Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
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3rd May 1915: John McCrae composes the war poem ‘In Flanders Fields’
3rd May 2017
29th May 2017
29th May 1953: Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reach summit of Mount Everest
15th October 1923: Rentenmark introduced in Weimar Germany
15th October 2018
14th October 1962: U-2 spy plane captures images of Cuban missile sites
14th October 2018
13th October 54: Emperor Claudius dies in mysterious circumstances
13th October 2018
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2017
9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
9th November 2017