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15 avril 2021

The Englishman who saved 669 children from the Holocaust in 1938

Sir Nicholas George Winton was a British banker and humanitarian who established an organisation to rescue children at risk from Nazi Germany. In 1938, Nicholas Winton was a young stockbroker in London. He was keenly aware of the events unfolding on the...

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9 décembre 2020

December 11th 1941: War !

The Japanese attack on the US naval base in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, led President Franklin Roosevelt to declare war on Japan. A few days later, Nazi Germany declared war on the United States, and America entered World War II against the Axis powers. On...

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6 décembre 2020

Attack on Pearl Harbor: December 7th 1941

At 7:55 a.m. Hawai time, a Japanese dive bomber bearing the red symbol of the Rising Sun of Japan on its wings appears out of the clouds above the island of Oahu. A swarm of 360 Japanese warplanes followed, descending on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor...

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2 décembre 2020

December 1st 1955: Rosa Park and the Montgomery bus boycott

On the evening of December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks, an African American, was arrested for disobeying an Alabama law requiring black passengers to relinquish seats to white passengers when the bus was full. Blacks also were required to sit at the back of the...

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21 novembre 2020

November 22 1963: President Kennedy was assassinated

On November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated as he rode in a motorcade through Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas. Crowds of excited people lined the streets and waved to the Kennedys. The car turned off Main Street at Dealey Plaza around...

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17 novembre 2020

November 17th 1558: the age of Queen Elizabeth begins

Elizabeth, the half-sister of Queen Mary I takes over as the monarch of the England and Ireland after she dies. The two half sisters had a history of battle because Mary was a staunch Catholic and Elizabeth was a Protestant. Queen Mary enacted much laws...

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8 novembre 2020

Remembrance Sunday and Poppy Day

Remembrance Sunday is held in the United Kingdom as a day to commemorate the contribution of British and Commonwealth military and civilian servicemen and women in the two World Wars and later conflicts.It is held at 11am on the second Sunday in November...

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11 septembre 2019

Memory

9.11.2001 [Attentats Etats-Unis : le film de la catastrophe] Résumé du déroulement des attentats qui ont frappé les Etats-Unis , le 11 septembre 2001. https://www.ina.fr

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