On the 20th November 1945 the first, and best known, of the Nuremberg Trials began.
10th December 1799: France adopts the metric system for weights and measures
10th December 2017
On the 18th August 1612, the trials of nine Lancashire women and two men known as the Pendle Witches began.
On the 5th August 1962, Nelson Mandela was arrested near the South African town of Howick and imprisoned facing charges of inciting workers’ strikes and leaving the country without a passport.
John Thomas Scopes, a substitute science teacher in Tennessee, was found guilty of teaching evolution in school.
On the 11th April 1961, the trial of Nazi SS Lieutenant Colonel Adolf Eichmann began in Israel.
On the 7th April 1498, a group of Franciscan monks met their Dominican rivals in the Piazza della Signoria in Florence to take part in the first trial by fire in 400 years.
On the 9th March 1841, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that captive Africans who had seized control of the Amistad ship had been taken into slavery illegally and were therefore free under American law.
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2018
9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
9th November 2017