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8th June 1972: Nick Ut takes his harrowing photo of Vietnamese girl, Phan Thị Kim Phúc, running from napalm

8th June 2020
Tagged as: Chemical warfare, Children, Civilians, Cold War, Communism, Napalm, Vietnam, War

On the 8^th June 1972 one of the most iconic photographs of the Vietnam War was taken of Phan Thị Kim Phúc, a nine-year-old girl from the South Vietnamese village of Trang Bang.

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22nd April 1915: Chlorine gas marks start of 2nd Battle of Ypres

22nd April 2019
Tagged as: Belgium, Chemical warfare, First World War, France, Germany, Military

On the 22^nd April 1915, the Second Battle of Ypres began in Belgium.

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8th June 1972: Nick Ut takes his harrowing photo of Vietnamese girl, Phan Thị Kim Phúc, running from napalm

22nd April 1915: Chlorine gas marks start of 2nd Battle of Ypres

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9th August 1173: Construction begins on the Leaning Tower of Pisa

21st November 1974: The Birmingham pub bombings kill 21 people and injure 182

17th March 1992: White South Africans vote to end apartheid in a referendum

16th August 1858: Queen Victoria sends the first transatlantic telegram

16th April 1902: The first purpose-designed movie theater opened as Thomas Tally’s Electric Theatre

15th April 1989: 96 Liverpool fans killed in the Hillsborough Disaster

14th April 1561: Nuremberg Celestial Phenomenon terrifies residents

13th April 1919: British troops commit the Amritsar Massacre

28th June 1914 & 1919: Trigger and end of the First World War

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

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