A U-2 spy plane captured images of the construction of a missile site on Cuba, triggering the Cuban Missile Crisis.
3rd May 1915: John McCrae composes the war poem ‘In Flanders Fields’
3rd May 2017
U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower apologised to Ghanaian finance minister Komla Agbeli Gbedemah after he was refused service in a Delaware restaurant.
On the 9th October 1967 the Marxist revolutionary icon, Ernesto “Che” Guevara was executed in Bolivia after being caught by CIA-assisted forces during his attempt to provoke a revolution.
Germantown was founded in the Pennsylvania Colony by immigrant Quaker and Mennonite families.
United States President Woodrow Wilson suffered a stroke that left him paralyzed on his left-hand side.
On the 27th September 1908, the first Model T Ford automobile rolled out of the Piquette Avenue factory in Detroit.
The body of actress Peg Entwistle was found in a ravine below the Hollywoodland sign in Los Angeles.
On the 17th September 1978 the Camp David Accords, which led to the first ever peace treaty between Israel and an Arab state, were signed by Egyptian President Anwar El Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin.
Shortly after midnight in Moscow, the Soviets became the first to successfully send a human-made object to the Moon.
American rock band Nirvana released the critically acclaimed single “Smells Like Teen Spirit”.
15th October 1923: Rentenmark introduced in Weimar Germany
15th October 2018
14th October 1962: U-2 spy plane captures images of Cuban missile sites
14th October 2018
13th October 54: Emperor Claudius dies in mysterious circumstances
13th October 2018
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2017
9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
9th November 2017