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Blockade


1984 International Court of Justice rules on U.S. blockade of Nicaragua

1971 President Nixon ends blockade against People's Republic of China

1962 U.S.S.R. agrees to remove bombers from Cuba, and U.S. lifts blockade

1962 John F. Kennedy imposes naval blockade on Cuba, beginning missile crisis

1962 President Kennedy begins blockade of Cuba

1960 East Germany imposes a partial blockade on West Berlin

1949 West begins Berlin Airlift to get supplies around Soviet blockade

1948 Frank Cellier, actor (Spider, Quiet Wedding, Big Blockade), dies at 64

1948 U.S. denounces Soviet blockade of Berlin

1948 Soviet Union begins Berlin Blockade

1941 Blockade of Leningrad (St. Petersburg) by Germany begins

1940 Hitler orders total blockade of Great Britain

1934 1st Jewish immigrant ship to break the English blockade in Palestine

1915 Germany begins a blockade of England

1912 Bulgarian troops in Constantinople blockade drinking water

1898 U.S. President McKinley orders blockade of Cuban harbors

1884 Frank Cellier, Surbiton England, actor, Quiet Wedding, Big Blockade

1861 Naval Engagement at Fernandina, FL-USS Vincennes ends rebel blockade

1861 Naval Engagement at Wilmington North Carolina - USS Daylight establishes blockade

1861 CSS Sumter slips past USS Brooklyn blockade

1861 Lincoln orders blockade of Confederate ports (Civil War)

1850 British blockade Piraeus, Greece to enforce mercantile claims

1800 Malta surrenders to British after they blockade French troops

1624 Admiral Hermites fleet blockade Lima Peru


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