On the 11th November 1918, fighting on the First World War’s Western Front ended when representatives from the Allies and Germany signed the Armistice of Compiègne.
Although nobody was injured during Italy’s attack, the Ottoman Empire complained that aerial bombing contravened the Hague Convention.
Over 8,000 French troops are estimated to have been killed in the Battle of Agincourt, while the English army’s losses under Henry V were less than 500.
Piazza made history’s first reconnaissance flight when he observed the Turkish lines from a Blériot XI aircraft.
German Nazi forces had invaded Poland two days earlier, claiming to be acting in self-defence following a ‘false flag’ operation.
At the time it was optimistically hoped that the signing of the Kellogg-Briand Pact would stop any future wars, but the impact of the Great Depression in the 1930s led nations such as Japan and Italy to launch invasions of Manchuria and Abyssinia respectively.
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution granted powers to President Johnson to use American military force to assist countries in Southeast Asia that were facing so-called ‘communist aggression’.
The Kalashnikov AK-47 assault rifle went into production in the Soviet Union.
Combined British and Prussian military forces defeated the French, but Wellington himself said that the battle was ‘the nearest-run thing you ever saw in your life’.
The Pig War border confrontation began when Lyman Cutlar shot a British-owned pig on San Juan Island.
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