The 16th July 1945 marked the start of the atomic age when the USA detonated the first nuclear bomb under the codename ‘Trinity’.
15th June 1859: The Pig War begins between the USA and Britain
15th June 2020
British naval ships attacked the French Navy at Mers-el-Kébir in Algeria during the Second World War.
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.
On the 12th June 1942, Anne Frank received a diary as a thirteenth birthday present from her father.
The 6th June 1944 saw the largest seaborne invasion in history, when the Allied forces of the Second World War launched Operation Neptune – more commonly known as the D-Day landings.
Operation Dynamo, better known as the evacuation of Dunkirk, began.
Josef Mengele, the Nazi ‘Angel Of Death’, was transferred to begin work at Auschwitz concentration camp.
The Battle of Berlin ended after German General Helmuth Weidling surrendered to Soviet General Vasily Chuikov.
On the 11th April 1961, the trial of Nazi SS Lieutenant Colonel Adolf Eichmann began in Israel.
The raid by the Royal Navy and British Commandos was overseen by Combined Operations Headquarters.
9th August 1974: Richard Nixon resigns as President of the USA
9th August 2020
7th August 1964: Gulf of Tonkin Resolution passed by US Congress
7th August 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