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.
21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow
21st June 2019
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.
On the 22nd July 1706, the foundation for the establishment of the Kingdom of Great Britain was laid when commissioners from England and Scotland agreed the Acts of Union.
On the 4th March 1789, the United States constitution went into effect when the first US Congress met.
On the 14th November 1990, Margaret Thatcher’s fifteen year leadership of the British Conservative Party was challenged by Michael Heseltine, a former cabinet minister.
The United States apparently gained the nickname ‘Uncle Sam’ when it was featured in a local newspaper article.
On the 9th August 1974, Richard Nixon resigned as President of the United States of America while facing impeachment and the almost certain removal from office due to the Watergate Scandal.
The oldest continuous elected legislative assembly in the New World, the House of Burgesses in Virginia, convened for the first time.
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11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2020
15th September 1935: Nazi Germany introduces the discriminatory ‘Nuremberg Laws’
15th September 2021
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2020
9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
9th November 2019