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History War & Conflict

A German U-boat sinks the liner Lusitania off Ireland

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History War & Conflict

Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands, starting the Falklands War

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History War & Conflict

Breaking the Enigma code may have shortened WWII by years

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Britain declared war on Germany, entering World War I

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Science Physics

Britain detonates its first hydrogen bomb in the Pacific

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History War & Conflict

Chemical weapons saw their first large-scale use at the Second Battle of Ypres

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History Modern

The Berlin Wall fell after a garbled press conference in 1989

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History War & Conflict

Germany's V-1 flying bombs first struck London

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History War & Conflict

The Gulf War ground war ends in 100 hours

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History War & Conflict

Iraq invaded Kuwait

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History War & Conflict

Tanks were used in battle for the first time

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The Dunkirk evacuation begins, a flotilla rescues a trapped army

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The first 1,000-bomber air raid strikes Cologne

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History War & Conflict

The Soviet Union invaded Finland, starting the Winter War

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Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia, lighting the fuse of World War I

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Enemy soldiers stopped fighting to share Christmas in 1914

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D-Day was the largest seaborne invasion in history

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