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8th February 1587: Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots

On the 8th February 1587 Mary Stuart, more commonly known as Mary, Queen of Scots, was executed in the great hall of Fotheringhay Castle in ...

7th February 1495: Savonarola’s Bonfire of the Vanities

Dominican friar Girolamo Savonarola led the burning of thousands of objects in the Bonfire of the ...

6th February 1958: Munich air disaster kills Manchester Utd players

On the 6th February 1958, British European Airways flight 609 crashed at Munich-Riem Airport while carrying the Manchester United football team, supporters and ...

5th February 1958: Nuclear bomb lost off Tybee Island in Georgia, USA after an in-air collision

An American Mark 15 thermonuclear bomb was lost off Tybee Island near Savannah, Georgia following an in-air ...

4th February 1945: Yalta Conference between Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin begins

Attended by the “Big Three” Allied leaders, the conference saw United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin meet to discuss the government of post-war ...

3rd February 1961: Operation Looking Glass begins its 29-year Cold War flight above the USA

Operation Looking Glass began flying an Airborne Command Post above the United States 24 hours a ...

2nd February 1852: First modern public toilets open in London

On the 2nd February 1852, the world’s first modern public toilets opened in ...

1st February 1960: Start of the Greensboro sit-ins to protest segregation

The Greensboro sit-ins began when four black students sat at the ‘whites only’ lunch counter in the Woolworth department ...

31st January 1990: First McDonald’s opens in the USSR

On the 31st January 1990, fast food chain McDonald’s opened its first restaurant in the Soviet Union on Moscow’s Pushkin ...

30th January 1933: Adolf Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany

Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany by President Paul von ...