Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany by President Paul von Hindenburg.
28th June 1880: Australian outlaw Ned Kelly arrested following a violent shoot out
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On the 13th January 1935, the Territory of the Saar Basin voted to reunite with Germany.
On the 8th November 1923, the Beer Hall Putsch took place when Adolf Hitler along with First World War hero Erich Ludendorff led an attempted coup against the Weimar Government by trying to seize power in the Bavarian city of Munich.
On the 29th September 1938, Adolf Hitler, Neville Chamberlain, Benito Mussolini and Édouard Daladier reached an agreement on the Nazi annexation of the Sudetenland areas of Czechoslovakia.
On the 15th September 1935, the German Reichstag passed the Nuremberg Laws that legally discriminated against Jews.
On the 1st September 1939, German forces invaded Poland in a move that was to trigger the Second World War.
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 26th July 1936, Adolf Hitler informed General Francisco Franco that Germany would support his Nationalist rebellion in Spain.
On the 18th July 1925, the first volume of Adolf Hitler’s rambling racist manifesto Mein Kampf – which translates as My Struggle or My Battle – was first published.
The 30th June 1934 saw the Nazis carry out a purge of their own party, when Hitler ordered the SS to murder leading figures of the SA or Brownshirts along with critics of the Nazi regime such as former chancellor von Schleicher.
18th February 1930: Elm Farm Ollie becomes the first cow to fly
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17th February 1864: An enemy ship sunk by submarine for the first time
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16th February 1923: Howard Carter unseals Tutankhamun’s burial chamber
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11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
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9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
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