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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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29th June 1613: The Globe Theatre in London burns to the ground

  • 29th June 2022
  • Tagged as: Culture, England, Fire, London, Renaissance, Restoration, Shakespeare, Theatre

The Globe Theatre in London burned to the ground during a performance of Henry VIII.

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3rd June 1956: Rock and Roll music banned in the Californian city of Santa Cruz

  • 3rd June 2022
  • Tagged as: California, Culture, Jazz, Music, Rebellion, rock, Santa Cruz, Society, Teenagers, USA

Authorities in the Californian city of Santa Cruz banned rock and roll music at public gatherings.

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1st June 1967: The Beatles release their acclaimed Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album

  • 1st June 2022
  • Tagged as: 1960s, Beatles, Britain, Culture, Music, Recording, The Beatles

Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band won four Grammy Awards following its release and is widely regarded as one of the most influential albums ever recorded.

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31st May 1981: Jaffna Public Library in Sri Lanka burnt down during a violent attack

  • 31st May 2022
  • Tagged as: biblioclasm, Books, Civil War, Culture, Fire, History, Library, Sri Lanka, Tamil, Tamil Tigers

The Jaffna Public Library in Sri Lanka was burnt down during a violent rampage by an organised mob of ethnic Sinhalese.

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29th May 1953: Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reach summit of Mount Everest

  • 29th May 2022
  • Tagged as: Britain, Culture, Elizabeth II, Himalayas, Kathmandu, Mount Everest, mountaineering, Nepal, New Zealand, Newspaper, Sherpa

Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest.

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26th May 1897: Bram Stoker’s Gothic horror novel Dracula first published

  • 26th May 2022
  • Tagged as: Books, Bram Stoker, Culture, Dracula, Literature, Romania, Vampire

Although not the first ever vampire novel, Dracula was enormously influential in defining modern ideas of vampires, and for forever associating them with Romania.

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15th May 1928: Mickey Mouse’s first cartoon appearance

  • 15th May 2022
  • Tagged as: America, Animation, Cartoon, Culture, Entertainment, Film, USA

On 15th May 1928, the first animated cartoon to feature Mickey and Minnie Mouse was shown to a theatre audience.

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11th May 1997: IBM’s chess computer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov to become the first computer to defeat a reigning world chess champion under tournament conditions

  • 11th May 2022
  • Tagged as: America, Chess, Computer, Computing, Culture, Game, Invention, Russia, Science, Technology

Ranked as the 259th most powerful computer in the world, Deep Blue was able to evaluate 200 million separate chess positions per second.

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6th May 1983: The Hitler Diaries proven to be forgeries

  • 6th May 2022
  • Tagged as: Berlin, Culture, Diary, Forgery, Germany, History, Hitler, Second World War

West Germany’s Federal Archives revealed that forensic tests proved the Hitler Diaries were forgeries.

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