On the 29th September 1938, Adolf Hitler, Neville Chamberlain, Benito Mussolini and Édouard Daladier reached an agreement on the Nazi annexation of the Sudetenland areas of Czechoslovakia.
On the 3rd September 1939, the Second World War officially began when France and the United Kingdom – together with Australia and New Zealand – declared war on Germany.
On the 18th August 1612, the trials of nine Lancashire women and two men known as the Pendle Witches began.
On the 16th August 1819, the Peterloo Massacre occurred at St Peter’s Field in Manchester when a group of over 60,000 protesters were charged by cavalry.
The last execution at the Tower of London took place on the 15th August 1941. Josef Jakobs was a German spy who was arrested after he signalled for help after breaking his ankle when he parachuted into Britain.
Find out more at http://www.josefjakobs.info/
On the 24th July 1927, the Menin Gate Memorial to the Missing was unveiled in the Belgian city of Ypres.
Archibald Brown was murdered by his son, who placed an anti-tank grenade under the seat of his bath chair.
The North Pacific Fur Seal Convention, the first international treaty that dealt with wildlife conservation issues, was signed.
British naval ships attacked the French Navy at Mers-el-Kébir in Algeria during the Second World War.
On the 18th June 1815, Napoleon was defeated at the Battle of Waterloo.
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