11 Things That Happened This Day In History – 21st February
Rhian Hughes writes on the Here Is The City news site:
Here is a note of 11 things that happened on this day in history
1. 1848 – Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto is published in London
2. 1916 – The Battle of Verdun, the longest and one of the bloodiest engagements of World War I, begins
3. 1952 – The British government under Winston Churchill abolishes identity cards in the UK to ‘set the people free’
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