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On this day - 7 March

Historical items of interest as featured in the papers of the day.

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Hitler breaches the Treaty of Versailles

Yorkshire Post 07/03/1936

By sending troops into the Rhineland, Hitler broke the Treaty of Versailles. Under the treaty, the Rhineland was a demilitarised zone. He denounced the Locarno Treaty in a speech given while troops marched into the Rhineland under his orders. Neither France nor Great Britain intervened to enforce the treaties, leaving Germany to continue with their remilitarisation and expansionist goals.

The Yorkshire Times publishes this news with a set of images including Hitler delivering his speech and the movement of troops.

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Queen Elizabeth's first Instagram post

Daily Mirror 07/03/2019
On March 7th 2019 Queen Elizabeth II made her first post on Instagram. She shared an image of a letter that was sent from Charles Babbage to Prince Albert. She sent the Instagram post from the Science Musuem in London while there to view an exhibition. Interestingly, she also sent her first tweet from the Science Museum in 2014 while opening an exhibition there.

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