Calendar
January
Vietnamese Invasion of Cambodia (7 January 1979)
Haiti Earthquake 2010 (12 January 2010)
Costa Concordia Disaster (13th January 2012)
Day of the Freedom Defenders (13 January 1991)
Ivan the Terrible (16th Jan 1547)
The Execution of King Louis 16th/ XVI (21st January 1793)
Birth of Liechtenstein (23 January 1719)
SQL Slammer Worm (25th January 2003)
Bloody Sunday 1972 (30th January 1972)
February
Japanese Foundation Day (11 Feb)
Abraham Lincoln (born on 12th February 1809)
Assassination of Olof Palme (28th February 1986)
Start of the Waco Siege (28th February 1993)
March
Dr Seuss (born 2nd March 1904)
BBC Television Centre Bombing 2001 (4th March 2001)
Ghanaian Independence (6 March 1957)
Japanese Earthquake and Tsunami 2011 (11 March 2011, Tohoku)
Tsar Alexander II Assassination (13 March 1881)
Dunblane Massacre (13 March 1996)
St Gertrude of Nivelles' feast day (17 March)
Brussels and Westminster attacks (22 March 2016 and 2017)
April
World Autism Day (2nd April)
Sinking of the Titanic (15 April 1912)
Oklahoma City Bombing (19 April 1995)
History of 420 (20th April)
Battle of San Jacinto (21st April 1836
St George's Day (23rd April)
ANZAC Day (25th April)
Nepalese Earthquake and Avalanche (25th April 2015)
Killing of Benito Mussolini (28th April 1945)
Fall of Saigon (30th April 1975)
May
Cinco de Mayo (5th May 1862)
Hindenberg disaster (7 May 1937)
Florence Nightingale born in Florence, Italy (12 May 1820) (International Nurses Day)
Siege of Malta begins (18 May 1565)
Montenegrin Independence (21st May 2006)
Peruvian Clown Day (25th May)
Sinking of the Bismarck (27 May 1941)
Harambe dies (28 May 2016)
Disney animators go on strike (29th May 1941)
World No Tobacco Day (31st May)
June
D-Day Invasion in Normandy (6 June 1944)
Pulse Nightclub Shooting (12 June 2016)
Icelandic independence (18 June 1944)
The Grand Duke of Luxembourg's Official Birthday (23rd June)
The first appearance of Gilbert Baker's Gay Pride Rainbow flag at San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade (25th June 1978)
July
The Dominion of Canada is formed much to the dismay of Indigenous Canadians (1st July 1867)
Assassination of James A. Garfield (2nd July 1881)
The Sinking of the Carpathia (17 July 1918)
Apollo 11 Moon Landing (20 July 1969)
August
Birth of Barack Obama (4 August 1961)
Battle of Osowiec Fortress/ Attack of the Dead Men (6 August 1915)
Watergate (8 August 1974)
Indian Independence (15 August 1947)
Omagh Bombing (15 August 1998)
Death of Elvis Presley (16 August 1977)
August Coup begins (19 August 1991)
Birth of Princess Margaret (21 Aug 1930)
Death of Irish Leader Michael Collins (22 August 1922)
The Baltic Way (23 August 1989)
Ukrainian Independence Day (24 August 1991)
Destruction of the Sarajevo Library (25 August 1992)
Assassination of Lord Mountbatten (27 August 1979)
September
Munich Massacre (5-6 September 1972)
Brazilian Independence (7 September 1822)
September 11 Attacks (11 Sept 2001)
Robert Walpole moves into 10 Downing Street (22 Sept 1735)
The Sinking of the MS Estonia (28 September 1994)
October
Feast of St. Francis of Assisi (4 October)
Assassination of Anna Politkovskaya (7 Oct 2006)
Croatian Independence Day (8 Oct 1991)
Leif Erikson Day (9th October)
Vajont Dam Rockslide (9 Oct 1963)
Complete rescue of Trapped Chilean Miners (13 Oct 2010)
Aberfan Disaster (21 Oct 1966)
The Delorean (Back To The Future Day) (21 October)
November
Mexican Day of the Dead (Día de los Muertos) (2nd November)
Guy Fawkes Night (5th November)
Fall of the Berlin Wall (9th November 1989)
Kristallnacht (9th November 1938)
Feast day of St Andrew Avellino, the Patron Saint of Strokes (10th November)
Veterans Day (11 November)
Polish Independence Day (11 November 1918)
The Burning of Atlanta (15 November 1864)
Jonestown Massacre (18 November 1978)
HMHS Britannic sinking (21 Nov 1916)
Bloody Sunday 1920 (21 Nov 1920)
December
St Nicholas (6 December)
Finnish Independence (6 Dec 1917)
Handover of Macau (20 Dec 1999)
Romanian Revolution (21 Dec 1989)
Lockerbie Air Disaster (21 Dec 1988)
Birth of Northern Ireland (23rd Dec 1920)
1914 Christmas Truce (24 Dec 1914)
Dissolution of the Soviet Union (26 Dec 1991)
