The first traveller’s cheques, in the form of a ‘circular note’ issued by a bank, went on sale in London.
12th October 1915: British nurse Edith Cavell was executed by a German firing squad
12th October 2018
Gibbon’s six volume history traces the collapse of the Roman Empire from the rule of the Five Good Emperors until the end of Byzantium.
30th October 1961: The Tsar Bomba detonated by the USSR
30th October 2020
27th October 1960: Ben E. King records Stand By Me
27th October 2020
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2018
9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
9th November 2019
1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
1st September 2018