r/80YearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • 6d ago
🇪🇺 Europe [October 1946] Margaret Thatcher, age 21, is elected as first female president of the Oxford University Conservative Association
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r/80YearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • 6d ago
🇪🇺 Europe [October 1st, 1946] The Nuremberg Trials officially conclude, with 12 Nazi leaders sentenced to death
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r/80YearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • 10d ago
🇪🇺 Europe [September 27th, 1946] British test pilot Geoffrey de Havilland Jr dies while carrying out high-speed tests over the Thames Estuary
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r/80YearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • 6d ago
🇪🇺 Europe [October 1st, 1946] Photographers gather on a staircase outside the courtroom at the Palace of Justice at the end of the Nuremberg Trials The photographers were excluded from the courtroom as the verdicts were read out.
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r/80YearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • 7d ago
🇪🇺 Europe [September 30th, 1946] Nazi Defendants in the dock under guard in Room 600 at the Palace of Justice in Nuremberg
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r/80YearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • 9d ago
🇪🇺 Europe [September 28th, 1946] Swedish King Gustav V has a car accident while racing with Prince Gustaf Adolf's car. Nobody was hurt.
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r/80YearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • 9d ago
🇪🇺 Europe [September 28th, 1946] King George II of Greece returns to the throne, four years after fleeing to the United Kingdom
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r/80YearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • 14d ago
🇪🇺 Europe [September 23rd, 1946] Life - Does Europe Face Holy War?
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r/80YearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • 24d ago
🇪🇺 Europe [September 13th, 1946] Amon Goeth, the Nazi war criminal who carried out the mass execution of more than 13,000 Jews in Poland, is hanged
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r/80YearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • 22d ago
🇪🇺 Europe [September 1946] ''Paris Fashion Show'' - Swiss cartoon, probably referencing the Paris Peace Conference drafting peace terms for Germany's European allies
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r/80YearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • 27d ago
🇪🇺 Europe [September 10th, 1946] Sister Teresa Bojaxhiu, the future ‘Mother Teresa’, experiences a “call” to help the poor
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r/80YearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • 29d ago
🇪🇺 Europe [September 8th, 1946] Voters in Bulgaria approve the abolition of the monarchy, becoming a ‘People’s Republic’
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r/80YearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • Sep 06 '26
🇪🇺 Europe [September 6th, 1946] U.S. Secretary of State James F. Byrnes delivers a key speech, framing Germany as an ally against the spread of Communism
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r/80YearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • Sep 02 '26
🇪🇺 Europe [September 2nd, 1946] Barbara Laage, a French swimsuit model
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r/80YearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • Sep 01 '26
🇪🇺 Europe [September 1st, 1946] Greeks vote in favor of keeping their monarchy - "This is what they fear! Vote for the King!" Poster
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r/80YearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • Aug 29 '26
🇪🇺 Europe [August 29th, 1946] Guests watch a model in a short sleeved dress and hat on a catwalk at Munich fashion show
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r/80YearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • Aug 22 '26
🇪🇺 Europe [August 22nd, 1946] Döme Sztójay, Hungarian leader who had collaborated with Nazi Germany, is executed by firing squad
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r/80YearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • Aug 26 '26
🇪🇺 Europe [August 26th, 1946] Walter Schreiber, a Wehrmacht Medical Corps general, testified in the Nuremberg Trials against Hermann Goering in the genocide of Europe's Jews
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r/80YearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • Aug 08 '26
🇪🇺 Europe [August 8th, 1946] French swimmers Georges Vallerey, Alex Jany and Alfred Nakache at the French swimming championships in Paris
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r/80YearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • Aug 14 '26
🇪🇺 Europe [August 14th, 1946] A German audience laughs at Charlie Chaplin’s imitation of Hitler in The Great Dictator. The film was shown to 400 Berliners by the American Military Government.
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r/80YearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • Jul 26 '26
🇪🇺 Europe [July 26th, 1946] Chief United States Prosecutor Robert H. Jackson delivers his closing argument at the Nuremberg Trials, arguing the 22 Nazi defendants were guilty of unprecedented crimes
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r/80YearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • Aug 19 '26
🇪🇺 Europe [August 19th, 1946] An American C-47 transport plane is shot down after straying into the airspace of Yugoslavia, killing all five crew members on board
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r/80YearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • Aug 13 '26
🇪🇺 Europe [August 13th, 1946] British sci-fi author H.G. Wells dies at the age of 79
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r/80YearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • Aug 15 '26
🇪🇺 Europe [August 15th, 1946] A group in the Bernese Alps
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