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12th December 1963: Kenya gains independence from the United Kingdom

12th December 2021
Tagged as: Africa, Britain, British Empire, Commonwealth, Imperialism, Independence, Kenya, Mau Mau, United Kingdom

Kenya had been under British rule since the 19th Century, and since becoming a colony in 1920 African demands for a greater role in politics had grown.

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24th July 1927: Menin Gate Memorial to the Missing is unveiled

24th July 2020
Tagged as: Belgium, Britain, Commonwealth, First World War, France, Memorial

On the 24^th July 1927, the Menin Gate Memorial to the Missing was unveiled in the Belgian city of Ypres.

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12th December 1963: Kenya gains independence from the United Kingdom

24th July 1927: Menin Gate Memorial to the Missing is unveiled

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21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow

HistoryPod Extra: The Myth of Gavrilo Princip’s Sandwich

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

2nd August 1934: Hitler becomes Führer after President Hindenburg dies

28th May 1987: Mathias Rust, an 18-year-old amateur pilot from West Germany, illegally landed a private aircraft near Moscow’s Red Square

27th May 1199: Coronation of King John in Westminster Abbey

26th May 1897: Bram Stoker’s Gothic horror novel Dracula first published

25th May 1961: Kennedy announces plan for manned moon landing

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

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland

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