In 1917, French counterintelligence arrested dancer Mata Hari (born Margaretha Geertreude Zelle, Dutch) in Paris on charges of spying for Germany. After sentencing, she was shot in the Chateau de Vincennes on October 15 of the same year.
In 1919, U.S. President Woodrow Wilson decided to unilaterally withdraw U.S. occupation troops from northern Russia. The British War Cabinet acceded to this decision on March 4.
In 1921, the funeral of Prince Kropotkin, a scientist and anarchist.
On this day all anarchists held in Moscow prisons were released on their word of honor. After the funeral at the Novodevichy Cemetery, which took the form of a mass demonstration, they all returned to their places of detention as one, confirming the slogan "anarchy is the mother of order". But it was not this that became a tradition in the Soviet state, but the funeral ceremony of farewell to the deceased in the Hall of Columns at the House of Soviets, which began just as Kropotkin did.
In 1934 The steamer "Chelyuskin" sank, crushed by ice in the Chukchi Sea of the Arctic Ocean. The Chelyuskinites had to spend 2 months on a drifting ice floe. They were taken out by airplanes. 7 pilots involved in this became the first Heroes of the Soviet Union.
In 1945, the troops of the 2nd and 3rd Ukrainian Fronts captured Budapest, the capital of Hungary. 130 thousand German and Hungarian soldiers were captured. The Soviet troops lost more than 80 thousand people killed and died of wounds.
In 1953, a military tribunal in Bordeaux sentenced 45 former SS men to death for war crimes.
In 1960, the first French atomic bomb test took place in the Sahara.
in 1991, militants of the left-wing extremist organization Red Army Faction (RAF) shelled the American Embassy in Bonn. Small arms fire came from across the Rhine. The building was damaged, but there were no casualties.
