This Week in History Series!

This Week in History: Week 36

August 31^st: 651, Death of Saint Aidan of Lindisfarne. He was an Irish bishop and missionary.

 

September 1^st: 1914, Russia changes name of St Petersburg to Petrograd.

 

September 2^nd: 1944, Holocaust diarist Anne Frank was sent to Auschwitz.

September 3^rd: 1658, Death of Oliver Cromwell. He was an English general from 1653-58 & Lord Protector, he died at 59.

September 4^th: 1682, English astronomer Edmund Halley observed the comet named after him.

September 5^th: 1698, Russian Tsar Peter the Great imposed a tax on beards.

September 6^th: 1941, All Jews over age 6 in German territories were ordered to wear a star.

 

Thanks for Reading!

 

Claire

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