Anniversaries 2025

JANUARY

  

11th to 12th  January 1935  Amelia Earhart flies solo across the Atlantic Ocean, from Hawaii to California.  https://reuters.screenocean.com/collections/837

12th January 2010  Haiti earthquake   

 

FEBRUARY

 27th February 1995  2015 - Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov killed in Moscow.

 

MARCH

25th March 1975  King Faisal of Saudi Arabia shot  

26th March 2000 Putin elected president of Russia and inaugurated on 7th May 2000

 

APRIL

20th April 1960  Brasilia becomes new capital of Brazil    BGY503250322  BGY504050126  BGY503250166  BGY503090041 BGY503250401

20th April 2010  Deepwater Horizon explosion      

30th April 1975  Fall of Saigon     https://reuters.screenocean.com/record/847595 

 

MAY

19th May 1935  T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) dies after a motorcycle accident 

 

JUNE

25th June 1950 Korean War begins  

 

JULY

7th July 2005 London bombings  

 

AUGUST

21st August 1940  Trotsky assassinated   OR 20th

 

27th August 1975  Haile Selassie dies    

 

SEPTEMBER 

 

 

OCTOBER

13th October 2010  Last Chilean miner brought to the surface 

NOVEMBER

2nd November 1950  Death of George Bernard Shaw

20th November 1975 Death of General Francisco Franco of Spain  

 

DECEMBER