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5th October 1914: First recorded aerial combat victory takes place when a French Voisin shoots down a German Aviatik aircraft

5th October 2025
Tagged as: Aircraft, Dogfight, First World War, France, Germany, Plane, Western Front, World War I

Contemporary reports state that the French crew fired a long burst on a machine, hitting the German Aviatik and fatally wounding its crew before the plane crashed behind enemy lines.

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5th August 1914: The Battle of Liège begins, marking the first major engagement of the First World War

5th August 2025
Tagged as: Belgium, First World War, Germany, Schlieffen Plan, Western Front, World War I

The bombardment of the city’s ring of forts by Germany’s ‘Big Bertha’ howitzer caused extensive damage, and one by one, the forts were rendered inoperable. By 16 August, the forts had fallen.

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25th December 1914: The Christmas Truce takes place at sections along the Western Front

25th December 2022
Tagged as: Belgium, Britain, Christmas, Christmas Truce, First World War, France, Germany, Truce, Western Front, Ypres

The Christmas Truce saw soldiers on the First World War’s Western Front take part in a series of unofficial ceasefires.

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5th October 1914: First recorded aerial combat victory takes place when a French Voisin shoots down a German Aviatik aircraft

5th August 1914: The Battle of Liège begins, marking the first major engagement of the First World War

25th December 1914: The Christmas Truce takes place at sections along the Western Front

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21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow

HistoryPod Extra: The Myth of Gavrilo Princip’s Sandwich

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

2nd August 1934: Hitler becomes Führer after President Hindenburg dies

14th October 1962: U-2 spy plane captures images of Cuban missile sites

13th October 1908: Suffragette Margaret Travers Symons becomes the first woman to speak in the House of Commons when she burst into the main chamber

12th October 539 BCE: Babylon falls to the Persian king Cyrus the Great

11th October 1521: King Henry VIII of England given the title Defender of the Faith by Pope Leo X

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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