Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Đức burned himself to death at a busy crossroads in Saigon.
10th April 1971: US table tennis team ushers in ping pong diplomacy
10th April 2020
Emperor Diocletian ordered the destruction of the new church in the ancient city of Nicomedia, marking the start of the ‘Great Persecution’ of Christians.
John Rogers became the first English Protestant martyr under Mary I after he was burnt at the stake.
15th July 1975: The Apollo Soyuz Test Project lifted off
15th July 2020
14th July 1789: Storming of the Bastille
14th July 2020
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2018
9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
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1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
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