A series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693, caused by mass hysteria. The trials resulted in the executions of twenty people, while five others (including two infant children) died in prison.
Salem Witch Trials
Fact of the Day
It is rumoured that the Queen Mother once went to Westminster Abbey after hours only to find them rehearsing her funeral.
Quote of the Day
"Truly, when the day of judgement comes, it will not be a question of what we have read, but what we have done.
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~ Thomas à Kempis, 15th century
On This Day
1940 Winston Churchill orders the evacuation of the BEF from Dunkirk. Operation Dynamo begins.
