The new currency was backed by land that was used by businesses and agriculture, and was introduced at the rate of one Rentenmark to one trillion Papiermarks.
21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow
21st June 2019
Although the targets were constantly revised to the point where they could never be achieved, the first five-year plan firmly set the USSR on the road to becoming a world superpower.
Alexander Hamilton was made the first United States Secretary of the Treasury by President George Washington.
On the 1st August 1834, the Slavery Abolition Act came into force in the United Kingdom, although it had received royal assent a year earlier.
On the 21st July 1970, construction was completed on the Aswan High Dam in Egypt.
These original New York stockbrokers traded from the Tontine Coffee House at 82 Wall Street before moving to their first dedicated trading space in 1817.
Duke Wilhelm IV of Bavaria signed the Reinheitsgebot, a law to ensure the purity of beer that specified a limited number of ingredients.
The Stamp Act levied a direct tax on American colonists without consultation.
U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower apologised to Ghanaian finance minister Komla Agbeli Gbedemah after he was refused service in a Delaware restaurant.
38 people died and hundreds more were wounded in the Wall Street bombing in New York.
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11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
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11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
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9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
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