| 14th October 1066 | Battle of Hastings
What transpired to be one of the most significant battles in British history
For more information see :http://www.battle1066.com/
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| 6th January 1412 | Joan of Arc born
Girl warrior who fought the English but was eventually burnt at the stake. After her death she was re-tried and found not guilty. Well that's all right then!
For more information see :http://www.distinguishedwomen.com/biographies/joanarc.html
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| 6th July 1747 | John Paul Jones born
One of the founders of the US Navy
For more information see :http://www.chinfo.navy.mil/navpalib/traditions/html/jpjones.html
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| 11th January 1755 | Alexander Hamilton born
U.S Revoltionary, sometime aide to Washington and latter day politician
For more information see :http://www.ushistory.org/brandywine/special/art08.htm
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| 19th June 1812 | The US declares war on Britain
There are a number of reasons behind the declaration but one of the principal ones is that Britain is supporting the indians who have resisted the genocide that the US government is attempting.
For more information see :http://www.historyguy.com/anglo_american_wars.htm
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| 6th April 1814 | Napoleon abdicates and is banished to Elba
His banishment was but a short one and he was to return shortly only be to defeated at the Battle of Waterloo
For more information see :http://www.napoleonguide.com/
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| 25th August 1814 | British troops burn the Whitehouse down
The Aliens in the film Independence Day weren't the first ones to destroy the residence of the US President
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| 11th February 1815 | The Anglo American war ends
There are a number of reasons behind the declaration but one of the principal ones is that Britain is supporting the indians who have resisted the genocide that the US government is attempting.
For more information see :http://www.historyguy.com/anglo_american_wars.htm
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| 18th June 1815 | The Battle of Waterloo
Napoleon's last battle and the end of the Napoleonic war
For more information see :http://www.trabel.com/waterloo/waterloo-thebattle.htm
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| 6th March 1836 | The Battle of the Alamo - Mexico 1 - Texas 0
The famous battle immortalised, albeit inaccurately, which despite being a loss for the Texans marks an important point in the Texas Revolution
For more information see :http://www.thealamo.org/
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| 5th December 1839 | George Armstrong Custer born
Custer rose through the ranks of the US Army during the civil war and then after the war merrily went around slaughtering indians. Until he finally got his come uppence at the Battle of the Little Big Horn. He is held up as an American hero but it is thought that he probably didn't live up to his image.
For more information see :http://georgearmstrongcuster.com/
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| 29th August 1842 | The Opium war ends
This the first of the two Opium wars ended up foring China to open up a number of ports to British ships and to cede Hong Kong to the British
For more information see :http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/history/A0836734.html
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| 13th May 1846 | The US declares war on Mexico
The two year war was essentially a boundary dispute between Mexico and the US prinipally involving Texas, New Mexico and California.
For more information see :http://www.dmwv.org/mexwar/mexwar1.htm
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| 14th September 1847 | The US-Mexican war ends in victory for the US
The two year war was essentially a boundary dispute between Mexico and the US prinipally involving Texas, New Mexico and California.
For more information see :http://www.dmwv.org/mexwar/mexwar1.htm
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| 2nd February 1848 | Mexico cedes New Mexico, Texas and California to the USA
As a result of the American Mexican war the US gains these three, soon to be, states
For more information see :http://www.dmwv.org/mexwar/mexwar1.htm
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| 25th September 1854 | The Battle of Balaclava (including the Charge of the Light Brigade)
Although the Charge of the Light Brigade goes down in the annals of military cock ups as a hum dinger the out come of the battle as a whole is less clear. Truthfully it is prehaps best considered a draw.
For more information see :http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/battles_balaclava.html
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| 30th March 1856 | Crimean war ends
Essentially a war between the major empires of europe with Britain, France, Turkey and Austria on one side and Russia on the other. Russia was the loser in the end.
For more information see :http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/wars_crimean.html
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| 10th May 1857 | Sepoy mutiny
The mutany began when new cartridges were issued to native troops which were greased with pork and beef fat and had to be bitten off. Offensive to Hinus and Moslems it erupted the smoldering resentment.
For more information see :http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/civil_n2/histscript6_n2/sepoy.html
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| 21st March 1858 | The Indian Mutany ends
The mutany began when new cartridges were issued to native troops which were greased with pork and beef fat and had to be bitten off. Offensive to Hinus and Moslems it erupted the smoldering resentment.
For more information see :http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/civil_n2/histscript6_n2/sepoy.html
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| 12th April 1861 | The American civil war begins
Officially the war concerned whether the individual states had supremacy over the Federal Government. Realistically it had more to do with powerful slave owners wanting to retain their cheap labour.
Put another way was the negro to be treated as a slave or a second class citizen.
For more information see :http://www.civilwar.com/timehome.php
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| 9th April 1865 | The American civil war ends
The Federal forces of the Northern States win leaving around 600,000 American dead. The slaves are freed but it takes another 100 years before they gain equal rights
For more information see :http://www.civilwar.com/timehome.php
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| 19th July 1870 | Franco Prussian war starts
Essentially the war was as a result of France wanting to expand eastwards towards the Rhine. Much of the disputed territory remained disputed right up until the second world war. In saying France wanting to expand, it should be added French leaders, ie the ones that weren't going to get killed in battle.
For more information see :http://uk.geocities.com/fpw1870/
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| 10th May 1871 | The Franco Prussian war ends
France lose and the course is set for German Unification.
For more information see :http://uk.geocities.com/fpw1870/
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| 25th June 1876 | Battle of the Little Big Horn
Indians 1 Custer 0 - I like happy endings
For more information see :http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/custer.htm
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| 7th August 1876 | Mata Hari born
World War one prostitute that was shot by the French as a German spy. She seems to have been a double agent as she was working for the French as well but by all accounts she wasn't a very successful one.
For more information see :http://www.firstworldwar.com/bio/matahari.htm
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| 26th January 1880 | Douglas MacArthur born
US General famous for his parting words from the Phillapines 'I will return' which he did. He went on to be supreme command in Korea and eventually came to the really bright conclusion that they should nuke the enemy. Eventually the President had to sack him.
For more information see :http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/douglas_macarthur.htm
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| 11th November 1885 | George Patton born
Arrogant US General of the second world war. Nick named Blodd and Guts he issued a number of stupid orders to establish how tough his troops were, such as the windscreens on Jeeps should always be in their collapesed position. He was known to be feircely loyal to his troops but paradoxically once struck a shell shocked soldier as a coward.
For more information see :http://www.generalpatton.com/biography.html
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| 26th January 1886 | General Gordon of Khartoum is killed
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| 2nd May 1892 | Baron Von Richthofen born
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| 25th April 1898 | The Spanish American war begins
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| 12th October 1899 | The Boer war starts
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| 20th May 1900 | Relief of Mafeking
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| 7th September 1901 | The Boxer revolution ends
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| 31st May 1902 | The Boer War ends
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| 4th August 1912 | Raoul Wallenberg born
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| 28th June 1914 | Archduke Fredinand is assassinated sparking the WW1
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| 22nd April 1915 | The Germans use Poison gas for the first time in warfare
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| 8th May 1915 | The Lusitania torpedoed by Germans
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| 12th October 1915 | The nurse Edith Cavell is executed by the Germans
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| 20th December 1915 | The Allies evacuate Galipoli
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| 27th January 1916 | Conscription introduced into Britain
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| 16th June 1916 | Lord Kitchener killed
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| 16th March 1917 | Czar Nicholes II or Russia abdicates
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| 6th April 1917 | The US joins the first word war
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| 1st April 1918 | The RAF is formed from the Royal Flying Corps
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| 16th July 1918 | The Russian Royal Family are executed
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| 18th January 1919 | The Varsailles peace conference begins
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| 21st June 1919 | The German fleets scuttles its self at Scapra Flow
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| 28th June 1919 | The Versailles treaty is signed
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| 11th November 1919 | The Armistice begins
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| 12th June 1929 | Anne Frank born
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| 20th March 1933 | Dachau concentration camp opened
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| 22nd August 1934 | Norman Schwarzkopf born
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| 19th May 1935 | T.E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) dies
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| 3rd October 1935 | Italy invade Ethiopia
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| 17th July 1936 | Franco leads an uprising in Spanish Morocco signalling the start of the Spanish Civil War
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| 27th April 1937 | Guernica in Spain is destroyed by Luftwaffe
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| 1st August 1937 | Buchenwald Concentration camp opened
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| 28th March 1939 | Spanish Civil War ends
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| 1st September 1939 | Germany invades Poland
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| 3rd September 1939 | Britain and France declare war on Germany
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| 7th September 1939 | Germans blitz London
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| 17th September 1939 | USSR invades Poland
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| 9th April 1940 | Germany invades Norway
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| 4th June 1940 | Evacuation of Dunkirk ends
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| 1st July 1940 | Germans invade the Channel Islands
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| 10th July 1940 | Battle of Britain starts
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| 15th September 1940 | RAF win Battle of Britain
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| 15th November 1940 | Germans bomb Coventry
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| 10th May 1941 | Vice Furher Rudolf Hess lands in Scotland
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| 22nd June 1941 | Germany invades Russia
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| 7th December 1941 | Japan attack Pearl Harbour
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| 11th December 1941 | Germany and Italy declare war on America
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| 1st February 1942 | Quisling appointed prime minister of Norway
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| 15th February 1942 | Singapore captured by Japanese
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| 15th February 1942 | Singapore surrendered to the Japanese
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| 8th March 1942 | Java captured by Japanese
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| 26th March 1942 | Deportation of Jews to Auschwitz begins
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| 15th April 1942 | Malta awarded the George Cross
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| 1st June 1942 | Mexico declares war on the Axis
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| 4th June 1942 | Battle of Midway
The first major battle between the Americans and the Japanese since Pearl Harbour and proved to be a turning point in the Pacific war.
For more information see :http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/battles_midwaylong.html
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| 7th June 1942 | Battle of Midway ends in US Victory over Japanese
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| 8th June 1942 | Japanese shell Sydney and Newcastle
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| 21st June 1942 | Germans take Tobruk
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| 18th August 1942 | The Dieppe raid takes place
The disasterious raid by British and Canadian troops on occupied Dieppe
For more information see :http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/battles_dieppe2.html
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| 19th August 1942 | Dieppe raid
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| 22nd August 1942 | Brazil declares war on Germany and Italy
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| 30th October 1942 | Battle of El Alamein ends in Allied victory
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| 11th November 1942 | Germans invade Vichy France
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| 2nd February 1943 | The Siege of Stalingrad ends
The titanic battle between the Soviet and German forces finally ends in German defeat and marked the turning point in the Eastern Front.
For more information see :http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/battles_stalingrad.html
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| 2nd February 1943 | Germans surrender at Stalingrad
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| 14th April 1943 | Germans evacuate North Africa
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| 16th May 1943 | Warsaw uprising ends
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| 17th May 1943 | Dambusters raid destorys 3 dams in the Ruhr
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| 10th July 1943 | Allies invade Sicily
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| 8th September 1943 | Italy surrenders
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| 13th October 1943 | Italy declares war on Germany
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| 22nd January 1944 | Allies land at Anzio
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| 27th January 1944 | Seige of Leningrad ends
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| 18th May 1944 | Monte Casino falls to British and Polish forces
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| 18th May 1944 | Monte Cassino falls to allies
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| 4th June 1944 | Rome falls to the Allies
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| 5th June 1944 | Rome liberated
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| 6th June 1944 | D-Day
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| 20th July 1944 | Adulf Hitler survives bomb blast attempt on his life
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| 1st August 1944 | Warsaw uprising begins
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| 15th August 1944 | Allied invasion of Southern France
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| 25th August 1944 | Paris liberated
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| 17th September 1944 | Airborne invasion of Holland begins
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| 14th October 1944 | Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, the Desert Fox, commits suicide
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| 17th December 1944 | Germany launches Ardennes Offensive (Battle of the Bulge)
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| 27th January 1945 | Auschwitz Liberated
For more information see :http://www.yadvashem.org/
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| 14th February 1945 | Dresden Firestorm air raid
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| 15th April 1945 | Bergen-Belsen concentration camp liberated
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| 17th April 1945 | Buchenwald concentration camp liberated by Americans
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| 21st April 1945 | Red army enters Berlin
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| 27th April 1945 | US and Russian troops link up at the river Elba
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| 30th April 1945 | Dachau concentration camp liberated by Americans
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| 7th May 1945 | Germany signs unconditional surrender
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| 8th May 1945 | VE Day
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| 21st June 1945 | US Troops take Okinawa
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| 6th August 1945 | The first atomic bomb is dropped on Hiroshima
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| 8th August 1945 | USSR declares war on Japan
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| 9th August 1945 | Nagasaki becomes second city to suffer a nuclear attack
Nagasaki is destroyed 2 days after the first bomb was dropped on Hiroshima and Japan finally surrender.
For more information see :http://www1.city.nagasaki.nagasaki.jp/na-bomb/museum/museume01.html
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| 15th August 1945 | VJ Day
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| 24th November 1945 | Quisling is executed
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| 26th May 1950 | Fuel rationing ends
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| 3rd October 1952 | Tea rationing ends
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| 5th February 1953 | Sweet Rationing ends in Britain
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| 4th July 1954 | Food rationing ends in Britain
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| 26th July 1956 | Egypt ceases Suez canal
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| 5th June 1967 | Six day war starts
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| 10th June 1967 | Six day war ends
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| 15th January 1973 | President Nixon orders ceasefire in Vietnam
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| 6th October 1973 | Egypt and Syria attack Israel
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| 20th July 1974 | Turkey invades Cyprus
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| 30th April 1975 | Vietnam war ends
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| 2nd April 1982 | Falkland Islands invaded by Argentina
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| 25th April 1982 | Royal Marines retake South Georgia
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| 14th June 1982 | Falklands war ends
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| 25th October 1983 | US Invades Grenada
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| 3rd July 1987 | Nazi war criminal, Klaus Barbie is sentenced to life imprisonment
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| 17th August 1987 | Former Deputy Furher Rodulf Hess commits suicide
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| 20th December 1989 | US Invades Panama
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| 2nd August 1990 | Iraq invades Kuwait
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| 2nd August 1990 | Iraq invades Kuwait
Saddam Hussain invaded Kuwait on a pretext and sparked what was to become the first Gulf War.
For more information see :http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/wars_gulf1990.html
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| 17th January 1991 | The first gulf war begins
Following Iraq's invasion of Kuwait the previous August the Coalition forces launch there counter attack. By 1st March they had successfully pushed the Iraqis out of Kuwait thus restoring freedom to the country. Well freedom for its previous dictators to continue there human rights abuses. Unfortunately for less than noble reasons President George Bush stopped the advance into Iraq thus leaving Hussain in power, comdeming thousands more to death and leaving a problem that would clearly need to be addressed again at a later date. (By his equally stupid son as it turned out).
For more information see :http://www.historyofwar.org/articles/wars_gulf1990.html
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| 17th January 1991 | First Gulf War starts
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| 28th February 1991 | First Gulf war ends
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| 7th October 2001 | US attacks Afganistan
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| 7th December 2001 | Taleban surrender Kabul
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| 20th March 2003 | 2nd Gulf war starts
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| 14th December 2003 | Saddam Hussain captured
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