On the 25th November 1936, Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan signed the Anti-Comintern Pact.
4th September 1882: Thomas Edison opens the world’s first power plant on Pearl Street in New York
4th September 2018
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.
On the 3rd November 1957, Laika the dog became the first animal to enter orbit around the Earth when she was launched into space on board the Soviet spacecraft Sputnik 2.
At 9:00 am on the 28th October 1962, the Cuban Missile Crisis ended when Soviet Premier Khrushchev agreed to remove Russian nuclear missiles from the island of Cuba.
By the summer of 1987 it had become public knowledge that the Soviets had bugged the new building with technology that the United States was struggling to disable.
The Chinese Communists in the People’s Liberation Army had been fighting the second stage of a long and costly civil war against the Nationalist forces of Chiang Kai-shek, known as the Kuomintang, since shortly after the end of the Second World War.
On the 24th September 1946, Clark Clifford and George Elsey presented a report to President Truman in which they recommended “restraining and confining” Soviet influence
On the 21st July 1970, construction was completed on the Aswan High Dam in Egypt.
The Kalashnikov AK-47 assault rifle went into production in the Soviet Union.
7th December 1941: Attack on Pearl Harbor
7th December 2019
5th December 1934: Wal-Wal Incident between Italy and Abyssinia
5th December 2019
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2018
1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
1st September 2018