Vladimir Lenin introduced the New Economic Policy at the 10th Communist Party Congress.
3rd October 1918: Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria comes to the throne
3rd October 2017
On the 16th November 1945, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation – otherwise known as UNESCO – was founded.
On the 27th March 1963, Chairman of the British Transport Commission Dr Richard Beeching published his report entitled The Reshaping of British Railways.
By the start of the 17th century merchants from the Dutch Republic had begun to undertake voyages to the ‘Spice Islands’ of the Indian Ocean.
The economic bubble that is also referred to as the ‘dot-com boom’ was the result of investors speculatively pouring money into the numerous internet companies that were founded in the mid- to late-1990s.
21st August 1959: Hawaii becomes the 50th state of the USA
21st August 2019
20th August 1940: Leon Trotsky attacked with an ice axe in Mexico
20th August 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