George V of England and Queen Mary takes place in London.

23 June 1894
The International Olympic Committee is established in Switzerland.

24 June 1968
Rail services across Britain are thrown into chaos as the National Union of Railwaymen refuse to work overtime as they seek a better pay deal.

25 June 1967
The Beatles record “All You Need Is Love” in front of an international television audience.

26 June 2006
In Italy a nationwide referendum votes against making major changes to the country’s constitution.

27 June 1986
The International Court of Justice finds the U.S. guilty of supporting Contra rebels in Nicaragua.

30 June 1969
The Nigerian government prevents international aid from getting to the breakaway state Biafra.

1 July 2004
Cassini-Huygens, the international mission to Saturn, goes into orbit around the planet beaming back pictures of Saturn’s rings.

4 July 2006
In America, the Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on a mission to the International Space Station.

7 July 1991
U.S. President Ronald Reagan nominates Sandra Day O’Conner to be the first woman to sit in the Supreme Court. Her nomination is ratified in September.

8 July 2005
In Gleneagles, Scotland, G8 leaders agree to significantly increase aid to developing countries and to cancel the debt of the 18 poorest nations in Africa.

9 July 1991
The International Olympic Committee lifts its 21 year old boycott of South Africa.

11 July 1997
A Cubana de Aviacion plane, the national airline of Cuba, crashes into the Caribbean Sea off the south eastern coast of Cuba killing 44 people.

13 July 1960
In America, John F Kennedy wins the Democratic Party’s nomination to run for the Presidency.

14 July 2002
French President Jacques Chirac survives an assassination attempt during Bastille Day celebrations in Paris.

15 July 1974
On the island of Cyprus, Archbishop Makarios is overthrown in a coup led by Greek officers in the National Guard. Nikos Sampson, a former EOKA leader, is appointed President.

16 July 1970
In Britain, Prime Minister Edward Heath declares a state of emergency following the start of a national dock strike - the first state of emergency issued in Britain since 1926.

19 July 1996
The Bosnian Serb President, Radovan Karadzic, agreed to resign after an arrest warrant was issued for him by the International War Crimes Tribunal.

20 July 1944
World War II: German Fuhrer Adolf Hitler survives an assassination attempt by German staff officer Count Claus Schenk Von Stauffenberg who explodes a bomb inside Hitler's headquarters at Rastenberg in East Prussia. Stauffenberg and his co-conspirators are rounded up and executed.

22 July 1944
In Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, America, 44 countries agree to the creation of a World Bank and International Monetary Fund.

23 July 1982
The International Whaling Commission votes for a total ban on commercial whaling from 1985.

26 July 1956
One month after coming to power Egyptian President Gamal Nasser nationalises the Suez Canal.

27 July 2000
In Britain, the Labour government publishes a 10 year blueprint for the National Health Service in what many regarded as the most ambitious and radical reform to the service since its inception in 1948.

28 July 1972
Dockers in Britain begin a national strike.

29 July 2004
U.S. Senator John F. Kerry accepts the Democratic nomination for President at the Democratic National Convention in Boston, Massachusetts.

1 August 1975
The United States, the Soviet Union, Canada and every European nation (except Albania) sign the Helsinki Final Act at the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe.

2 August 2005
In Canada, an Air France Flight skids off the runway and crashes during the course of landing at Toronto Pearson International Airport. Miraculously nobody is killed.

3 August 1916
Sir Roger Casement, Irish nationalist, is hanged in London for treason following his attempts to induce Germany to support the cause of Irish independence.

7 August 2003
West African peacekeepers start to patrol the wart torn Liberian capital Monrovia following a statement issued by the country's President, Charles Taylor, announcing his resignation.

8 August 1988
In Burma, the 8888 Uprising begins - a national movement for democracy. It is later brutally suppressed in a military coup in September.

9 August 1974
U.S. Vice President Gerald Ford is sworn in as President following the resignation of Richard Nixon over the Watergate Affair.

10 August 1964
A United Nations ceasefire comes into force in Cyprus temporarily ending the conflict between Greek and Turkish Cypriots.

13 August 1977
In London, more than 200 people are arrested during a National Front rally in Lewisham.

15 August 1994
The French authorities announce the capture of the international terrorist known as Carlos the Jackal - real name Ilich Ramirez Sanchez.

19 August 2003
The Iraq War: The UN’s chief envoy to Iraq, Sergio Vieira de Mello and 17 other people are killed when a bomb explodes at the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad.

20 August 1982
During the Lebanese Civil War, a multinational force including 800 U.S. Marines lands in Beirut to oversee the Palestinian withdrawal from Lebanon.

21 August 1961
Jomo Kenyatta, leader of the Kenyan independence movement, is released by British colonial authorities after nearly nine years of imprisonment and detention. Two years later, Kenya achieved independence and Kenyatta became prime minister. Once portrayed as a menacing symbol of African nationalism, he brought stability to the country and defended Western interests during his 15 years as Kenyan leader.

23 August 1793
France introduces national conscription, calling all unmarried men aged 18-25 to join the country’s armed forces.

25 August 1912
The Chinese Nationalist party, the Kuomintang, is established.

26 August 1975
Negotiations to bring about a ceasefire in Rhodesia between the government and the African National Council collapse.

27 August 1928
The Kellogg-Briand Pact is signed by an eventual 62 countries. The pact was supposed to outlaw the use of war as a national policy.

29 August 1968
In Chicago, the Democratic National Convention nominates Vice President Hubert Humphrey for the presidency.

30 August 2001
The former president of Yugoslav Slobodan Milosevic is charged with genocide by the International War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague.

1 September 1873
Cetshwayo becomes the new king of the Zulu nation.

2 September 1998
A United Nations court finds Jean-Paul Akayesu, the former mayor of a small town in Rwanda, guilty of nine counts of genocide, the first conviction of this kind since the 1948 law banning genocide was introduced.

3 September 1954
The National Trust for Scotland buys the Fair Isle famous for its wildlife.

4 September 1957
In America, Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus uses the National Guard to prevent nine African American students from entering Central High School in Little Rock.

5 September 1975
In Sacramento, U.S. President Gerald Ford survives an assassination attempt by Lynette Fromme, a follower of the jailed cult leader Charles Manson.

8 September 1986
Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet survives an assassination attempt when left-wing opponents ambush his motorcade.

9 September 2006
The NASA Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched successfully on mission STS-115 to the International Space Station.

10 September 1989
Hungary gives permission for thousands of East German refugees to leave Hungary for West Germany. It was the first time one of the Warsaw Pact nations broke from the practice of blocking citizens of the communist nations from going to the West.

11 September 1297
Scottish nationalist William Wallace defeats the English at the Battle of Stirling Bridge in Scotland.

12 September 1997
In a national referendum on devolution, the people of Scotland vote ‘Yes’ to creating their own Parliament with tax raising powers.

14 September 2003
In a national referendum in Sweden, the country votes not to join the Euro.

15 September 1985
In golf, the European team captained by Tony Jacklin end 28 years of American domination by winning the Ryder Cup.

17 September 1993

In England, the British National Party wins its first council seat in East London.

18 September 1960
In America, Fidel Castro arrives in New York City as the head of the Cuban delegation to the United Nations.

20 September 2003
In a national referendum, Latvia votes in favour of joining the European Union.

21 September 1942
The Second World War: The U.S. B-29 Superfortress makes its debut flight in Seattle, it is the largest bomber used in the war by any nation.

22 September 1975
U.S. President Gerald Ford survives an assassination attempt when he is shot at by Sarah Jane Moore. Ford had already survived one attempt on his life that month when Lynette Fromme also tried to kill him.

23 September 1987
A court in Australia lifts the ban on publication of Peter Wright’s autobiography Spy Catcher. The British government had sought an injunction against the former senior MI5 officer on grounds of national security.

24 September 1890
In America, Mormon leaders reluctantly issue the Mormon Manifesto in which they command all Latter-day Saints to uphold the anti-polygamy laws of the nation.

25 September 1972
In a national referendum Norway votes against joining the European Union.

27 September 1964

In America, the Warren Commission report on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy is released. The report concludes that there was no conspiracy behind Kennedy’s death and that Lee Harvey Oswald was the assassin.

28 September 1994
852 people are killed when a car and passenger ferry, MS Estonia, sink in the Baltic Sea due to a combination of design faults in the vessel and the incompetence of the crew.

1 October 1946
12 high-ranking Nazis, including Hermann Goering and Joachim von Ribbentrop, are sentenced to death by the International War Crimes Tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany.

4 October 1965
Pope Paul VI becomes the first Pope to visit the U.S.A. when he addresses the United Nations in New York.

5 October 1969
In Britain, BBC TV screens the first Monty Python’s Flying Circus comedy programme which soon becomes an international success.

6 October 1962
French singer and national icon, Edith Piaf, gets married.

12 October 1984
British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher escapes an assassination attempt when an IRA bomb explodes in the Grand Hotel, Brighton which is being used by delegates of the Conservative Party Conference. Five people are killed.

15 October 2005
The Iraqi people vote in a national referendum on whether to accept a new constitution. 10 days later after all the votes have been counted the new constitution is passed.

16 October 1934
The embattled Chinese communists break through Nationalist enemy lines and begin an epic flight from their encircled headquarters in southwest China, known as Long March.

17 October 1968
During a medal ceremony for the 200 metres at the Mexico Olympics, American athletes, Tommie Smith and John Carlos, stage a silent protest against racial discrimination in the U.S. The two sprinters bowed their heads and raised one arm in the air with their hand, covered in a black glove, clenched in a fist.

19 October 2004
The Iraq War: A British aid worker, Margaret Hassan, who was married to an Iraqi national, is kidnapped. Despite widespread international condemnation and protests in Iraq her kidnappers eventually kill her.

21 October 1952
In Kenya, nationalist leader Jomo Kenyatta is arrested as a state of emergency is declared in the British colony.

23 October 1989
President Mátyás Szűrös proclaims the Hungarian Republic, ending Soviet domination of the country.