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What If D-Day had Failed? 5/6/2004 A special edition of Radio 4's long-running counterfactual history series, What If..? imagines the consequences had the D Day landings failed on 6 June 1944.As ...
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2 days ago · Search the largest and most accurate independent site for today in history. Add Me! Find out what happened today or any day in history with On This Day. Historical events, birthdays, deaths, photos and famous people, from 4000 BC to today.
2 days ago · Retrocession Day. 1945 Japanese surrender Taiwan to General Chiang Kai-shek. Chinese Military and Political Leader Chiang Kai-shek. 1947 Bradman scores 156 for South Australia v India, 152 mins, 22 fours. 1947 Sam Breadon sells Cards to Robert Hannegan & Fred Saigh for $4M.
On this day: 18 September. 1931 18 Sep A railway explosion is faked by the Japanese as a pretext for the invasion of Manchuria, China. 1942 18 Sep Nazi minister of justice Otto Thierack agrees to ...
More Events On This Day. 2003. Soong Mei-ling, the second wife of the Nationalist Chinese president Chiang Kai-shek and a powerful political figure in her own right, died at age 106. Sort fact from fiction in our quiz about China. Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. 2001. Apple introduced the iPod, a portable media player that became one of the most ...
20 February. The Soviets open a new phase in space exploration with the launch of the world's biggest space station, Mir. Two 10-year-old boys are charged with the abduction and murder of two-year-old James Bulger in Liverpool. Hundreds of people are reported to have died in Assam as fierce fighting rages in the run-up to Indian elections.
Birthdays. Deaths. 740 An earthquake strikes Constantinople, causing damage to city walls and buildings. 1366 Comet 55P/1366 U1 (Tempel-Tuttle) approaches within 0.0229 astronomical units of Earth. 1387 Amsterdam buccaneer Herman of Kuinre signs loyalty vow for peace. 1407 Mobs attack Jewish community of Kraków.
