This time, we're looking back to the week of 30th May - 5th June.
On May 30th, 1913, the Treaty of London signed by the Great Powers, the Ottoman Empire and the victorious Balkan League (Serbia, Greece, Kingdom of Bulgaria, and Montenegro) bringing an end to the First Balkan War.
On May 31st, 1962, the State of Israel hanged German official Adolf Eichmann, who had escaped from a prison camp in 1946 and spent some 14 years in hiding, for his part in the Nazi extermination of Jews during World War II.
On June 1st, 1967, The Beatles released their new album, 'Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band'. Spurred on by the Beach Boy's album, 'Pet Sounds,' this album blended pop, symphonic and Indian musical forms to become a classic.
On June 3rd, 2017: A terrorist attack as three men wearing fake suicide vests drive a van into pedestrians on London Bridge then run to Borough Market where they stab and kill seven and wound 48 before being shot by armed police.
On June 4th, 1940, Following a massive rescue effort that included civilian boats, the withdrawal of Allied troops trapped at Dunkirk, France, was completed on this day during World War II; more than 300,000 soldiers were saved.
On June 5th, 1981, AIDS was reported for the first time, following the detection of a rare form of pneumonia in five homosexual men in Los Angeles.
And in this week in 1975, Tammy Wynette spent her third and final week as the UK's Number One with her hit, 'Stand By Your Man'.
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