An agreement between enemies to stop fighting for a limited time.
Truce
Fact of the Day
Entrance to the Tower of London used to be free if you took a cat or dog to feed the lions.
Quote of the Day
"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
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~ Voltaire
On This Day
1349 Almost the entire Jewish population of Basel, Switzerland, were rounded up and burnt to death in a barn, after they were wrongly blamed for causing the Black Death.
1799 William Pitt the Younger introduced an income tax to help fund the war against Napoleon.
1806 Admiral Lord Nelson was buried in St Paul's Cathedral.
1902 New York State introduced a bill to ban flirting in public. It carried a $25 fine for those who broke it.
1909 Although not reaching their goal of the South Pole, Shackleton's Nimrod Expedition reached closer to it - 97.5 nautical miles - than anyone before.
1916 The Battle of Gallipoli concluded with a victory for the Ottoman Empire and the withdrawal of Allied troops from the peninsula.
1957 The Conservative prime minister, Anthony Eden, resigned just weeks after the Suez Crisis, citing ill health.
1972 British miners came out in their first official strike since 1926. It ended on 28th February 1972 when miners went back to work after accepting an improved pay offer.