A fancy dress protest in Boston Harbor on Dec. 16, 1773; a gunshot in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914; a train arriving at the Finland Station in St. Petersburg on April 16, 1917: There are days that change the course of history — when a single incendiary event combusts with explosive forces that propel the world in a new direction.
Britain has delivered more than its share of such days, from June 18, 1815 (the Battle of Waterloo) to May 8, 1940 (the “Norway debate” in the House of Commons, which ushered in Winston Churchill and ended appeasement of Hitler). ...
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