On the 21st July 1970, construction was completed on the Aswan High Dam in Egypt.
3rd October 1918: Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria comes to the throne
3rd October 2017
The Kalashnikov AK-47 assault rifle went into production in the Soviet Union.
On the 28th May 1987, an eighteen year-old amateur pilot from Hamburg in West Germany illegally landed a private aircraft near Moscow’s Red Square.
On May 12th 1949, the Soviet Union ended its blockade of West Berlin.
The 8th May 1945 was Victory in Europe Day – a public holiday to celebrate the end of the Second World War.
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were sentenced to death in the United States for conspiracy to commit espionage.
Vladimir Lenin introduced the New Economic Policy at the 10th Communist Party Congress.
Shortly after midnight on the 25th February 1956, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev delivered his ‘secret speech’, officially called “On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences”, in a four hour “closed session” at the end of the 20th Party Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
Attended by the “Big Three” Allied leaders, the conference saw United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin meet to discuss the government of post-war Europe.
Operation Looking Glass began flying an Airborne Command Post above the United States 24 hours a day.
21st August 1959: Hawaii becomes the 50th state of the USA
21st August 2019
20th August 1940: Leon Trotsky attacked with an ice axe in Mexico
20th August 2019
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2018
9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
9th November 2017