The secret Sykes-Picot Agreement between Britain and France, formally known as the Asia Minor Agreement, was ratified.
21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow
21st June 2019
Pravda, the official newspaper of what became the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, was first published.
The Bosnian Crisis came to end with Serbia’s acceptance of the annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina by Austria-Hungary.
While Mendeleev’s approach led to there being some gaps or spaces in ‘periods’ where he believed an element should exist, he was able to calculate the missing element’s atomic mass and properties.
Tsar Alexander II of Russia signed the Emancipation Manifesto.
The Romanov dynasty began after Michael Romanov was elected Tsar of Russia by the Zemsky Sobor national assembly.
Port Arthur was a fortified naval base in the south of Manchuria that had been leased to Russia since 1898.
Why the soldiers began firing on the peaceful march is unclear. Even the number of marchers killed or injured is uncertain with estimates ranging from the government’s official figure of 96 dead to revolutionary claims of more than 4,000.
1st January 1942: Declaration by the United Nations agreed and signed by the four major Allied nations during the Second World War
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The original signatories – United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, the USSR’s Ambassador to the US Maxim Litvinov, and Chinese Minister of Foreign Affairs T. V. Soong – were joined the next day by a further 24 nations.
In 1922 the USSR consisted of just four Soviet republics – the Russian SFSR, Ukrainian SSR, Byelorussian SSR and Transcaucasian SFSR.
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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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