Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected for an unprecedented third term as President of the United States.
10th June 1924: Italian politician Matteotti kidnapped and murdered by Fascists
10th June 2017
On the 14th January 1943, the Casablanca Conference began in Morocco.
At 7:48 on the morning of the 7th December 1941, the Imperial Japanese Navy launched a surprise attack against the United States’ Hawaiian naval base at Pearl Harbor.
Einstein, who was Jewish, was undertaking a visiting professorship at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena when Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor on 30 January 1933.
Attended by the “Big Three” Allied leaders, the conference saw United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin meet to discuss the government of post-war Europe.
On the 1st January 1942, the Declaration by the United Nations was agreed and signed by the representatives of four major Allied nations during the Second World War.
16th December 1914: German Navy attack Scarborough
16th December 2018
14th December 1911: Roald Amundsen reaches the South Pole
14th December 2018
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2018
1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
1st September 2018
9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
9th November 2017