In 1396 the Battle of Nicopolis took place, ending with the defeat of a Crusader army at the hands of an Ottoman army, leading to the end of the Second Bulgarian empire. The Polish capital was surrendered to the Germans two days later in 1971 the UK expelled 105 Soviet Union officials, after USSR trade delegation defector Oleg Lyalin made allegations about spying. It was also the final edition, as the paper was promptly banned by the colonial government in 1878 Dr Charles Drysdale, the senior physician to the Metropolitan Free Hospital, wrote in The Times that “the use of tobacco is one of the most evident of all the retrograde influences of our time” in 1939 Warsaw was blitzed by the Luftwaffe in the first significant city bombing of the Second World War. In 1690 the first multi-page newspaper in America, Publick Occurrences Both Forreign and Domestick, was published in Boston.
