Walk In Dry Places

Wednesday, 18 March 2020

On This Day 18TH March

1314 - Jacques de Molay, the 23rd and the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar, is burned at the stake by King Philip IV of France.

1922 - British magistrates in India sentence Mahatma Gandhi to 6 years imprisonment for disobedience.

1990 - Largest art robbery in US history: 13 works of art worth over $500 million are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.

1834 - Six farm labourers from Tolpuddle, Dorset, England are sentenced to be transported to Australia for forming a trade union.

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