The Battle of Trafalgar secured British supremacy of the seas and saw the victorious fleet sail away without having lost a single ship.
21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow
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Einstein, who was Jewish, was undertaking a visiting professorship at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena when Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor on 30 January 1933.
British nurse Edith Cavell was executed by a German firing squad during the First World War.
Frustrated by the lack of progress made by the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies from whom the group had split, the WSPU soon became known for its militant and sometimes violent actions under the motto ‘Deeds, not words’.
Two cultural icons made their first appearance when Dr No, the first of the James Bond series of films, hit cinema screens on the same day as the Beatles released their debut single ‘Love Me Do’.
The Battle of Cable Street saw demonstrators block a march by Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists.
Known as Transatlantic No. 1 or TAT-1, the £120 million system actually consisted of two identical cables to allow transmission in each direction.
Teletext was the dominant medium for accessing breaking news until the arrival of the World Wide Web.
Cecil Chubb became the last private owner of Stonehenge, having bought the Neolithic monument at auction.
The Treaty of Paris, which ended the American Revolutionary War, was signed by representatives of King George III of Great Britain and representatives of the United States of America.
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9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
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