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Imperial War Museum Student Film Festival

President Nixon authorises the development of a space shuttle.

6 January 1999

In England, Prince Edward and Sophie Rhys-Jones (the Duke and Duchess of Wessex) announce their engagement.

14 January 1980

In a diplomatic rebuke to the Soviet Union, the UN General Assembly votes 104 to 18 to 'deplore' the Russian intervention in Afghanistan.

16 January 1572
Thomas Howard, the Fourth Duke of Norfolk, is tried for treason for his part in the Ridolfi plot to restore Catholicism in England. He is later executed at the Tower of London.

21 January 1941

World War II: British and Australian forces attack Tobruk, Libya.

22 January 1941

World War II: British and Australian seize Tobruk, Libya.

23 January 2005

In Kiev, Viktor Yushchenko is sworn in as the President of the Ukraine.

15 February 2005

The singer Yusuf Islam, formerly known as Cat Stevens, wins damages from two UK newspapers which falsely claimed he supported terrorism.

16 February 2005

In Cambodia, former Khmer Rouge commander Chhouk Rin loses a final appeal against his conviction in connection with the 1994 murder of three Western tourists.

1 March 1932
The son of Charles Lindbergh, Charles Augustus Lindbergh III, is kidnapped. Click Here for a full crime file.

2 March 1955
In Cambodia, King Norodom Sihanouk abdicates the throne to his father, King Norodom Suramarit, in order to stand for the position of prime minister.

8 March 1801
During the Napoleonic wars, a combined British and Ottoman force take the strategic naval port in French-occupied Egypt at Abukir Bay.

12 March 1868
In Australia, Henry James O'Farrell attempts to assassinate Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh.

14 March 1647
The Thirty Years War: Prince-elector Maximilian I, Duke of Bavaria is forced to sign the Truce of Ulm by France and Sweden. The Truce forced Bavaria to renounce its alliance with Ferdinand II the Holy Roman Emperor.

18 March 1970
Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia is overthrown by General Lon Nol.

19 March 1992
In Britain, The Duke and Duchess of York announces they are to separate.

23 March 1970
From Peking, China Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia announces the establishment of a united front of communist forces to fight the new Cambodian government of Lon Nol.

4 April 1976
Nordon Sihanouk is confined to his house and forced to step down as Head of State in Cambodia by the Khmer Rouge.

18 April 1988
In Israel, Ukraine-born John Demjanjuk is convicted of Nazi War crimes. Demjanjuk who was supposedly “Ivan the terrible” later had his sentence quashed by the Israeli Supreme Court in 1993.

28 April 1986
The Soviet Union admits that there has been a nuclear accident at Chernobyl in the Ukraine.

4 May 1953
In Britain, the Duke of Edinburgh is awarded his pilot's “wings.”

7 May 1920
The Polish army, with the support of Ukrainian Republican troops, seize Kiev from the Soviet Red Army.

15 May 1932
Japanese Prime Minister, Inukai Tsuyoshi, is assassinated in an attempted coup by members of the Japanese Navy. The coup ultimately failed, and has come to be known as the 15th May Incident.

3 June 1937
Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor and former heir to the throne of England, marries American divorcee Wallis Simpson in France.

5 June 1972
In England, The Duke of Windsor is buried at Windsor Castle.

14 June 1991
The Gulf War: In excess of a thousand Kurds besiege the U.S. military base near the northern Iraqi city of Dohuk, begging the American troops not to withdraw from Iraq.

21 June 1942
The Second World War: General Erwin Rommel captures the North African port of Tobruk in Libya.

28 June 1914
Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austrian throne and his wife, Sophie, are assassinated in the Bosnian town of Sarajevo by terrorist Gavrillo Princip.

1 July 1097
The crusaders defeat the Seljuk Turks at the Battle of Dorylaeum in western Turkey.

8 July 1709
Peter the Great, at the head of a 50,000 strong Russian Army, defeats Charles XII of Sweden’s 20,000 troops at the Battle of Poltava in Ukraine.

15 July 1685
James Scott, Duke of Monmouth, the illegitimate son of Charles II, is executed for leading rebellion against uncle, James II.

21 July 1774
The victorious Russian Empire signs the Treaty of Kucuk Kaynarca with the Ottoman Empire ending the Russo-Turkish War of 1768-1774.

22 July 1991
In Milwaukee, American serial killer and cannibal, Jeffrey Dahmer, is arrested. Dahmer is later sentenced to life in prison but was killed by a fellow prisoner in 1994.

23 July 1984
In Britain a Government report confirms that there are higher-than-normal levels of leukaemia in the area surrounding the Sellafield nuclear plant in Cumbria. However, the report states that there is not enough evidence to link the plant to this phenomenon.

27 July 2002
During an air show in Ukraine, a fighter jet crashes into a crowd of spectators, killing 85 people and injuring hundreds more.

29 July 1993
The Israeli Supreme Court overturns John Demjanjuk’s conviction for war crimes. It was alleged that Demjanjuk was the feared Nazi concentration guard known as ‘Ivan the Terrible.’

1 August 1798
A British fleet, commanded by Lord Horatio Nelson, engages with the French fleet at Aboukir Bay in the Battle of the Nile. The French are defeated the next day.

8 August 1988
In Britain, the Duke and Duchess of York announce the birth of their first child, Beatrice.

13 August 1704
English commander, the Duke of Marlborough, wins the Battle of Blenheim in Germany, in which Anglo-Austrian forces under Marlborough and Prince Eugene defeat a combined French and Bavarian army.

16 August 1896
The discovery of gold at Bonanza Creek on the Klondike River starts a gold rush in the Yukon Territory, Canada in 1898.

20 August 636 AD
A Muslim Army defeats the Byzantine Empire at the Battle of Yarmouk.

22 August 2006
Pulkovo Airlines Flight 612 crashes in eastern Ukraine killing 170 people.

24 August 1991
The Parliament of Ukraine declares independence from the Soviet Union.

26 August 1071
The Seljuk Turks defeat the Byzantine Empire at the Battle of Manzikert in modern day Turkey.

8 September 1664
The Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam is seized by the English and renamed New York in honour of the Duke of York, who organised the mission.

9 September 1379
The Treaty of Neuberg is signed dividing the Habsburg land between brothers Dukes Albert III and Leopold III.

11 September 1709
An Anglo-Dutch-Austrian force, commanded by the Duke of Marlborough, defeats the French at the Battle of Malplaquet, the last major land battle of the War of Spanish Succession (1701-1714).

15 September 1830
In England, the Liverpool to Manchester railway line is officially opened. William Huskisson MP travels on the first train, but is tragically run over and killed whilst attempting to step off the train to shake hands with the Duke of Wellington.

22 September 1914
The First World War: In the North Sea, the German U-9 submarine sinks three British cruisers, the Aboukir, the Hogue, and the Cressy, killing a total of 1,400 British sailors.

28 September 1106
Henry I of England defeats his brother Robert Curthose, the Duke of Normandy, at the Battle of Tinchebray in Normandy.

29 September 1941
The Second World War: The Babi Yar massacre of nearly 34,000 Jewish men, women and children carried out the SS begins on the outskirts of Kiev in the Nazi-occupied Ukraine.

7 October 2004
Norodom Sihanouk abdicates from the Cambodian throne.

14 October 1912
U.S. presidential candidate Theodore Roosevelt is shot and wounded in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

23 October 1941
The Second World War: Chief of the Soviet general staff, Georgi Zhukov, assumes command of Red Army operations in order to try and prevent Germany’s rapid advance into the heart of Russia.

27 October 1659
William Robinson and Marmaduke Stevenson, two Quakers who came from England in 1656 to escape religious persecution, are executed in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in America for their religious beliefs.

5 November 1854
The Crimean War: A combined British and French force defeat the Russians at the Battle of Inkerman in modern day Ukraine.

9 November 1988
Vice-President George Bush wins the American Presidential election, defeating Democrat Michael Dukakis.

19 November 1942
The Second World War: Red Army under General Georgi Zhukov launches Operation Uranus, the Soviet counteroffensive against the Germans at the Battle of Stalingrad.

21 November 2004
The Second round of the Ukrainian Presidential elections is held. In what was regarded a fraudulent result, Viktor Yanukovych is eventually declared the winner, sparking what become known as the Orange Revolution.

1 December 1991
A national referendum in the Ukraine overwhelmingly supports the countries declaration of independence issued in August.

8 December 1991
The beginning of the end of the Soviet Union; three of the major republics - Russia, Ukraine and Belarus unite to form the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).

27 December 2004

In a re-run of the Presidential election in Ukraine after electoral fraud had annulled the first result Viktor Yushchenko wins the election and the so-called “Orange Revolution” is victorious.

31 December 2004
Ukraine’s ongoing political crisis continues as Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych resigns.

3 January 1946

Nazi Propagandist William Joyce, the notorious radio broadcaster known as 'Lord Haw-Haw', is hanged for treason.

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