The Russian Empire’s State Duma met for the first time at the Taurida Palace in St. Petersburg.
21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow
21st June 2019
Hitler’s detention provided him with the opportunity to write Mein Kampf, his blueprint for power, and to rethink the tactics he would use to take that power in Germany.
Not all the recommendations were implemented, but the subsequent Beeching Cuts resulted in the closure of 2,128 stations, thousands of miles of track, and the loss of up to 70,000 jobs.
The EEC, sometimes referred to as the Common Market, survived until 2009 when it was absorbed into the European Union.
Bismarck submitted his resignation on 18 March, two days before formally leaving office, and dedicated the rest of his life to writing his memoirs.
Officially called The Manifesto of the Communist Party, the original pamphlet was just 23 pages long but went on to become a highly influential political document alongside Marx’s more substantial Das Kapital.
Seven months elapsed before Clinton was called before a grand jury, where he admitted he and Lewinsky had had a relationship that was ‘not appropriate’.
Three Praetorian Guards cornered Caligula in a cryptoporticus beneath his palace on the Palatine Hill and stabbed him to death.
The blade fell at 10.22am, after which it is reported that a number of members of the public rushed forward to dip their handkerchiefs in Louis’ blood.
Voter turnout in the plebiscite was 98% of all eligible voters in the Saar, and 90.8% of them chose to re-join the German Reich.
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11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
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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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