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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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6th February 1778: France and the US sign the first treaties that recognise American independence

30th July 762: Construction begins on the city of Baghdad under Caliph Al-Mansur

17th July 1453: The Battle of Castillon, widely accepted as last conflict of the Hundred Years’ War

17th June 1631: Mumtaz Mahal’s death prompts construction of the Taj Mahal

15th August 1941: Last execution takes place at the Tower of London

14th August 1980: Lech Wałęsa leads strike in Gdańsk shipyard

13th August 1918: Opha May Johnson becomes the first woman to enlist in the US Marine Corps

12th August 1990: Sue, the most complete Tyrannosaurus rex ever unearthed, discovered by Susan Hendrickson

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

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland

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