Giacomo Matteotti, an Italian socialist politician, was kidnapped and then murdered by members of the Fascist party.
30th November 1786: Tuscany becomes the first modern state to abolish the death penalty
30th November 2017
The Battle of Cable Street saw demonstrators block a march by Oswald Mosley’s British Union of Fascists.
The Battle of Berlin ended after German General Helmuth Weidling surrendered to Soviet General Vasily Chuikov.
Mussolini, who was determined to restore the glory of the Roman Empire following the ‘mutilated victory’ of the First World War, had formed the precursor to the Fascist Party in 1919.
17th July 1918: Romanov family shot dead by the Bosheviks
17th July 2019
16th July 622: Start date of the Islamic calendar
16th July 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