22 May 1940: Former British Member of #Parliament with the Conservatives and Labour parties, Sir Oswald Mosley, is imprisoned for leading the #British Union of Fascists. He was interned under Defense Regulation 18b and released in 1943. #WW2#OTD#ad https://t.co/rh1zydUCJr
#OnThisDay (23 May 1706) An army of the Grand Alliance led by John Churchill, 1st Duke of #Marlborough, defeats a French army under Marshal François de Neufville, duc de Villeroy, at the Battle of #Ramillies during the War of the Spanish Succession.
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#OnThisDay (23 May 1793) A coalition of Austrian, Hanoverian, and British troops under Prince Josias of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld defeat a French army led by François Joseph Drouot de Lamarche near #Famars in France during the War of the First Coalition.
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#OnThisDay 1798 The 1798 Rebellion began with attacks on mail coaches by United Irishmen. Its aim was to establish an independent, sovereign, Irish republic. Wolfe Tone wanted,
‘to unite Catholic, Protestant & Dissenter under the common name of Irishman’.
#Ireland#History
#OnThisDay 1921 Lt Seymour Livingston Vincent disappeared in Cork & was never seen again. In 1924, the IRA sent a letter to the British Gov informing them that a British officer was buried in Lenihan’s Bog, Glenville, Cork. Later, he was reinterred in a church.
#Ireland#History
#OnThisDay 1941 Lt Lord Hugh Tristam de la Poer Beresford, from Waterford, died when the ship he was aboard, the HMS Kelly (captained by Louis Mountbatten) was bombed & sunk by the Luftwaffe during the Battle of Crete. He is buried in El Alamein, Egypt.
#Ireland#History#WW2
#OTD in 1954, Charles Albert Bender passed away at the age of 70. Known for the ice running through his veins in high-pressure situations, he also happened to be a successful landscape painter. Here's my painting of him from October 24, 1911, before Game 4 of the World Series.
22 May 1939: Italian Foreign Minister Galeazzo Ciano and Germany Foreign Minister Ribbentrop sign the German-Italian Friendship and Alliance Agreement, less than four months before the Germans invade Poland. #WW2#WWII#history#OnThisDay#ad https://t.co/piZU2MGEQe
22 May 1992: Johnny #Carson made his last appearance as host of The Tonight Show. He became host of Tonight, which later had its name changed to The Tonight #Show Starring Johnny Carson, on October 1, 1962. #HeresJohnny#TheTonightShow#history#OTD#ad https://t.co/pfqP3KHg2E