Tag: Zeppelin

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6th May 1937: Hindenburg Disaster sees the German passenger airship LZ 129 engulfed in flames following a mid-air explosion

6th May 2023
Tagged as: Aircraft, Airship, America, Explosion, Germany, Hindenburg, Hydrogen, New Jersey, United States, USA, Zeppelin

The landing ropes were dropped at 7.21pm, and shortly afterwards the Hindenburg was engulfed by flames.

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19th January 1915: Two German Zeppelin airships drop bombs on the Norfolk towns of Great Yarmouth and Kings Lynn in Britain’s first experience of an air raid

19th January 2022
Tagged as: Air Raid, Aircraft, Airship, Bomb, Britain, England, First World War, Flight, Germany, Norfolk, War, Zeppelin

The four people killed in the air raids were all civilians, which served as a stark message about the changing nature of warfare in the 20^th Century.

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19th January 1915: Zeppelins bomb Great Yarmouth and Kings Lynn

19th January 2019
Tagged as: Aircraft, Bomb, Britain, Civilians, England, First World War, Germany, Zeppelin

On the 19^th January 1915, two German Zeppelin airships known as L3 and L4 dropped bombs on the Norfolk towns of Great Yarmouth and Kings Lynn in Britain’s first experience of an air raid.

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6th May 1937: Hindenburg Disaster sees the German passenger airship LZ 129 engulfed in flames following a mid-air explosion

19th January 1915: Two German Zeppelin airships drop bombs on the Norfolk towns of Great Yarmouth and Kings Lynn in Britain’s first experience of an air raid

19th January 1915: Zeppelins bomb Great Yarmouth and Kings Lynn

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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

1st October 1957: The phrase ‘In God We Trust’ appears on U.S. paper currency for the first time

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

29th September 1918: German Supreme Army Command urges Wilhelm II negotiate an armistice after the Allies break through the Hindenburg Line

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

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

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

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