Video: 'The Great War - S01E02 - For Such a Stupid Reason Too' (August 1, 1914, at 30:03)
(Saturday, August 1, 1914, 7:30 p.m. local time; during World War I) — The German Ambassador, in the name of his Government, sent a declaration of war to the Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs at 7:30 o’clock this evening. Count von Pourtales and the entire staff of the German Embassy then left St. Petersburg.
Video: 'Battle Of Warsaw.'
(Tuesday, August 1, 1944, 5:00 p.m. local time; part of Operation Tempest during World War II) — The Warsaw Uprising, a major operation by the Polish resistance Home Army to liberate Warsaw from Nazi Germany began today to coincide with the Soviet Union’s Red Army approaching the eastern suburbs of the city and the retreat of German forces. Continue reading Warsaw Uprising against Nazi Germany begins 70 years ago today (Aug 1 1944)
(Tuesday, August 1, 1944; part of The Holocaust during World War II) — On Anne Frank‘s 758th day in hiding in a secret apartment behind her father’s business in German-occupied Amsterdam, the 15-year-old girl made her last entry in her diary, writing about her “little bundle of contradictions” just three days before she, her family, the van Pel family and dentist Fritz Pfeffer were unexpectedly discovered and arrested.
