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16th October 1939: First German air raid on Britain during WW2 took place when bombers attacked Rosyth naval base in Scotland

16th October 2026
Tagged as: Air Raid, Aircraft, Britain, German, Luftwaffe, Scotland, Second World War, Spitfire

The light cruiser HMS Southampton and the destroyer Mohawk were damaged, while sixteen Royal Navy sailors died and 44 were injured.

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26th April 1937: The Basque town of Guernica experiences what is seen by many as the first large-scale modern air raid against a civilian population

26th April 2022
Tagged as: Air Raid, Bomb, Condor Legion, German, Guernica, Nazi, Spain, Spanish Civil War

Historians now generally accept that up to 300 civilians were killed directly in the bombing of Guernica, although it’s likely that many more – perhaps as many as 1,700 – died from their injuries.

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16th October 1939: First German air raid on Britain during WW2 took place when bombers attacked Rosyth naval base in Scotland

26th April 1937: The Basque town of Guernica experiences what is seen by many as the first large-scale modern air raid against a civilian population

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21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow

HistoryPod Extra: The Myth of Gavrilo Princip’s Sandwich

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

2nd August 1934: Hitler becomes Führer after President Hindenburg dies

16th October 1939: First German air raid on Britain during WW2 took place when bombers attacked Rosyth naval base in Scotland

15th October 1815: Napoleon Bonaparte arrives at his exile on the island of St Helena in the South Atlantic

14th October 1962: U-2 spy plane captures images of Cuban missile sites

13th October 1908: Suffragette Margaret Travers Symons becomes the first woman to speak in the House of Commons when she burst into the main chamber

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

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

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