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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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22nd April 1915: Poison gas used effectively in the First World War at the Second Battle of Ypres

22nd April 2022
Tagged as: Algeria, Chemical warfare, First World War, France, Germany, Science, War, Ypres

Over five thousand French Algerian, Moroccan and territorial troops died within ten minutes of the chlorine gas being released.

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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

22nd April 1915: Poison gas used effectively in the First World War at the Second Battle of Ypres

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

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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

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31st January 1983: It became compulsory for drivers in the UK to wear a seat belt

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29th January 1942: Desert Island Discs, the longest-running radio show in the UK, first broadcast

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

8th July 1932: Dow Jones falls to lowest point in the Great Depression

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