First Man in Space (1961)
Monday, 8 May 2017
THE FAMOUS 11
The famous Manchester United Football team whose doom changed the course of football history.
Manchester United Players Die in Munich Air Crash (1958)
The Munich Air Crash happened on 6 February 1958. On board were the affectionately known 'Busby Babes' - the Manchester United football team. Their plane crashed on its third attempt at take off. Twenty three people died, 21 survived.
Mao's Communists Take Over China (1949)
Hiroshima Atomic Bomb (1945)
The first atom bomb to be used as a weapon, "Little Boy" (as was its codename) was dropped on to the flat terrain of Hiroshima on August 6, 1945. The bomb vapourised buildings and killed nearly 70,000 people directly but by the end of 1945, nearly 100,000 had died from its protracted effects.
VE Day Celebrations (1945)
Germans Surrender to Montgomery (1945)
On 4 May 1945 at Lüneburg Heath, near Hamburg, Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery accepted the unconditional surrender of the German forces in the Netherlands, in north west Germany including all islands, and in Denmark and all naval ships in those areas.
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