The Great Fire of London 1666
At about 2am on 2nd September a fire began in the kitchen of baker Thomas Farriner. The fire took hold ...
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Operation Market Garden 1944
Operation Market Garden was an allied plan to advance into the Netherlands and secure bridges that would enable them to ...
Tripartite Pact 1940
The Tripartite Pact signed by Germany, Italy and Japan on September 27th 1940, was an agreement to seek to further the ...
The Munich Agreement 1938
In May 1938 Adolf Hitler had completed an anschluss with Austria. Britain and France had largely ignored this action, neither ...
The Jarrow March 1936
On 5th October 1936, 200 men left the town of Jarrow to march around 280 miles to London in protest ...
Cuban Missile Crisis 1962
On 14th October 1962 a US spy plane flying over Cuba reported the installation of Russian nuclear missile bases. The ...
Apollo 7
Apollo 7 was the seventh mission in the Apollo Space program and the first manned Apollo mission with a crew ...
Hungarian Revolution
Following the death of Josef Stalin in 1953 many European communist countries developed liberal reformist factions. In Hungary the reformist ...
Perkin Warbeck Pretender to the Throne
Perkin Warbeck, son of a poor burgess from Tournai, was hanged for trying to escape captivity on 23rd November 1499. ...
The Sand Creek Massacre
In 1851 the terms of the Treaty of Fort Laramie had guaranteed the Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians ownership of land ...