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27th January 1945: Auschwitz-Birkenau liberated by Soviet forces

27th January 2019
Tagged as: Final Solution, Genocide, Himmler, Holocaust, Judaism, Nazi, Poland, Red Army, Soviet Union, USSR

On the 27^th January 1945, Soviet soldiers from the 322nd Rifle Division liberated the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp near the Polish city of Oświęcim.

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7th January 1979: Cambodian leader Pol Pot overthrown

7th January 2019
Tagged as: Cambodia, Cold War, Communism, Dictatorship, Genocide, Khmer Rouge, Pol Pot, USA, USSR, Vietnam

On the 7^th 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.

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27th January 1945: Auschwitz-Birkenau liberated by Soviet forces

7th January 1979: Cambodian leader Pol Pot overthrown

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17th May 1943: Royal Air Force No. 617 Squadron carries out the ‘Dambusters’ raids

27th May 1703: The foundation of St Petersburg by Tsar Peter the Great

23rd October 1911: Italian Carlo Piazza pilots the first aircraft to be used in war

16th June 1846: Pope Pius IX begins the longest ever reign of a Catholic Pope

19th May 1919: Mustafa Kemal arrives in Samsun and begins the Turkish War of Independence

18th May 1291: Siege of Acre signals end of Crusader influence

17th May 1943: Royal Air Force No. 617 Squadron carries out the ‘Dambusters’ raids

16th May 1966: Start of the Cultural Revolution in China

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

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

8th July 1932: Dow Jones falls to lowest point in the Great Depression

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

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