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1940: Hitler Defeats and Humiliates France

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1940: Hitler Defeats and Humiliates France

On this day in 1940, Adolf Hitler personally accepted the surrender of France in World War II. He deliber ...

On this day in 1940, Adolf Hitler personally accepted the surrender of France in World War II. He deliberately chose the forest at Compiègne as the location where the surrender would take place, since ...

June 22, 2015
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1941: Operation Barbarossa was Led by Three Aristocratic Field Marshals

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1941: Operation Barbarossa was Led by Three Aristocratic Field Marshals

On this day Operation Barbarossa, the Axis attack on the Soviet Union, was set in motion. More than three ...

On this day Operation Barbarossa, the Axis attack on the Soviet Union, was set in motion. More than three million members of the German Armed Forces (Wehrmacht) and troops of their allies were deploye ...

June 22, 2015
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1593: Croatian and Austrian Victory over the Ottomans at Sisak

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1593: Croatian and Austrian Victory over the Ottomans at Sisak

On this day, the most famous Croatian victory over the Ottoman Turks occurred near Sisak. By this time, t ...

On this day, the most famous Croatian victory over the Ottoman Turks occurred near Sisak. By this time, the Turks were extensively ravaging Croatian territory, mounting raids even in neighboring Slove ...

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1942: Erwin Rommel Becomes the Youngest Field Marshal in the German Army

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1942: Erwin Rommel Becomes the Youngest Field Marshal in the German Army

On this day in 1942, German General Erwin Rommel was promoted to the rank of Field Marshal, as an reward ...

On this day in 1942, German General Erwin Rommel was promoted to the rank of Field Marshal, as an reward for successfully capturing the town of Tobruk in what is today Libya. Specifically, Rommel was ...

June 22, 2015
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1535: Beheading of Cardinal St. John Fisher

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1535: Beheading of Cardinal St. John Fisher

On this day in 1535, Cardinal St. John Fisher was beheaded in London. He was a Catholic Bishop of Rochest ...

On this day in 1535, Cardinal St. John Fisher was beheaded in London. He was a Catholic Bishop of Rochester in England and was executed during the reign of King Henry VIII, who wanted to proclaim hims ...

June 22, 2015
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