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3rd May 1915: John McCrae composes the war poem ‘In Flanders Fields’

3rd May 2019
Tagged as: Canada, Culture, First World War, Poetry, War, Ypres

Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae, a Canadian doctor, wrote the war poem ‘In Flanders Fields’, which inspired the symbol of the poppy to commemorate members of the military killed in war.

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

25th December 2018
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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3rd May 1915: John McCrae composes the war poem ‘In Flanders Fields’

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

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20th March 1602: The Dutch East India Company established

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

8th January 1790: George Washington delivers the first State of the Union Address

30th September 1935: The Hoover Dam is dedicated by Franklin D. Roosevelt

29th September 1938: The Munich Conference agrees the Nazi annexation of the Sudetenland

28th September 1781: The Siege of Yorktown begins in the American Revolutionary War

27th September 1908: First Model T Ford produced in Detroit

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11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland

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