Frenchman André-Jacques Garnerin performed the first high-altitude parachute descent.
24th June 1812: Napoleon begins his failed invasion of Russia
24th June 2017
On the 6th August 1945, the USA dropped an atomic bomb nicknamed “Little Boy” on the Japanese city of Hiroshima from the B-29 aircraft Enola Gay.
French aviator Louis Charles Joseph Blériot made the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air aircraft.
On the 21st May 1927, Charles Lindbergh became the first person to make a solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic when he flew 3,600 miles from New York to Paris.
The Battle of the Coral Sea, the first naval battle in which the participating ships never came in sight of each other, ended.
Elise Raymonde Deroche was the daughter of a Parisian plumber.
The German Empire established its first air force, the Fliegertruppe, in 1910 which saw extensive action in the First World War.
On the 9th February 1969, the first test flight of the Boeing 747 ‘Jumbo Jet’ took place.
The 3rd February 1959 was the Day The Music Died, when rock and roll pioneers Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and The Big Bopper were killed in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa.
The first aerial crossing of the English Channel was conducted by Frenchman Jean-Pierre Blanchard and American John Jeffries in a gas-filled balloon.
12th December 1935: Nazis introduce Lebensborn programme
12th December 2018
10th December 1901: The first Nobel Prizes awarded
10th December 2018
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2018
1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
1st September 2018
9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
9th November 2017