British naval ships attacked the French Navy at Mers-el-Kébir in Algeria during the Second World War.
16th October 1846: First public demonstration of ether anaesthesia
16th October 2020
On the 14th January 1943, the Casablanca Conference began in Morocco.
On the 25th November 1936, Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan signed the Anti-Comintern Pact.
Boris III became Tsar of Bulgaria at the end of the First World War, just four days after his father, Ferdinand I, signed the Armistice of Thessalonica with the Allied Powers.
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2020
1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
1st September 2018
9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
9th November 2019