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Gelsenkirchen in History

Browse historical events and people recorded at Gelsenkirchen in Great Britain. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.

1 records1 event labels1 people1940–1940

Historical events in Gelsenkirchen

1940

17 November 1940
Bombing of Gelsenkirchen
Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill · World War, 2nd

British bombers conduct a raid on the Gelsenkirchen oil plant

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