1938/10/03: To drive home how enormously more horrible the next World War will be than its predecessor, Professor Haldane cited cold figures: "Between January 1917 and November 1918, German aeroplanes dropped 71 tons of bombs on England. These killed 837 people....
1909/07/31: 120 REBELS SHOT AT BARCELONA; Authoritative Personage Says 10 Courts-Martial Sat Two Days to Try Them. MANY ARRESTS IN MADRID Authorities Guarding Against Strike To-Morrow -- Rebels Still Hold Much of Barcelona, Reports Say.
SAN SEBASTIAN, Spain, ...
1705/10/06: Lord Peterborough to his wife: Oct. 6. — I can now give you joy upon taking Barcelona, which is effected. I can modestly say such an attempt was never made by such a handful of men. We have taken, in three days, the castle of Montjuich, sword in hand...
1697/08/10: In Catalonia, however, French forces achieved considerable success when Vendôme, commanding some 32,000 troops, besieged and captured Barcelona. The garrison capitulated on 10 August, but it had been a hard fought contest; French casualties amounted ...
1987/12/26: At 6:20 pm (local time), unidentified individuals threw two fragmentation grenades into a public hallway leading to the main entrance of the United Services Organization (USO) facility... At the time of the attack there were 20 U.S. servicemen in the...