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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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8th March 1910: First female pilot’s license awarded to French actress Raymonde de Laroche

29th June 1613: The Globe Theatre in London burns to the ground

25th January 1947: Patent filed for the first interactive electronic game

4th July 1950: Radio Free Europe broadcasts for the first time

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

2nd July 1964: Civil Rights Act signed into law by Lyndon B. Johnson

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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

1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland

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