On the 15th January 1919, Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht were killed by members of the Freikorps.
3rd September 1783: Treaty of Paris ends the American Revolutionary War
3rd September 2017
On the 7th January 1979 Pol Pot, the Cambodian revolutionary and General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Kampuchea, was overthrown when Vietnamese forces captured the capital city Phnom Penh.
On the 5th January 1968, the Prague Spring began when Alexander Dubček became the new First Secretary of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia.
On the 3rd January 1961, the United States of America severed its diplomatic relationship with Cuba and closed the American embassy in Havana.
On the 30th December 1922, the USSR – the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics – was founded.
On the 28th December 1972, Kim Il-sung became the first President of North Korea.
The Soviet dekulakisation campaign began when Joseph Stalin announced the ‘liquidation of the kulaks as a class’.
On the 22nd December 1989, Romanian Communist leader Nicolae Ceaușescu was overthrown.
U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev met for the first time at the Geneva Summit.
The Russian Social Democratic Labour Party split into the Bolshevik and Menshevik factions.
19th January 1915: Zeppelins bomb Great Yarmouth and Kings Lynn
19th January 2019
18th January 1919: The Paris Peace Conference begins
18th January 2019
17th January 1991: Gulf War combat begins with Operation Desert Storm
17th 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