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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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12th July 1561: The consecration of Saint Basil’s Cathedral in Moscow

27th October 1988: Ronald Reagan halts construction of the new US embassy in Moscow

19th January 1917: 73 people killed in the Silvertown munitions factory explosion in London

24th November 1873: Joseph Glidden awarded a patent for modern barbed wire

12th November 1927: Leon Trotsky expelled from the Communist Party of the USSR

11th November 1865: Dr Mary Walker becomes the first (and only) woman to receive the Medal of Honor

10th November 1871: Henry Morton Stanley locates Dr David Livingstone in Africa

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

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

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

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

1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland

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