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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

3rd July 2018
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

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

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30th November 1786: Tuscany becomes the first modern state to abolish the death penalty

11th April 1950: Stone of Scone rediscovered 4 months after its disappearance

12th November 1927: Leon Trotsky expelled from the Communist Party of the USSR

29th September 1829: The Metropolitan Police begins operating in London

21st July 1970: Construction of the Aswan High Dam in Egypt is completed

20th July 1807: The world’s first internal combustion engine is patented in France

19th July 1799: Discovery of the Rosetta Stone reported in Egypt

18th July 1976: Nadia Comăneci scores the first ever Olympic gymnastic ‘perfect 10’

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

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

8th July 1932: Dow Jones falls to lowest point in the Great Depression

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

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