This was the first time Buffalo Bill had travelled to Britain, and also marked the first time that many Europeans had seen the fabled ‘Cowboys and Indians’.
21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow
21st June 2019
VE Day was declared a public holiday in Britain and was marked with jubilant scenes across the world, much as the end of the First World War had been met with cheers and dancing.
The British ship RMS Lusitania sank after being attacked by the German U-boat U-20 off the coast of Ireland.
The landing ropes were dropped at 7.21pm, and shortly afterwards the Hindenburg was engulfed by flames.
Pravda, the official newspaper of what became the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, was first published.
Capone was found guilty on 17 October 1931 of Federal Income Tax Evasion and was sentenced to eleven years imprisonment by Judge James Herbert Wilkerson.
Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae, a Canadian doctor, wrote the war poem ‘In Flanders Fields’, which inspired the symbol of the poppy to commemorate members of the military killed in war.
The Battle of Berlin ended after German General Helmuth Weidling surrendered to Soviet General Vasily Chuikov.
The day before Mr Potato Head was released by Hasbro he featured in the first ever television advert for a toy that was aimed directly at children.
A boycott against the Bristol Omnibus Company in England was launched due to their racist employment policy.
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11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2022
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1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
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