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8th February 1904: Russo-Japanese War triggered by Japanese torpedo attack on Port Arthur

8th February 2023
Tagged as: China, Imperialism, Japan, Korea, Manchuria, Port Arthur, Russia, Russo-Japanese War, War

Port Arthur was a fortified naval base in the south of Manchuria that had been leased to Russia since 1898.

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27th June 1950: President Truman sends US navy and air force to Korea

27th June 2022
Tagged as: Cold War, Communism, Communist, Containment, Korea, Korean War, North Korea, Truman, United Nations, USA

US President Harry S. Truman ordered air and naval forces to assist South Korea against an invasion by North Korea.

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28th December 1972: Kim Il-sung becomes the first President of North Korea

28th December 2021
Tagged as: Communism, Communist, Kim Il-sung, Korea, North Korea

Kim Il-sung was already the country’s Prime Minister and the First Secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea, and four years after his death in 1994 he was made Eternal President of the Republic.

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8th February 1904: Russo-Japanese War triggered by Japanese torpedo attack on Port Arthur

27th June 1950: President Truman sends US navy and air force to Korea

28th December 1972: Kim Il-sung becomes the first President of North Korea

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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

7th June 1520: Henry VIII and Francis I meet at the Field of Cloth of Gold

6th June 1944: D-Day landings launched by the Allied forces of the Second World War in Normandy

5th June 1883: First Orient Express train departs Paris

4th June 1913: Suffragette Emily Wilding Davison knocked down by a racehorse at the Epsom Derby after she stepped onto the track

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

8th July 1932: Dow Jones falls to lowest point in the Great Depression

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