On this day in 1940, Germany invades Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and France. More than 3 million troops, 7,300 guns and 2,500 tanks are unleashed. After just 45 days of Blitzkrieg, Paris will be in Hitler's hands.
Today in 1945, Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin meet at Yalta in Crimea to plan for the end of the war in Europe. Talks focus on the partition of Germany and the future of Poland. Within weeks FDR will be dead and Moscow soon reneges on its pledge to allow free elections in Poland
On this day in 1945, Soviet troops liberate Auschwitz. During the five years the camp was operational, 1.1 million people were murdered there. One out of every six Jews killed in the Holocaust died at Auschwitz.
On this day in 1814, a legion of diplomats descend onto Vienna to map out post-Napoleonic Europe and (hopefully) prevent future wars. Their new world order will be temporarily upended six months later after Bonaparte escapes from Elba.
James Earl „Jimmy“ Carter Jr., späterer 39. Präsident der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika und Friedensnobelpreisträger 2002, wird in Plains, Georgia geboren. Er ist der älteste noch lebende US-Präsident.
Happy Birthday Mr. Carter
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Neben der weiterhin umlaufenden Rentenmark wird im Deutschen Reich die Reichsmark eingeführt, die im Wertverhältnis 1:1 zur Rentenmark steht.
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On this day in 1944, street fighting erupts in Paris as the French Resistance rises up against German troops occupying the city. The violence continues until Aug. 25 when Allied armies arrive to liberate Paris.
On this day in 1964, the American destroyer USS Maddox opens fire on North Vietnamese patrol boats in the Gulf of Tonkin. Washington uses the engagement, along with a false report of another incident two days later, to justify military intervention in Southeast Asia.
RIGHT NOW in 1914, the Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary and his wife Sophie are fatally shot in Sarajevo by a 19-year-old Serbian nationalist named Gavrilo Princip. The incident touches off a diplomatic crisis that plunges Europe into war.
Franz Kafka, einer der bedeutendsten Vertreter der Prager deutschen Literatur und deutschen Literatur des 20. Jahrhunderts überhaupt, im Alter von 40 Jahren an Herzversagen in Folge einer Kehlkopftuberkulose in Kierling, Österr. gestorben.
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Um den verstorbenen Revolutionär und Staatsgründer Wladimir Iljitsch Lenin dauerhaft zu ehren, entscheidet der Rätekongress der UdSSR, die Stadt Petrograd in Leningrad umzubenennen.
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On this day in 1492, the Muslim stronghold of Granada surrenders to the armies of Castile and Aragon ending more than 700 years of Islamic rule on the Iberian Peninsula.
On this day in 1943, the German battleship Scharnhorst is sunk by the Royal Navy off Norway's North Cape. Author and MHN contributor @SimonReadBooks tells the story here https://t.co/P0fOnMeJAB
On this day in 1943, Stalin, FDR and Churchill meet at Tehran to discuss war strategy. It's the first of the famous wartime conferences of the "Big Three" Allied leaders.