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22nd April 1884: Thomas Stevens begins the first round-the-world cycle ride

22nd April 2020
Tagged as: Bicycle, China, Cycling, Exploration, Japan, San Francisco, USA

Thomas Stevens departed San Francisco on a large-wheeled Ordinary, also known as a penny-farthing, to become the first person to cycle around the world.

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1st July 1903: First Tour de France cycling race takes place

1st July 2019
Tagged as: Culture, Cycling, France, Newspaper, Paris, Race, Sport

On the 1^st July 1903 the first Tour de France cycling race took place over 19 days and six stages.

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22nd April 1884: Thomas Stevens begins the first round-the-world cycle ride

1st July 1903: First Tour de France cycling race takes place

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30th September 1935: The Hoover Dam is dedicated by Franklin D. Roosevelt

12th October 1915: British nurse Edith Cavell was executed by a German firing squad

17th November 1903: The Bolshevik-Menshevik split within the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party

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

24th October 1926: Harry Houdini performs his final show despite suffering from acute appendicitis

23rd October 1910: Blanche Stuart Scott becomes the first American woman to pilot an aircraft in public

22nd October 1884: The International Meridian Conference in Washington, D.C. adopts Greenwich as the prime meridian

21st October 1921: U.S. President Warren G. Harding publicly condemns lynching in a speech in Alabama

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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