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According to People, a man was arrested outside of Buckingham Palace on Tuesday evening after authorities say he threw what they believe to be shotgun cartridges into the palace grounds. King Charles and Queen Camilla were not at Buckingham Palace at the time of the incident.
Going to the bank is the worst. Standing in line for what seems to be hours versus using an app? There is no contest. In this episode from Horrifying History, going to the bank resulted in death for one U.S. pizza delivery man.
59 years ago this week, 4 little black girls were killed and many others were injured in a church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama. The event would serve as the catalyst for the civil rights act of 1964 and the voting rights act of 1965, but victim’s families and survivors would wait 40 years to see the perpetrators of this crime behind bars.
The bombing occurred on September 16th, 1920, and would kill 38 people and injure hundreds more. Though suspicions of anarchist or communist terrorism ran wild, nobody was ever convicted, and nobody ever confessed.
On August 27, 1979, a sunny day off of Mullaghmore Peninsula in County Sligo in Ireland meant good fortune for those who wanted to enjoy the last few weeks of summer. What began as a normal boat ride turned deadly when a bomb detonated by the Provisional Irish Republican Army killed Lord Louis Mountbatten, one of his grandchildren, a boat worker, and Doreen Bradbourne.
The Russian invasion of Ukraine is ongoing. Both the United States and the United Kingdom have pledged to send more military support to Ukraine. Millions of refugees have been scattered across Europe as military officials report that not a single square meter of land has been left untouched by Russian artillery.
On Christmas night 1951, civil rights activists Harry and Harriette Moore were bombed in their home by the Florida Ku Klux Klan. The Moore’s were known for having started the Brevard County Chapter of the NAACP in 1934, and later the Florida State branch.
