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3rd July 1940: British navy attacks the French fleet at Mers-el-Kébir

3rd July 2020
Tagged as: Algeria, Axis Alliance, Battle of the Atlantic, Britain, Churchill, France, Mers-el-Kebir, Navy, Nazi, Second World War, Ship, Vichy

British naval ships attacked the French Navy at Mers-el-Kébir in Algeria during the Second World War.

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10th July 1940: The Vichy government established in France

10th July 2019
Tagged as: France, Germany, Hitler, Occupation, Petain, Second World War, Vichy

The Vichy government was established in France after the National Assembly approved a new French Constitutional Law that granted full powers to Marshal Pétain.

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3rd July 1940: British navy attacks the French fleet at Mers-el-Kébir

10th July 1940: The Vichy government established in France

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27th December 1929: Stalin calls for the ‘liquidation of the kulaks as a class’

17th November 1978: CBS broadcast the heavily-criticised Star Wars Holiday Special

5th December 1848: President James K. Polk sparks the California Gold Rush as a result of his State of the Union Address

4th December 1956: Million Dollar Quartet record at Sun Studios

3rd December 1775: The first national US Grand Union Flag flown for the first time on the ship ‘Alfred’

2nd December 1804: Napoleon crowns himelf Emperor of the French

28th June 1914 & 1919: Trigger and end of the First World War

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

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