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Back to Search11th February 1929: The Lateran Treaty signed between the Italian state and the Roman Catholic Church
The Lateran Treaty recognised the Vatican City as an independent sovereign state under the authority of the pope and, in return, formally recognised …
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10th February 1906: Edward VII launches HMS Dreadnought, a revolutionary new type of battleship that made all other ships obsolete
Germany quickly began developing an equivalent ship to the Dreadnought, resulting in a naval arms race that contributed to the outbreak of the First …
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9th February 1969: First test flight of the Boeing 747 ‘Jumbo Jet’ at Paine Field in Washington State
The plane, named the City of Everett, left the Paine Field runway near Everett in Washington State – about 30 miles north of Seattle – and successful…
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8th February 1867: The Ausgleich, or the Austro-Hungarian Compromise, establishes the Dual Monarchy of Austria-Hungary
The empire was reorganised into two legally distinct states governed from Vienna and Budapest. Each possessed its own parliament and domestic adminis…
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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 ...
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6th February 1958: Munich Air Disaster kills 23 members of the Manchester United football team after BEA flight 609 crashes at Munich-Riem airport
Flight 609 hit slush on the runway, causing the plane to skid off the end of the runway before crashing through the airport fence, speeding across a …
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5th February 1597: The Twenty-Six Martyrs of Japan executed in Nagasaki
The group, which included six foreign Franciscan friars, three Japanese Jesuits, and seventeen Japanese lay Christians, was sentenced to death by Toy…
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4th February 1945: Yalta Conference begins, attended by the ‘Big Three’ of Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin
The conference saw Allied leaders United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Premier Joseph S…
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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 ...
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2nd February 1887: First officially recorded Groundhog Day observance takes place in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania
The custom of predicting the weather using an animal drew on older beliefs brought to North America by German-speaking immigrants, whose tradition st…
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