On the 15th November 1917, Georges Clemenceau was appointed Prime Minister of France for the second time.
19th January 1917: 73 people killed in the Silvertown munitions factory explosion in London
19th January 2018
On the 1st November 1911, the first aerial bombing using an aeroplane took place when Italian Lieutenant Giulio Gavotti dropped four grenades on Turkish troops in Libya.
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.
On the 26th October 1860 Giuseppe Garibaldi met with Victor Emanuel II, the King of Sardinia, at Teano and handed him control of southern Italy.
Piazza made history’s first reconnaissance flight when he observed the Turkish lines from a Blériot XI aircraft.
On the 22nd September 1980, the longest conventional war of the 20th Century began when Iraq launched an invasion of Iran.
On the 18th September 1931, the Manchurian Crisis – also known as the Mukden Incident –began when Japanese soldiers blew up a section of their own railway in the Chinese region of Manchuria.
On the 30th July 1792, a group of volunteer soldiers from the city of Marseille were the first to introduce and sing “La Marseillaise” in Paris.
On the 27th July 1942, Allied forces in North Africa stopped the advancing Axis powers in the First Battle of El Alamein.
The Kalashnikov AK-47 assault rifle went into production in the Soviet Union.
15th November 1917: Georges Clemenceau appointed Prime Minister of France
15th November 2019
13th November 1002: Æthelred the Unready orders the St Brice’s Day Massacre
13th November 2019
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2018
1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
1st September 2018