The Tsar Bomba, the most powerful explosive weapon ever created, was detonated by the USSR.
22nd November 1718: The pirate Blackbeard killed by sailors under Robert Maynard
22nd November 2017
The military phase of the Suez Crisis began on the 29th October 1956, when Israel invaded the Egyptian Sinai.
A U-2 spy plane captured images of the construction of a missile site on Cuba, triggering the Cuban Missile Crisis.
On the 7th October 1949 the German Democratic Republic, otherwise known as East Germany, was founded in the Soviet occupied zone of Germany.
On the 3rd October 1990, Germany was reunified when the territory of the communist German Democratic Republic joined with the Federal Republic of Germany to create a single, united Germany.
On the 29th August 1949, the Soviet Union successfully detonated its first nuclear weapon codenamed RDS-1 and nicknamed First Lightning.
At around 11pm on the 20th August 1968, troops from the USSR, Bulgaria, Poland and Hungary entered Czechoslovakia in an invasion that brought the Prague Spring to an end.
On the 14th August 1980, workers at the Lenin Shipyard in the Polish city of Gdańsk led by electrician Lech Wałęsa began a strike that led to the formation of the Solidarity labour movement.
Beginning at midnight on the 13th August 1961, East German police and army began to close the border with West Berlin.
The 16th July 1945 marked the start of the atomic age when the USA detonated the first nuclear bomb under the codename ‘Trinity’.
23rd January 1556: Most destructive earthquake on record in Shaanxi
23rd January 2019
22nd January 1808: Portuguese royal court relocates to Brazil
22nd January 2019
21st January 1793: Louis XVI executed for high treason
21st January 2019
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2018
9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
9th November 2017