Anniversaries 2024
JANUARY
1st January 1999 The Euro becomes the official currency in 11 European countries
21st January 1924 Vladimir Ilyich Lenin dies . 27th January placed in Mausoleum in Red Square, Moscow
FEBRUARY
7th February 1999 King Hussein of Jordan dies
13th February 1974 Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Russian novelist and historian, is deported from the Soviet Union and stripped of his Soviet citizenship
MARCH
24th March 1999 NATO commences air strikes on the former republic of Yugoslavia in response to attacks on Kosovo.
APRIL
4th April 1949 North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) treaty signed in Washington, D.C. / 24th August 1949 North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) goes into effect
26th April 1964 Tanganyika and Zanzibar unite to become Tanzania
MAY
23rd May 1949 The Federal Republic of Germany (BRD) is established.
JUNE
28th/29th June 1974 Military coup in Ethiopia / 12th September 1974 Emperor Haile Selassie is deposed
JULY
15th July 1974 Military coup on Cyprus
20th July 1974 Turkish troops invade Cyprus (N.B. actual footage of paratroopers landing is ITN)
27th July 1949 De-Havilland Comet first commercial passenger jet airliner takes its first test flight
AUGUST
26th August 1974 Charles Lindbergh, first person to fly solo across the Atlantic, dies
30th August 1999 East Timor referendum votes for independence from Indonesia.
SEPTEMBER
1st September 2004 School siege in Beslan begins
OCTOBER
1st October 1949 The People's Republic of China is proclaimed
7th October 1949 The German Democratic Republic (DDR) is founded
NOVEMBER
11th November 2004 Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat dies
22nd November 2004 Ukraine's Orange Revolution begins in protest at the results of the presidential election
DECEMBER
26th December 2004 Boxing Day tsunami
31st December 1999 Boris Yeltsin resigns as President of Russia and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is left as acting President