1915 British battle cruisers Inflexible & Irresistible hit mines in Dardanelles.
1935 Adolf Hitler orders German re-armament in violation of The Treaty of Versailles.
1944 French Vichy Internal minister Pierre Pucheu sentenced to death for treason.
1945 Würzburg, Germany is 90% destroyed, with 5,000 dead, in only 20 minutes by British bombers.
1955 President Eisenhower upholds the use of atomic weapons in case of war.
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