On the 20th December 1917, the Russian Bolshevik secret police known as the Cheka was established.
21st January 1981: First DeLorean sports car produced (famous as the ‘Back to the Future’ car)
21st January 2018
The Russian Social Democratic Labour Party split into the Bolshevik and Menshevik factions.
Vladimir Lenin arrived in Russia after a decade of self-imposed exile.
Trotsky had been a key figure in the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917.
On the 7th November 1917, Red Guards entered the Winter Palace in St Petersburg in a defining event of the Bolshevik Revolution.
21st October 1966: 144 people killed in the Aberfan disaster
21st October 2019
20th October 1935: Mao Zedong’s Red Army finishes the Long March
20th October 2019
18th October 1922: British Broadcasting Company established
18th October 2019
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