On the 3rd April 1882, the American outlaw Jesse James was shot dead by fellow gang-member Robert Ford.
11th October 1975: Saturday Night Live is broadcast for the first time
11th October 2019
On the 29th March 1973, the last American troops withdrew from South Vietnam.
On the 19th March 1962, American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan released his eponymous debut album.
On the 5th March 1946, Winston Churchill described the post-war division of Europe as an “iron curtain” in his “Sinews of Peace” address at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, under his pen-name Mark Twain, had previously published the novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer in which the character of Huckleberry “Huck” Finn is introduced for the first time.
The DuPont company’s organic chemist Wallace Carothers received a patent for linear condensation polymers, the basis of the material better known as nylon.
George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue was performed for the first time at a concert by Paul Whiteman and his Palais Royal Orchestra called An Experiment in Modern Music.
On the 9th February 1969, the first test flight of the Boeing 747 ‘Jumbo Jet’ took place.
On the 7th February 1964, the Beatles visited the United States for the first time.
France and the United States signed the first two treaties ever negotiated by the American government, and which formally recognised the independence of the United States.
6th April 1896: The first modern Olympic Games take place
6th April 2020
5th April 1621: The Mayflower returns to England
5th April 2020
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2018
1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
1st September 2018
