The United States apparently gained the nickname ‘Uncle Sam’ when it was featured in a local newspaper article.
21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow
21st June 2019
The oldest continuous elected legislative assembly in the New World, the House of Burgesses in Virginia, convened for the first time.
On the 2nd July 1964, American President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act into law at the White House.
The Petition of Right is a major British constitutional document that recognises four key principles of government: no taxation without the consent of Parliament, no imprisonment without cause, no quartering of soldiers on subjects, and no martial law in peacetime.
More than 89% of eligible Italian citizens voted in the referendum, with 54.3% voting in favour of turning the country into a republic.
On the 27th May 1199 King John was crowned at Westminster Abbey.
On the 19th August 1991 Mikhail Gorbachev, the President of the Soviet Union, was placed under house arrest in what is known as the August Coup.
The Weimar Republic was officially established on 11th August 1919, when Friedrich Ebert signed the new constitution into law.
On the 10th August 1792, French revolutionary troops stormed the Tuileries Palace in Paris.
On the 2nd August 1934, the 86 year old German Reichspräsident Paul von Hindenburg died of lung cancer and Adolf Hitler became both the Führer and Reich Chancellor of the German People.
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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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1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
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