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11th October 1975: Saturday Night Live is broadcast for the first time

11th October 2019
Tagged as: Comedy, Culture, New York, Television, USA

Saturday Night Live was originally known as NBC’s Saturday Night to avoid any confusion with the ABC show Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell.

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11th July 1947: The Edinburgh Festival Fringe marked by this live #WorldFringeDay podcast

11th July 2017
Tagged as: Anniversary, Art, Buxton, Comedy, Culture, Derbyshire, Edinburgh, Festival, International, Music, Scotland

HistoryPod is proud to be able to celebrate #WorldFringeDay, and the foundation of the Fringe movement, in this special live recording from the Buxton Festival Fringe in the wonderful English spa town of Buxton in Derbyshire.

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11th October 1975: Saturday Night Live is broadcast for the first time

11th July 1947: The Edinburgh Festival Fringe marked by this live #WorldFringeDay podcast

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21st November 1974: The Birmingham pub bombings kill 21 people and injure 182

9th August 1173: Construction begins on the Leaning Tower of Pisa

5th February 1958: Nuclear bomb lost off Tybee Island in Georgia, USA after an in-air collision

17th March 1992: White South Africans vote to end apartheid in a referendum

10th April 1858: The ‘Big Ben’ bell cast in Whitechapel

9th April 1767: John Hancock forcibly removes British customs officials from his ship

8th April 1904: France and Britain sign the Entente Cordiale

7th April 1954: President Eisenhower first described the ‘domino theory’ of the spread of communism during a news conference

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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