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Helmut Kohl elected Chancellor
Helmut Kohl, (born April 3, 1930, Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany), German politician who served as chancellor of West Germany from 1982 to 1990 and of the reunified German nation from 1990 to 1998. He presided over the integration of East Germany into West Germany in 1990 and thus became the first chancellor of a unified Germany since 1945. -
what u need to know about rationing in the second world
in january 1940 the british government introuduces rationing -
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the former soviet republic was occupid by the naxis between 1941 and 1944. -
john F kennedy
john f kennedy was the first american president to ever visit ireland -
eta fighting killed 118 people
ETA stands for Euskadi Ta Askatasuna, the Basque words for "Basque country and Freedom," which is what the group claims to be fighting for. The Basque region lies in northern Spain and stretches into southwestern France. While Spain has already granted its Basque population far-reaching autonomy, the group demands independence. -
Gro Harlem Brundtlandt became first female prime minister of Norway
A medical doctor and Master of Public Health (MPH), Gro Harlem Brundtland spent 10 years as a physician and scientist in the Norwegian public health system. For more than 20 years she was in public office, 10 of them as Prime Minister. In the 1980s she gained international recognition, championing the principle of sustainable development as the chair of the World Commission of Environment and Development (the Brundtland Commission). -
Spain joined EEC
The euro banknotes and coins were introduced in Spain on 1 January 2002, after a transitional period of three years when the euro was the official currency but only existed as 'book money'. The dual circulation period – when both the Spanish peseta and the euro had legal tender status – ended on 28 February 2002. -
Mario Soares elected first civilian prime minister
His father, João Lopes Soares (d. 1970), had been a liberal republican, often jailed or exiled during the dictatorship of António Oliveira Salazar. The young Soares studied at the University of Lisbon and at the Faculty of Law, Sorbonne, Paris, becoming a student activist and thereafter taking up a law practice defending political dissidents. By the time that the army-imposed right-wing dictatorship fell in 1974, Soares had been jailed 12 times and twice experienced exile, in São Tomé (1968) and -
Military coup failed
WASHINGTON, May 30— Spain, depositing an instrument of ratification with the State Department, formally became the 16th member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization today. -
Major fire destroyed Lisbon's historic center
he earthquake began at 9:30 on November 1st, 1755, and was centered in the Atlantic Ocean, about 200 km WSW of Cape St. Vincent. The total duration of shaking lasted ten minutes and was comprised of three distinct jolts. Effects from the earthquake were far reaching. The worst damage occurred in the south-west of Portugal. Lisbon, the Portuguese capital, was the largest and the most important of the cities damaged. Severe shaking was felt in North Africa and there was heavy loss of life in Fez a -
Belarusian Popular Front formed
When it comes to political field, we have been dragged into the Union State of Russia and Belarus. This has lately allowed the Kremlin to promote deployment of Russian military airbase in Belarus “in order to defend the overall area of the union state”. According to the Constitution of Belarus, our country can’t be a member of any other state. -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
As World War II came to an end in 1945, a pair of Allied peace conferences at Yalta and Potsdam determined the fate of Germany’s territories. They split the defeated nation into four “allied occupation zones”: The eastern part of the country went to the Soviet Union, while the western part went to the United States, Great Britain and (eventually) France.
