Category: event & history
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The Liberation of Paris, Wednesday, August 23, 1944.
Day 5 – Liberation of Paris, Wednesday, 23 August 1944. Parisians listen with stupefaction as the BBC in London prematurely announces that the capital has been liberated by its own population. Heavy fighting is still taking place throughout the capital.
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Russian-born Princess Véra Obolensky Guillotined by the Nazis in Berlin. August 4, 1944.
On August 4, 1944, Russian-born Princess Véra Obolensky was guillotined by the Nazis at Ploetzensee prison in Berlin. She began working for the French Resistance in late 1940. Arrested in Paris in late 43, she was sentenced to death in Arras in May 1944 and then deported to Germany.
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Known Olympians Who Lost Their Lives During the Second World War.
Now that the Paris Olympics have started, here is a short piece on just some of the 403 known Olympians who lost their lives during the Second World War. Géo André was a French track and field star whose first Olympics were those of London in 1908 and who, despite being badly wounded in the…
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Yalta Conference, February 1945.
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin met at Yalta in February 1945 to discuss their joint occupation of Germany and plans for postwar Europe. Behind them stand, from the left, Field Marshal Sir Alan Brooke, Fleet Admiral Ernest King, Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy, General of the…
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The Beatles departed from London’s Heathrow Airport, destined for America, with 4,000 jubilant fans waving and screaming as the aircraft took off. February 7, 1964.
Image: The Beatles arriving in New York, 7 February 1964. (Public Domain) On this day in history, February 7, 1964, the British singing group, the Beatles, departed from London’s Heathrow Airport with 4,000 jubilant fans waving and screaming as the aircraft took off. Upon landing at New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport, a boisterous crowd…
History Daily With Francis Chappell Black 