In 1981 Peter William Sutcliffe was arrested for the murder of Jacqueline Hill. This was the end of his five year reign as the Yorkshire Ripper, during which time he murdered thirteen people and attempted seven more.

In 1933 America starts work on its Golden Gate Bridge. The Golden Gate Straight is a mile wide and three mile long channel that lies between San Francisco and Marin County in California, USA. On this day work began on bridging the gap with a 2.7 km or 1.7 mile suspension bridge. The bridge officially opened on the 27^th of May 1937 taking a little over four years to complete.

In 1916 Prime Minister of Great Britain Herbert Asquith introduces the first military conscription bill in British history.  Although the number of volunteers from Britain were huge, with a little under half a million men voluntarily enlisting within the first 6 weeks alone, numbers dwindled against the German army that had been growing through conscription for 40 years. By 1916 the Prime Minister and Lord Horatio Herbert Kitchener, Britain's secretary of state for war, felt they had no choice but to introduce a military conscription bill that was passed and came into effect on the 10^th of February 1916.

In 1900 the German Workers Party was founded. After World War I Hitler remained in the German Army and began to work for the intelligence department. A growing movement of nationalist, angered at Germany’s humiliation of World War I and what they saw as a betrayal by its leaders, was causing concern in the government. Army intelligence wanted spies to keep an eye on some of these groups and report back before they got too out of hand. One such group was the German Workers Party and army intelligence wanted an operative to infiltrate the organisation. With the advantage of hindsight, what could be argued was one of the greatest mistakes of the 20^th century; the operative chosen was Adolf Hitler. It wasn’t long before their anti-semitic, anti-communist and Nationalist views had captured Hitler’s full attention. He was briefly split between his sense of duty to the army, which he had felt had ultimately been betrayed by its political leaders, or the new friends that were of the same mind and through he felt he could improve Germany politically. Hitler became the 55^th member of the German Workers Party on the 12^th of September 1919. In 1920 the name of the party was changed to the National Socialist German Workers Party ( the NAZI Party) and on the 31^st of March that year Hitler was discharged from the army. His full attention was on the party and his skills of public speaking soon propelled him to the top of the Nazi party.