January 1, 1970

Coventry, an industrial city in the West Midlands, produced nearly a quarter of all British aircraft and was bombed repeatedly throughout 1940. There were seventeen small raids on the city between August and October 1940. But during the night of 14 November, German bombers hit the city harder than ever before. Once they had marked the target with flares, a combination of high explosive bombs and aerial mines shattered many buildings and once the incendiary bombs fell, fires began to take hold. Around six hundred people were killed and more than two-thirds of the city’s buildings damaged in that one night.

Here is a link to the news report on that day.