18 May 1904
Ship Detection Radar
Demonstrates the Telemobiloscope for detecting ships through fog.
Historical place archive
Browse historical events and people recorded at Rotterdam in Germany. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
Demonstrates the Telemobiloscope for detecting ships through fog.
Rotterdam is reduced to a blazing ruin for the German invasion of France
The 9th Panzer Division reaches Rotterdam
Receives the surrender of Belgium
The Dutch Army surrenders after the Bombing of Rotterdam by the Luftwaffe
The Dutch Army surrenders after the Bombing of Rotterdam by the Luftwaffe
Provenance
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