A ten-year pact signed in August 1939 between Hitler and Stalin, protecting them from direct and indirect attack against each other. It also secretly divided large parts of eastern Europe between them.
Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact
Fact of the Day
Accounts from 1350 reveal that it cost 6d a day to keep a lion in the menagerie at the Tower of London, but to keep a prisoner cost only 1d.
Quote of the Day
"Parliaments are of the Nature of cats: they ever grow curst with age.
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~ Charles I
On This Day
1829 The Roman Catholic Relief Act received royal assent. It allowed British Catholics to vote, hold public office, and sit in parliament.
1912 The Royal Flying Corps was founded.
1919 British troops slaughter hundreds of unarmed Indian civilians in Amritsar at the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre.
1970 Late in the evening, an explosion in one of the oxygen tanks after a routine procedure caused crisis and a mission abort for Apollo 13.
