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30 Jan
The Death of Mohandas K. Gandhi
- 30th January 1948 -
At 5.10pm on 30th January Gandhi entered the garden of Birla House, New Delhi, to attend an evening prayer meeting. He ascended the four steps to the prayer mandap, a platform put up for the...
date:
24 Jan
The Death of Sir Winston Churchill
- 24th January 1965 -
Having suffered a stroke on 15th January, Winston Churchill lay dying in a downstairs bedroom in his house in Hyde Park Gate, Kensington. His doctor, Lord Moran, gave daily bulletins on...
date:
25 Jan
First Transcontinental Telephone Call
- January 25th 1915 -
Alexander Graham Bell in New York and Thomas Watson in San Francisco make a record telephone transmission. The New York Times said the following:
“On October 9th 1876 Alexander Graham...
date:
18 Jan
The Paris Peace Conference
- 18th January 1919 -
Two months after the official Armistice on 11th November 1918 the matter of how to settle the outstanding issues was hotly debated in Paris. This conference was to result in the Treaty of...
date:
22 Dec
The West German Chancellor walks through the Brandenburg Gate to shake hands with the East German Prime Minister
- December 22nd 1989 -
two great post World War 2 peace conferences at Yalta and Potsdam created a situation that was to symbolise the...
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