Pakistan Match Fixing Allegations
The recent news about the Pakistan Cricket team match fixing allegations appears to be more shocking than first thought. It now appears that the alleged match fixers may have made up to £20 million for their co conspirators, whilst securing a share of around £6 million for themselves. Mazhar Majeed was filmed by a Sunday [...]
This are some of the historical and political events that happened on March 18th in history: In the year 37 the Roman Senate annuls Tiberius’s will. The senate goes on to proclaim that Caligula is emperor. In 1229 Frederick II will declare himself King of Jerusalem. This takes place during the 6th crusade. In 1438 [...]
On this day in 1985 Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev becomes the Soviet Union’s leader. Gorbachev, born on the 2nd of March 1931 became the seventh and final General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. He served in this role from 1985 to 1991 and was the final head of state for the Union [...]
January 2008 was an especially volatile month in world stock markets, with a surge in implied volatility measurements of the US-based S&P 500 index, and a sharp decrease in non-U.S. stock market prices on Monday, January 21, 2008 (continuing to a lesser extent in some markets on January 22). Some headline writers and a general [...]
Since 1933, Inauguration Day has occurred on January 20 thanks to the 1933 ratification of the Twentieth Amendment which changed the date. The inauguration of the President of the United States occurs upon the commencement of a new term of a President of the United States. The only inauguration element mandated by the United States [...]
