1934: Hitler becomes Führer
Chancellor Adolf
Hitler becomes sole leader of
Germany upon the death of President Paul von Hindenburg. The
German army swore allegiance to the Führer, who planned the
rearmament of Germany and vast territorial expansion. In little more than a decade, the National Socialist (Nazi) Party had risen from a radical splinter group to Germany's ruling party, allowing Hitler to seize powers previously divided among president, chancellor, and the
Reichstag. With Hindenburg's death, the last remnants of Germany's democratic government were dismantled, leaving Hitler--a megalomaniac intent on war and genocide--in command of the nation.
1990
Iraq invades Middle East neighbours
Kuwait and takes control of the country in eight hours. The Kuwaiti royal family flees to
Saudi Arabia. 1980
Right-wing terrorists explode a bomb at Bologna Railway Station in northern
Italy which kills 84 people and injures another 100.
1974
John Dean, American
lawyer and member of staff at the
White House, is sent to a jail for his part in covering up the
Watergate break-in.
1973
In
Britain, more than 40 people are killed when fire sweeps through the Summerland Amusement Centre at Douglas on the Isle of Man.
1945
World War II: The end of the
Potsdam Conference at which the Allied leaders decided on the post-war treatment of
Germany and called for the unconditional surrender of
Japan. 1939
Scientist Albert Einstein, concerned that
German scients are working on powerful uranium bombs, writes to US President Roosevelt urging him to start research into building an
atomic bomb. 1935
Britain passes the Government of India Act - separating
Burma and
Aden from
India. 1923
Calvin Coolidge becomes the 30th US President following the sudden death of Warren Harding after his return from a trip to Alaska. 1876
James Butler - US Marshall
Wild Bill Hickok - is shot dead by Jack McCall while playing poker in a saloon in Deadwood, South
Dakota. His poker hand - two black aces, two black eights and the jack of diamonds - becomes known as 'the dead man's hand'.
1875
Britain's first roller-skating rink opens in Belgravia, London.1784
The first specially-built Royal Mail coach begins its' scheduled service from Bristol to London.1589
Henry III of France is assassinated by Jacques Clement.1100
William II of England, son of William the Conqueror, is killed by an arrow while hunting in the New Forest, Hampshire - allegedly mistaken for a deer. 1944
Joseph Kennedy Jr,
navy pilot and brother of future US President
1936
French aviator Louis Bleriot.1923
29th US President Warren Harding (1921-1923) dies in San Francisco 1921
Italian tenor Enrico Caruso, aged 48, dies in Naples.1100
William II of England is killed by an arrow while out hunting in the New Forest, Hampshire - allegedly mistaken for a deer.
