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1st July 1903: The first Tour de France cycling race begins, taking place over nineteen days and six stages

1st July 2022
Tagged as: Bicycle, Culture, Cycling, Paris, Sport, Tour de France

60 competitors began the race at Montgeron, south of Paris, of whom 39 were private entrants.

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22nd April 1884: Thomas Stevens begins the first round-the-world cycle ride

22nd April 2020
Tagged as: Bicycle, China, Cycling, Exploration, Japan, San Francisco, USA

Thomas Stevens departed San Francisco on a large-wheeled Ordinary, also known as a penny-farthing, to become the first person to cycle around the world.

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1st July 1903: The first Tour de France cycling race begins, taking place over nineteen days and six stages

22nd April 1884: Thomas Stevens begins the first round-the-world cycle ride

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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

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

3rd August 1492: Christopher Columbus sets sail from Spain

3rd October 1918: Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria comes to the throne

2nd October 1919: US President Woodrow Wilson suffers a stroke while in office

1st October 1949: Mao Zedong declares the establishment of the People’s Republic of China

30th September 1967: Launch of BBC Radio 1 with the words ‘…and, good morning everyone. Welcome to the exciting new sound of Radio 1’

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

8th July 1932: Dow Jones falls to lowest point in the Great Depression

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland

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