The DeLorean DMC-12 sports car was later used as the time machine in Back to the Future.
20th July 1807: The world’s first internal combustion engine is patented in France
20th July 2019
French aristocrat Count Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat set the world’s first officially recognised land speed record.
The first Formula One World Championship Grand Prix race took place at the Silverstone circuit in England.
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.
24th January 41 CE: Emperor Caligula killed by the Praetorian Guard
24th January 2020
22nd January 1905: Bloody Sunday massacre in Saint Petersburg
22nd January 2020
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2018
1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
1st September 2018