Weekly History Quiz No.219

A tactic devised by the English cricket team for their 1932–33 Ashes tour of Australia, it involved pace bowling aimed at the body of the batsman. It was designed to counteract the extraordinary batting skill of Australia's leading batsman, Don Bradman.

The Soviet attack in Belarus in June and August 1944 inflicted the worst defeat ever suffered by the German military. The Germans suffered 450,000 casualties, with 28 of the 34 divisions in Army Group Centre destroyed.

The first written mention of the sweet orange in Europe is in the archives of the Italian city of Savona in 1471. Bitter oranges arrived in Sicily in the 800s CE, but the sweet orange didn't arrive until much later. The Spanish and Portuguese took these to the Americas, where they were being grown by the 1500s.

International tourism was limited to the Roman Upper Classes. In the Imperial era, Egypt was one of the most popular destinations for Roman tourists; they saw it as exotic and foreign.

Signed by 50 Nations, the Charter provided principles of international security, human rights and cooperation.

The first combat by US troops outside the Americas began as an 1805 expedition to rescue the crew of a US warship that had been captured by Barbary pirates under the sovereignty of the Ottoman Empire on the coast of North Africa. This is the origin of the line ‘to the shores of Tripoli’ in the US Marine Corps hymn.

The gloves had been frozen and thawed several times to preserve them as evidence, and had shrunk. This was seen as key to the jury’s decision, as was the revelation that one of the LAPD officers involved in the case had planted evidence in previous cases involving Black suspects.

Occupied from 1981 to 2000, the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp was set up outside RAF Greenham Common, a military base with nuclear weapons. At times up to 70,000 protesters were at the camp, which was one of the most prominent nuclear disarmament campaigns in the world.

Eight years before her marriage to Henry in 1509, Katherine was married to Henry's elder brother, Arthur, who died at just 15 years old.

Find out more about Reg Saunders incredible story here.