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28th December 1958: ‘The Greatest Game Ever Played’ in the NFL Championship Playoff

28th December 2023
Tagged as: American Football, Culture, Football, Sport, Television

The game of American football was the first to be decided in sudden-death overtime.

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6th November 1869: First intercollegiate American football match played between Rutgers College and the College of New Jersey

6th November 2023
Tagged as: America, American Football, Culture, Football, Princeton, Rutgers, Sport, United States, USA

Despite the absence of regulation and structured plays, the match turned out to be fiercely competitive. While the scoring was different from modern football, Rutgers won 6-4.

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20th August 1920: America’s NFL, known at the time as the American Professional Football Conference, established

20th August 2023
Tagged as: American Football, Culture, Football, Ohio, Sport

A local newspaper reported that the league was established to ‘raise the standard of professional football in every way possible, to eliminate bidding for players between rival clubs and to secure cooperation in the formation of schedules’.

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28th December 1958: ‘The Greatest Game Ever Played’ in the NFL Championship Playoff

6th November 1869: First intercollegiate American football match played between Rutgers College and the College of New Jersey

20th August 1920: America’s NFL, known at the time as the American Professional Football Conference, established

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21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow

HistoryPod Extra: The Myth of Gavrilo Princip’s Sandwich

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

2nd August 1934: Hitler becomes Führer after President Hindenburg dies

14th October 1962: U-2 spy plane captures images of Cuban missile sites

13th October 1908: Suffragette Margaret Travers Symons becomes the first woman to speak in the House of Commons when she burst into the main chamber

12th October 539 BCE: Babylon falls to the Persian king Cyrus the Great

11th October 1521: King Henry VIII of England given the title Defender of the Faith by Pope Leo X

28th June 1914 & 1919: Trigger and end of the First World War

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

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