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.
21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow
21st June 2019
Two cultural icons made their first appearance when Dr No, the first of the James Bond series of films, hit cinema screens on the same day as the Beatles released their debut single ‘Love Me Do’.
Teletext was the dominant medium for accessing breaking news until the arrival of the World Wide Web.
Originally only available for the Japanese Family Computer, it took nearly another two years for the game to be available worldwide.
Elvis Presley appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show, the USA’s most popular television show, for the first time.
The English writer Daniel Defoe was put in the pillory for seditious libel after publishing a politically satirical pamphlet.
On the 25th July 1965, American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan performed at the Newport Folk Festival with an electric band.
The 9th July 1877 saw the world’s first official lawn tennis tournament begin at Wimbledon in London.
On the 6th July 1957, John Lennon and Paul McCartney of The Beatles met for the first time at the St. Peter’s Church garden fête in Woolton, Liverpool.
Charles Dodgson, better known as the author Lewis Carroll, told a story to the sisters Alice, Lorina and Edith Liddell that was to develop into Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.
HistoryPod Extra: The Myth of Gavrilo Princip’s Sandwich
28th June 2015
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2020
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2020
9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
9th November 2019