The first Formula One World Championship Grand Prix race took place at the Silverstone circuit in England.
25th May 1977: The first Star Wars film is released in cinemas
25th May 2019
Rolls-Royce Limited was established by Charles Rolls and Henry Royce.
On the 8th March 1950, the Volkswagen Type 2 – more commonly known as the ‘transporter’, the ‘bus’ or the ‘camper’ – went into production at the company’s Wolfsburg factory.
Thomas Midgeley Jr. discovered that adding tetraethyl lead to gasoline reduced knocking in automobile engines.
On the 27th September 1908, the first Model T Ford automobile rolled out of the Piquette Avenue factory in Detroit.
The first NASCAR race took place at the Charlotte Speedway in North Carolina.
The modern 3-point seat belt was created by Swedish inventor Nils Bohlin, who was a safety engineer for car manufacturer Volvo.
The DeLorean DMC-12 sports car was later used as the time machine in Back to the Future.
French aristocrat Count Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat set the world’s first officially recognised land speed record.
16th July 622: Start date of the Islamic calendar
16th July 2019
15th July 1834: The Spanish Inquisition disbanded
15th July 2019
13th July 1985: Live Aid is watched by 1.9 billion people
13th July 2019
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2018
9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
9th November 2017