Shortly after 8am on the 16th December 1914, the German Imperial Navy attacked the British seaside towns of Scarborough, Hartlepool and Whitby.
10th June 1924: Italian politician Matteotti kidnapped and murdered by Fascists
10th June 2017
Englishman Theodore Hook orchestrated a practical joke known as the Berners Street hoax in the heart of London.
On the 26th November 1922, Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon entered the tomb of Tutankhamun in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings.
21 people were killed and 182 were injured in the Birmingham pub bombings.
On the 18th November 1916, the Battle of the Somme ended when German troops retired from the final large British attack at the Battle of the Ancre amid worsening weather.
On the 14th November 1990, Margaret Thatcher’s fifteen year leadership of the British Conservative Party was challenged by Michael Heseltine, a former cabinet minister.
On the 11th November 1918, fighting on the First World War’s Western Front ended when representatives from the Allies and Germany signed the Armistice of Compiègne.
The military phase of the Suez Crisis began on the 29th October 1956, when Israel invaded the Egyptian Sinai.
The Prospero satellite was launched, making it the first and only British satellite to be launched using a British rocket.
On the 23rd October 1739 England declared war on Spain in what became known as the War of Jenkins’ Ear.
18th December 1892: Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker first performed
18th December 2018
16th December 1914: German Navy attack Scarborough
16th 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