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1940: The Germans Occupy Paris

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1940: The Germans Occupy Paris

On this day, German troops occupied Paris. It was a great triumph for the Wehrmacht (the German Army), bu ...

On this day, German troops occupied Paris. It was a great triumph for the Wehrmacht (the German Army), but also for Adolf Hitler personally because his occupied a metropolis for the first time. Army ...

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1943: The Nazis Shoot Down a Passenger Plane in an Attempt to Kill Churchill

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1943: The Nazis Shoot Down a Passenger Plane in an Attempt to Kill Churchill

On this day, during World War II, German Luftwaffe aircraft shot down a Douglas DC-3 civilian airliner ov ...

On this day, during World War II, German Luftwaffe aircraft shot down a Douglas DC-3 civilian airliner over the Bay of Biscay, killing all 17 people on board. The passenger aircraft was flying along ...

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1945: Betrayal in a Castle near Bleiburg

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1945: Betrayal in a Castle near Bleiburg

On this day the tragic events of the 1945 are commemorated, when the British soldiers refused to accept t ...

On this day the tragic events of the 1945 are commemorated, when the British soldiers refused to accept the soldiers of Independent State of Croatia (a German puppet state led by the fascist Ustaše mo ...

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1940: Churchill Holds the Famous “Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat” Speech

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1940: Churchill Holds the Famous “Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat” Speech

It was the time when the first bombs were falling on Britain and the Third Reich was conducting an invasi ...

It was the time when the first bombs were falling on Britain and the Third Reich was conducting an invasion of the Benelux. British prime minister Winston Churchill held his famous speech on “blood, t ...

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1955: Winston Churchill Resigns as British Prime Minister

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1955: Winston Churchill Resigns as British Prime Minister

Churchill`s health was poor at the time of his resignation, but he lived for ten more years, and died at ...

Churchill`s health was poor at the time of his resignation, but he lived for ten more years, and died at the age of 90. Winston Churchill resigned as British Prime Minster on this day in 1955. He was ...

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1854: Churchill’s Mother Remarried to a Man Younger than her Son

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1854: Churchill’s Mother Remarried to a Man Younger than her Son

On this day the mother of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill was born. Her name was Jennie Jerome, ...

On this day the mother of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill was born. Her name was Jennie Jerome, and was an American by nationality. She was born in present-day New York, in one of the wealthi ...

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1874: Churchill’s Mother was an American Beauty

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1874: Churchill’s Mother was an American Beauty

Winston Churchill was born on this day, to one of the most prominent British aristocratic families. His f ...

Winston Churchill was born on this day, to one of the most prominent British aristocratic families. His father was Lord Randolph Churchill, younger son of the seventh Duke of Marlborough and a promine ...

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